Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize for THE BLUE TRAIL
Awards February 2025
Berlin International Film Festival
EAVE graduates win 4 Silver Bears and a Crystal Bear at the Berlinale 2025!
- THE BLUE TRAIL by Gabriel Mascaro, producers: EAVE graduates Rachel Daisy Ellis, Sandino Saravia Vinay, co-producers: EAVE, PUENTES and TTB graduate Giancarlo Nasi, EAVE graduate Marleen Slot won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize
- BLUE MOON by Richard Linklater, executive producer: EAVE graduate Macdara Kelleher won the Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance
- KONTINENTAL '25 by Radu Jude, producer: EAVE graduate Alexandru Teodorescu won the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay
- THE ICE TOWER by Lucile Hadzihalilovic, co-producer: EAVE graduate Ingmar Trost won the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution
- PUENTES project THE DEVIL SMOKES (AND SAVES THE BURNT MATCHES IN THE SAME BOX) by Ernesto Martínez Bucio, producer: PUENTES graduate Carlos Hernandez Vazquez won the GWFF Best First Feature Award
- CANNONE EFFIMERO by Gianluca De Serio, Massimiliano De Seri, producer: PUENTES graduate Alessandro Borrelli won the Berlinale Documentary Award Special Mention
- EAVE project YALLA PARKOUR by Areeb Zuaiter, producer: EAVE graduate Basel Mawlawi, executive producer: EAVE graduate Lisa Nyed won the Panorama Documentary Audience Award Second Prize
- SUNSHINE by Antoinette Jadaone, producer: TTB group leader Bianca Balbuena won the Crystal Bear for Best Film by the Youth Jury Generation 14plus
- CIRCUSBOY by Anna Koch, Julia Lemke, producer: EAVE participant Katharina Bergfeld received a Special Mention by the Generation Kplus Jury
- DOWN IN THE DUMPS by Vera van Wolferen, producer: EAVE graduate Noortje Wilschut received a Special Mention for Best Short Film
- THE BLUE TRAIL by Gabriel Mascaro, producer: EAVE graduate Rachel Daisy Ellis, co-producers: EAVE, PUENTES and TTB graduate Giancarlo Nasi, EAVE graduate Marleen Slot won the Berliner Morgenpost Readers’ Jury Award
- THE SWAN SONG OF FEDOR OZEROV by Juri Semashko, producer: EAVE + graduate Kestutis Drazdauskas won the Tagesspiegel Readers’ Jury Award
- LITTLE TROUBLE GIRLS by Urska Djukic, producer: EAVE graduate Jozko Rutar, co-producers: EAVE graduates Marina Gumzi, Miha Cernec, Katarina Prpic won the FIPRESCI Award (Prize Winner Perspectives)
- UNDER THE FLAGS, THE SUN by Juanjo Pereira, producers: PUENTES graduates Gabriela Sabaté, Paula Zyngierman, Leandro Listorti won the FIPRESCI Award (Prize Winner Panorama)
- THE BLUE TRAIL by Gabriel Mascaro, producers: EAVE graduates Rachel Daisy Ellis, Sandino Saravia Vinay, co-producers: EAVE, PUENTES and TTB graduate Giancarlo Nasi, EAVE graduate Marleen Slot won the Ecumenical Jury Award (Prize Winner Competition)
- THE HEART IS A MUSCLE by Imran Hamdulay, producer: EAVE graduate Khosie Dali won the Ecumenical Jury Award (Prize Winner Panorama)
- IF YOU ARE AFRAID YOU PUT YOUR HEART INTO YOUR MOUTH AND SMILE by Marie Luise Lehner, producer: EAVE graduate Michael Kitzberger won the CICAE Art Cinema Award and the Teddy Jury Award
- PATERNAL LEAVE by Alissa Jung, producer: FFF graduate Lorenzo Gangarossa won the AG Kino Gilde – Cinema Vision 14plus award
Berlinale Co-Production Market
- 30 DAYS OF SUMMER by Anastasiia Solonevych, producer: EAVE graduate Aleksandra Kostina won the Gen Z Audience Award
- DREAMGIRL by Kaan Müjdeci, producer: EAVE graduate Olena Yershova won the ArteKino International Prize
International Film Festival Rotterdam
- EAVE project FIUME O MORTE! by Igor Bezinovic, producers: EAVE graduates Tibor Keser, Marina Gumzi won the main awards of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The film won the Tiger Award, and the FIPRESCI Award.
- IM HAUS MEINER ELTERN by Tim Ellrich, producer: EAVE graduate Tanja Georgieva-Waldhauer won the Special Jury Award
CineMart
- TEAR GAS by Uta Beria, producer: EAVE graduate Guillaume Dreyfus, PUENTES graduate Delphine Schmit won the HBF Empowerment Award and the Outward Gaze Award at IFFR CineMart
- STRATA by Lilian Hess, producer: EAVE graduate Marion Guth won the 4DR Studios Award for Best Immersive Project
- INBETWEEN WORLDS by Diana Cam Van Nguyen, producer: EAVE graduate Jakub Viktorin won the ArteKino International Award
Sundance Film Festival
- DJ AHMET by Georgi M. Unkovski, producers: EAVE graduate Katarina Prpic, TTB graduate Veronika Kührova won the Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic and the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision
- THE THINGS YOU KILL by Alireza Khatami, producer: EAVE graduate Mariusz Wlodarski won the Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic
- MR NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN by David Borenstein, co-producer: EAVE graduate Radovan Sibrt won the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award
- COEXISTENCE, MY ASS! By Amber Fares, producer: EAVE graduate Valérie Montmartin won the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Freedom of Expression
British Academy Film Awards
- CONCLAVE by Edward Berger, executive producer: EAVE FFF graduate Lorenzo Gangarossa won Best Film, Outstanding British Film, Best Editing, Best Adapted Screenplay
- THE BRUTALIST by Bradley Corbet, co-producer: EAVE graduate Viktoria Petranyi won Best Director, Best Leading Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score
- EMILIA PEREZ by Jacques Audiard, co-producer: PUENTES graduate Nicolas Celis won Best Film Not In The English Language, Best Supporting Actress
- WANDER TO WONDER by Nina Gantz, producer: EAVE graduate Stienette Bosklopper, EAVE+ graduate Maarten Swart won Best British Short Animation
Belgian Magritte Film Awards
- AMAL by Jawad Rhalib, co-producer: EAVE graduate Ellen de Waele was awarded Best Actress (Lubna Azabal)
- LIFE’S A BITCH by Xavie Seron, producer: EAVE graduate Julie Esparbes won Best Actor (Arieh Worthalter)
- JULIE KEEPS QUIET by Leonardo van Dijl, co-producers: PUENTES graduate Nima Yousefi, EAVE graduate Jan Naszewski won Best Flemish Film
- GREEN BORDER by Agnieszka Holland, producers: EAVE graduate Maria Blicharska, EAVE graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum won Best Original Score
- THE MOST PRECIOUS OF CARGOES by Michel Hazanavicius, producer: EAVE Board member Patrick Sobelman won Best Foreign Film in Co-Production
Irish Film & Television Academy Awards
- THE OUTRUN by Nora Fingscheidt, co-producer: EAVE graduate and TTB group leader Jonas Weydemann won Best Lead Actress (Saoirse Ronan)
- CONCLAVE by Edward Berger, executive producer: EAVE FFF graduate Lorenzo Gangarossa won Best Supporting Actor (Brian F O’Byrne)
- ODDITY by Damian Mc Carthy, producers: EAVE graduate and Irish National Coordinator Katie Holly, EAVE graduate Evan Horan won Best Sound
- THE APPRENTICE by Ali Abbasi, co-producers: EAVE graduates Ditte Milsted, Ruth Treacy won Best Hair & Makeup
Spanish Goya Awards
- EMILIA PEREZ by Jacques Audiard, co-producer: PUENTES graduate Nicolas Celis won Best European Film at the GOYAs, the Spanish Academy Awards.
- SALVE MARIA by Mar Coll, producer: EAVE graduate and Spanish National Coordinator Maria Zamora won Best New Actress (Laura Weissmahr)
- THE ROOM NEXT DOOR by Pedro Almodovar, line producer: EAVE graduate Lara Costa-Calzado won Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Music, Best Cinematography
- THE RED VIRGIN by Paula Ortiz, producer: EAVE graduate and Spanish National Coordinator Maria Zamora won Best Art Direction. Best Costume Design, Best Sound
Belgian Ensor Awards
- SKUNK by Koen Mortier, co-producer: EAVE graduate and Dutch National Coordinator Frank Hoeve won Best Film and Best Make-Up
- JULIE KEEPS QUIET by Leonardo van Dijl, producers: PUENTES graduate Nima Yousefi, EAVE graduate Jan Naszewski was awarded Best Directing, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Sound, and Best Costumes
- SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D'ETAT by Johan Grimonprez, producer: EAVE graduate and Dutch National Coordinator Frank Hoeve won Best Documentary and Best Newcomer
Göteborg Film Festival
- WHEN THE LIGHT BREAKS by Runar Runarsson, co-producer: EAVE, TTB and PUENTES graduate Raymond van der Kaaij won the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film
- THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE by Magnus von Horn, producer: EAVE graduate Mariusz Wlodarski won the FIPRESCI Award
- SAFE HOUSE by Eirik Svensson, producers: EAVE graduates Annika Hellström, Erika Malmgren won the Audience Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film
- HANAMI by Denise Fernandes, producer: EAVE graduate Eugenia Mumenthaler won The Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award
- TTB project HAPPYEND by Neo Sora, producers: TTB graduate Masubuchi Aiko, EAVE graduate Alex C. Lo won the Youth Jury Dragon Award
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Latvian National Film Awards
Numerous awards for EAVE graduates at the Latvian National Film Awards Lielais Kristaps in Riga:
- EAVE project MARIA’S SILENCE by Davis Simanis, producer: EAVE graduates Gints Grube, Inese Boka-Grube, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Kestutis Drazdauskas won Best Feature Film and Best Director, Best Leading Actress (Olga Sepicka-Slapjuma) and Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Girts Kesteris), and Best Costumes
- EAVE Marketing Workshop project FLOW by Gints Zilbalodis, producer: EAVE MW graduate Matiss Kaza won Best Animated Film, Best Director of an Animated Film, Best Scriptwriter, Best Original Music, Best Sound and the LSM.lv Audience Award
- TOUCHED BY ETERNITY by Marcis Lacis, producer: EAVE MW graduate Matiss Kaza won Best Leading Actor (Andris Keiss), Best Make-up Artist
- TO BE CONTINUED. TEENHOOD. by Ivars Seleckis, Armands Zacs, producer: EAVE graduates Gints Grube, Elina Gedina-Ducena won Best Cinematography in a Documentary Film
- THE EXALTED by Juris Kursietis, producer: B’EST graduate Alise Gelze, EAVE graduate and Estonian National Coordinator Evelin Penttilä, Vicky Miha won Best Production Design
- FIVE AND A HALF LOVE STORIES IN AN APARTMENT IN VILNIUS, LITHUANIA by Tomas Vengris, co-producer: EAVE FFF graduate Roberts Vinovskis won Best Cinematography
Premier Plans Film Festival Angers
- TO A LAND UNKNOWN by Mahdi Fleifel, producer: EAVE graduate Maria Drandaki won the Grand Jury Prize of the Premier Plans Film Festival Angers.
Independent Spirit Awards
- EAVE Marketing Workshop project FLOW by Gints Zilbalodis, producer: EAVE MW graduate Matiss Kaza won Best International Film at the 40th Independent Spirit Awards
- GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS by Shuchi Talati, producer: TTB graduate Claire Chassagne won the John Cassavetes Award
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Page published 27 February 2025. Updated 24 November 2025.
