Seville Festival Names 'You Don't Belong Here' Best Film
You Don't Belong Here, directed by Florin Șerban, won Best Film at the 2026 Seville European Film Festival, taking the top prize, the Golden Giraldillo. Variety reported the full list of winners. The film had already won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno festival in Switzerland before it reached Seville.
Mohsen Gharaei's Falling House took the Grand Jury Prize. Its editors, Evelyn Rack and Emad Khodabakhsh, were named for Best Editing, the craft of cutting raw footage into the finished sequence of scenes.
Alex Schulman's Adult Supervision had a strong night. It won the Puerta América Award and the Best Actor prize. Sweden has also chosen the film as its entry for the Oscar International Feature Film category, which is open to one submission from each country.
Dani de la Orden's El Director won Best Screenplay. Bogdan Ionescu was named Best Artistic Direction for You Don't Belong Here, the prize for the look of the film, from its sets to its design.
Two more Oscar hopefuls were among the winners. Rose, directed by Marcus Schleinzer, is Austria's entry for the International Feature Film category, and Elephants in the Fog, directed by Abinash Bikram Shah, is Nepal's submission.
This is the festival's 22nd edition. Organisers also opened an Official Short Film Section for the first time, giving short films a place in the official programme, according to the festival's website.
