PERLA wins 8 awards at the Austrian Film Awards

Awards June 2026

AUSTRIAN FILM AWARDS

PERLA by Alexandra Makarová, producers: EAVE graduates Arash T. Riahi, Sabine Gruber was awarded Best Feature Film, Best Actor, Best Camera, Best costume design, Best Makeup, Best production design, Best Music and Best sound design
UPGRADED IS’ by Claudia Jüptner-Jonstorff, producer: EAVE MW graduate Dani Purer won the award for the Most popular film
HOW TO BE NORMAL AND THE ODDNESS OF THE OTHER WORLD by Florian Pochlatko, producers: EAVE graduates Arash T. Riahi, Sabine Gruber won Best Supporting Actress and Best Editing

https://www.oesterreichische-filmakademie.at/filmpreis

GERMAN LOLA AWARDS

YELLOW LETTERS by lker Çatak, co-written and co-produced by EAVE graduate Enis Köstepen won the Silver Lola and Best Score
OH, THIS UNSPEAKABLE VOID by Simon Verhoeven, producer: EAVE graduate Jonas Dornbach won the Bronze Lola and Best Actress
SIRI HUSTVEDT - DANCE AROUND THE SELF by Sabine Lidl, co-producer: EAVE graduate Karin Koch won Best Documentary
CIRCUSBOY by Julia Lemke, Anna Koch, producers: EAVE graduates Katharina Bergfeld and Martin Heisler won Best Children's Film
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF JOSEF MENGELE, co-producer: EAVE graduate Sandino Saravia Vinay won Best Actor

https://www.deutscher-filmpreis.de/

GREEK IRIS AWARDS

PATTY IS SUCH A GIRLY NAME by Giorgos Georgopoulos, producer: EAVE+ graduate Fenia Cossovitsa was awarded Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Original Score and Best Sound
MARICEL by Elias Demetriou, producer: EAVE and TTB graduate Maria Drandaki won Best Minority Co-production
BEACHCOMBER by Aristotelis Maragkos, producer: EAVE MW graduate Konstantinos Koukoulis, co-producer: EAVE graduate Vicky Miha won Best Actor and Best Cinematography
RECEPTIONS by Filippos Tsitos, producer: EAVE graduate Effie Skrobola won the Best Supporting Actor Award

https://hellenicfilmacademy.gr/en/

NASTRI D'ARGENTO AWARDS

THE HOLY BOY by Paolo Strippoli, producer: EAVE graduate and Slovenian National Coordinator Jozko Rutar won Best Subject
THE EYES OF OTHERS by Andrea de Sica, producer: Interchange graduate Marta Donzelli won the Hamilton Behind the Camera Award
THE LAST SLAP by Matteo Oleotto, producer: EAVE graduate Miha Cernec, co-producer: EAVE graduate and Slovenian National Coordinator Jozko Rutar won the Graziella Bonacchi Prize

https://www.nastridargento.it/

GEORGIAN ELISO AWARDS

CHANGE project THE KARTLI KINGDOM by Qartlis Tskhovreba, producer: CHANGE graduate Ketevan Kipiani won Best Director
CHANGE project 9-MONTH CONTRACT by Ketevan Vashagashvili, producer: CHANGE graduate Anna Khazaradze received a Special Mention

https://natovachnadze.com/en/eliso-awards/

ICELANDIC EDDA AWARDS

THE LOVE THAT REMAINS by by Hlynur Pálmason, producers: EAVE and PUENTES graduate Katrin Pors, EAVE and EAVE+ graduate Anton Máni Svansson, co-producers: EAVE graduate and Group Leader Didar Domehri, TTB graduate Mikkel Jersin and PUENTES graduate Nima Yousefi won Film of the Year, Director of the Year, Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Cinematography and Best Screenplay
SENTIMENTAL VALUE by Joachim Trier, producers: EAVE graduates Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, Dyveke Bjørkly Graver, co-producers: EAVE graduates Jonas Dornbach, Lizette Jonjic won Foreign Film of the Year
THE DAMNED by Thordur Palsson, producers: EAVE graduates Emilie Jouffroy, Conor Barry, John Keville, co-producers: EAVE graduates Anton Máni Svansson, Benoit Roland won Best Make-up

https://www.icelandicfilmcentre.is/discover/news/the-edda-award-winners-2026

Lithuanian Silver Crane Awards

THE VISITOR by Vytautas Katkus, producers: EAVE graduate Marija Razgutė and EAVE MW graduate Brigita Beniušytė won Best Feature Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay
BORDERLINE by Ignas Jonynas, producer: EAVE graduate Rūta Adelė Jekentaitė won Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress
HOLY DESTRUCTORS by Aiste Zegulyte, co-producer: PUENTES graduate Dominiks Jarmakovičs, FFF graduate Roberts Vinovskis won Best Cinematographer, Best Editor, Best Composer, Best Documentary Film
HUNGER STRIKE BREAKFAST by Karolis Kaupinis, producer: EAVE graduate Marija Razgutė won Best Make-up, Best Costume Design
TTB project CHINA SEA by Jurgis Matulevicius, producer: TTB graduate Ieva Cern, co-producers: EAVE graduates Mariusz Wlodarski, Jakub Kostal, Marta Gmosinska won Best Production Design

https://filmvilnius.com/silver-crane-awards-presented-what-picture-of-lithuanian-cinema-do-we-see-this-year/

PHILOSOPHICAL FILM FESTIVAL IN SKOPJE

SHAMBHALA by Min Bahadur Bham, co-producer: EAVE graduate Verona Meier won the Golden Owl for Best Feature Film

https://philosophicalfilmfestival.mk/en/awards-at-the-15pff/

ZLIN FILM FESTIVAL

WEIGHTLESS by Emilie Thalund, producer: EAVE graduate Katrin Pors, TTB graduate Mikkel Jersin was awarded Best Feature Film for Young Adults

https://www.zlinfest.cz/-en/

KRAKOW FILM FESTIVAL

TICKLING THE DEVIL by Piotr Małecki, producer: TTB graduate Joanna Tatko was awarded the Golden Hobby-Horse for Best Feature-length Documentary Film, the Polish Filmmakers Association Award for Editing and the Audience Award
NOTES FROM A BESIEGED CITY by Mateusz Mularski, producer: EAVE graduate Joanna Zielinska won the award for Best Producer of Polish Documentary and Short Films
TRISTAN FOREVER by Tobias Nölle & Loran Bonnardot, producer: EAVE+ graduate Christof Neracher won the Golden Horn for the Director and Co-Director of the Best Film
CHANGE project SILENT FLOOD by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, producer: CHANGE graduate Karina Kostyna, co-producer: EAVE graduate Tanja Georgieva-Waldhauer won The Silver Horn for the Director of a Film of High Artistic Merit
THE TALE OF SILYAN by Tamara Kotevska, producer: EAVE SLATE graduate Jordančo Petkovski received the FIPRESCI award
EAVE project WHERE MUSIC GROWS by Katrine Philp, producer: EAVE graduate Katrine A. Sahlstrøm received the Audience Award

https://www.krakowfilmfestival.pl/

BIOGRAFILM BOLOGNA

EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET by Felipe Bustos Sierra, producer: EAVE graduate Ciara Barry won the Best Film Award and the Audience Award
AMILCAR by Miguel Eek, co-producer: EAVE graduate Mario Adamson received Special Mention
SOMETHING FAMILIAR by Rachel Taparjan, producer: EAVE graduate Monica Lazurean-Gorgan received the Special Mention Hera “Nuovi Talenti”
SOAP FEVER by Inka Achté, producer: EAVE graduate Liisa Karpo and EAVE+ graduate Marianne Mäkelä, co-producer: EAVE participant Melissa Lindgren was awarded the Guerrilla Choice Award
BETWEEN BROTHERS by Tom Fassaert, producer: EAVE graduate Renko Douze, co-producer: EAVE graduate Hanne Phlypo won the MYmovies Award

https://www.biografilm.it/

FESTIVAL OF MEDITERRANIAN FILM SPLIT

ZEJTUNE by Alex Camilleri, co-producer: PUENTES graduate Fred Burle won the Audience Award
HONEY BUNNY by Igor Jelinović, producer: EAVE MW graduate Rea Rajcic received the Young Jury Award

https://fmfs.hr/en/

TRANSILVANIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

TTB project TITANIC OCEAN by Konstantina Kotzamani, producers: EAVE and TTB graduates Maria Drandaki, Romanian National Coordinator Radu Stancu, EAVE graduates Luisa Romeo, Nina Frese, executive producer: EAVE graduate Amy Gardner won the Best Direction Award
OUR FATHER by Goran Stankovic, producer: EAVE graduate Snezana van Houwelingen was awarded the Special Jury Award
TRULY NAKED by Muriel d’Ansembourg, producers: TTB graduates Isabella Depeweg and Els Vandevorst, co-producers: EAVE+ graduate and TTB Head of Studies Christophe Bruncher, EAVE+ graduate Tom Dercourt, EAVE graduate Antonino Lombardo received the Best Performance Award
Y by Maria Popistașu, Alexandru Baciu, producer: Anamaria Antoci, co-producer: Effie Skrobolas won Best Feature in the Romanian Days section
MEMORY by Vladlena Sandu, co-producer: EAVE, PUENTES, TTB and EAVE+ graduate Raymond van der Kaaij won the What's Up, Doc? award
DON'T LET ME DIE by Andrei Epure, producer: Alexandru Teodorescu, co-producer: Thomas Lambert won the FIPRESCI Award in the Romanian competition

https://tiff.ro/en

TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL NEW YORK

ZEJTUNE by Alex Camilleri, co-producer: PUENTES graduate Fred Burle was awarded Best Screenplay in an International Narrative Feature
THE SIEGE OF PARADISE by Gar O'Rourke, producer: EAVE graduate Andrew Freedman received the Special Jury Mention for Best Cinematography in a Documentary Feature
SKATEBOARDING IS NOT FOR GIRLS by Dina Duma, producer: EAVE graduate Labina Mitevska won the Nora Ephron Award

https://tribecafilm.com

ART FILM FEST KOSICE

EVERYTIME by Sandra Wollner, producers: EAVE and EAVE SLATE graduate David Bohun, MW graduate Camille Chanel was awarded the Blue Angel for Best Directing
MADE IN EU by EAVE graduate Stephan Komandarev, producer: EAVE graduate Katya Trichkova received a special mention by the jury of the Central and Eastern European competition and the FIPRESCI Jury Award

https://artfilmfest.sk/en

ANNECY INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FILM FESTIVAL

BLAISE by Dimitri Planchon, Jean-Paul Guigue, producer: EAVE graduate Alexandre Gavras won the Grand Prize in the Contrechamp Competition
A LONG GOODBYE by Kate Voet, Victor Maes, co-producer: EAVE graduate Donato Rotunno won Best VR Work