Jury Special Prize for ELECTING MS SANTA and 10 more awards for EAVE graduates in Tallinn

Awards November 2025

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

• THE GOOD DAUGHTER by Julia de Paz Solvas, producer: EAVE graduate Sergio Grobas, co-producer: EAVE graduate Maarten D’Hollander won the Grand Prix for Best Film, the Audience Award and Best Actress 
• THE FROG AND THE WATER by Thomas Stuber, co-producer: EAVE graduate Christof Neracher won Best Actor 
• THE VISITOR by Vytautas Katkus, producers: EAVE graduates Marija Razgute, co-producers: EAVE graduates Elisa Fernanda Pirir, Anna-Maria Kantarius won Best Baltic Film
• TTB project CHINA SEA by Jurgis Matulevicius, producer: TTB graduate Ieva Cern, co-producers: EAVE graduates Mariusz Wlodarski, Jakub Kostal, Marta Gmosinska won Best Film in the Critics’ Picks competition
• THE BARONESSES by Nabil Ben Yadir, producer: EAVE graduate Benoit Roland, co-producer: EAVE graduate and Luxembourgish National Coordinator Bernard Michaux won Best Film in the Rebels with a Cause competition
• HOLY DESTRUCTORS by Aistė Žegulytė-Zapolska, co-producers: FFF graduate Roberts Vinovskis, PUENTES graduate Dominiks Jarmakovics, EAVE+ graduate Christophe Audeguis won Best Film in the Doc@PÖFF Baltic competition
• BLINDSIGHT by Adrian Sitaru, producer: EAVE graduate Anamaria Antoci won Best Director in the Rebels with a Cause competition
• ELECTING MS SANTA by Raisa Răzmeriță, producer: EAVE graduate Ion Gnatiuc, co-producers: EAVE graduates Anamaria Antoci, Anda Ionescu won the Jury Special Prize in the DOC@PÖFF INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
• BECOMING by Zannat Alshanova, producers: EAVE graduates Jean-Laurent Csinidis, Denis Vaslin, Marija Razgute won Best Baltic Producer for a Co-production

https://poff.ee/en

 

Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event

• EAVE Marketing Workshop project WOOL, created and produced by EAVE graduate Milena Dzambasovic received the Council of Europe Series Co-Production Development Award valued at €50,000 at the TV Beats Co-Financing Market
• THERAPIES by Birutė Kapustinskaitė, producer: EAVE graduate Dagne Vildziunaite won Best Project and the Public Favourite Award at the Serial Bridges Baltics
• WE ARE STILL HERE by Aleksandra Hulboj, producer: EAVE graduate Jitka Kotrlova won the Public Favourite Award at the MIDPOINT Series Launch
• THE WELL by Siiri Halko, producer: EAVE graduate Jenni Jauri won the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award of €20 000 at the Baltic Event Co-production Market
• PRINCE by Federico Borgia, producer: PUENTES graduate Pancho Magnou won Best International Project in Works-in-Progress
• LEX JULIA by Laura Hyppönen, producer: EAVE graduate Marianne Ostrat won the Baltic Event Works in Progress Public Favourite Award

https://industry.poff.ee

 

 

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 

• CHANGE project THE KARTLI KINGDOM by Qartlis Tskhovreba, producer: CHANGE graduate Ketevan Kipiani won the IDFA Award for Best Directing – International Competition and the IDFA Award for Best First Feature Special Mention
• CHANGE project SILENT FLOOD by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, producer: CHANGE graduate Karina Kostyna, co-producer: EAVE graduate Tanja Georgieva-Waldhauer won the IDFA Award for Best Cinematography – International Competition
• HOLY DESTRUCTORS by Aistė Žegulytė-Zapolska, co-producers: FFF graduate Roberts Vinovskis, PUENTES graduate Dominiks Jarmakovics, EAVE+ graduate Christophe Audeguis won IDFA Award for Best Directing - Envision Competition
• AMILCAR by Miguel Eek, producer: EAVE graduate Mario Adamson won the IDFA Award for Outstanding Artistic Contribution - Envision Competition
• AN OPEN FIELD by Teboho Edkins, co-producer: EAVE graduate Carine Chichkowsky won the IDFA Award for Best Short Documentary
• PAIKAR by Dawood Hilmandi, producer: EAVE graduate and Dutch National Coordinator Frank Hoeve won the IDFA Award for Best First Feature, the IDFA Award for Best Dutch Film Special Mention and the FIPRESCI Award

 

IDFA Forum

• THE CORD by nolwenn hervé, producer: EAVE graduate Estelle Robin You won the IDFA Forum Award for Best Rough Cut
• DREAMS OF THE WILD OAKS by Marjan Khosravi, producer: EAVE graduate Milad Khosravi received a Special Mention

www.idfa.nl

 

 

Arras Film Festival

• MATURITY by Jean-Benoît Ugeux, producer: EAVE graduate Benoit Roland received a Special Mention
• MADE IN EU by EAVE graduate Stephan Komandarev, producer: EAVE graduate Katya Trichkova won the LE PRIX SFCC DE LA PRESSE at the Arras Film Festival.

https://www.arrasfilmfestival.com

 

 

Stockholm International Film Festival

• FATHER by Tereza Nvotova, producer: EAVE graduate Mariusz Wlodarski won Best Film, Best Screenplay
• THE SECRET AGENT by Kleber Mendonca Filho, co-producers: PUENTES graduate Fred Burle, EAVE graduate Leontine Petit won Best Cinematography
• PILLION by Harry Lighton, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney won Best Actor
• NO OTHER CHOICE by Park Chan-wook, producer: EAVE graduate Alexandre Gavras won the FIPRESCI award

www.stockholmfilmfestival.se

 

 

Seville European Film Festival

• DJ AHMET by Georgi M. Unkovski, producer: EAVE graduate Katarina Prpic won the Grand Jury Prize and Best Actor
• ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU by Cherien Dabis, co-producer: EAVE graduate Marios Piperides won Best Director
• MY FATHER’S SHADOW by Akinola Davies, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney won Best Film Award in the Rampa section 
• SENTIMENTAL VALUE by Joachim Trier, producer: EAVE graduate Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, co-producers: EAVE graduates Jonas Dornbach, Lizette Jonjic won the Puerta América Award

https://festivalcinesevilla.eu/en

 

 

Thessaloniki International Film Festival

• COTTON QUEEN by Suzannah Mirghani, producers: EAVE graduates Caroline Daube, Ossama Bawardi, EAVE graduate and group leader Didar Domehri scooped the Best Feature Film Award, the “Theo Angelopoulos” Golden Alexander
• BEACHCOMBER by Aristotelis Maragkos, producer: EAVE MW graduate Konstantinos Koukoulis, co-producer: EAVE graduate Vicky Miha won the Silver Alexander and Best Direction of Photography Award
• PILLION by Harry Lighton, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney won Best Actor (Harry Melling)
• EAVE project MAYSOON by Nancy Biniadaki, producer: EAVE graduate Christopher Zitterbart won Best Actress (Sabrina Amali)
• KARLA by Christina Tournatzès, producer: EAVE graduate Jamila Wenske won Best Screenplay, the FIPRESCI Award in the International competition, and the Fischer Audience Award - International Competition
• THE LAST ONE FOR THE ROAD by Francesco Sossai, producer: Interchange graduate Marta Donzelli won the MEET THE NEIGHBORS+ Best Feature Film award and Best Actor
• GOD WILL NOT HELP by Hana Jusic, producer: EAVE graduate and group leader Ankica Juric Tilic, co-producers; EAVE graduate Ada Solomon, EAVE group leader Didar Domehri won the MEET THE NEIGHBORS+ Best Actor award and Best Artistic Achievement
• PATTY IS SUCH A GIRLY NAME by Giorgos Georgopoulos, producer: EAVE graduate Fenia Cossovitsa won Best Music, the J.F. Costopoulos Foundation Award, the Finos Film Award and the PEKK Award, and the Best Film Award of the Youth Jury
• MILK TEETH by Muhai Mincan, producers: EAVE, TTB and PUENTES graduate, National Coordinator Romania Radu Stancu, EAVE graduate Ioana Lascar won the “Human Values” award
• ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU by Cherien Dabis, co-producer: EAVE graduate Marios Piperides won the Fischer Audience Award - Official Selection

 

Agora

• Gabi Suciu (Atelier de Film) won the EAVE Thessaloniki Award – Marketing Workshop Scholarship
• THE LEAVES HANG TREMBLING by Stefan Djordjevic, producer: EAVE graduate Dragana Jovovic won the 2|35 Post-production Award at Thessaloniki’s Agora
• THE TIDE HEARS THEM BUT THEY NO LONGR HAVE A VOICE by Yiannis Veslemes, producer: EAVE+ graduate Nicholas Alavanos won the Onassis Film Award
• A GIRL NAMED ZEUS by Nikos Dayandas, producer: EAVE MW graduate Konstantinos Koukoulis won the Greener Screen Award
• EAVE project COLD SUN by Gentian Koçi, producer: EAVE graduate Blerina Hankollari won the SEE Cinema Network Award
• ROBBING BEIRUT by Katia Jarjoura, co-producer: EAVE graduate Elisa Pirir won the Sofia Meetings Award

www.filmfestival.gr

 

 

Torino TFL Meeting Event 

• LUCKY GIRL by Linda Lô, Didar Domehri, producer: EAVE graduate and group leader Didar Domehri won the TFL Production Award at the Torino TFL Meeting Event 

https://www.torinofilmlab.it/events/tfl-meeting-event-2025

 

 

FilmFestival Cottbus

• OUR FATHER by Goran Stankovic, producer: EAVE graduate Snezana van Houwelingen won the Special Award for Best Director
• HOW COME IT'S ALL GREEN OUT HERE? by Nikola Lezaic, producer: EAVE graduate Sinisa Juricic won the Dialog Award
• PROMISE, I’ll BE FINE by Katarína Gramatová, producer: EAVE graduate Julie Zackova won Best Youth Film and the Prize for Best Debut
• IDA WHO SANG SO BADLY EVEN THE DEAD ROSE UP AND JOINED HER IN SONG by Ester Ivakic, producers: EAVE graduate Jerca Jeric, EAVE MW graduate Andraz Jeric received a Honourable mention

 

connecting cottbus

• ATTENTION WHORES by Alica Bednarikova, producer: EAVE graduate Jakub Viktorin won the Producers Network Award and the MIDPOINT Consulting Award at connecting cottbus
• EXACTLY WHAT IT SEEMS by Darya Zhuk, producers: EAVE graduates Izabela Wójcik, Max de Wolf won the Phont Dynamic Subtitling Award
• IS THE SKY BLUE? By Nikola Ljuca, producer: B’EST graduate Ales Pavlin won the D-Facto Motion WIP Award
• THE LION AT MY BACK by Tonia Mishiali, producer: EAVE MW graduate Katarzyna Ozga won the Studio Beep Sound Post-Production Award

www.connecting-cottbus.de

                   

 

Nordic Film Days, Lübeck

• KEVLAR SOUL by Maria Eriksson-Hecht, producer: EAVE graduate Lizette Jonjic won the Youth Jury Award at the Nordic Film Days, Lübeck.

www.nordische-filmtage.de

 

 

European Film Forum Scanorama

• KYUKA: BEFORE SUMMER’S END by Kostis Charamountanis, producers: EAVE graduates Danae Spathara, Konstantinos Kontovrakis, EAVE + graduate Giorgos Karnavas won Best Feature Film at the European Film Forum Scanorama, Lithuania.

www.scanorama.lt/en

 

 

Cairo International Film Festival

• ONCE UPON A TIME IN GAZA by Arab and Tarzan Nasser, co-producers: EAVE graduates Edyta Janczak-Hiriart, Rashid Abdelhamid won the Silver Pyramid Award for Best Director and the Best Actor Award
• THE THINGS YOU KILL by Alireza Khatami, producer: EAVE graduate Mariusz Wlodarski was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Award For Best Screenplay

https://www.ciff.org.eg

 

 

Lecce European Film Festival

• THE WHITE SNAIL by Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter, producer: EAVE graduate David Bohun, co-producer: EAVE graduate Heino Deckert scooped Best Film
• THE PUPIL by Karin Junger, producers: EAVE graduates Maarten D’Hollander, Xavier Rombaut won the Special Jury Prize
• THE LOVE THAT REMAINS by Hlynur Palmason, co-producers: EAVE graduate and group leader Didar Domehri, EAVE graduate Anton Mani Svansson, EAVE and TTB graduate Katrin Pors won Best Cinematography, the FIPRESCI Award and the Cineuropa Prize

www.festivaldelcinemaeuropeo.com/en

 

 

Zagreb Film Festival

• WIND, TALK TO ME by Stefan Djordjevic, producer: EAVE graduate Dragana Jovovic, co-producer: EAVE graduate and Slovenian National Coordinator Jozko Rutar was awarded the Golden Pram for Best Feature Film at the Zagreb Film Festival.
• SENTIMENTAL VALUE by Joachim Trier, producer: EAVE graduate Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, co-producers: EAVE graduates Jonas Dornbach, Lizette Jonjic won the Golden Bicycle for Best Film in the Together Again Competition
• WILD FOXES by Valéry Carnoy, producer: EAVE graduate Julie Esparbes won the PLUS Award for Best Film by Young Jury

https://zff.hr/

 

 

Ljubljana International Film Festival

• SANDBAG DAM by Cejen Cernic Canak, producers: EAVE graduate and group leader Ankica Juric Tilic, EAVE graduate Ieva Norviliene won the KINOTRIP YOUNG JURY PRIZE at the Ljubljana International Film Festival.

https://www.liffe.si/en

 

 

Geneva International Film Festival

• A POET by Simon Mesa Soto, co-producer: EAVE graduate David Herdies won the Reflet d’Or for Best Feature at the Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF).

https://2025.giff.ch/en

 

 

Gijón International Film Festival

• KONTINENTAL '25 by Radu Jude, producer: EAVE graduate Alexandru Teodorescu won the AISGE Award for Best Actress
• PETER HUJAR’S DAY by Ira Sachs, co-producer: PUENTES graduate Fred Burle won the AISGE Award for Best Actor
• EAVE project SKIFF by Cecilia Verheyden, producer: EAVE graduate Elisa Heene, co-producer: EAVE graduate Leontine Petit won the FIPRESCI Award for Best Feature
• NOTHING PERSONAL by Javier Marco, producers: EAVE+ graduates José Alba, Odile Antonio-Baez, co-producer: EAVE graduate Katleen Goossens won Best Spanish Feature and the “RC Service” Award for the Director of the Best Spanish Film
• AMILCAR by Miguel Eek, producer: EAVE graduate Mario Adamson won the Amae Award for Best Editing of a Spanish Film
• LOVE ME TENDER by Anna Cazenave Cambet, associate producer: EAVE graduate and Luxembourgish National Coordinator Bernard Michaux won the CIMA Award for Best Feature Directed by a Woman
• SORELLA DI CLAUSURA by Ivana Mladenović, producer: EAVE graduate Ada Solomon received a Special Mention
• THE DASHED LINES by Anxos Fazans, producer: EAVE MW graduate Nuria Landete won the Rambal Award (XEGA)
• MADE IN EU by EAVE graduate Stephan Komandarev, producer: EAVE graduate Katya Trichkova won the Grand Audience Award

https://ficx.tv/en/

 

 

Luxembourgish Film Awards - Lëtzebuerger Filmpräis

• BREATHING UNDERWATER by Eric Lamhène, associate producers: EAVE graduate and Luxembourgish National Coordinator Bernard Michaux, EAVE+ Head of Studies Jani Thiltges won Best Luxembourgish Feature Film, Best Screenplay,
• ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT by Payal Kapadia, producer: Creative Producer Indaba graduate Thomas Hakim, co-producers: EAVE graduate and Dutch National Coordinator Frank Hoeve, EAVE graduate Gilles Chanial won Best Feature-length Fiction or Documentary Co-production
• THE LAST ASHES by Loïc Tanson, associate producers: EAVE graduate and Luxembourgish National Coordinator Bernard Michaux, EAVE+ Head of Studies Jani Thiltges won Best Actress and Best Actor, Best Creative Contribution in a Work of Fiction or Documentary and a Special Press Prize
• MARGINAL by Loïc Tanson and Frédéric Zeimet, associate producers: EAVE graduate and Luxembourgish National Coordinator Bernard Michaux, EAVE+ Head of Studies Jani Thiltges won Best Fiction or Documentary Series or Transmedia Production
• THIS IS MY HEART by EAVE graduate Stéphane Hueber-Blies & Nicolas Blies, producers: EAVE graduates Marion Guth, François Le Gall won Best Immersive Work
• LINDA, LINDA! By Kiyan Agadjani won Best Fiction, Animation or Documentary Short Film

https://filmakademie.lu/

 

 

Emile Awards

• EAVE Marketing Workshop project FLOW by Gints Zilbalodis, producer: EAVE MW graduate Matiss Kaza won Best Sound Design and Music, Best Character Design and Backgrounds, Best of the Best - Feature Films
• WANDER TO WONDER by Nina Gantz, producer: EAVE graduate Stienette Bosklopper, EAVE+ graduate Maarten Swart won Best Animation – Short Films
• I DIED IN IRPIN by Anastasiia Falileieva, producer: EAVE graduate Juraj Krasnohorsky won Best of the Best – Short Films

https://animationawards.eu/

 

 

Cork International Film Festival

• SOLOMAMMA by Janicke Askevold, producer: EAVE graduate and Norwegian National Coordinator Gary Cranner, co-producer: EAVE graduate Inese Boka-Grube won the Audentia Award
• FLOPHOUSE AMERICA by Monica Strømdahl, producer: EAVE graduate Beathe Hofseth won Best Documentary
• COEXISTENCE, MY ASS! by Amber Fares, producer: EAVE graduate Valérie Montmartin received a Honourable Mention
• HOW TO BE NORMAL AND THE ODDNESS OF THE OTHER WORLD by Florian Pochlatko, producers: EAVE graduates Arash T. Riahi, Sabine Gruber received a Honourable Mention

https://corkfilmfest.org

 

 

Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2025

• RENOIR by Chie Hayakawa, producers: EAVE and TTB graduates Fran Borgia, Eiko Mizuno Gray, TTB Head of Studies and EAVE+ graduate Christophe Bruncher won Best New Performer and Best Screenplay
• AMOEBA by Tan Siyou, producer: EAVE graduate Fran Borgia won Best Youth Film

www.asiapacificscreenawards.com/awards

Page published 28 November 2025.