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34th European Film Awards
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29 Jan 2026

“In Memoriam” 2026

As is by now a tradition, this year’s European Film Awards ceremony again included an “In Memoriam”, a sequence to look back and remember colleagues and friends who have passed away in the previous year. Even with the best of intentions, such a sequence has, of course, its limitations. It only allows a couple of glimpses and never truly and adequately honours the achievements of all deceased fellow-filmmakers from across Europe. Still, it is of crucial importance for the European Film Academy to embrace European film history and the people who have made European film what it is today. To us, this is what defines a true community.

This endeavour is only possible in co-operation with a heritage network that includes film archives and cinematheques, film academies and institutes all over the continent which help and consult the Academy’s heritage department.

The “In Memoriam” allows us to remember some of the great faces and forces in European film. It also gives us the chance to discover people we might not have known before. European cinema is about getting to know each other, sometimes even beyond a lifetime. This is an important process if we aim to arrive at a shared European film heritage.

Among the colleagues who passed away since the last European Film Awards are actors and actresses who need no introduction, faces that have shaped European film. Some are from the larger countries and maybe more widely known, like Brigitte Bardot, Claudia Cardinale, Émilie Dequenne, Marianne Faithfull, Marisa Paredes and Udo Kier.

Others are possibly mainly famous nationally such as Filiz Akın from Turkey, Mohammad Bakri from Palestine, Jorunn Kjellsby from Norway, Enver Petrovci from Kosovo, Vanni Riolo from Malta, Kostas Smoriginas from Lithuania, Spiros Stavrinides from Cyprus and Margarita Xhepa from Albania. We have made no distinction, and it was imperative to us to include both.

The „In Memoriam“ also, of course, includes prolific directors, both mainstream and avantgarde, such as Eva Borušovičová, Wolfgang Becker, Bertrand Blier, Atanas Kiryakov, Jørgen Leth, Marcel Łoziński, Béla Tarr and Frans Weisz. To name but a few.

We are also reminded of prolific European producers like Arthur Cohn , Per Holst, Agnes Johansen, Martha O’Neill and Eldar Schengelaia.

This list would not be complete without us honouring screenwriters, designers, cinematographers, and other film professionals who were dedicated to film and who have passed away, among them cinematographers Dan Jåma, Roger Pratt and Eduardo Serra, composers Klaus Doldinger and Eugen Doga, film critic Ilindenka Petrusheva, art director Radna Sakhaltuev, costume designer Marta Frelih and Kalju Kivi, production designer from Estonia

We have also included people known almost exclusively to those within the film industry, like the Serbian film historian Bojana Andrić, Israeli director Renen Schorr, who founded the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School, Greek sound designer Τhanasis Arvanitis and festival directors Jiří Bartoška from the Czech Republic and José Luis Cienfuegos from Spain.

Each of the people in this year’s “In Memoriam” tells us a story of European film. They tell us stories of talent and success, but also of perseverance, illness, oblivion. The people who left us this year could look back on a fulfilled life, or were taken away too early, unexpectedly, through violence. As a community caring about each other, and our work in European film, we don’t want to let them go unmentioned.

Allow us to mention a few more in particular:

Producer Damir Ibrahimović was co-founder of the production company Deblokada. His debut feature was GRBAVICA, directed by his wife and partner Jasmila Žbanić. One of his biggest successes came in 2021 with QUO VADIS, AIDA? which premiered in Venice and continued winning countless awards, among them European Film, Director and Actress at the European Film Awards and the LUX Audience Award.

Björn Johan Andrésen’s career started with a couple of acting and modeling jobs before he shot to international fame for his portrayal of 14-year-old Tadzio in Luchino Visconti’s adaptation of Thomas Mann’s novella DEATH IN VENICE which premiered in Cannes and lead to Björn Andrésen being described as “the most beautiful boy in the world”.

Latvian animation artist Roze Stiebra created more than 40 animation films in a career that spanned four decades, and received various awards for her work.

The screenwriter, tv journalist and author Georg Stefan Troller wrote screenplays for films celebrated by the critics and awarded at film festivals, among them the trilogy WELCOME IN VIENNA, the third part of which was nominated for Cannes’ Un certain regard, won the Bronze Leopard in Locarno and a prize in San Sebastián.

Rosa von Praunheim was a German director and activist and one of the co-founders of the LGBTQ movement in Germany. With his 1971 film IT IS NOT THE HOMOSEXUAL WHO IS PERVERSE BUT THE SOCIETY IN WHICH HE LIVES, he became one of the leading figures of the queer movement in West Germany and the film became an international underground success going on a world tour.

The list is still much longer. It is an invitation to everyone reading this and watching the “In Memoriam” to remember and embrace the stories connected to all the people who were a part of European cinema. Gone, yet not forgotten, our community wishes to celebrate and salute them all.