International Competition titles WHITE SNAIL and GOD WILL NOT HELP win in Locarno

Awards August 2025

5 awards for EAVE graduates at the Locarno Film Festival:

WHITE SNAIL by Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter, producer: EAVE graduate David Bohun, co-producer: EAVE graduate Heino Deckert wins the Special Jury Prize and the Leopard for Best Performance (Marya Imbro and Mikhail Senkov)
GOD WILL NOT HELP by Hana Jusic, producer: EAVE graduate and group leader Ankica Juric Tilic, co-producers: EAVE graduate Ada Solomon, EAVE graduate and group leader Didar Domehri, B’EST graduate Ales Pavlin wins the Leopard for Best Performance (Manuela Martelli and Ana Marija Veselcic)
HAIR, PAPER, WATER… by Nicolas Graux, Trương Minh Quý, producers: CPI graduate Thomas Hakim, EAVE+ graduate Julien Graff won the Golden Leopard in the Cineasti del Presente competition and a Special Mention
DON’T LET THE SUN by Jacqueline Zünd, producer: EAVE graduate Louis Mataré won the Leopard for Best Performance in the Cineasti del Presente competition
SOLOMAMMA by Janicke Askevold, producer: EAVE graduate and Norwegian National Coordinator Gary Cranner, co-producers: EAVE graduates Gints Grube, Inese Boka-Grube, EAVE+ graduate Gabija Siurbyte won the Ecumenical Award

Locarno PRO Awards

NINA ROZA by Geneviève Dulude-De Celles, producer: EAVE graduate Fanny Drew won the Urban Post First Look Award and the Jannuzzi Smith Award
IN THE HIDDEN by Goran Rebic, producer: EAVE+ graduate Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu won the Masé Studio Post-Production Award
NAJMA AND SALOMÉ by Anne Zinn-Justin, produced by PUENTES graduate Clémentine Mourão-Ferreira won the Script Consultancy Residency at DreamAgo offered by the Valais Film Commission

A POET by Simon Mesa Soto, co-producer: EAVE graduate David Herdies won the Bright Horizons Award of the Melbourne International Film Festival.

9 awards for EAVE graduates at the Sarajevo Film Festival:

WIND, TALK TO ME by Stefan Djordjevic, producer: EAVE graduate Dragana Jovovic, co-producer: EAVE graduate and Slovenian National Coordinator Jozko Rutar won the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Feature Film
SORELLA DI CLAUSURA by Ivana Mladenovic, producer: EAVE graduate Ada Solomon won the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Director
YUGO FLORIDA by Vladimir Tagic, producer: EAVE graduate Marija Stojanovic won the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actor
FANTASY by Kukla, producers: EAVE graduates Lija Pogacnik and Vlado Bulajic won the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actress
OUR TIME WILL COME by Ivette Löcker, producers: EAVE graduate and Austrian National Coordinator Barbara Pichler, EAVE graduate Gabriele Kranzelbinder won the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary Film
GOD WILL NOT HELP by Hana Jusic, producer: EAVE graduate and group leader Ankica Juric Tilic, co-producers: EAVE graduate Ada Solomon, EAVE graduate and group leader Didar Domehri won the Special Award for Promoting Gender Equality
DJ AHMET by Georgi M. Unkovski, producer: EAVE graduate Katarina Prpic won the Special Youth Perspectives Award and the Cineuropa Award
THE WHITE SNAIL by Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter, producer: EAVE graduate David Bohun, co-producer: EAVE graduate Heino Deckert won the CICAE Award

The EAVE+ Award went to EAVE graduate Marija Stojanovic
POGANA by David Kapac, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Danijel Hocevar won the Film Center Serbia CineLink Award
TWO LITTLE NIGHTMARES by Nebojsa Slijepcevic, producer: EAVE graduate Katarina Prpic won the ARTEKino International Prize
WONDERFUL by Katarina Mitrovic, Isidora Veselinovic, Vladimir Tagic, producer: EAVE graduate Marija Stojanovic won the Croatian Audiovisual Centre Drama Award
17 by Kosara Mitic, producer: EAVE graduate Miroslav Mogorovic won the Avanpost Media Award
WHO ARE WE by Miroslav Terzic, producer: EAVE graduate Snezana van Houwelingen won the HBO Award

7 awards for EAVE graduates at the Amanda Awards, Norway's national film awards ceremony

ARMAND by Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, producers: EAVE graduates Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, co-producers: EAVE graduates Fred Burle, Derk-Jan Warrink won the Amanda for Best Supporting Actor (Ellen Dorrit Petersen), Best Cinematography (Pål Ulvik Rokseth), and Best Sound Design
THE BRUTALIST by Bradley Corbet, co-producer: EAVE graduate Viktoria Petranyi won Best Foreign-language Film
SAFE HOUSE by Eirik Svensson, co-producer: EAVE graduate Erika Malgrem won Best Production Design
NO. 24 by John Andreas Andersen, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Kęstutis Drazdauskas won Best Visual Effects and The People’s Amanda Audience Award.