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36th European Film Awards

The 36th European Film Awards, presented by the European Film Academy to recognize achievements in European filmmaking, took place at Arena Berlin in Berlin on 9 December 2023. It was the twenty-second time that the awards ceremony took place in Germany.[1]

36th European Film Awards
Logo for Berlin awards
Date9 December 2023 (2023-12-09)
SiteBerlin, Germany
Organized byEuropean Film Academy
Official websiteEFA

The full list of nominations was revealed on 7 November 2023. Aki Kaurismäki's Fallen Leaves and Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest led the nominations with five each.[2] Justine Triet's Anatomy of a Fall swept the awards, winning in each of the categories it was nominated to, including Film, director, screenwriter, and Actress.

Selections edit

Feature films edit

Selection's part 1 was announced on 16 August 2023.[3] 2nd part of the selection was announced on 27 September 2023.[4]

Documentary edit

The selection was announced on August 30, 2023.[5]

  • 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 edit

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.[6]

  • 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 edit

Source:[2]

Best European film edit

English title Director(s) Producer(s)
Anatomy of a Fall   France Justine Triet   France Marie-Ange Luciani
  France David Thion
Fallen Leaves   Finland Aki Kaurismäki   Germany Reinhard Brundig
  Finland Misha Jaari
  Finland Aki Kaurismäki
  Finland Mark Lwoff
Green Border   Poland Agnieszka Holland   USA Fred Bernstein
  Poland Agnieszka Holland
  Poland Marcin Wierzchoslawski
Me Captain   Italy Matteo Garrone   Italy Paolo Del Brocco
  Italy Matteo Garrone
  Belgium Joseph Rouschop
  France Ardavan Safaee
The Zone of Interest   UK Jonathan Glazer   Poland Ewa Puszczyńska
  UK James Wilson

Best European Director edit

Director(s) English title
  FRA Justine Triet Anatomy of a Fall
  FIN Aki Kaurismäki Fallen Leaves
  POL Agnieszka Holland Green Border
  ITA Matteo Garrone Me Captain
  GBR Jonathan Glazer The Zone of Interest

Best European Screenwriter edit

Screenwriter(s) English title
  FRA Arthur Harari
  FRA Justine Triet 		Anatomy of a Fall
  FIN Aki Kaurismäki Fallen Leaves
  POL Agnieszka Holland
  POL Gabriela Łazarkiewicz-Sieczko
  POL Maciej Pisuk 		Green Border
  DEU İlker Çatak
  DEU Johannes Duncker 		The Teachers' Lounge
  GBR Jonathan Glazer The Zone of Interest

Best European Actor edit

Actor English title Role
  DNK Mads Mikkelsen The Promised Land Ludvig Kahlen
  AUT Thomas Schubert Afire Leon
  FIN Jussi Vatanen Fallen Leaves Holappa
  GBR Josh O'Connor La chimera Arthur
  DEU Christian Friedel The Zone of Interest Rudolf Höss

Best European Actress edit

Actor English title Role
  DEU Sandra Hüller Anatomy of a Fall Sandra Voyter
  Georgia Eka Chavleishvili Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry Etero
  FIN Alma Pöysti Fallen Leaves Ansa
  GBR Mia McKenna-Bruce How to Have Sex Tara
  DEU Leonie Benesch The Teachers' Lounge Carla Nowak
  DEU Sandra Hüller The Zone of Interest Hedwig Höss

Excellence Awards edit

European Cinematography European Editing European Production Design European Costume Design
  Denmark Rasmus Videbæk
for The Promised Land
  France Laurent Sénéchal
for Anatomy of a Fall
  Italy Emita Frigato
for La chimera
  Sweden Kicki Ilander
for The Promised Land
European Make-Up & Hair European Original Score European Sound European Visual Effects
  Spain Ana López-Puigcerve,   Spain Belén López-Puigcerver,   Spain David Martí &   Spain Montse Ribé
for Society of the Snow
  Austria Markus Binder
for Club Zero
  United Kingdom Johnnie Burn &   United Kingdom Tarn Willers
for The Zone of Interest
  Spain Félix Bergés &   Spain Laura Pedro
for Society of the Snow

Awards Not Based on Feature Film Selection edit

European Comedy edit

European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI edit

Director(s) English title
  GBR Molly Manning Walker How to Have Sex
  ESP Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren 20,000 Species of Bees
  UKR Philip Sotnychenko La Palisiada
  DNK Malene Choi The Quiet Migration
  Croatia Juraj Lerotić Safe Place
  FRA Stéphan Castang Vincent Must Die

European Documentary edit

English title Original title Director(s)
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood Savvusanna sõsarad   Estonia Anna Hints
Apolonia, Apolonia   Denmark Lea Glob
Four Daughters Les Filles d'Olfa   Tunisia Kaouther Ben Hania
Motherland   Belarus Hanna Badziaka
  Belarus Alexander Mihalkovich
On the Adamant Sur l’Adamant   France Nicolas Philibert

European Animated Feature film edit

English title[7] Original title Director(s)
Robot Dreams   Spain Pablo Berger
The Amazing Maurice   Germany Toby Genkel
Chicken for Linda! Linda veut du poulet!   France Sébastien Laudenbach
  Italy Chiara Malta
A Greyhound of a Girl   Italy Enzo d’Alò
White Plastic Sky Müanyag égbolt   Hungary Tibor Bánóczki
  Hungary Sarolta Szabó

European Short film edit

English title[8] Original title Director(s)
Hardly Working   Austria Susanna Flock
  Austria Robin Klengel
  Austria Leonhard Müllner
  Austria Michael Stumpf
27   Hungary Flóra Anna Buda
Aqueronte   Spain Manuel Muñoz Rivas
Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays La herida luminosa   Spain Christian Avilés
Flores del otro patio   Colombia /    Switzerland Jorge Cadena

Honorary Awards edit

EFA Lifetime Achievement Award[9] Honorary Award of the Academy President and the Board[10] European Achievement in World Cinema
  UK Vanessa Redgrave
  Hungary Béla Tarr
  Spain Isabel Coixet
European Innovative Storytelling Eurimages Co-Production Award[11] European Sustainability Award – Prix4Climate
Not awarded
  Lithuania Uljana Kim
  Turkey Güler Sabancı

Special Awards edit

Lux European Audience Film Award 2024 edit

The award is directed to recognize films which help to raise awareness of socio-political issues in Europe.[12]

English title Original title Director(s)
Fallen Leaves Kuolleet lehdet   Finland Aki Kaurismäki
On the Adamant Sur l'Adamant   France Nicolas Philibert
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood Savvusanna sõsarad   Estonia Anna Hints
The Teachers' Lounge[13] Das Lehrerzimmer   Germany İlker Çatak
20,000 Species of Bees 20.000 especies de abejas   Spain Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren

European University Film Award (EUFA) edit

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.[14]

English title Original title Director(s)
Anatomy of a Fall Anatomie d'une chute   France Justine Triet
Green Border Zielona granica   Poland Agnieszka Holland
Housekeeping for Beginners   Australia /   North Macedonia Goran Stolevski
How to Have Sex   UK Molly Manning Walker
The Teachers' Lounge Das Lehrerzimmer   Germany İlker Çatak

References edit

  1. ^ "2023 Berlin". European Film Academy. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
  2. ^ a b Goodfellow, Melanie (7 November 2023). "'Fallen Leaves' & 'The Zone Of Interest' Top European Film Award Nominations In Main Categories". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "Feature Film Selection 2023 – Part 2". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 28 September 2023.
  5. ^ "Documentary Film Selection 2023". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 30 August 2023.
  6. ^ "Short Film Candidates". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
  7. ^ "Five films nominated for European Animated Film 2023". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  8. ^ "Five films nominated for European Short Film 2023". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  9. ^ "The Academy Honours Vanessa Redgrave". European Film Academy. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  10. ^ "The Academy Honours Béla Tarr". European Film Academy. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  11. ^ "The European Film Academy Honours Uljana Kim". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
  12. ^ "Here come the nominees for LUX – The European Audience Film Award 2024". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
  13. ^ https://europeanfilmawards.eu/en_EN/the-teachers-lounge-wins-lux-award-2024
  14. ^ "These are the five nominated films for European University Film Award (EUFA)". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
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