European Discovery of the Year | |
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Country | Europe |
Presented by | European Film Academy |
First awarded | 1988 |
Currently held by | Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel for Armand (2024) |
Website | europeanfilmawards.eu |
The European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI or European Discovery, originally titled Young European Film of the Year, has been awarded annually since 1988 by the European Film Academy. The award is presented in co-operation with the International Federation of Film Critics, to a director for the first full-length feature film.
Year | English title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country of production/co-production | |||
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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 | |||
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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) | Country |
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European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI | |||
2020 [24] [25] | Sole | Carlo Sironi | Italy, Poland |
Full Moon | Nermin Hamzagic | Bosnia & Herzegovina | |
Gagarine | Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh | France | |
Instinct | Halina Reijn | Netherlands | |
Isaac | Jurgis Matulevicius | Lithuania | |
Jumbo | Zoé Wittock | France, Belgium, Luxembourg | |
2021 [26] [27] | Promising Young Woman | Emerald Fennell | USA, UK |
Beginning | Dea Kulumbegashvili | France, Georgia | |
Lamb | Valdimar Jóhannsson | Iceland, Sweden, Poland | |
Playground | Laura Wandel | Belgium | |
Pleasure | Ninja Thyberg | Sweden, Netherlands, France | |
The Whaler Boy | Philipp Yuryev | Russia, Poland, Belgium | |
2022 [28] [29] | Small Body | Laura Samani | Italy, Slovenia, France |
Love According to Dalva | Emmanuelle Nicot | Belgium, France | |
107 Mothers | Peter Kerekes | Slovakia, Czech Republic, Ukraine | |
Other People | Aleksandra Terpińska | Poland, France | |
Pamfir | Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk | Ukraine, France, Poland, Germany, Chile | |
Sonne | Kurdwin Ayub | Austria | |
2023 [30] | How to Have Sex | Molly Manning Walker | United Kingdom, Greece |
20,000 Species of Bees | Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren | Spain | |
La Palisiada | Philip Sotnychenko | Ukraine | |
Safe Place | Juraj Lerotić | Croatia, Slovenia | |
The Quiet Migration | Malene Choi | Denmark | |
Vincent Must Die | Stéphan Castang | France, Belgium | |
2024 [31] | Armand | Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel | Norway, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden |
Hoard | Luna Carmoon | UK | |
Kneecap | Rich Peppiatt | Ireland, UK | |
Santosh | Sandhya Suri | UK, France, Germany | |
The New Year That Never Came | Bogdan Mureșanu | Romania, Serbia | |
Toxic | Saulė Bliuvaitė | Lithuania |
Country | Awards | Nominations | Awards (with co-productions) | Nominations (with co-productions) |
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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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