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New Vision Award 2026 nominees announced

Following their success at festivals within our network, we are pleased to announce the nominees for the New Vision Award 2026.

The MIOB New Vision Award is dedicated to current European feature fiction films and documentaries that have already had a successful showing during at least one of the participating festivals and is aimed to achieve broader international recognition. With this award, our network members highlights European art house films with an outstanding cinematic approach and artistic handwriting, deserving wider international recognition.

The award will be presented at the 23rd Crossing Europe Film Festival (28 April – 3 May 2026) in Linz, Austria.

➤ Here are the nominees (two per festival within the MIOB network)

Trieste Film Festival (Italy):

𝗙𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘀𝘆 – Directed by Kukla
𝗪𝗶𝗻𝗱, 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲 – Directed by Stefan Djordjevic

FilmFestival Cottbus(Germany):

𝗜𝗗𝗔 𝗪𝗛𝗢 𝗦𝗔𝗡𝗚 𝗦𝗢 𝗕𝗔𝗗𝗟𝗬 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗘𝗔𝗗 𝗥𝗢𝗦𝗘 𝗨𝗣 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗝𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗗 𝗛𝗘𝗥 𝗜𝗡 𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗚 – Directed by Ester Ivakič
𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗙𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 – Directed by Goran Stanković

Crossing Europe Film Festival (Austria):

𝗜𝗳 𝗣𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗧𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗚𝗼𝗹𝗱 – Directed by Pepa Lubojacki
𝗕𝗘𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗘 / 𝗔𝗙𝗧𝗘𝗥 – Directed by Manoël Dupont

European Film Festival Scanorama (Lithuania):

𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 – Directed by Oleksiy Radynski
𝗥𝗲𝗱𝗼𝘂𝗯𝘁 – Directed by John Skoog

European Film Festival Palić (Serbia):

𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗼𝘄𝗻 – Directed by Bálint Dániel Sós
𝗟𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗚𝗶𝗿𝗹𝘀 – Directed by Urška Djukić

Les Arcs Film Festival (France):

𝗔 𝗟𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗡𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗚𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗢𝘂𝘁 – Directed by Lauri-Matti Parppei
𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗮 – Directed by Janicke Askevold

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