Norwegian director Joachim Trier is leading the race for a triumph at the European film awards, with five nominations in key categories for his family drama Sentimental Value .

The Cannes Grand Prix winner is nominated for best European film, best screenplay and best director, with further best actor and best actress nominations for Stellan Skarsgård and Renate Reinsve.

In the film, which comes to cinemas in the UK and other European territories this December, Skarsgård plays a once-famous film director trying to repair ties with his two estranged daughters. Sentimental Value review – Stellan Skarsgård is an egomaniac director in act of ancestor worship Read more

Spanish director Oliver Laxe’s techno thriller Sirāt , set at a rave in the Moroccan desert, is another frontrunner

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