Best Actress award for EAVE project MAYSOON at Oldenburg

Awards September 2025

EAVE graduates scoop 13 awards at the Venice International Film Festival!

Competition

FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER by Jim Jarmusch, co-producer: EAVE graduate Conor Barry, executive producer: EAVE graduate Alex C. Lo won the Golden Lion for Best Film

Orizzonti

A YEAR OF SCHOOL by Laura Samani, producers: EAVE graduate Nadia Trevisan, EAVE graduate Thomas Lambert won Best Actor in the Orizzonti Section
WITHOUT KELLY by Lovisa Sirén, producer: EAVE graduate Siri Hjorton Wagner won Best Short Film in the Orizzonti Section
CALLE MALAGA by Maryam Touzani, producer: PUENTES graduate Fred Burle won the Audience Award

Venice Immersive

A LONG GOODBYE by Kate Voet, Victor Maes, producer: EAVE graduate Emmy Oost, co-producer: EAVE graduate Donato Rotunno won the Achievement Prize in the Venice Immersive Section

Settimana Internazionale della Critica

WAKING HOURS by Federico Cammarata and Filippo Foscarini, producers: TTB graduate Stefano Centini, EAVE graduate Serena Alfieri won the Mario Serandrei – Hotel Saturnia Prize for Best Technical Contribution

Giornate degli Autori

MEMORY by Vladlena Sandu, co-producer: EAVE graduate Raymond Van Der Kaaij won the People’s Award
IT’S A SAD AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD by Cyril Aris, co-producers: EAVE graduates Julie Viez won the People’s Award
SHORT SUMMER by Nastia Korkia, producers: EAVE graduates Natalia Drozd, Dirk Decker, EAVE+ graduate Andrea Schütte, co-producer: EAVE graduate Miroslav Mogorovic won the Lion of the Future - "Luigi de Laurentiis" Award for a Debut Film

Parallel Awards

A YEAR OF SCHOOL by Laura Samani, producers: EAVE graduate Nadia Trevisan, EAVE graduate Thomas Lambert won the Authors Under 40 Award – Best Directing
BUGONIA by Yorgos Lanthimos, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney won the Green Drop Award
DUSE by Pietro Marcello, associate producer: EAVE MW graduate Stefano Mutolo won the Francesco Pasinetti Award – Best Actress and the Soundtrack Stars Award
ELISA by Leonardo di Costanzo, producer: EAVE graduate Carlo Cresto-Dina won the SIGNIS Prize and the Sorriso Diverso Venezia Award – Best Italian Film

EAVE graduates won 3 awards at the Toronto International Film Festival:

NO OTHER CHOICE by Park Chan-wook, producer: EAVE graduate Alexandre Gavras won the International People’s Choice Award
TO THE VICTORY! by Valentyn Vasyanovych, producer: EAVE graduate Volodymyr Yatsenko, won the 2025 Platform Award
FORASTERA by Lucía Aleñar Iglesias, producers: EAVE graduate Ariadna Dot, EAVE graduate and Italian National Coordinator Giovanni Pompili, TTB graduate Marta Cruañas Compés won the FIPRESCI Prize

SIX DAYS IN SPRING by Joachim Lafosse, producers: EAVE graduates Anton Iffland Stettner, Eva Kuperman, Hans Everaert, EAVE+ Head of Studies Jani Thiltges won the Silver Shell for Best Director and the Jury Prize for Best Screenplay
WEIGHTLESS by Emilie Thalund, producer: EAVE graduate Katrin Pors, TTB graduate Mikkel Jersin won the Kutxabank New Directors Award
A POET by Simon Mesa Soto, co-producer: EAVE graduate David Herdies won the Horizontes Make & Mark Award
THE ICE TOWER by Lucile Hadzihalilovic, co-producer: EAVE graduate Ingmar Trost won the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award
THE MYSTERIOUS GAZE OF THE FLAMINGO by Diego Cespedes, producer: PUENTES and TTB graduate Giancarlo Nasi won the Dama Youth Award

WHAT FOLLOWS IS MY DEATH by Laura Baumeister, producer: EAVE graduate Barbara Sarasola Day won the DALE! (Latin America-Europe Development) Award and the QCinema Award
LA PIEL DEL LEON by Alvaro Brechner, producer: EAVE graduate Leticia Friedrich won the Artekino International Prize
WE WERE NO LONGER FIVE by Esteban Hoyos, Juan Miguel Gelacio, producer: PUENTES graduate Miranda Torres won the EGEDA Platino Industria Award for Best WIP Latam
MARIANA x BHP by Renan Flumian, producer: PUENTES and TTB graduate Giancarlo Nasi won the Music Library Award

ONLY ON EARTH by Robin Petré, co-producer: EAVE graduate Marieke van den Bersselaar won Best Nordic Documentary at the Nordisk Panorama festival in Malmö, Sweden

BROKEN VOICES by Ondrej Provaznik, producer: EAVE graduate Jiri Konecny won the German Independence Award – Best Film at the Oldenburg Filmfestival.
EAVE project MAYSOON by Nancy Biniadaki, producer: EAVE graduate Christopher Zitterbart, co-producers: EAVE + graduate Titus Kreyenberg, EAVE graduate Konstantina Stavrianou won the Seymour Cassel Award – Best Actress (Sabrina Amali).

10 awards for EAVE graduates at the Golden Rose Film Festival, Varna:

MADE IN EU by EAVE graduate Stephan Komandarev, producer: EAVE graduate Katya Trichkova Golden Rose Trophy for Best Feature Film, the Best Actress Award (Gergana Pletnyova) and the Youth Jury Award
EAVE project TARIKA by Milko Lazarov, producer: EAVE graduate Veselka Kiryakowa, co-producer: EAVE graduate Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu won the Special Jury Award, Best Cinematographer, Best Music and the Bulgarian Film Critics’ Guild Award for Best Feature Film
EAVE Marketing Workshop project ETERNITY PACKAGE by EAVE graduate Magdelena Ilieva, producer: EAVE graduate Magdelena Ilieva won Best First Feature and Best Actor (Stoyan Doichev)
THE SHAMELESS by Konstantin Bojanov, executive producers: EAVE graduate Palmyre Badinier, EAVE + graduate Philippe Coeytaux won Best Director

5 awards for EAVE graduates at the Montenegro Film Festival:

DJ AHMET by Georgi M. Unkovski, producer: EAVE graduate Katarina Prpic scooped the Grand Prix Festival Award – Big Golden Mimosa
HOW COME IT’S ALL GREEN OUT HERE? by Nikola Lezaic, producers: EAVE graduate Sinisa Juricic, EAVE participant Marija Lero won the Golden Mimosa for Best Director
YUGO FLORIDA by Vladimir Tagic, producer: EAVE graduate Marija Stojanovic won the Golden Mimosa for Best Leading Actor (Andrija Kuzmanovic)
OTTER by Srdjan Vuletic, producer: EAVE graduate Katarina Prpic won the Golden Mimosa for Best Screenplay
WHITES WASH AT NINETY by Marko Nabersnik, co-producer: EAVE graduate, group leader Ankica Juric Tilic was awarded the Golden Mimosa for Best Leading Actress (Anica Dobra and Lea Cok)

HANA KOREA by Frederik Sølberg, producer: EAVE graduate Heejung Oh won the Flash Forward Audience Award.
MALIKA by Natalia Uvarova, co-producer: EAVE + graduate Artem Vasilyev won the NETPAC Award
TIGER by Anshul Chauhan, producer: TTB graduate Mina Moteki won the Hylife Vision Award
KURAK by Erke Dzhumakmatova and Emil Atageldiev, co-producer: EAVE graduate Alexandra Hoesdorff won the Vision of Jiseok Award.

EAVE project YALLA PARKOUR by Areeb Zuaiter, producer: EAVE graduate Basel Mawlawi, executive producer: EAVE graduate Lisa Nyed wins Best Documentary.

EAVE graduate and PUENTES Head of Studies Fernanda del Nido (Setembro Cine, Spain) received The Dolores Ben Honorary Award from AGAPI. The award ceremony will take place on October 8 at Cinemar Films, the film sound studio founded by Dolores Ben in 2006, near Santiago de Compostela.

Page published 30 September 2025. Updated 6 October 2025.