The Norwegian ‘Sentimental Value’ wins on the European Film Awards, and ‘Sirât’ takes 5 trophies | Cinema: premieres and opinions | EUROtoday

The Norwegian Valor sentimental, Joachim Trier’s drama concerning the reunion of an absent movie director and his two daughters, one in every of them an actress, has gained six awards on the thirty eighth European Film Academy Awards ceremony, held in Berlin. Sirât, by Oliver Laxe, achieved 5 trophies after being a candidate in 9 sections. Only speak to her had gained so many European awards for Spanish cinema. The ceremony was marked by political and social messages, particularly the conflicts in Gaza, Iran and the concern that freedom and democracy might be diluted. With the award for greatest director, Trier recalled his childhood fears of a nuclear conflict and guaranteed: “Polarization is growing in many places, also in Europe. The other is not our enemy and art can help us have empathy. We must therefore keep cinema alive.”

In the victory of Valor sentimental the awards for greatest movie entered; deal with (given by the Javis); greatest soundtrack, by Hania Rani; Renate Reinsve and Stellan Skarsgård for greatest actress and actor, respectively, and likewise for screenplay, for Trier and Eskil Vogt.

Sirât had achieved the document of 9 nominations within the awards, as a result of for the primary time the technical awards have been voted on by all teachers and never chosen, as earlier than, by totally different specialty committees, which determined and introduced the awards earlier than the gala.

And they gained 5. Laia Ateca, for her complicated work on Laxe’s movie, gained the award for greatest manufacturing design. In his transient speech, in French, English and Spanish, he thanked the group for his or her assist and requested for “a long life for brave and free cinema.” Best sound went to Laia Casanovas, Amanda Villavieja and Yasmina Praderas for his or her spectacular sound environment. Cristóbal Fernández took it throughout meeting and Laxe picked it up on his behalf. In the course of casting, which was given for the primary time, Nadia Acimi, Luís Bértolo and María Rodrigo gained. Mauro Herce triumphed in cinematography, thanking him in a reside connection.

If on the purple carpet, the group Hind’s voice carried a banner that learn “From Berlin to Gaza, we rise up against all those who defend an ideology of death”, messages in favor of freedom and the protection of European tradition adopted each other on stage. The occasion started with the Iranian Jafar Panahi (A easy accident has entered the awards race because of its manufacturing as a French movie) remembering the massacres suffered by its compatriots carried out by the Iranian Government itself and calling on filmmakers to proceed making movies for freedom. “When truth is crushed in one place, freedom is suffocated everywhere.” […]. That’s why nobody is secure wherever on the earth. Not even in Iran. Not even in Europe. Not even within the United States. Not wherever on this planet. And that’s exactly why as we speak our process as filmmakers and artists is harder than ever. If we’re disillusioned in politicians, we must always a minimum of refuse to be silent. Because silence in instances of crime isn’t neutrality. Silence is collaborating within the darkness.” For her part, the Iranian filmmaker Sara Rajaei, winner of the best short film with the Dutch City of Poets (centered on the Persian town Shiraz, the city with streets named after poets, changed for deceased combatants), he acknowledged that at other times he would have celebrated the award. Now he just wanted to express his pain. And the Norwegian filmmaker Liv Ullmann, honored for her career, who in the middle of the speech on current world events said: “I’m Norwegian, we give a Nobel Prize to somebody who deserves it, and all of a sudden it goes to another person. It’s so unusual… and that is why I’m glad that we now have legal guidelines that say that for those who misuse the Nobel Prize it may be taken away from you. Someone with energy within the US could also be disillusioned. He’ll lose it and I’m glad.”

In Berlin, 18 competitive trophies and three honorary ones were distributed: for the Norwegian actress and director Ullmann, a great of European cinema, for her career; for the Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher for her contribution to world cinema, and for Maren Ade, Jonas Dornbach and Janine Jackowski for their work in international co-production.

The gala did not have a standard presenter, but was curated by Mark Cousins, film historian and documentary filmmaker, with the idea of ​​creating a “live film rehearsal,” he had previously stated. In the end, he behaved as a kind of commentator on film sensations that were projected on the screens of the Berlin House of World Cultures. Furthermore, also for the first time, the awards were held in January, to make their weight felt in the Oscar race, and not in December, when films from the previous season were also awarded, thus their significance was drastically reduced. That is why there was no award in 2025: this is how they accommodated the date to the calendar of the motley winter film awards season. In January 2027 the gala will travel to Athens.

In costume design, the trophy went to Sabrina Krämer for the German Sound of Falling. The award for best animated feature goes to the French Arco, in a category in which the Spanish was Olivia and the invisible earthquake. In makeup and hair, Torsten Witte won for his work on Bugonia.

The honorary discovery award went to the Portuguese Laura Carreira for On Falling, a drama about job insecurity and emigration produced by Ken Loach. The younger viewers award went to him The lifetime of adults by Greta Scarano. And in greatest documentary, the place it competed Lonely afternoons, he obtained the trophy Fire or Death!, by Croatian Igor Bezinović.