37th European Film Awards

The 37th European Film Awards, presented by the European Film Academy to recognize achievements in European filmmaking, will take place at Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Luzern in Lucerne on 7 December 2024. It will be the first time the awards ceremony takes place in Switzerland.

37th European Film Awards
Date	7 December 2024 (2024-12-07)
Site	Lucerne, Switzerland
Organized by	European Film Academy
Official website	EFA

Selections

Feature films

The first part of the Academy’s Feature Film Selection was announced on 14 August 2024. The second part with 16 further titles was announced on 26 September 2024.

• April – Dea Kulumbegashvili (France, Georgia, Italy)
• Arcadia – Yorgos Zois (Bulgaria, Greece, United States)
• Armand – Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel (Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden)
• Bird – Andrea Arnold (France, Germany, United Kingdom, United States)
• Conclave – Edward Berger (United Kingdom, United States)
• Crossing – Levan Akin (France, Georgia, Germany, Sweden, Turkey)
• Dying – Matthias Glasner (Germany)
• Emilia Pérez – Jacques Audiard (France)
• Grand Tour – Miguel Gomes (France, Italy, Portugal)
• Hard Truths – Mike Leigh (Spain, United Kingdom)
• Harvest – Athina Rachel Tsangari (Germany, United Kingdom, United States)
• Hesitation Wound – Selman Nacar (France, Romania, Spain, Turkey)
• Julie Keeps Quiet – Leonardo Van Dijl (Belgium, Sweden)
• Kinds of Kindness – Yorgos Lanthimos (Greece, Ireland, United Kingdom, United States)
• Kneecap – Rich Peppiatt (Ireland, United Kingdom)
• Life – Zeki Demirkubuz (Bulgaria, Turkey)
• Misericordia – Alain Guiraudie (France, Portugal, Spain)
• Misericordia – Emma Dante (Italy)
• Moon – Kurdwin Ayub (Austria)
• Mr. K – Tallulah Hazekamp Schwab (Belgium, Netherlands, Norway)
• My Fathers' Daughter – Egil Pedersen (Finland, Norway, Sweden)
• Queer – Luca Guadagnino (Italy, United States)
• Souleymane's Story – Boris Lojkine (France)
• The Count of Monte Cristo – Matthieu Delaporte, Alexandre De La Patellière (France)
• The Devil's Bath – Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala (Austria, Germany)
• The End – Joshua Oppenheimer (Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, United Kingdom)
• The Girl with the Needle – Magnus von Horn (Denmark, Poland, Sweden)
• The Invisible Fight – Rainer Sarnet (Estonia, Finland, Greece, Latvia)
• The New Year That Never Came – Bogdan Mureșanu (Romania)
• The Other Way Around – Jonás Trueba (France, Spain)
• The Room Next Door – Pedro Almodóvar (Spain)
• The Rye Horn – Jaione Camborda (Belgium, Portugal, Spain)
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig – Mohammad Rasoulof (France, Germany, Iran)
• The Shameless – Konstantin Bojanov (Bulgaria, France, India, Switzerland, Taiwan)
• The Sparrow in the Chimney – Ramon Zürcher (Switzerland)
• The Substance – Coralie Fargeat (France, United Kingdom, United States)
• The Village Next to Paradise – Mo Harawe (Austria, France, Somalia)
• There's Still Tomorrow – Paola Cortellesi (Italy)
• Three Kilometres to the End of the World – Emanuel Pârvu (Romania)
• Toxic – Saulė Bliuvaitė (Lithuania)
• Un amor – Isabel Coixet (Spain)
• Vermiglio – Maura Delpero (Belgium, France, Italy)
• When the Light Breaks – Rúnar Rúnarsson (Croatia, France, Iceland, Netherlands)
• Windless – Pavel G. Vesnakov (Bulgaria, Italy)
• Without Air – Katalin Moldovai (Hungary)

Documentary

The Documentary Film Selection was announced on 21 August 2024.

• At Averroès & Rosa Parks – Nicolas Philibert (France)
• Bye Bye Tiberias – Lina Soualem (France, Belgium, Palestine, Qatar)
• Dahomey – Mati Diop (France, Senegal)
• Direct Action – Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell (Germany, France)
• In Limbo – Alina Maksimenko (Poland)
• Marching in the Dark – Kinshuk Surjan (Belgium, Netherlands, India)
• My Stolen Planet – Farahnaz Sharifi (Germany)
• No Other Land – Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal (Palestine, Norway)
• Pelikan Blue – László Csáki (Hungary)
• Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat – Johan Grimonprez (France, Belgium, Netherlands)
• The Landscape and the Fury – Nicole Vögele (Switzerland)
• The Words Women Spoke One Day – Raphaël Pillosio (France)

Winners and nominees

The nominees for European Animated Feature Film were revealed on 9 October 2024. The nominees for European Short Film were revealed on 16 October 2024.

European Animated Feature Film

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
Flow	Straume	Gints Zilbalodis	Latvia, France, Belgium
Living Large	Život k sežrání	Kristina Dufková	Czech Republic, France, Slovakia
Savages	Sauvages	Claude Barras	Switzerland, France, Belgium
Sultana's Dream	El sueño de la sultana	Isabel Herguera	Spain, Germany, India
They Shot the Piano Player	Dispararon al pianista	Fernando Trueba Javier Mariscal	Spain, France, Netherlands, Portugal, Peru

European Short Film

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
2720		Basil da Cunha	Portugal, Switzerland
Clamor	Boucan	Salomé Da Souza	France
The Exploding Girl	La Fille qui explose	Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel	France
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent	Čovjek koji nije mogao šutjeti	Nebojša Slijepčević	Croatia, France, Bulgaria, Slovenia
Wander to Wonder		Nina Gantz	Netherlands, France, Belgium, United Kingdom

Honorary Awards

EFA Lifetime Achievement Award	European Achievement in World Cinema	Eurimages International Co-Production Award
Wim Wenders	Isabella Rossellini

Special Awards

Lux European Audience Film Award 2025

The award was established to recognize films which help to raise awareness of socio-political issues in Europe.

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
Animal		Sofia Exarchou	Greece, Austria, Romania, Cyprus, Bulgaria
Dahomey		Mati Diop	France, Senegal, Benin
Flow		Gints Zilbalodis	Latvia, France, Belgium
Intercepted		Oksana Karpovych	Canada, France, Ukraine
Julie Keeps Quiet	Julie zwijgt	Leonardo van Dijl	Belgium, Sweden

European University Film Award (EUFA)

The nominees for the European University Film Award were announced on 23 October 2024 by the European Film Academy and Filmfest Hamburg, based on the European Film Awards Feature and Documentary Film Selections 2024.

English title	Original title	Director	Country
April		Dea Kulumbegashvili	Georgia, France, Italy
Armand		Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel	Norway, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden
Kneecap		Rich Peppiatt	Ireland, UK
Moon	Mond	Kurdwin Ayub	Austria
Three Kilometres to the End of the World	Trei kilometri până la capătul lumii	Emanuel Pârvu	Romania