36th European Film Awards
The 36th European Film Awards, presented by the European Film Academy to recognize achievements in European filmmaking, will be held in Berlin. The ceremony will take place on 9 December 2023 in Arena Berlin, being the twenty-second time that the awards ceremony takes place in Germany.[1]
36th European Film Awards | |
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Date | 9 December 2023 |
Site | Berlin, Germany |
Organized by | European Film Academy |
Official website | EFA |
The nominations are set to be revealed on 7 November 2023.[2]
Selections
Feature Films
Selection's part 1 was announced on 16 August 2023.[3] 2nd part of the selection was announced on 27 September 2023.[2]
- 20,000 Species of Bees – Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren ( Spain)
- Afire – Christian Petzold ( Germany)
- Anatomy of a Fall – Justine Triet ( France)
- Animal - Sofia Exarchou ( Greece, Austria, Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus)
- The Animal Kingdom – Thomas Cailley ( France)
- Behind the Haystacks – Asimina Proedrou ( Greece, Germany, North Macedonia)
- Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry – Elene Naveriani ( Switzerland, Georgia)
- Blaga's Lessons - Stephan Komandarev ( Bulgaria, Germany)
- Close Your Eyes – Victor Erice ( Spain, Argentina)
- Club Zero - Jessica Hausner ( Austria, UK, Germany, France, Denmark, Qatar)
- Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World - Radu Jude ( Romania, Luxembourg, France, Croatia)
- Excursion - Una Gunjak ( Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, France, Norway, Qatar)
- Explanation for Everything - Gábor Reisz ( Hungary, Slovakia)
- Fallen Leaves – Aki Kaurismäki ( Finland, Germany)
- Femme – Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon Ping ( United Kingdom)
- Firebrand – Karim Aïnouz ( United Kingdom)
- The Goldman Case – Cédric Kahn ( France)
- Green Border = Agnieszka Holland ( Poland, France, Czechia, Belgium)
- The Happiest Man in the World – Teona Strugar Mitevska ( North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium, Slovenia, Croatia, Denmark)
- Holly - Fien Troch ( Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, France)
- Housekeeping for Beginners - Goran Stolevski ( North Macedonia, Croatia, Serbia, Poland, Kosovo)
- How to Have Sex – Molly Manning Walker ( United Kingdom, Greece)
- Kidnapped – Marco Bellocchio ( Italy, France, Germany)
- La chimera – Alice Rohrwacher ( Italy, France, Switzerland)
- Me, Captain - Matteo Garrone ( Italy, Belgium)
- The Old Oak – Ken Loach ( United Kingdom, France, Belgium)
- Paradise Is Burning - Mika Gustafson ( Sweden, Italy, Denmark, Finland)
- The Pot-au-Feu - Tran Anh Hung ( France)
- The Promised Land - Nikolaj Arcel ( Denmark, Germany, Sweden)
- Safe Place – Juraj Lerotic ( Croatia, Slovenia)
- Slow – Marija Kavtaradze ( Lithuania, Spain, Sweden)
- Society of the Snow - J. A. Bayona ( Spain)
- Stepne - Maryna Vroda ( Ukraine, Slovakia, Germany, Poland)
- Sweet Dreams - Ena Sendijarević (( Netherlands, Sweden, Indonesia)
- Tatami - Guy Nattiv & Zar Amir Ebrahimi ( Georgia, USA)
- The Teachers' Lounge – İlker Çatak ( Germany)
- The Universal Theory - Timm Kröger ( Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
- The Vanishing Soldier - Dani Rosenberg ( Israel)
- Woman of... - Małgorzata Szumowska & Michał Englert ( Poland, Sweden)
- The Zone of Interest - Jonathan Glazer ( UK, Poland, USA)
Documentary
The selection was announced on August 30, 2023.[4]
- Apolonia, Apolonia - Lea Glob ( Denmark, Poland)
- Between Revolutions - Vlad Petri ( Romania, Croatia)
- Four Daughters - Kaouther Ben Hania ( France, Tunisia, Germany, Saudi Arabia)
- The Hearing - Lisa Gerig ( Switzerland)
- In the Rearview - Maciej Hamela ( Poland, France, Ukraine)
- Light Falls Vertical - Efthymia Zymvragaki ( Spain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands)
- Motherland - Hanna Badziaka & Alexander Mihalkovich ( Sweden, Ukraine, Norway)
- On the Adamant - Nicolas Philibert ( France, Japan)
- Orlando, My Political Biography - Paul B. Preciado ( France)
- Our Body - Claire Simon ( France)
- Paradise - Alexander Abaturov ( France, Switzerland)
- Smoke Sauna Sisterhood - Anna Hints ( Estonia, France, Iceland)
- We Will Not Fade Away - Alisa Kovalenko ( Ukraine, France, Poland)
- Who I Am Not - Tunde Skovran ( Romania, Canada, Germany)
Short Films
The European Short Film 2023 is presented in co-operation with the following European film festivals. At each of the festivals, a jury appointed by the festival chooses a single candidate.[5]
- Airhostess-737 – Thanasis Neofotistou ( Greece) - selected at International Short Film Festival of Cyprus
- Asterión – Francesco Montagner ( Czechia, Slovakia) - selected at Riga International Film Festival
- Aqueronte - Manuel Muñoz Rivas ( Spain) = selected at Drama International Short Film Festival
- Been There – Corina Schwingruber Ilić ( Switzerland) - selected at Locarno Film Festival
- The Birthday Party – Francesco Sossai ( Germany, Italy, France) - selected at Curtas Vila do Conde – International Film Festival
- Chords – Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren ( Spain) - selected at Go Short – International Short Film Festival
- Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays - Christian Avilés ( Spain) - selected at DokuFest - International Documentary and Short Film Festival
- The Debutante – Elizabeth Hobbs ( UK) - selected at Black Nights Film Festival - PÖFF Shorts
- Emotional Architecture 1959 - León Siminiani ( Spain) - selected at Valladolid International Film Festival
- A Free Run – Lauriane Lagarde ( France) - selected at Uppsala Short Film Festival
- Hardly Working – Susanna Flock, Leonhard Müllner, Robin Klengel & Michael Stumpf ( Austria) - selected at Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
- Headspace – Aisling Byrne ( Ireland) - selected at Cork International Film Festival
- How I Learned to Hang Laundry - Barbara Zemljič ( Slovenia) - selected at Sarajevo Film Festival
- I Can See the Sun But I Can't Feel It Yet – Joseph Wilson ( UK) - selected at Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg
- I Think of Silences When I Think of You – Jonelle Twum ( Sweden) - selected at International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
- Les Chenilles – Michelle Keserwany & Noel Keserwany ( France) - selected at Berlin International Film Festival
- Papa - Notes on Life and Death - Andreas Bøggild Monies ( Denmark) - selected at OFF - Odense International Film Festival
- Red Ears – Paul Drey ( Germany) - selected at Tampere Film Festival
- Remember How I Used to Ride a White Horse – Ivana Bošnjak Volda & Thomas Johnson Volda ( Croatia) - VIENNA SHORTS - International Short Film Festival
- A Short Trip - Erenik Beqiri ( France) - selected at Venice Film Festival
- There Are People in the Forest – Szymon Ruczyński ( Poland) - selected at Kraków Film Festival
- Things Unheard Of – Ramazan Kiliç ( Turkey) - selected at Motovun Film Festival
- 27 – Flóra Anna Buda ( France, Hungary) - selected at Cannes Film Festival
- Women Visiting the City – Enrique Buelo ( Spain, France) - selected at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
- Zoon – Jonatan Schwenk ( Germany) - selected at ZINEBI - International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao and at Leuven International Short Film Festival
Feature Film Awards
Feature Film Awards
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Awards Not Based on Feature Film Selection
European Animated Feature Film[6]
English title | Original title | Director(s) |
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The Amazing Maurice | Toby Genkel | |
Chicken for Linda! | Linda veut du poulet! | Sébastien Laudenbach
Chiara Malta |
A Greyhound of a Girl | Enzo d’Alò | |
Robot Dreams | Pablo Berger | |
White Plastic Sky | Müanyag égbolt | Tibor Bánóczki
Sarolta Szabó |
European Short Film[7]
English title | Original title | Director(s) |
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27 | Flóra Anna Buda | |
Aqueronte | Manuel Muñoz Rivas | |
Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays | La herida luminosa | Christian Avilés |
Flores del otro patio | / Jorge Cadena | |
Hardly Working | Susanna Flock
Robin Klengel Leonhard Müllner Michael Stumpf |
Honorary Awards
EFA Lifetime Achievement Award[8] | Honorary Award of the Academy President and the Board[9] | European Achievement in World Cinema |
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European Innovative Storytelling | Eurimages Co-Production Award | European Sustainability Award - Prix4Climate |
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Special Awards
Lux European Audience Film Award 2024
The award is directed to recognize films which help to raise awareness of socio-political issues in Europe.[10]
English title | Original title | Director(s) |
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Fallen Leaves | Kuolleet lehdet | Aki Kaurismäki |
On the Adamant | Sur l'Adamant | Nicolas Philibert |
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood | Savvusanna sõsarad | Anna Hints |
The Teachers' Lounge | Das Lehrerzimmer | İlker Çatak |
20,000 Species of Bees | 20.000 especies de abejas | Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren |
European University Film Award (EUFA)
The nominees were announced on 5 October 2023. The nominated films will be viewed and discussed in 25 universities in 25 countries and each institution will select its favourite film. In early December, one student representative from each university will attend a three-day deliberation meeting in Hamburg to decide on the overall winner. The winner will then be announced on 7 December, shortly before this year’s European Film Awards Ceremony on 9 December in Berlin.[11]
English title | Original title | Director(s) |
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Anatomy of a Fall | Anatomie d'une chute | Justine Triet |
Green Border | Zielona granica | Agnieszka Holland |
Housekeeping for Beginners | / Goran Stolevski | |
How to Have Sex | Molly Manning Walker | |
The Teachers' Lounge | Das Lehrerzimmer | İlker Çatak |
References
- "2023 Berlin". European Film Academy. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
- "Feature Film Selection 2023 – Part 2". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 28 September 2023.
- Tabbara, Mona (16 August 2023). "European Film Awards first 2023 selection includes 'Anatomy Of A Fall, 'How To Have Sex'". ScreenDaily. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
- "Documentary Film Selection 2023". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 30 August 2023.
- "Short Film Candidates". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
- "Five films nominated for European Animated Film 2023". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
- "Five films nominated for European Short Film 2023". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
- "The Academy Honours Vanessa Redgrave". European Film Academy. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
- "The Academy Honours Béla Tarr". European Film Academy. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
- "Here come the nominees for LUX – The European Audience Film Award 2024". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
- "These are the five nominated films for European University Film Award (EUFA)". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 5 October 2023.