NEWS
🏆 Closing & Awards of the 20th edition of the Europe by Europe Festival
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 · Les 7 Parnassiens Cinema · Paris
✨ 79 films screened. 15 days of excitement. An unforgettable 20th edition.
The festival’s closing ceremony took place on Tuesday, April 29, 2025, at the Cinéma Les 7 Parnassiens. In the presence of the teams, juries, and the public, we celebrated the richness of European cinema and unveiled the winners of this anniversary edition!


🐺 SAUVAGE Prize (feature-length fiction films)
🎬 🏆 Winner: Loveable / Elskling by Lilja Ingolfsdottir (Norway)
A delicate and incisive film about the strain on a relationship, between mental strain, education, and loss. An uncompromising perspective, shot through with raw emotion and great psychological accuracy.
🎖️ Special Mention: On Falling by Laura Carreira (Portugal / United Kingdom)
A remarkably sensitive debut feature film about the invisible fatigue of the working world, modern solitude and silent exhaustion.

🌙 LUNA Prize (feature – youth jury)
🎬 🏆 Winner: Sun Never Again / Sunce nikad više by David Jovanović (Serbia)
A powerful tale about a father and son confronting the mining exodus. A bold work in both form and content, acclaimed for its sonic and visual singularity.
🎖️ Special Mention: On Falling by Laura Carreira (Portugal / United Kingdom)
Further recognition for this poignant film, which touches with its accuracy and dignity. A vital reflection on modern precariousness.

🎥 PRÉSENT Prize (long documentaries)
🎬 🏆 Winner: Nonkonform by Arne Körner (Germany)
A captivating portrait of Dietrich Kuhlbrodt, a free-spirited and nonconformist figure in contemporary Germany. Rich archive, powerful narrative.
🎖️ Special Mention: Graziano – A Hermit’s Story by Jozefien Van der Aelst (Belgium / Germany)
A poetic and pictorial immersion in the solitude of a hermit-artist, bathed in music, paintings and poetry.

🎥 E-MOTION Prize (European values – European Movement Paris & ALDA jury)
🎬 🏆 Winner: Nonkonform by Arne Körner (Germany)
For his tribute to local activism, freedom, and democracy in a Germany still in reconstruction. A well-deserved double award.
🎖️ Special Mention: Object of Study / Objeto de Estudio by Raúl Alaejos (Spain)
A lucid and committed look at education, identity and emancipation.

🎞️ SAUVAGE CORTO Prize (short films)
🎬 🏆 Winner: Barlebas by Malu Janssen (Netherlands / Belgium)
A black-and-white masterpiece about witch hunts—institutionalized femicide. A sensory, powerful, and captivating film.
🎖️ Special Mentions :
Inflatable Bear, Hourly by Elisabeth Werchosin (Germany)
A bittersweet tale about exile and social invisibility, told through the poignant image of an inflatable bear in Berlin.
Meadows Wait, Mist Diffuses by Dzhovani Gospodinov (Luxembourg)
A radical experience in wildlife cinema, captured by surveillance cameras, questioning our relationship with nature.

🐾 LUPETO Prize (short films – student jury)
🎬 🏆 Winner: Inflatable Bear, Hourly by Elisabeth Werchosin (Germany)
A rare look at loneliness, migration, and the transformed body. Visual, strange, and unforgettable.
🎖️ Special Mention : Falling for Greta by Gustavo Arteaga (Mexico / United Kingdom)
An intimate, tender, and courageous stop-motion animated romance. A beautiful celebration of love and freedom.
💬 A word from the founder
🎥 “Bringing European cinema to life in all its diversity and complexity has been our mission for 20 years. Thank you to the filmmakers, the juries, and the public for this vibrant and committed edition.”
— Irena Bilic, founder of the Europe by Europe Festival
📽️ A Festival in the heart of Europe
For 15 days, 79 films were screened in Paris, in legendary venues and cultural partners such as the Studio des Ursulines, Pathé Les Fauvettes, La Fondation Seydoux-Pathé, and of course, Les 7 Parnassiens.
🎟️ Feature films, documentaries, short films, experimental films, animations: the Festival champions auteur cinema, free and vibrant, rooted in history and open to the world.


