diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 8938b863acd..8f60d8301bb 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #28314: Fix function declaration (C flags) for the getiterator() method
+  of xml.etree.ElementTree.Element.
+
 - Issue #28148: Stop using localtime() and gmtime() in the time
   module.
 
diff --git a/Modules/_elementtree.c b/Modules/_elementtree.c
index dd8417a1ac7..3362195ed63 100644
--- a/Modules/_elementtree.c
+++ b/Modules/_elementtree.c
@@ -3702,7 +3702,7 @@ static PyMethodDef element_methods[] = {
     _ELEMENTTREE_ELEMENT_ITERTEXT_METHODDEF
     _ELEMENTTREE_ELEMENT_ITERFIND_METHODDEF
 
-    {"getiterator", (PyCFunction)_elementtree_Element_iter, METH_VARARGS|METH_KEYWORDS, _elementtree_Element_iter__doc__},
+    {"getiterator", (PyCFunction)_elementtree_Element_iter, METH_FASTCALL, _elementtree_Element_iter__doc__},
     _ELEMENTTREE_ELEMENT_GETCHILDREN_METHODDEF
 
     _ELEMENTTREE_ELEMENT_ITEMS_METHODDEF