Seville European Film Festival gives Best Film Golden Giraldillo to Romania’s Florin Şerban
Romania’s Florin Şerban won Best Film in the main competition at the 2026 Seville European Film Festival, taking the Golden Giraldillo. Variety reported that the Seville prize sits alongside a Golden Leopard he received at Locarno, with both honours linked in coverage of Saturday’s outcome.
The festival also awarded films already circulating on the international circuit. Falling House, a Venice New Horizons title that had drawn buzz, was among those prized, as was Adult Supervision, Sweden’s Oscar entry. Italy’s Children of the Monkey and two Spanish films, El Director and Wild Is the Wind, likewise scored top prizes. El Director was Seville’s biggest world premiere and, under that billing as well as as Spain’s The Director, was reported among the titles that collected an award.
Together the results put a Romanian Best Film winner at the centre of the edition while spreading further top honours across Italian and Spanish cinema and recognising a Swedish Oscar submission and a Venice New Horizons film. Readers following Locarno, Venice and the Oscars thus have a clear map of how those titles fared in Seville’s main prizes.
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