Nominations for the 38th European Film Awards have been announced, live from the Real Alcázar palace, during the 22nd edition of the Seville European Film Festival. The EFA award ceremony will take place in Berlin on 17 January, 2026.

The documentary-fiction film Fiume o Morte! directed by Igor Bezinović has received nominations in two categories:

• Best European Film
• Best European Documentary

“We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the members of the European Film Academy who voted for ‘Fiume o Morte!’ to enter the top five European documentary films. It means the world to us because the compliment comes from fellow filmmakers from different European countries, and no praise is more beautiful and significant than when your colleagues praise your work. Now the campaign starts all over again, as the new round of voting on the winners opens on 18 December 2025 and runs until 8 January 2026. We are most pleased that, in this process, the film will get to reach an even wider international audience – primarily through in-person screenings in various major European cities that we are planning in the coming period”, said Fiume o Morte! producers Vanja Jambrović and Tibor Keser from Restart. 

The documentary had its world premiere at the prestigious International Film Festival Rotterdam, where it won the festival’s main Tiger Award and the FIPRESCI Prize. Since then, it has travelled the world from Australia, across Taiwan, all the way to Mexico, screening at New York’s MoMA, being selected for as many as 50 festivals around the world, winning numerous awards, and also taking home as many as six Golden Arenas at this year’s Pula Film Festival. Some of its latest accolades include the audience awards at CinEast in Luxembourg and at Croatian Film Days, the Adriatic TV & Film Award for Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Film, the Albert Kapović Award (awarded at the just concluded Zagreb Film Festival) for producers Vanja Jambrović and Tibor Keser, and many others.

Fiume o Morte! likewise received significant acclaim and was a box office success across Croatia – garnering an audience of almost 40 thousand viewers nationwide. It is also about to start its theatrical run in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 21 November, distributed by ICA Cinema.

The feature documentary was also selected as the Croatian contender for the Oscar Award of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and for the Goya Awards of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain.

It is a Restart production, with Vanja Jambrović and Tibor Keser as producers, in co-production with companies Nosorogi from Slovenia (co-produced Marina Gumzi) and Videomante from Italy (co-produced Erica Barbiani).

Meanwhile, the fiction feature Little Trouble Girls of screenwriter and director Urška Djukić also received a nomination for the European Film Award. Created as a Slovenian-Italian-Croatian-Serbian co-production, Little Trouble Girls has been nominated in the European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI category for debut full-length features, presented in co-operation with FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics. 

The main producers are Jožko Rutar and Miha Černec, while the feature is a SPOK Films production, created in co-production with Staragara (Italy), Non-Aligned Films (Serbia), 365 Films (Croatia) and Rhinos (Slovenia).

Little Trouble Girls had its world premiere in the Perspectives competition at the 75th Berlinale, and its North American premiere at the 24th Tribeca Film Festival, where it also won the award for Best Cinematography in an International Narrative Feature (Lev Predan Kowarski). It has also screened at other prestigious film festivals such as Karlovy Vary and Sofia.

The film’s co-producer is Katarina Prpić (356 Films), while other Croatian crew members include editor Vlado Gojun, assistant make-up artist Anela Sokolac, and Srđan Kokanov and Filip Friščić in the camera section.

Little Trouble Girls is also one of the titles selected for the European Film Promotion’s programme Europe! Voices of Women+ In Film. Distributed by Croatian company Hulahop, it has been screening in Croatian cinemas since 23 October.

A list of all nominated titles may be found on the official website of the European Film Academy.