36th FilmFestival Cottbus Awards Presented November 7: You Don't Belong Here Wins the €15,000 Main Prize, Sandu's Memory Takes the €7,500 Director Prize and Aboyan the Inaugural €5,000 GenNext Award
Cottbus, Brandenburg, Germany — The 36th FilmFestival Cottbus, which specialises in Central and Eastern European cinema and ran from November 3 to 8, 2026, presented its awards on November 7 during its closing weekend.
According to HitPix's November 9 report, the €15,000 main prize in the Feature Film Competition went to You Don't Belong Here (Romanian title: Nu e locul tău aici) by Romanian filmmaker Florin Șerban. The 154-minute drama follows Marius, a surgeon and single father struggling to maintain a relationship with his teenage son, Ioan; the international jury praised the screenplay for sustaining the tension of a thriller while examining parental responsibility, poverty, racism and personal morality. The film previously won the Golden Leopard at the 2026 Locarno Film Festival, along with the Europa Cinemas Label, and is represented internationally by Reason8.
The €7,500 Special Prize for Best Director went to Vladlena Sandu for Memory, an autobiographical work reconstructing her childhood and adolescence in Grozny during the Chechen Wars, which also received special mentions from the Intercultural Understanding and Ecumenical juries. The festival's inaugural GenNext Award (€5,000) went to Milena Aboyan's Drei Kameradinnen, and Best Debut Feature went to Natalia Uvarova's Malika, an Ireland-Kazakhstan-Moldova coproduction. Other winners included What Belongs to Others by Grzegorz Dębowski (FIPRESCI Prize and Ecumenical Jury Prize), The Diary of a Chambermaid by Radu Jude (Intercultural Understanding Award), The Wedding by Igor Šeregi (Audience Award), Talha Akdogan for outstanding individual performance in Butterfly Jam, and Free Eliza by Alexandra Matheou (Best Short Film). The report noted that none of the three leading winners has a confirmed U.S. theatrical release. This report states the awards and jury remarks only, without commentary.
(Source: HitPix awards report, November 9, 2026)
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