Stellan Skarsgård’s Sentimental Value leads European Film Awards nominations | film

Norwegian director Joachim Trier leads the race to win the European Film Awards, with five nominations in the main categories for family drama Sentimental Value.

The Cannes Grand Prix winner is nominated for Best European Film, Best Screenplay and Best Director, as well as Best Actor and Best Actress nominations for Stellan Skarsgård and Renate Rainsvi.

In the film, which will be released in cinemas in the UK and other European territories next December, Skarsgård plays a famous film director trying to repair relations with his two estranged daughters.

Spanish director Olivier Lax’s techno thriller “Sirat,” set in the Moroccan desert, is the favorite with four nominations. German director Masha Schilinski’s The Sound of Falling, which explores generational trauma on a farm in rural Brandenburg, has been nominated for three awards, the same as Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident, this year’s Palme d’Or winner.

The 15-film shortlist for this year’s best European film includes five animated feature films and five documentaries, including Nazi collaborator Leni Riefenstahl’s portrait of Andrés Wiel and Igor Bezinovic’s Fiume o Morte!, which Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw hailed as “a proto-fascist passport to Pimlico”.

The European Film Awards, which are often described as Europe’s answer to the Oscars, are overseen by the European Film Academy and were unveiled at the Seville European Film Festival in Spain on Tuesday.

The awards ceremony was previously held in December, and will be held in Berlin on January 17 next year, closer to the peak of American awards seasons in an attempt to increase exposure among European audiences.

At last year’s awards ceremony, held in the Swiss city of Lucerne, French director Jacques Audiard’s musical Emilia Pérez achieved a near-total sweep, taking four out of five top prizes.

Full list of nominations

Best European Film
An afternoon of solitude
Arco
Dog of God (Diva Suns)
Fuyumi or Morti!
It was just an accident
Little Emily
Olivia and the invisible earthquake
Riefenstahl
Emotional value
Sirat
Slow Burning Earth Songs
The sound of falling
Tales from the Magic Garden
Hind Rajab’s voice
With Hassan in Gaza

Best European Documentary Film
An afternoon of solitude
Fuyumi or Morti!
Riefenstahl
Slow Burning Earth Songs
With Hassan in Gaza

Best European Animated Film
Arco
God’s dog
Little Emily
Olivia and the invisible earthquake
Tales from the Magic Garden

Best European Director
Yorgos Lanthimos, Pogonia
Oliver Lax, Sirat
Jaafar Panahi, it was just an accident
Masha Shilinsky, The Sound of Falling
Joachim Trier, Emotional Value

Best European Actress
Leonie Benesch, Late Transformation
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Duce
Leah Drucker, Case 137
Vicki Krebs, love me tenderly
Renate Rainsvi, Emotional Value

Best European Actor
Sergi Lopez, Serat
Mads Mikkelsen, The Last Viking
Tony Servillo, La Grazia
Stellan Skarsgård, emotional value
Aidan Weiss, Franz

Best European screenwriter
Santiago Faillol and Olivier Lax, Serat
Jaafar Panahi, it was just an accident
Masha Shilinsky and Louise Peter, The Sound of Falling
Paolo Sorrentino, La Grazia
Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier, Emotional Value

European Discovery – Vibrischi Prize
Trouble little girls
My father’s shadow
On falling
One of those days when Hime died
sauna
Under the gray sky

European Young Audience Award
Arco
I wrote a book by accident
Brothers