Stellan Skarsgård starrer Sentimental Value leads nominations for European film awards | Movies

Norwegian director Joachim Trier is leading the race to victory at the European film awards with five nominations in key categories for his family drama Sentimental Value.

The Cannes Grand Prix winner was nominated for best European film, best screenplay and best director, while Stellan Skarsgård and Renate Reins were also nominated for best actor and best actress.

In the film, which will hit cinemas in the UK and other European regions this December, Skarsgård plays a once-famous film director trying to mend ties with his two estranged daughters.

Spanish director Oliver Laxe’s techno thriller Sirāt, set at a party in the Moroccan desert, is another leading film with four nominations. German filmmaker Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Fall, which explores intergenerational traumas in a farmhouse in rural Brandenburg, was nominated for three awards, as was Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi’s This Year’s Palme d’Or winner It Was Just an Accident.

The 15-film shortlist for European film of the year includes five animated films and five documentaries; these include Andres Veiel’s portrait of Nazi collaborator filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl and Igor Bezinović’s Fiume o Morte!, hailed by Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw as “the protofascist Passport to Pimlico”. The movie is also included.

The European film awards, often described as Europe’s answer to the Oscars, are overseen by the European film academy and were announced Tuesday at the Seville European film festival in Spain.

The awards ceremony, previously held in December, will be held in Berlin on January 17 next year, near the peak of US awards seasons, in an effort to provide greater visibility among European audiences.

At the awards held in Lucerne, Switzerland last year, French director Jacques Audiard’s musical Emilia Pérez achieved an almost clean success, taking four of the five major awards.

Full list of nominations

Best European film
Afternoon Loneliness
arco
God’s Dog (Dieva Suns)
Fiume or Morte!
It Was Just an Accident
Little Amelie
Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake
Riefenstahl
Emotional Value
Sirat
Songs of the Slow Burning World
Falling Sound
Tales from the Magic Garden
Voice of Hind Recep
In Gaza with Hasan

Best European documentary
Afternoon Loneliness
Fiume or Morte!
Riefenstahl
Songs of the Slow Burning World
In Gaza with Hasan

Europe’s best animated film
arco
god’s dog
Little Amelie
Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake
Tales from the Magic Garden

Best European Director
Yorgos Lanthimos, Bugonia
Oliver Laxe, Sirat
Cafer Panahi, It Was Just an Accident
Mascha Schilinski, The Sound of Falling
Joachim Trier, Emotional Value

Best European Actress
Leonie Benesch, Late Shift
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Duse
Léa Drucker, Case 137
Vicky Krieps, Love Me Tender
Renate Reinsve, Emotional Value

Best European Actor
Sergi López, Sirat
Mads Mikkelsen, The Last Viking
Toni Servillo, La Grazia
Stellan Skarsgård, Emotional Value
Idan Weiss, Franz

Best European Screenwriter
Santiago Fillol and Oliver Laxe, Sirāt
Cafer Panahi, It Was Just an Accident
Mascha Schilinski and Louise Peter, The Sound of Falling
Paolo Sorrentino, La Grazia
Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier, Emotional Value

Discovery of Europe – Prix Fipresci
Little Trouble Girls
My Father’s Shadow
while falling
One of the Days Hemme Died
Sauna
Under the Gray Sky

European young audience award
arco
I Accidentally Wrote a Book
Siblings