36th European Film Awards

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36th European Film Awards
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Date9 December 2023 (2023-12-09)
SiteBerlin, Germany
Organized byEuropean Film Academy
Official websiteEFA

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]

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 to, including Film, director, screenwriter, and Actress.

Selections[edit]

Feature films[edit]

Selection's part 1 was announced on 16 August 2023.[3] 2nd part of the selection was announced on 27 September 2023.[4]

Documentary[edit]

The selection was announced on August 30, 2023.[5]

  • Apolonia, Apolonia – Lea Glob ( Denmark,  Poland)
  • Between Revolutions – Vlad Petri ( Romania,  Croatia)
  • Four Daughters – Kaouther Ben Hania ( France,  Tunisia,  Germany,  Saudi Arabia)
  • The Hearing – Lisa Gerig (  Switzerland)
  • In the Rearview – Maciej Hamela ( Poland,  France,  Ukraine)
  • Light Falls Vertical – Efthymia Zymvragaki ( Spain,  Germany,  Italy,  the Netherlands)
  • Motherland – Hanna Badziaka & Alexander Mihalkovich ( Sweden,  Ukraine,  Norway)
  • On the Adamant – Nicolas Philibert ( France,  Japan)
  • Orlando, My Political Biography – Paul B. Preciado ( France)
  • Our Body – Claire Simon ( France)
  • Paradise – Alexander Abaturov ( France,   Switzerland)
  • Smoke Sauna Sisterhood – Anna Hints ( Estonia,  France,  Iceland)
  • We Will Not Fade Away – Alisa Kovalenko ( Ukraine,  France,  Poland)
  • Who I Am Not – Tunde Skovran ( Romania,  Canada,  Germany)

Short films[edit]

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.[6]

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

Feature Film Awards[edit]

Source:[2]

Best European film[edit]

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

Best European Director[edit]

Director(s) English title
 FRA Justine Triet Anatomy of a Fall
 FIN Aki Kaurismäki Fallen Leaves
 POL Agnieszka Holland Green Border
 ITA Matteo Garrone Me Captain
 GBR Jonathan Glazer The Zone of Interest

Best European Screenwriter[edit]

Screenwriter(s) English title
 FRA Arthur Harari
 FRA Justine Triet 		Anatomy of a Fall
 FIN Aki Kaurismäki Fallen Leaves
 POL Agnieszka Holland
 POL Gabriela Łazarkiewicz-Sieczko
 POL Maciej Pisuk 		Green Border
 DEU İlker Çatak
 DEU Johannes Duncker 		The Teachers' Lounge
 GBR Jonathan Glazer The Zone of Interest

Best European Actor[edit]

Actor English title Role
 DNK Mads Mikkelsen The Promised Land Ludvig Kahlen
 AUT Thomas Schubert Afire Leon
 FIN Jussi Vatanen Fallen Leaves Holappa
 GBR Josh O'Connor La chimera Arthur
 DEU Christian Friedel The Zone of Interest Rudolf Höss

Best European Actress[edit]

Actor English title Role
 DEU Sandra Hüller Anatomy of a Fall Sandra Voyter
 Georgia Eka Chavleishvili Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry Etero
 FIN Alma Pöysti Fallen Leaves Ansa
 GBR Mia McKenna-Bruce How to Have Sex Tara
 DEU Leonie Benesch The Teachers' Lounge Carla Nowak
 DEU Sandra Hüller The Zone of Interest Hedwig Höss

Excellence Awards[edit]

European Cinematography European Editing European Production Design European Costume Design
 Denmark Rasmus Videbæk
for The Promised Land
 France Laurent Sénéchal
for Anatomy of a Fall
 Italy Emita Frigato
for La chimera
 Sweden Kicki Ilander
for The Promised Land
European Make-Up & Hair European Original Score European Sound European Visual Effects
 Spain Ana López-Puigcerve,  Spain Belén López-Puigcerver,  Spain David Martí &  Spain Montse Ribé
for Society of the Snow
 Austria Markus Binder
for Club Zero
 United Kingdom Johnnie Burn &  United Kingdom Tarn Willers
for The Zone of Interest
 Spain Félix Bergés &  Spain Laura Pedro
for Society of the Snow

Awards Not Based on Feature Film Selection[edit]

European Comedy[edit]

European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI[edit]

Director(s) English title
 GBR Molly Manning Walker How to Have Sex
 ESP Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren 20,000 Species of Bees
 UKR Philip Sotnychenko La Palisiada
 DNK Malene Choi The Quiet Migration
 Croatia Juraj Lerotić Safe Place
 FRA Stéphan Castang Vincent Must Die

European Documentary[edit]

English title Original title Director(s)
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood Savvusanna sõsarad  Estonia Anna Hints
Apolonia, Apolonia  Denmark Lea Glob
Four Daughters Les Filles d'Olfa  Tunisia Kaouther Ben Hania
Motherland  Belarus Hanna Badziaka
 Belarus Alexander Mihalkovich
On the Adamant Sur l’Adamant  France Nicolas Philibert

European Animated Feature film[edit]

English title[7] Original title Director(s)
Robot Dreams  Spain Pablo Berger
The Amazing Maurice  Germany Toby Genkel
Chicken for Linda! Linda veut du poulet!  France Sébastien Laudenbach
 Italy Chiara Malta
A Greyhound of a Girl  Italy Enzo d’Alò
White Plastic Sky Müanyag égbolt  Hungary Tibor Bánóczki
 Hungary Sarolta Szabó

European Short film[edit]

English title[8] Original title Director(s)
Hardly Working  Austria Susanna Flock
 Austria Robin Klengel
 Austria Leonhard Müllner
 Austria Michael Stumpf
27  Hungary Flóra Anna Buda
Aqueronte  Spain Manuel Muñoz Rivas
Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays La herida luminosa  Spain Christian Avilés
Flores del otro patio  Colombia /   Switzerland Jorge Cadena

Honorary Awards[edit]

EFA Lifetime Achievement Award[9] Honorary Award of the Academy President and the Board[10] European Achievement in World Cinema
 UK Vanessa Redgrave
 Hungary Béla Tarr
 Spain Isabel Coixet
European Innovative Storytelling Eurimages Co-Production Award[11] European Sustainability Award – Prix4Climate
Not awarded
 Lithuania Uljana Kim
 Turkey Güler Sabancı

Special Awards[edit]

Lux European Audience Film Award 2024[edit]

The award is directed to recognize films which help to raise awareness of socio-political issues in Europe.[12]

English title Original title Director(s)
Fallen Leaves Kuolleet lehdet  Finland Aki Kaurismäki
On the Adamant Sur l'Adamant  France Nicolas Philibert
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood Savvusanna sõsarad  Estonia Anna Hints
The Teachers' Lounge[13] Das Lehrerzimmer  Germany İlker Çatak
20,000 Species of Bees 20.000 especies de abejas  Spain Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren

European University Film Award (EUFA)[edit]

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.[14]

English title Original title Director(s)
Anatomy of a Fall Anatomie d'une chute  France Justine Triet
Green Border Zielona granica  Poland Agnieszka Holland
Housekeeping for Beginners  Australia /  North Macedonia Goran Stolevski
How to Have Sex  UK Molly Manning Walker
The Teachers' Lounge Das Lehrerzimmer  Germany İlker Çatak

References[edit]

  1. ^ "2023 Berlin". European Film Academy. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
  2. ^ a b 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. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "Feature Film Selection 2023 – Part 2". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 28 September 2023.
  5. ^ "Documentary Film Selection 2023". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 30 August 2023.
  6. ^ "Short Film Candidates". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
  7. ^ "Five films nominated for European Animated Film 2023". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  8. ^ "Five films nominated for European Short Film 2023". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  9. ^ "The Academy Honours Vanessa Redgrave". European Film Academy. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  10. ^ "The Academy Honours Béla Tarr". European Film Academy. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  11. ^ "The European Film Academy Honours Uljana Kim". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
  12. ^ "Here come the nominees for LUX – The European Audience Film Award 2024". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
  13. ^ https://europeanfilmawards.eu/en_EN/the-teachers-lounge-wins-lux-award-2024
  14. ^ "These are the five nominated films for European University Film Award (EUFA)". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
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