Campus Film Days 2025

The 2026 awards season is just around the corner – and once again, several films from our festival programme are among the nominees for the Golden Globe Awards and the European Film Awards. Leading the way is Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has high hopes in several categories for his political drama It was just an Accident. In his film, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in the summer, Panahi tells a story of morality and vigilante justice in an unjust state. Panahi himself has not been spared the violence of the Iranian regime. The work is an Iranian-French co-production and is competing for France in the Oscar race in the Best International Film category. After France announced its Oscar submission, Panahi was sentenced in absentia to a prison term and a travel ban in his home country. The international film world showed solidarity with Panahi – we too take a clear stand against political reprisals against filmmakers.

Also nominated from our programme for the European Film Awards are the two animated films Tales from the Magic Garden and Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake, as well as The Last Viking with Mads Mikkelsen and Albert Serra's bullfighting documentary Tardes De Soledad - Afternoons of Solitude. The nominees for the 2026 Academy Awards will be announced in early 2026.