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.

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. 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.

Selections

Feature films

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

• 20,000 Species of Bees – Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren ()
• Afire – Christian Petzold ()
• Anatomy of a Fall – Justine Triet ()
• Animal – Sofia Exarchou (, , , , )
• The Animal Kingdom – Thomas Cailley ()
• Behind the Haystacks – Asimina Proedrou (, , )
• Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry – Elene Naveriani (, )
• Blaga's Lessons – Stephan Komandarev (, )
• Close Your Eyes – Victor Erice (, )
• Club Zero – Jessica Hausner (, , , , , )
• Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World – Radu Jude (, , , )
• Excursion – Una Gunjak (, , , , , )
• Explanation for Everything – Gábor Reisz (, )
• Fallen Leaves – Aki Kaurismäki (, )
• Femme – Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon Ping ()
• Firebrand – Karim Aïnouz ()
• The Goldman Case – Cédric Kahn ()
• Green Border – Agnieszka Holland (, , , )
• The Happiest Man in the World – Teona Strugar Mitevska (, , , , , )
• Holly – Fien Troch (, , , )
• Housekeeping for Beginners – Goran Stolevski (, , , , )
• How to Have Sex – Molly Manning Walker (, )
• Kidnapped – Marco Bellocchio (, , )
• La chimera – Alice Rohrwacher (, , )
• Me, Captain – Matteo Garrone (, )
• The Old Oak – Ken Loach (, , )
• Paradise Is Burning – Mika Gustafson (, , , )
• The Pot-au-Feu – Tran Anh Hung ()
• The Promised Land – Nikolaj Arcel (, , )
• Safe Place – Juraj Lerotic (, )
• Slow – Marija Kavtaradze (, , )
• Society of the Snow – J. A. Bayona ()
• Stepne – Maryna Vroda (, , , )
• Sweet Dreams – Ena Sendijarević (, , )
• Tatami – Guy Nattiv & Zar Amir Ebrahimi (, )
• The Teachers' Lounge – Ä°lker Çatak ()
• The Universal Theory – Timm Kröger (, , )
• The Vanishing Soldier – Dani Rosenberg ()
• Woman Of... – Małgorzata Szumowska & Michał Englert (, )
• The Zone of Interest – Jonathan Glazer (, , )

Documentary

The selection was announced on August 30, 2023.

• Apolonia, Apolonia – Lea Glob (, )
• Between Revolutions – Vlad Petri (, )
• Four Daughters – Kaouther Ben Hania (, , , )
• The Hearing – Lisa Gerig ()
• In the Rearview – Maciej Hamela (, , )
• Light Falls Vertical – Efthymia Zymvragaki (, , , )
• Motherland – Hanna Badziaka & Alexander Mihalkovich (, , )
• On the Adamant – Nicolas Philibert (, )
• Orlando, My Political Biography – Paul B. Preciado ()
• Our Body – Claire Simon ()
• Paradise – Alexander Abaturov (, )
• Smoke Sauna Sisterhood – Anna Hints (, , )
• We Will Not Fade Away – Alisa Kovalenko (, , )
• Who I Am Not – Tunde Skovran (, , )

Short films

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.

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

Feature Film Awards

Source:

European Film

European Director

European Screenwriter

European Actor

European Actress

Excellence Awards

Awards Not Based on Feature Film Selection

European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI

European Documentary

European Animated Feature Film

European Short Film

Honorary Awards

Special Awards

Lux European Audience Film Award 2024

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

European University Film Award (EUFA)

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.

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