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34th European Film Awards
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European Film Academy launches new “European Award Season” as a follow-up to the successful “Month of European Film”

An award season for shortlisted and nominated European films leading to the European Film Awards: the newly launched “European Award Season” is one of the latest steps in the European Film Academy’s mission to build more visibility for films from Europe for a larger audience.

Together with its numerous European partners, the European Film Academy has been contributing to synchronise the marketing and promotion around films made in Europe, the so-called “hot contenders”. First, the annual “Month of European Film” saw an increasing number of cities join forces with cinemas all over Europe offering original programming of European cinema, from classics to contemporary films. In the past 4 years, this led in November 2024 to 100 European cities participating, and a record amount of 16,000 screenings and 467,000 ticket sales. All revenues remained with the participating partner cinemas. The programme has been supported by Creative Europe MEDIA since 2022.

A two-months European Award Season

In its fifth year, the European Film Academy’s initiative takes a next step: With the date change of the European Film Awards to mid-January, the period between the nomination announcement on 18 November 2025 and the award ceremony itself on 17 January 2026 is a solid two months. This not only enables Academy members to watch more films before casting their votes, it also offers a window for distributors and exhibitors to promote the nominated films for film-loving cinema audiences. A pilot programme with the Berlin-based Yorck cinema group takes the lead: every week, one of the nominated films is screened in a local cinema, presented by a Berlin-based Academy member who will introduce the film. Local public radio broadcaster radioeins (rbb) is a partner and will present the Academy nominee screenings. After the Berlin pilot, the European Film Academy aims for similar models to be adopted by other cinemas in Europe.

Academy CEO Matthijs Wouter Knol says: “The European Award Season naturally links to the international award season and highlights the European films that very likely will continue to compete at awards outside Europe. This is a period in which the visibility of European cinema grows. We want to make people more curious about the European films they missed. It is an opportunity we would like to explore — together with our broad network of European partners.”

Right at the beginning of the European Award Season is the announcement of the nominations, on Tuesday, 18 November in Seville, Spain. It will be the day when in 125 European cities film programmes will start during the period until mid-January, when the European Film Awards take place on Saturday, 17 January 2026 in Berlin.

New non-European and European participants

For the first time, also 4 cities outside Europe have subscribed to participate: in Hong Kong, Santiago de Chile, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam). For the first time as well, Liechtenstein is on board – with the cinema Skino in Schaan. There is also a partner cinema on the Estonian island of Saaremaa – the Thule Kino in Kuressaare. Also new is the grand historical Skandia in Stockholm, four further partners both in France – the Bel Air in Mulhouse, Café des Images in Hérouville, Le Studio 43 in Dunkirk and Les Carmes in Orléans – and in Poland – Gdynia Film Centre, Kameralne Café in Gdansk, Kino Kultura in Warsaw and Pionier1907 in Szczecin.

Apart from cinema screenings, existing cooperations under the new brand are continued with MUBI, documentary platform DA Film, and FestivalScope, the latter running a European Short film programme. Another new initiative is the collaboration with the library platform filmfriend, linked to 862 public libraries in German-speaking European countries. All library members can watch European films related to the history of the European Film Awards on this platform as part of their subscription. In January 2026, ARTE will present films by the honorary award winners Liv Ullmann and Alice Rohrwacher on their digital platform, as well as on linear TV.

Wide-ranging programme with individual initiatives throughout European Award Season

All participating cinemas screen European films, many of these films are contemporary and shortlisted for the European Film Awards. The programmes also include the films nominated for the LUX Audience Award 2026 and the European Young Audience Award.

The European Award Season will also see the European Arthouse Cinema Day on 23 November, a project organised by CICAE, the international confederation of arthouse cinemas.

During the European Award Season, many of the participating cinemas will focus on younger audiences: There are special screenings for young people, often combined with discussions, educational workshops and interactive activities. There will be matinee screenings for middle and high schools in Rome and a mini festival dedicated to “Children and youth in film” in Biel/Bienne (Switzerland).

The European Award Season is supported by the Creative Europe MEDIA Programme of the European Union and Eurimages and co-operates with Europa Cinemas, CICAE and European Film Promotion. Media partners are Cineuropa and EBU.

For more details about the European Award Season, see here.