36th European Film Awards

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36th European Film Awards
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Date9 December 2023 (2023-12-9)
Site Berlin, Germany
Organized by European Film Academy
Official website EFA

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]

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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 for, including European Film, European Director, European Screenwriter and European Actress. [3]

Selections

Feature films

Selection's part 1 was announced on 16 August 2023. [4] 2nd part of the selection was announced on 27 September 2023. [5]

Documentary

The selection was announced on August 30, 2023. [6]

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. [7]

  • Airhostess-737 – Thanasis Neofotistos (Flag of Greece.svg Greece) – selected at International Short Film Festival of Cyprus
  • Asterión – Francesco Montagner (Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czechia, Flag of Slovakia.svg Slovakia) – selected at Riga International Film Festival
  • Aqueronte – Manuel Muñoz Rivas (Flag of Spain.svg Spain) = selected at Drama International Short Film Festival
  • Been There – Corina Schwingruber Ilić (Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland) – selected at Locarno Film Festival
  • The Birthday Party – Francesco Sossai (Flag of Germany.svg Germany, Flag of Italy.svg Italy, Flag of France.svg France) – selected at Curtas Vila do Conde – International Film Festival
  • ChordsEstibaliz Urresola Solaguren (Flag of Spain.svg Spain) – selected at Go Short – International Short Film Festival
  • Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays – Christian Avilés (Flag of Spain.svg Spain) – selected at DokuFest – International Documentary and Short Film Festival
  • The Debutante – Elizabeth Hobbs (Flag of the United Kingdom.svg UK) – selected at Black Nights Film Festival – PÖFF Shorts
  • Emotional Architecture 1959 – León Siminiani (Flag of Spain.svg Spain) – selected at Valladolid International Film Festival
  • A Free Run – Lauriane Lagarde (Flag of France.svg France) – selected at Uppsala Short Film Festival
  • Hardly Working – Susanna Flock, Leonhard Müllner, Robin Klengel & Michael Stumpf (Flag of Austria.svg Austria) – selected at Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
  • Headspace – Aisling Byrne (Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland) – selected at Cork International Film Festival
  • How I Learned to Hang Laundry – Barbara Zemljič (Flag of Slovenia.svg Slovenia) – selected at Sarajevo Film Festival
  • I Can See the Sun But I Can't Feel It Yet – Joseph Wilson (Flag of the United Kingdom.svg UK) – selected at Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg
  • I Think of Silences When I Think of You – Jonelle Twum (Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden) – selected at International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
  • Les Chenilles – Michelle Keserwany & Noel Keserwany (Flag of France.svg France) – selected at Berlin International Film Festival
  • Papa – Notes on Life and Death – Andreas Bøggild Monies (Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark) – selected at OFF – Odense International Film Festival
  • Red Ears – Paul Drey (Flag of Germany.svg Germany) – selected at Tampere Film Festival
  • Remember How I Used to Ride a White Horse – Ivana Bošnjak Volda & Thomas Johnson Volda (Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia) – VIENNA SHORTS – International Short Film Festival
  • A Short Trip – Erenik Beqiri (Flag of France.svg France) – selected at Venice Film Festival
  • There Are People in the Forest – Szymon Ruczyński (Flag of Poland.svg Poland) – selected at Kraków Film Festival
  • Things Unheard Of – Ramazan Kiliç (Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey) – selected at Motovun Film Festival
  • 27 Flóra Anna Buda (Flag of France.svg France, Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary) – selected at Cannes Film Festival
  • Women Visiting the City – Enrique Buelo (Flag of Spain.svg Spain, Flag of France.svg France) – selected at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
  • Zoon – Jonatan Schwenk (Flag of Germany.svg Germany) – selected at ZINEBI – International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao and at Leuven International Short Film Festival

Feature Film Awards

Source: [2]

European Film

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

European Director

Director(s)English title
Flag of France.svg Justine Triet Anatomy of a Fall
Flag of Finland.svg Aki Kaurismäki Fallen Leaves
Flag of Poland.svg Agnieszka Holland Green Border
Flag of Italy.svg Matteo Garrone Me Captain
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Jonathan Glazer The Zone of Interest

European Screenwriter

Screenwriter(s)English title
Flag of France.svg Arthur Harari
Flag of France.svg Justine Triet
Anatomy of a Fall
Flag of Finland.svg Aki Kaurismäki Fallen Leaves
Flag of Poland.svg Agnieszka Holland
Flag of Poland.svg Gabriela Łazarkiewicz-Sieczko
Flag of Poland.svg Maciej Pisuk
Green Border
Flag of Germany.svg İlker Çatak
Flag of Germany.svg Johannes Duncker
The Teachers' Lounge
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Jonathan Glazer The Zone of Interest

European Actor

ActorEnglish titleRole
Flag of Denmark.svg Mads Mikkelsen The Promised Land Ludvig Kahlen
Flag of Austria.svg Thomas Schubert Afire Leon
Flag of Finland.svg Jussi Vatanen Fallen Leaves Holappa
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Josh O'Connor La chimera Arthur
Flag of Germany.svg Christian Friedel The Zone of Interest Rudolf Höss

European Actress

ActorEnglish titleRole
Flag of Germany.svg Sandra Hüller Anatomy of a Fall Sandra Voyter
Flag of Georgia.svg Eka ChavleishviliBlackbird Blackbird BlackberryEtero
Flag of Finland.svg Alma Pöysti Fallen Leaves Ansa
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Mia McKenna-Bruce How to Have Sex Tara
Flag of Germany.svg Leonie Benesch The Teachers' Lounge Carla Nowak
Flag of Germany.svg Sandra Hüller The Zone of Interest Hedwig Höss

Excellence Awards

European Cinematography European Editing European Production Design European Costume Design
Flag of Italy.svg Emita Frigato
for La chimera
Flag of Sweden.svg Kicki Ilander
for The Promised Land
European Make-Up & Hair European Original Score European Sound European Visual Effects
Flag of Spain.svg Ana López-Puigcerver, Flag of Spain.svg Belén López-Puigcerver, Flag of Spain.svg David Martí & Flag of Spain.svg Montse Ribé
for Society of the Snow
Flag of Austria.svg Markus Binder
for Club Zero
Flag of Spain.svg Félix Bergés & Flag of Spain.svg Laura Pedro
for Society of the Snow

Awards Not Based on Feature Film Selection

European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI

Director(s)English title
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Molly Manning Walker How to Have Sex
Flag of Spain.svg Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren 20,000 Species of Bees
Flag of Ukraine.svg Philip SotnychenkoLa Palisiada
Flag of Denmark.svg Malene ChoiThe Quiet Migration
Flag of Croatia.svg Juraj LerotićSafe Place
Flag of France.svg Stéphan CastangVincent Must Die

European Documentary

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood Savvusanna sõsarad Flag of Estonia.svg Anna Hints
Apolonia, Apolonia Flag of Denmark.svg Lea Glob
Four Daughters Les Filles d'Olfa Flag of Tunisia.svg Kaouther Ben Hania
Motherland Flag of Belarus (1918, 1991-1995).svg Hanna Badziaka
Flag of Belarus (1918, 1991-1995).svg Alexander Mihalkovich
On the Adamant Sur l’Adamant Flag of France.svg Nicolas Philibert

European Animated Feature Film

English title [8] Original titleDirector(s)
Robot Dreams Flag of Spain.svg Pablo Berger
The Amazing Maurice Flag of Germany.svg Toby Genkel
Chicken for Linda! Linda veut du poulet! Flag of France.svg Sébastien Laudenbach
Flag of Italy.svg Chiara Malta
A Greyhound of a Girl Flag of Italy.svg Enzo D'Alò
White Plastic SkyMüanyag égbolt Flag of Hungary.svg Tibor Bánóczki
Flag of Hungary.svg Sarolta Szabó

European Short Film

English title [9] Original titleDirector(s)
Hardly Working Flag of Austria.svg Susanna Flock
Flag of Austria.svg Robin Klengel
Flag of Austria.svg Leonhard Müllner
Flag of Austria.svg Michael Stumpf
27 Flag of Hungary.svg Flóra Anna Buda
Aqueronte Flag of Spain.svg Manuel Muñoz Rivas
Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish HolidaysLa herida luminosa Flag of Spain.svg Christian Avilés
Flores del otro patio Flag of Colombia.svg / Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Jorge Cadena

Honorary Awards

EFA Lifetime Achievement Award [10] Honorary Award of the Academy President and the Board [11] European Achievement in World Cinema
European Innovative StorytellingEurimages Co-Production Award [12] European Sustainability Award – Prix4Climate
Flag of Lithuania.svg Uljana Kim

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. [13]

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)
Fallen Leaves Kuolleet lehdet Flag of Finland.svg Aki Kaurismäki
On the Adamant Sur l'Adamant Flag of France.svg Nicolas Philibert
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood Savvusanna sõsarad Flag of Estonia.svg Anna Hints
The Teachers' Lounge [14] Das Lehrerzimmer Flag of Germany.svg İlker Çatak
20,000 Species of Bees 20.000 especies de abejas Flag of Spain.svg 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. [15]

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)
Anatomy of a Fall Anatomie d'une chute Flag of France.svg Justine Triet
Green Border Zielona granica Flag of Poland.svg Agnieszka Holland
Housekeeping for Beginners Flag of Australia (converted).svg / Flag of North Macedonia.svg Goran Stolevski
How to Have Sex Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Molly Manning Walker
The Teachers' Lounge Das Lehrerzimmer Flag of Germany.svg İlker Çatak

References

  1. "2023 Berlin". European Film Academy . Retrieved 27 June 2023.
  2. 1 2 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. "The winners of the European Film Awards 2023". European Film Academy . Retrieved 20 September 2024.
  4. 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.
  5. "Feature Film Selection 2023 – Part 2". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 28 September 2023.
  6. "Documentary Film Selection 2023". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 30 August 2023.
  7. "Short Film Candidates". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
  8. "Five films nominated for European Animated Film 2023". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  9. "Five films nominated for European Short Film 2023". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  10. "The Academy Honours Vanessa Redgrave". European Film Academy. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  11. "The Academy Honours Béla Tarr". European Film Academy. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  12. "The European Film Academy Honours Uljana Kim". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
  13. "Here come the nominees for LUX – The European Audience Film Award 2024". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
  14. "THE TEACHERS' LOUNGE wins the LUX Audience Award 2024". European Film Academy. Retrieved 20 September 2024.
  15. "These are the five nominated films for European University Film Award (EUFA)". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 5 October 2023.