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36th European Film Awards

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]

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

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

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Feature films

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

Documentary

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

  • 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

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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 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

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Source:[2]

European Film

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

European Director

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

European Screenwriter

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

European Actor

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

European Actress

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

Excellence Awards

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

Awards Not Based on Feature Film Selection

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European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI

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

European Documentary

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

European Animated Feature Film

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English title[8] Original title Director(s)
Robot Dreams   Pablo Berger
The Amazing Maurice   Toby Genkel
Chicken for Linda! Linda veut du poulet!   Sébastien Laudenbach
  Chiara Malta
A Greyhound of a Girl   Enzo d’Alò
White Plastic Sky Müanyag égbolt   Tibor Bánóczki
  Sarolta Szabó

European Short Film

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English title[9] Original title Director(s)
Hardly Working   Susanna Flock
  Robin Klengel
  Leonhard Müllner
  Michael Stumpf
27   Flóra Anna Buda
Aqueronte   Manuel Muñoz Rivas
Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays La herida luminosa   Christian Avilés
Flores del otro patio   /   Jorge Cadena

Honorary Awards

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EFA Lifetime Achievement Award[10] Honorary Award of the Academy President and the Board[11] European Achievement in World Cinema
  Vanessa Redgrave
  Béla Tarr
  Isabel Coixet
European Innovative Storytelling Eurimages Co-Production Award[12] European Sustainability Award – Prix4Climate
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  Uljana Kim
  Güler Sabancı

Special Awards

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Lux European Audience Film Award 2024

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The award is directed to recognize films which help to raise awareness of socio-political issues in Europe.[13]

English title Original title Director(s)
Fallen Leaves Kuolleet lehdet   Aki Kaurismäki
On the Adamant Sur l'Adamant   Nicolas Philibert
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood Savvusanna sõsarad   Anna Hints
The Teachers' Lounge[14] Das Lehrerzimmer   İlker Çatak
20,000 Species of Bees 20.000 especies de abejas   Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren

European University Film Award (EUFA)

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

References

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  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. ^ "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.
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