| European Discovery of the Year | |
|---|---|
| Country |  Europe |
| Presented by | European Film Academy |
| First awarded | 1988 |
| Currently held by | How to Have Sex (2023) |
| Website | europeanfilmawards.eu |
European Film Award - Prix Eurimages or European Discovery has been awarded annually since 1988 by the European Film Academy. Originally it was called Young European Film of the Year.
| Year | English title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country of production/co-production | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Young European Film of the Year | ||||||
| Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Pedro Almodóvar | Augustin Almodovár |  Spain | ||||
| Days of Eclipse | Aleksandr Sokurov | ? |  Soviet Union | ||||
| It's Happening Tomorrow | Daniele Luchetti | Marco Alfieri |  Italy | ||||
| Damnation | Béla Tarr | József Marx |  Hungary | ||||
| Pathfinder | Nils Gaup | John M. Jacobsen |  Norway | ||||
| Reefer and the Model | Joe Comerford | Lelia Doolan |  Ireland | ||||
| Stormy Monday | Mike Figgis | Nigel Stafford-Clark |  United Kingdom,  United States | ||||
| 1989 | |||||||
| 300 Miles to Heaven | Maciej Dejczer | Prod. Film Unit “TOR“ |  Poland,  Denmark,  France | ||||
| Cinema Paradiso | Giuseppe Tornatore | Franco Cristaldi, Giovanna Romagnoli | Italy, France | ||||
| Mist | Zülfü Livaneli | Ülker Livaneli |  Turkey,  Switzerland | ||||
| Kuduz | Ademir Kenović | Bakir Tanović |  Yugoslavia | ||||
| Scandal | Michael Caton-Jones | Steve Woolley | United Kingdom, United States | ||||
| My Left Foot | Jim Sheridan | Noel Pearson | Ireland, United Kingdom | ||||
| Waller’s Last Walk | Christian Wagner |  West Germany | |||||
| Year | English title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country of production/co-production | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 [11] | European Discovery - Prix Fipresci | ||||||
| Lebanon | Samuel Maoz | Moshe Edery, Leon Edery, David Silber, Uri Sabag, Einat Bickel, Benjamina Mirnik, Illan Girard |  Israel, France, Germany,  Lebanon | ||||
| Nothing Personal | Urszula Antoniak | Reinier Selen, Edwin van Meurs |  Netherlands, Ireland | ||||
| When We Leave | Feo Aladag | Feo Aladag, Züli Aladag | Germany | ||||
| If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle | Florin Serban | Catalin Mitulescu, Florin Serban |  Romania, Germany,  Sweden | ||||
| The Double Hour | Giuseppe Capotondi | Alessandro Fabbri, Ludovica Rampoldi, Stefano Sardo | Italy | ||||
| 2011 [12] | |||||||
| Oxygen | Hans Van Nuffel | Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem, Dries Phlypo |  Belgium, Netherlands | ||||
| Breathing | Karl Markovics | Dieter Pochlatko, Nikolaus Wisiak |  Austria | ||||
| Michael | Markus Schleinzer | Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Michael Kitzberger, Wolfgang Widerhofer, Markus Glaser | |||||
| Nothing’s All Bad | Mikkel Munch-Fals | Meta Louise Foldager, Stine Meldgaard Madsen | Denmark | ||||
| Tilva Roš | Nikola Ležaić | Uroš Tomić, Nikola Ležaić, Mina Đukić |  Serbia | ||||
| 2012 [13] | |||||||
| Kauwboy | Boudewijn Koole | Jan van der Zanden, Wilant Boekelman | Netherlands | ||||
| Broken | Rufus Norris | Dixie Linder, Tally Garner, Nick Marston, Bill Kenwright | United Kingdom | ||||
| Reported Missing | Jan Speckenbach | Anke Hartwig | Germany | ||||
| Teddy Bear | Mads Matthiesen | Morten Kiems Juhl | Denmark | ||||
| Twilight Portrait | Angelina Nikonova | Leonid Ogaryov, Angelina Nikonova, Olga Dihovichnaya |  Russia | ||||
| 2013 [14] | |||||||
| A Coffee in Berlin | Jan Ole Gerster | Marcos Kantis, Alexander Wadouh | Germany | ||||
| Eat Sleep Die | Gabriela Pichler | China Åhlander | Sweden | ||||
| Call Girl | Mikael Marcimain | Mimmi Spång | Sweden, Norway, Ireland,  Finland | ||||
| Miele | Valeria Golino | Riccardo Scamarcio, Viola Prestieri, Anne-Dominique Toussaint, Raphaël Berdugo | Italy, France | ||||
| The Plague | Neus Ballús | Pau Subirós | Spain | ||||
| 2014 [15] [16] | European Discovery - Prix Fipresci (Critics Choice Award) | ||||||
| The Tribe | Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy | Valentyn Vasyanovych, Iya Myslytska |  Ukraine | ||||
| 10,000 km | Carlos Marqués-Marcet | Tono Folguera, Sergi Moreno, Jana Díaz Juhl, Danielle Schleif, Pau Brunet | Spain | ||||
| Wounded | Fernando Franco | Koldo Zuazua | |||||
| '71 | Yann Demange | Angus Lamont, Robin Gutch | United Kingdom | ||||
| Party Girl | Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis | Marie Masmonteil, Denis Carot | France | ||||
| 2015 [17] [18] | |||||||
| Mustang | Deniz Gamze Ergüven | Charles Gillibert | France, Germany, Turkey | ||||
| Goodnight Mommy | Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala | Ulrich Seidl | Austria | ||||
| Limbo | Anna Sofie Hartmann | Nina Helveg | Germany, Denmark | ||||
| Slow West | John Maclean | Iain Canning, Rachel Gardner, Emile Sherman, Conor McCaughan |  New Zealand, United Kingdom | ||||
| Summers Downstairs | Tom Sommerlatte | Iris Sommerlatte | Germany, France | ||||
| 2016 (29th) [19] | |||||||
| The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki | Juho Kuosmanen | Finland, Germany, Sweden | |||||
| Dogs | Bogdan Mirica | Marcela Ursu | Romania,  Bulgaria, France,  Qatar | ||||
| Liebmann | Jules Herrmann | Germany | |||||
| Sand Storm | Elite Zexer | Haim Mecklberg, Estee Yacov-Mecklberg | Israel | ||||
| Thirst | Svetla Tsotsorkova | Svetla Tsotsorkova, Nadejda Koseva | Bulgaria | ||||
| 2017 [20] | |||||||
| Lady Macbeth | William Oldroyd | Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly | United Kingdom | ||||
| Bloody Milk | Hubert Charuel | Stéphanie Bermann, Alexis Dulguerian | France | ||||
| Godless | Ralitza Petrova | Rossitsa Valkanova, Eva Jakobsen, Laurence Clerc | Bulgaria, Denmark, France | ||||
| Summer 1993 | Carla Simón | Valérie Delpierre, Stefan Schmitz, María Zamora | Spain | ||||
| The Eremites | Ronny Trocker | Susanne Mann, Paul Zischler | Germany, Austria | ||||
| 2018 [21] | |||||||
| Girl | Lukas Dhont | Dirk Impens | Belgium, Netherlands | ||||
| One Day | Zsófia Szilágyi | Edina Kenesei, Ági Pataki | Hungary | ||||
| Scary Mother | Ana Urushadze | Lasha Khalvashi, Tinatin Kajrishvili |  Georgia, Estonia | ||||
| The Guilty | Gustav Möller | Lina Flint | Denmark | ||||
| Those Who Are Fine | Cyril Schäublin | Silvan Hillmann, Cyril Schäublin, Lara Hacisalihzade | Switzerland | ||||
| Touch Me Not | Adina Pintilie | Adina Pintilie, Bianca Oana, Philippe Avril | Romania, Germany,  Czech Republic, Bulgaria, France | ||||
| 2019 [22] [23] | |||||||
| Les Misérables | Ladj Ly | Toufik Ayadi, Christophe Barral | France | ||||
| Aniara | Pella Kagerman, Hugo Lilja | Annika Rogell | Sweden, Denmark | ||||
| Atlantics | Mati Diop | Judith Levy | France,  Senegal, Belgium | ||||
| Blind Spot | Tuva Novotny | Elisabeth Kvithyll | Norway, Denmark | ||||
| Irina | Nadejda Koseva | Stefan Kitanov | Bulgaria | ||||
| Ray & Liz | Richard Billingham | Jacqui Davies | United Kingdom | ||||
| Year | English title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country of production/co-production | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 [24] [25] | European Discovery - Prix Fipresci | ||||
| Sole | Carlo Sironi | Giovanni Pompili | Italy, Poland | ||
| Full Moon | Nermin Hamzagic | Amra Baksic Camo, Adis Djapo |  Bosnia and Herzegovina | ||
| Gagarine | Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh | Julie Billy, Carole Scotta | France | ||
| Instinct | Halina Reijn | Frans Van Gestel, Laurette Schillings, Arnold Heslenfeld | Netherlands | ||
| Isaac | Jurgis Matulevicius | Stasys Baltakis |  Lithuania | ||
| Jumbo | Zoé Wittock | Anaïs Bertrand, Annabella Nezri, Gilles Chanial | France, Belgium,  Luxembourg | ||
| 2021 (34th) [26] [27] | |||||
| Promising Young Woman | Emerald Fennell | Emerald Fennell, Josey McNamara, Ben Browning, Ashley Fox | UK, United States | ||
| Beginning | Dea Kulumbegashvili | Ilan Amouyal, David Zerat, Rati Oneli, Paul Rozenberg | Georgia, France | ||
| Lamb | Valdimar Jóhannsson | Hrönn Kristinsdóttir, Sara Nassim, Piodor Gustafsson, Klaudia Smieja, Jan Naszewski |  Iceland, Poland, Sweden | ||
| Playground | Laura Wandel | Stéphane Lhoest, Jan De Clercq | Belgium | ||
| Pleasure | Ninja Thyberg | Erik Hemmendorff, Eliza Jones, Markus Waltå, Leontine Petit, Erik Glijnis, Frédéric Fiore, Eric Tavitian, Peter Possne, Anna Croneman | Sweden, Netherlands, France | ||
| The Whaler Boy | Philipp Yuryev | Aleksey Uchitel, Radoslawa Bardes, Marion Hansel | Russia, Poland, Belgium | ||
| 2022 (35th) | |||||
| Small Body | Laura Samani | Italy | |||
| Love According to Dalva | Emmanuelle Nicot | France | |||
| 107 Mothers | Peter Kerekes |  Slovakia | |||
| Other People | Aleksandra Terpińska | Poland | |||
| Pamfir | Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk | Ukraine | |||
| Sonne | Kurdwin Ayub | Austria /  Iraq | |||
| 2023 (36th) | |||||
| How to Have Sex | Molly Manning Walker | Emily Leo, Ivana MacKinnon, Konstantinos Kontovrakis | UK | ||
| 20,000 Species of Bees | Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren | Spain | |||
| Country | Awards | Nominations | Awards (with co-productions) | Nominations (with co-productions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| France | 6 | 17 | 11 | 35 |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 17 | 5 | 20 |
| Spain | 2 | 8 | 2 | 8 |
| Denmark | 2 | 6 | 3 | 10 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 |
| Belgium | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| Israel | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 |
| Germany | 1 | 17 | 4 | 37 |
| Italy | 1 | 10 | 3 | 14 |
| Hungary | 1 | 5 | 2 | 6 |
| Ireland | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| Poland | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Russia | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| Georgia | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Finland | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Austria | 0 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| Sweden | 0 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| Turkey | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| Soviet Union | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Romania | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Norway | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
 Kazakhstan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Bulgaria | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
 Croatia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Czech Republic | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Greece | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Iceland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Kyrgyzstan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| New Zealand | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Portugal | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Serbia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Slovenia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Tajikistan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Yugoslavia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| United States | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Iceland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Lebanon | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
 Japan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
 Australia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 India | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 Iran | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qatar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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