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.
| European Discovery of the Year | |
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| Country |  Europe |
| Presented by | European Film Academy |
| First awarded | 1988 |
| Currently held by | How to Have Sex (2023) |
| Website | europeanfilmawards.eu |
Winners and nominees
edit1980s
edit| 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
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| Days of Eclipse | Aleksandr Sokurov | ? |  Soviet Union
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| It's Happening Tomorrow | Daniele Luchetti | Marco Alfieri |  Italy
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| Damnation | Béla Tarr | József Marx |  Hungary
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| Pathfinder | Nils Gaup | John M. Jacobsen |  Norway
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| Reefer and the Model | Joe Comerford | Lelia Doolan |  Ireland
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| Stormy Monday | Mike Figgis | Nigel Stafford-Clark |  United Kingdom,  United States
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| 1989 | |||||||
| 300 Miles to Heaven | Maciej Dejczer | Prod. Film Unit “TOR“ |  Poland,  Denmark,  France
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| Cinema Paradiso | Giuseppe Tornatore | Franco Cristaldi, Giovanna Romagnoli | Italy, France
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| Mist | Zülfü Livaneli | Ülker Livaneli |  Turkey,  Switzerland
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| Kuduz | Ademir Kenović | Bakir Tanović |  Yugoslavia
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| Scandal | Michael Caton-Jones | Steve Woolley | United Kingdom, United States
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| My Left Foot | Jim Sheridan | Noel Pearson | Ireland, United Kingdom
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| Waller’s Last Walk | Christian Wagner |  West Germany
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1990s
edit2000s
edit2010s
edit| 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
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| Nothing Personal | Urszula Antoniak | Reinier Selen, Edwin van Meurs |  Netherlands, Ireland
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| When We Leave | Feo Aladag | Feo Aladag, Züli Aladag | Germany
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| If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle | Florin Serban | Catalin Mitulescu, Florin Serban |  Romania, Germany,  Sweden
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| The Double Hour | Giuseppe Capotondi | Alessandro Fabbri, Ludovica Rampoldi, Stefano Sardo | Italy
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| 2011 [12] | |||||||
| Oxygen | Hans Van Nuffel | Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem, Dries Phlypo |  Belgium, Netherlands
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| Breathing | Karl Markovics | Dieter Pochlatko, Nikolaus Wisiak |  Austria
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| 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
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| Tilva Roš | Nikola Ležaić | Uroš Tomić, Nikola Ležaić, Mina Đukić |  Serbia
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| 2012 [13] | |||||||
| Kauwboy | Boudewijn Koole | Jan van der Zanden, Wilant Boekelman | Netherlands
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| Broken | Rufus Norris | Dixie Linder, Tally Garner, Nick Marston, Bill Kenwright | United Kingdom
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| Reported Missing | Jan Speckenbach | Anke Hartwig | Germany
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| Teddy Bear | Mads Matthiesen | Morten Kiems Juhl | Denmark
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| Twilight Portrait | Angelina Nikonova | Leonid Ogaryov, Angelina Nikonova, Olga Dihovichnaya |  Russia
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| 2013 [14] | |||||||
| A Coffee in Berlin | Jan Ole Gerster | Marcos Kantis, Alexander Wadouh | Germany
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| Eat Sleep Die | Gabriela Pichler | China Åhlander | Sweden
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| Call Girl | Mikael Marcimain | Mimmi Spång | Sweden, Norway, Ireland,  Finland
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| Miele | Valeria Golino | Riccardo Scamarcio, Viola Prestieri, Anne-Dominique Toussaint, Raphaël Berdugo | Italy, France
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| The Plague | Neus Ballús | Pau Subirós | Spain
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| 2014 [15][16] |
European Discovery - Prix Fipresci (Critics Choice Award) | ||||||
| The Tribe | Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy | Valentyn Vasyanovych, Iya Myslytska |  Ukraine
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| 10,000 km | Carlos Marqués-Marcet | Tono Folguera, Sergi Moreno, Jana Díaz Juhl, Danielle Schleif, Pau Brunet | Spain
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| Wounded | Fernando Franco | Koldo Zuazua | |||||
| '71 | Yann Demange | Angus Lamont, Robin Gutch | United Kingdom
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| Party Girl | Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis | Marie Masmonteil, Denis Carot | France
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| 2015 [17][18] | |||||||
| Mustang | Deniz Gamze Ergüven | Charles Gillibert | France, Germany, Turkey
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| Goodnight Mommy | Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala | Ulrich Seidl | Austria
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| Limbo | Anna Sofie Hartmann | Nina Helveg | Germany, Denmark
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| Slow West | John Maclean | Iain Canning, Rachel Gardner, Emile Sherman, Conor McCaughan |  New Zealand, United Kingdom
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| Summers Downstairs | Tom Sommerlatte | Iris Sommerlatte | Germany, France
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| 2016 (29th) [19] | |||||||
| The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki | Juho Kuosmanen | Finland, Germany, Sweden
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| Dogs | Bogdan Mirica | Marcela Ursu | Romania,  Bulgaria, France,  Qatar
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| Liebmann | Jules Herrmann | Germany
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| Sand Storm | Elite Zexer | Haim Mecklberg, Estee Yacov-Mecklberg | Israel
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| Thirst | Svetla Tsotsorkova | Svetla Tsotsorkova, Nadejda Koseva | Bulgaria
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| 2017 [20] | |||||||
| Lady Macbeth | William Oldroyd | Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly | United Kingdom
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| Bloody Milk | Hubert Charuel | Stéphanie Bermann, Alexis Dulguerian | France
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| Godless | Ralitza Petrova | Rossitsa Valkanova, Eva Jakobsen, Laurence Clerc | Bulgaria, Denmark, France
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| Summer 1993 | Carla Simón | Valérie Delpierre, Stefan Schmitz, María Zamora | Spain
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| The Eremites | Ronny Trocker | Susanne Mann, Paul Zischler | Germany, Austria
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| 2018 [21] | |||||||
| Girl | Lukas Dhont | Dirk Impens | Belgium, Netherlands
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| One Day | Zsófia Szilágyi | Edina Kenesei, Ági Pataki | Hungary
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| Scary Mother | Ana Urushadze | Lasha Khalvashi, Tinatin Kajrishvili |  Georgia, Estonia
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| The Guilty | Gustav Möller | Lina Flint | Denmark
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| Those Who Are Fine | Cyril Schäublin | Silvan Hillmann, Cyril Schäublin, Lara Hacisalihzade | Switzerland
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| Touch Me Not | Adina Pintilie | Adina Pintilie, Bianca Oana, Philippe Avril | Romania, Germany,  Czech Republic, Bulgaria, France
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| 2019 [22][23] | |||||||
| Les Misérables | Ladj Ly | Toufik Ayadi, Christophe Barral | France
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| Aniara | Pella Kagerman, Hugo Lilja | Annika Rogell | Sweden, Denmark
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| Atlantics | Mati Diop | Judith Levy | France,  Senegal, Belgium
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| Blind Spot | Tuva Novotny | Elisabeth Kvithyll | Norway, Denmark
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| Irina | Nadejda Koseva | Stefan Kitanov | Bulgaria
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| Ray & Liz | Richard Billingham | Jacqui Davies | United Kingdom
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2020s
edit| Year | English title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country of production/co-production | |
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| 2020 [24][25] |
European Discovery - Prix Fipresci | ||||
| Sole | Carlo Sironi | Giovanni Pompili | Italy, Poland
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| Full Moon | Nermin Hamzagic | Amra Baksic Camo, Adis Djapo |  Bosnia and Herzegovina
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| Gagarine | Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh | Julie Billy, Carole Scotta | France
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| Instinct | Halina Reijn | Frans Van Gestel, Laurette Schillings, Arnold Heslenfeld | Netherlands
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| Isaac | Jurgis Matulevicius | Stasys Baltakis |  Lithuania
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| Jumbo | Zoé Wittock | Anaïs Bertrand, Annabella Nezri, Gilles Chanial | France, Belgium,  Luxembourg
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| 2021 (34th) [26][27] | |||||
| Promising Young Woman | Emerald Fennell | Emerald Fennell, Josey McNamara, Ben Browning, Ashley Fox | UK, United States
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| Beginning | Dea Kulumbegashvili | Ilan Amouyal, David Zerat, Rati Oneli, Paul Rozenberg | Georgia, France
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| Lamb | Valdimar Jóhannsson | Hrönn Kristinsdóttir, Sara Nassim, Piodor Gustafsson, Klaudia Smieja, Jan Naszewski |  Iceland, Poland, Sweden
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| Playground | Laura Wandel | Stéphane Lhoest, Jan De Clercq | Belgium
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| Pleasure | Ninja Thyberg | Erik Hemmendorff, Eliza Jones, Markus Waltå, Leontine Petit, Erik Glijnis, Frédéric Fiore, Eric Tavitian, Peter Possne, Anna Croneman | Sweden, Netherlands, France
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| The Whaler Boy | Philipp Yuryev | Aleksey Uchitel, Radoslawa Bardes, Marion Hansel | Russia, Poland, Belgium
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| 2022 (35th) | |||||
| Small Body | Laura Samani | Italy
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| Love According to Dalva | Emmanuelle Nicot | France
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| 107 Mothers | Peter Kerekes |  Slovakia
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| Other People | Aleksandra Terpińska | Poland
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| Pamfir | Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk | Ukraine
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| Sonne | Kurdwin Ayub | Austria /  Iraq
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| 2023 (36th) | |||||
| How to Have Sex | Molly Manning Walker | Emily Leo, Ivana MacKinnon, Konstantinos Kontovrakis | UK
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| 20,000 Species of Bees | Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren | Spain
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- ^[a] Award given as Best Young Film or Young European Film of the Year
Most wins for Best Discovery by country
edit| 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 |
References
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- ^ Brooks, Brian (December 12, 2009). ""White Ribbon" Reigns at European Film Awards". Indiewire. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
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- ^ Roxborough, Scott (December 3, 2011). "Lars Von Trier's 'Melancholia' Wins Best Film at European Film Awards". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
- ^ Knegt, Peter (December 1, 2012). "'Amour' Sweeps European Film Awards". Indiewire. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
- ^ Barraclough, Leo (December 7, 2013). "Paolo Sorrentino's 'The Great Beauty' Wins Top Prize at European Film Awards". Variety. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
- ^ Hopewell, John (November 8, 2014). "'Ida,' 'Leviathan' Top European Film Awards Nominations". Variety. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
- ^ Jagernauth, Kevin (December 15, 2014). "Pawel Pawlikowski's 'Ida' Wins Big At European Film Awards". Indiewire. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
- ^ Lodge, Guy (November 7, 2015). "'Youth,' 'The Lobster' Lead European Film Award Nominations". Variety. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
- ^ Heath, Paul (December 14, 2015). "European Film Awards winners: Youth, Amy, The Lobster lead field". The Hollywood News. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
- ^ Roxborough, Scott (December 10, 2016). "'Toni Erdmann' Wins European Film Awards". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
- ^ Pond, Steve (December 9, 2017). "Swedish Comedy 'The Square' Dominates European Film Awards". TheWrap. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
- ^ Nordine, Michael (December 15, 2018). "'Cold War' Is the Big Winner at the European Film Awards, Picking Up Oscar Momentum". Indiewire. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
- ^ "Six Debut Films Nominated for the European Film Awards 2019".
- ^ Roxborough, Scott (December 7, 2019). "'The Favourite' Wins Big at European Film Awards". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
- ^ "Six Debut Films Nominated for the European Film Awards 2020". europeanfilmawards.eu. 2020-10-08. Retrieved 2020-10-08.
- ^ Roxborough, Scott (December 12, 2020). "'Another Round' Wins 2020 European Film Awards". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
- ^ "European Film Award Nominations 2021".
- ^ Blaney, Martin (11 December 2021). "'Quo Vadis, Aida?' wins top prize at 2021 European Film Awards". ScreenDaily.
External links
edit- Nominees and winners at the European Film Academy website