| European Film Award University Award | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | University Award |
| Country |  Europe |
| Presented by | European Film Academy, Filmfest Hamburg |
| First awarded | 2016 |
| Currently held by | Flee (2021) |
| Website | europeanfilmawards.eu eufa.org |
The European University Film Award is one of the awards presented by the European Film Academy, it was first awarded at the 29th European Film Awards in 2016 and is presented and voted by European university students.
The award was inspired by a model in Québec, the Prix collégial du cinéma québécois (PCCQ) and was launched by Filmfest Hamburg and the European Film Academy (EFA) in 2016 as the European University Film Award (EUFA). The creation of this initiative was to "involve a younger audience, to spread the "European idea" and to transport the spirit of European cinema to an audience of university students. It shall also support film dissemination, film education and the culture of debating".
For the first edition of the award 13 universities from 13 different European countries participated, the number has increased throughout the years with 20 participants in 2017, 22 in 2018 and 24 in 2019. For the 33rd European Film Awards, the participants were from 25 universities from 25 countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and United Kingdom. The 2023 edition included participants from 24 universities, [1] and the 2024 edition saw that number drop to 23 in the absence of Israel's Tel Aviv University. [2]
The following universities participated in the 5th EUFA edition:
Kosovo – AAB College in Pristina 
Denmark – Aarhus University in Aarhus 
Czech Republic – Charles University in Prague 
Germany – Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF in Potsdam 
Turkey – Kadir Has University in Istanbul 
Latvia – Latvian Academy of Culture in Riga 
Sweden – Linnaeus University in Växjö 
United Kingdom – Liverpool John Moores University in Liverpool 
Hungary – Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest 
Romania – Sapientia – Hungarian University of Transylvania in Cluj-Napoca 
Israel – Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv 
Ireland – University College Cork in Cork 
Belgium – University of Antwerp in Antwerp 
Serbia – University of Arts Belgrade in Belgrade 
Greece – University of the Aegean in Lesbos 
Spain – University of the Basque Country in Bilbao 
Portugal – University of Beira Interior in Covilhã 
Iceland – University of Iceland in Reykjavík 
Switzerland – University of Lausanne in Lausanne 
Poland – University of Łódź in Łódź 
Finland – University of Oulu in Oulu 
France – University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris 
Italy – University of Udine in Udine 
Netherlands – Utrecht University in Utrecht 
Lithuania – Vilnius University in Vilnius | Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country of production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 (33rd) [8] [9] | ||||
| Saudi Runaway | Susanne Regina Meures | Switzerland | ||
| Another Round | Druk | Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark | |
| Berlin Alexanderplatz | Burhan Qurbani | Germany | ||
| Corpus Christi | Boże Ciało | Jan Komasa | Poland | |
| Slalom | Charlène Favier | France | ||
| 2021 (34th) [10] [11] | ||||
| Flee | Flugt | Jonas Poher Rasmussen | Denmark, France, Sweden,  Norway | |
| Apples | Mila / Μήλα | Christos Nikou | Greece, Poland,  Slovenia | |
| Great Freedom | Große Freiheit | Sebastian Meise |  Austria, Germany | |
| Happening | L'événement | Audrey Diwan | France | |
| Quo Vadis, Aida? | Jasmila Žbanić |  Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, the Netherlands, France, Poland, Norway, Germany, Romania, Turkey | ||
| 2022 (35th) [12] [13] | ||||
| Alcarràs | Carla Simón | Spain, Italy | ||
| Close | Lukas Dhont | Belgium, France, Netherlands | ||
| The Eclipse | Formørkelsen | Nataša Urban | Norway | |
| Eo | Jerzy Skolimowski | Poland, | ||
| Triangle of Sadness | Ruben Östlund | Sweden, Germany, France, United Kingdom | ||
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