CHANGE project 9 MONTH CONTRACT Best Documentary at SEE Film LA
Awards May 2026
HOT DOCS FESTIVAL
- PAIKAR by Dawood Hilmandi, producer: EAVE graduate Frank Hoeve won the Hot Docs Emerging International Filmmaker Award (Dawood Hilmandi)
- HOUSE OF HOPE by Marjolein Busstra, producer: EAVE graduate Olivia Sophie van Leeuwen, co-producers: EAVE graduate Ossama Bawardi, EAVE participant May Jabareen was awarded the Hot Docs Best International Feature Documentary
https://hotdocs.ca/festivals/hot-docs-festival
SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL LOS ANGELES
- CHANGE project 9 MONTH CONTRACT by Ketevan Vashagashvili, producers: CHANGE graduate Anna Khazaradze and EAVE+ graduate Nino Chichua won Best Documentary Film
- FANTASY by Kukla, producers: EAVE graduate Vlado Bulajić and Lija Pogačnik received the award for Best Ensemble and Honorary Mention in Best Feature Film, Grand Jury Prize Category and Honorable mention in the Best Cinematography in a feature Film (Lazar Bogdanovic)
- FATHER by Tereza Nvotova, producer: EAVE graduate Mariusz Wlodarski won the Best Cinematography in a Feature Film award and the Bridging the Borders Award
- OUR FATHER by Goran Stankovic, producer: EAVE graduate Snezana van Houwelingen received two Honorable Mentions; for Cinematography in a feature Film category (Dragan Vildovic) and in the Bridging the Borders Category
- MY DEAR THEO by Alisa Kovalenko, producer: EAVE graduate Darya Bassel received Honorary Mention in the category Best Cinematography in a Documentary Film (Alisa Kovalenko)
- SILENT CINEMA by Krste Gospodinovski, producer: EAVE graduate Darko Popov was awarded Best Animated Short
INDIELISBOA – INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
- HOW TO CATCH A BUTTERFLY by Kiriko Mechanicus, producer: EAVE graduate Ilja Roomans was awarded the EMEL Short Film Grand Prize (4,000 euros)
DOCS BARCELONA
- MAILIN by María Silvestre Esteve, producer: EAVE, graduate and Romanian National Coordinator Radu Stancu received the Best Editing Award – AMMAC (María Silvia Esteve)
- DO YOU LOVE ME by Lana Daher, producer: FFF and EAVE graduate Jean-Laurent Csinidis was awarded the New Talent Award – Filmin (Lana Daher)
Forum
- MY SISTER GAZA by Rima Jabaly, producer: EAVE graduate Elhum Shakerifar received the European Talent Development Award ARTE and the Al Jazeera Documentary Co-production Award for Best Forum Project
INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL MUNICH
- SOMETIMES, I IMAGINE THEM ALL AT A PARTY by Daniela Magnani Hüller, producer: EAVE graduate Birgit Schulz won the Megaherz Student Award
https://www.dokfest-muenchen.de/
CANNES FILM FESTIVAL
15 main awards for EAVE graduates at the 79th Cannes Film Festival!
Competition
- FJÖRD by Cristian Mungiu, producers: EAVE graduates Dyveke Bjørkly Graver, Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, co-producers: EAVE graduates Katrin Pors, Jussi Rantamäki won the main prize of the Cannes Film Festival, the Palme d’OrFATHERLAND by Pawel Pawlikowski, producer: FFF graduate Lorenzo Gangarossa won Best Director (Pawel Pawlikowski)
- THE DREAMED ADVENTURE by Valeska Grisebach, producer: EAVE graduate Jonas Dornbach was awarded the Jury Prize
- ALL OF A SUDDEN by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, producer: EAVE+ graduate Bettina Brokemper won Best Performance for an Actress (Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto)
- COWARD by Lukas Dhont, co-producers: EAVE graduates Jacques-Henri Bronckart and Laurette Schillings, EAVE+ graduate Frans van Gestel won Best Performance (Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagne)
- BEN’IMANA by Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo, producer: EAVE graduate Samantha Biffot, co-producer: EAVE graduate Ingrid Lill Hogtun won the Caméra d'Or
Un Certain Regard
- EVERYTIME by Sandra Wollner, producers: EAVE and EAVE SLATE graduate David Bohun, MW graduate Camille Chanel was awarded the Un Certain Regard Prize
- ELEPHANTS IN THE FOG by Abinash Bikram Shah, producers: PUENTES, EAVE+ and EAVE SLATE graduate Michael Henrichs, EAVE, PUENTES, EAVE+ and EAVE SLATE graduate Leonardo Mecchi, National Coordinator Latin America Tatiana Leite received the Jury Prize
- CONGO BOY by Rafiki Fariala, co-producer: EAVE graduate Caroline Nataf won Best Actor (Bradley Fiomona Dembeasset)
- FOREVER YOUR MATERNAL ANIMAL by Valentina Maurel, producer: EAVE graduate Benoit Roland, co-producer: PUENTES graduate Nicolás Celis López won Best Actresses (Marina de Tavira, Daniela Marín Navarro, Mariangel Villegas)
Critics’ Week
- A GIRL UNKNOWN by ZOU Jing, producer: EAVE graduate and group leader Didar Domehri was awarded the Distribution Award
- DUA by Blerta Basholli, producers: EAVE graduate Valon Bajgora, PUENTES graduate Britta Rindelaub, EAVE graduate Thomas Reichlin won the SACD Award
- SKINNY BOOTS by Romain F. Dubois, executive producer: EAVE graduate Julie Groleau won the Short Film Prize
Immersive Competition
- KATABASIS by Ugo Arsac, producer: TTB graduate Guillaume de la Boulaye won Best Immersive Work
Other Awards
- REHEARSALS OF A REVOLUTION by Pegah Ahangarani, producer: EAVE graduate Adrià Monés won the Golden Eye for the Best Documentary at the Croisette
Marché du Film Awards
Goes to Cannes
- AT YOUR SERVICE by German Golub, producer: EAVE graduate and Estonian National Coordinator Evelin Penttilä won the Ciné+ OCS Award (€15,000 prize)
Docs-in-Progress
- GAZA SUNBIRDS by Flavia Cappellini, producers: MW graduate Kristian van der Heyden and EAVE participant May Jabareen won the Think-Film Impact Award
Nordic NEST
All projects are co-produced by Nordic and German partners and will receive additional funding of up to €60,000 per project for the script development phase.
- DEEPER by Eva-Maria Koskinen, producers: TTB graduate Frauke Kolbmüller, EAVE and TTB graduate Mark Lwoff
- WHITE NOISE by Stefanie Ren, producer: EAVE graduate Solmaz Azizi
https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/
Page published 29 May 2026.
