Overview
- The Berlin ceremony marked the EFAs’ first mid-January edition, repositioning the event inside the heart of awards season.
- Ugo Bienvenu’s Arco won Best European Animated Feature, one of the evening’s first announced prizes.
- Laura Carreira’s On Falling took the European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI, and Greta Scarano’s Siblings won the European Young Audience Award.
- Craft honors announced early included production design for Sirāt and costume design for Sound of Falling.
- Liv Ullmann received the European Lifetime Achievement Award, and Alice Rohrwacher was honored with the European Achievement in World Cinema Award.