Spanish director Eva Libertad’s debut solo feature Deaf (Sorda), about a deaf woman expecting a child with her hearing partner, has won the 2026 European Parliament’s LUX Audience Award.
The award continues a prizewinning run for the film which world premiered in the Berlinale’s Panorama section in 2025, where it was feted with the audience award and the CICAE arthouse cinema prize.
Since then it has garnered multiple prizes including Best New Director for Libertad at the Goyas with lead actress Miriam Garlo, who is deaf, winning Best Actress, and co-star Álvaro Cervantes, Best Supporting Actor, in the prestigious Spanish awards.
The LUX Prize was created in 2007 with the aim of supporting films which raise awareness of socio-political issues in Europe as well as to encourage the distribution of European films throughout the region and worldwide. The winning film is chosen by combining a public vote and a
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