MR NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN wins Best Documentary at the BAFTA Awards

Awards February 2026

BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Prizes of the International Jury

• YELLOW LETTERS by lker Çatak, co-written and co-produced by EAVE graduate Enis Köstepen won the Golden Bear of the 76th Berlinale
• SALVATION by Emin Alper, co-producers: EAVE graduate Stienette Bosklopper, EAVE+ graduate Maarten Swart won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize
• ROSE by Markus Schleinzer, producers: EAVE graduate Johannes Schubert, Karsten Stöter won the Silver Bear for Best Lead Performance
• EAVE project NINA ROZA by Geneviève Dulude-de Celles, producer: EAVE graduate Fanny Drew won the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay

Perspectives

• FOREST HIGH by Manon Coubia, co-producer: B'EST graduate Charlotte Vincent, EAVE graduate Katia Khazak received a Special Mention (Coup de Coeur) in Perspectives

Panorama Audience Awards

• PROSECUTION by Faraz Sharia , producer: EAVE graduate Jorgo Narjes won the Audience Award (Fiction) in Panorama
• TRACES by Aisa Kovalenko and Marysia Nikitiuk, producer: EAVE graduate Izabela Wojcik, EAVE+ graduate Violetta Kaminska won the Audience Award (Documentary) in Panorama
• THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SUN by Tawfik Sabouni, co-producer: EAVE graduate Hanne Phlypo won the First Runner-up award in Panorama

Generation Competition

• GUGU’S WORLD by Allan Deberton, producer: EAVE+ graduate Karen Castanho, executive producer: PUENTES graduate Fred Burle won the Grand Prix for the Best Film in Generation Kplus and the Crystal Bear for the Best Film in Generation Kplus
• ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE by Paul Negoescu, producers: EAVE graduates Radu Stancu, Ioana Lascăr received a Special Mention
• SAD GIRLZ by Fernanda Tovar, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Carlo D’Ursi won the Grand Prix for the Best Film in Generation 14plus and the Crystal Bear for the Best Film in Generation 14plus
• NOT A HERO by Rima Das, co-producer: EAVE and TTB graduate Fran Borgia received a Special Mention

Teddy Awards

• IVÁN & HADOUM by Ian de la Rosa, producers: EAVE+ graduates José Alba and Odile Antonio-Baez, PUENTES graduate Flavia Biurrun, and EAVE graduate Hubert Toint won the Teddy Award for Best Feature Film
• TRIAL OF HEIN by Kai Stänicke, producers: EAVE and EAVE+ graduate Dirk Decker, EAVE+ graduate Andrea Schütte won the Jury Award

FIPRESCI Award

• PUENTES project NARCISO by Marcelo Martinessi, producer: PUENTES graduate Sebastián Peña Escobar, co-producers: EAVE, EAVE+ and PUENTES graduate Agustina Chiarino, EAVE+ graduate Fernando Epstein won the FIPRESCI prize in Panorama

Ecumenical Jury Award

• RIVER DREAMS by Kristina Mikhailova, co-producer: EAVE participant Nadira Murray won the Ecumenical Jury Award in Forum

Other Awards

• YELLOW LETTERS by lker Çatak, co-written and co-produced by EAVE graduate Enis Köstepen won the Prize of the Guild of German Arthouse Cinemas
• PROSECUTION by Faraz Sharia , producer: EAVE graduate Jorgo Narjes won the Heiner Carow Prize and the C.I.C.A.E. Art Cinema Award
• ON OUR OWN by Tudor Cristian Jurgiu, producers: EAVE graduate Tudor Giurgiu and Bogdan Crăciun won the C.I.C.A.E. Art Cinema Award

Berlinale Co-Production Market

• LOTUS FEET by Amanda Nell Eu, producer: TTB graduate Foo Fei Ling received the ARTEKino International Award
• EAVE project THE MOST ROMANTIC MAN IN THE WORLD by Simon Jaquemet, producer: EAVE participant Olga Lamontanara received the VFF Talent Highlight Award
• Nomination Awards: EAVE graduate Yulia Evina Bhara (KawanKawan Media, Indonesia) and EAVE graduate Gary Cranner (Mantra Film, Norway)

Berlinale Talents

• EAVE graduate Tapiwa Chipfupa (Ambidextrous Pictures, Zimbabwe) received the main prize of the Berlinale Talents Mastercard Enablement Programme for creating the AVEL (Audiovisual Entrepreneurs Laboratory) Producer’s Lab in Zimbabwe, designed to impart critical skills to emerging producers in a way that contributes to the building of the local film industry and continental film economy.

www.berlinale.de

 

INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM

CineMart

• DAUGHTERS OF THE SEA by Martika Ramirez Escobar, producer: EAVE graduate Alba Sotorra won the Eurimages New Lab: Innovation Award
• LFD HOPE by Joshua Loftin, producer: EAVE graduate Patricia d’Intino won the Eurimages New Lab: Outreach Award
• THE POET’S SON by Nicolas Graux, producer: EAVE graduate Hanne Phylpo won the ArteKino International Award
• PALE FACES by Chantel Clark, producers: EAVE graduate and Dutch National Coordinator Frank Hoeve, EAVE graduate Cait Pansegrouw won the Filmmore Post-production Award
• MARINA by Laís Santos Araújo, Pethrus Tibúrcio, producer: PUENTES graduate Arturo Yepez won the HBF Empowerment Award

https://iffr.com/nl/

 

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL

• EAVE project TO HOLD A MOUNTAIN by Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazic, producers: EAVE graduates Biljana Tutorov, Anton Iffland won the World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize
• SHAME AND MONEY by Visar Morina, producers: EAVE graduate Fabian Altenried, PUENTES graduate Sophie Ahrens, co-producers: EAVE graduates Besnik Krapi, Marija Dimitrova, EAVE+ graduate Danijel Hocevar won the World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award
• FILIPIÑANA by Rafael Manuel, producer: producers: TTB graduates Bradley Liew and Jeremy Chua TTB group leader Bianca Balbuena won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision
• HOW TO DIVORCE DURING THE WAR by Andrius Balezvicius, producer: EAVE graduate Marija Razgute, co-producers: EAVE graduates Jakub Kostal, Vincent Quenault, associate producer: MW graduate Brigita Beniusyte won the World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award
• BIRDS OF WAR by Janay Boulos & Abd Alkader Habak, producer: EAVE+ graduate Sonja Henrici won the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Journalistic Impact
• EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET by Felipe Bustos Sierra, producer: EAVE graduate Ciara Barry won the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Civil Resistance
• HOLD ON TO ME by Myrsini Aristidou, co-producers: EAVE and EAVE+ graduate Konstantina Stavrianou wins World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award

https://festival.sundance.org

 

SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

• VERSAILLES by Andres Clariond, producer: PUENTES graduate Nicolás Celis won the Nueva Vision Award for Spain/Latin America Cinema

https://sbiff.org/

 

BRITISH ACADEMY FILM AWARDS

• BOONG by Lakshmipriya Devi, producer: MW graduate Alan McAlex won Best Children's & Family Film 
• MR NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN by David Borenstein, Pavel Ilyich Talankin, Co-director Pavel Talankin, co-producer: EAVE graduate Radovan Sibrt won Best Documentary
• SENTIMENTAL VALUE by Joachim Trier, producer: EAVE graduate Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, co-producers: EAVE graduates Jonas Dornbach, Lizette Jonjic won Best Film Not in the English Language

https://www.bafta.org/awards/film/

 

IRISH FILM & TELEVISION ACADEMY AWARDS

• SAIPAN (REPEAT) by Glenn Leyburn, Lisa Barros D'Sa, producer: EAVE graduate Macdara Kelleher won Best Lead Actor (Éanna Hardwicke)
• BUGONIA by Yorgos Lanthimos, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney won Best International Actress (Emma Stone)
• DIE MY LOVE by Lynne Ramsay, producer: EAVE graduate Andrea Calderwood won Best Cinematography (Seamus McGarvey)
• BLUE MOON by Richard Linklater, executive producer: EAVE graduate Macdara Kelleher won Best Costume Design (Consolata Boyle)

https://ifta.ie/news/dts/winners26.php

 

BELGIAN ENSOR AWARDS

• YOUNG HEARTS by Anthony Schatteman, producer: EAVE graduate Xavier Rombaut, co-producers: EAVE graduates Floor Onrust, Annabella Nezri won Best Youth Fiction, Play Kinepolis Audience Award and Best Performance in a Supporting Role - Film (Emilie De Roo)

https://www.ensors.be/en/news/these-are-all-winners-ensors-2026

 

GÖTEBORG FILM FESTIVAL

• CALLE MALAGA by Maryam Touzani, producer: EAVE graduate Fred Burle won the Dragon Award Best International Film
• MY FATHER’S SHADOW by Akinola Davies, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney won the Youth Jury Dragon Award
• THE PATRON by Julie Thelin, producer: EAVE graduate Eliza Jones won the Angelospriset (Swedish Church Film Prize)

Nordic Film Market

• CHENTIAN by Suha Arraf, producer: EAVE graduate May Odeh won the Tint Post-Production Award

https://goteborgfilmfestival.se/en

 

INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

• THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE by Mona Fastvold, producer: EAVE graduate Viktoria Petrányi won Best Editing (Sofía Subercaseaux)
• THE SECRET AGENT by Kleber Mendonça Filho, co-producers: PUENTES graduate Fred Burle, EAVE graduate Léontine Petit won Best International Film

https://www.filmindependent.org/spirit-awards/ 

 

GAUDI AWARDS

• SIRAT by Oliver Laxe, producer: PUENTES graduate Xavi Font won Best Non-Catalan Language Film, Best Production, Best Art Direction, Best Original Music, Best Cinematography, Best Sound, Best Visual Effects, Best Makeup and HairstyliFURY by Gemma Blasco, producer: PUENTES graduate and EAVE graduate Mireilla Graell won Best New Director, Best Actress
• ROMERIA by Carla Simon, producer: EAVE graduate and Spanish National Coordinator Maria Zamora won Best Breakthrough Performance
• EAVE project MADE OF SUGAR by Claudia Cedo, producer: EAVE graudtae Ariadna Dot won Best Short Film
• EAVE Marketing Workshop project FLOW by Gints Zilbalodis, producer: EAVE graduate Matiss Kaza won Best European Film

https://academiadelcinema.cat/ca/premis-gaudi/xviii-premis-gaudi

 

SHORTFILMWIRE CLERMONT-FERRAND

• A SHORT ART by Ilke Paddenburg, producer: EAVE graduate Maarten Van der Ven won the Audience Award
• BLUE HEART by Samuel Suffren, producer: EAVE graduate Carine Ruszniewski won the International Grand Prize
• BLEAT! by Ananth Subramaniam, producers: TTB graduate Choo Mun Bel and Bradley Liew won the Student Jury Prize
• WATER SPORTS by Whammy Alcazaren, producer:  TTB and EAVE graduate Alemberg Ang received the Special Mention by the Lab jury

https://www.shortfilmwire.com/

Page published 27 February 2026.