37th European Film Awards

The 37th European Film Awards, presented by the European Film Academy to recognize achievements in European filmmaking, took place at Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Luzern in Lucerne on 7 December 2024. It marked the first time the awards ceremony was held in Switzerland. Swiss host and voiceover actor Fernando Tiberini hosted the ceremony.

The winners of the Excellence Awards were announced on 13 November 2024, honoring the arts and crafts of filmmaking in eight categories. On 7 December the other winners were revealed during the ceremony, with Jacques Audiard's Emilia Perez winning in each of the categories it was nominated.

Selections

Feature films

The first part of the Academy’s Feature Film Selection was announced on 14 August 2024. The second part with 16 further titles was announced on 26 September 2024.

• April – Dea Kulumbegashvili (, , )
• Arcadia – Yorgos Zois (, , )
• Armand – Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel (, , , )
• Bird – Andrea Arnold (, , , )
• Conclave – Edward Berger (, )
• Crossing – Levan Akin (, , , , )
• Dying – Matthias Glasner ()
• Emilia Pérez – Jacques Audiard ()
• Grand Tour – Miguel Gomes (, , )
• Hard Truths – Mike Leigh (, )
• Harvest – Athina Rachel Tsangari (, , )
• Hesitation Wound – Selman Nacar (, , , )
• Julie Keeps Quiet – Leonardo Van Dijl (, )
• Kinds of Kindness – Yorgos Lanthimos (, , , )
• Kneecap – Rich Peppiatt (, )
• Life – Zeki Demirkubuz (, )
• Misericordia – Alain Guiraudie (, , )
• Misericordia – Emma Dante ()
• Moon – Kurdwin Ayub ()
• Mr. K – Tallulah Hazekamp Schwab (, , )
• My Fathers' Daughter – Egil Pedersen (, , )
• Queer – Luca Guadagnino (, )
• Souleymane's Story – Boris Lojkine ()
• The Count of Monte Cristo – Matthieu Delaporte, Alexandre De La Patellière ()
• The Devil's Bath – Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala (, )
• The End – Joshua Oppenheimer (, , , , , )
• The Girl with the Needle – Magnus von Horn (, , )
• The Invisible Fight – Rainer Sarnet (, , , )
• The New Year That Never Came – Bogdan Mureșanu ()
• The Other Way Around – Jonás Trueba (, )
• The Room Next Door – Pedro Almodóvar ()
• The Rye Horn – Jaione Camborda (, , )
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig – Mohammad Rasoulof (, , )
• The Shameless – Konstantin Bojanov (, , , , )
• The Sparrow in the Chimney – Ramon Zürcher ()
• The Substance – Coralie Fargeat (, , )
• The Village Next to Paradise – Mo Harawe (, , )
• There's Still Tomorrow – Paola Cortellesi ()
• Three Kilometres to the End of the World – Emanuel Pârvu ()
• Toxic – Saulė Bliuvaitė ()
• Un amor – Isabel Coixet ()
• Vermiglio – Maura Delpero (, , )
• When the Light Breaks – Rúnar Rúnarsson (, , , )
• Windless – Pavel G. Vesnakov (, )
• Without Air – Katalin Moldovai ()

Documentary

The Documentary Film Selection was announced on 21 August 2024.

• At Averroès & Rosa Parks – Nicolas Philibert ()
• Bye Bye Tiberias – Lina Soualem (, , , )
• Dahomey – Mati Diop (, )
• Direct Action – Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell (, )
• In Limbo – Alina Maksimenko ()
• Marching in the Dark – Kinshuk Surjan (, , )
• My Stolen Planet – Farahnaz Sharifi ()
• No Other Land – Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal (, )
• Pelikan Blue – László Csáki ()
• Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat – Johan Grimonprez (, , )
• The Landscape and the Fury – Nicole Vögele ()
• The Words Women Spoke One Day – Raphaël Pillosio ()

Winners and nominees

The nominees for European Animated Feature Film were revealed on 9 October 2024. The nominees for European Short Film were revealed on 16 October 2024. The nominees for the main categories were announced on 5 November 2024.

European Film

European Director

European Screenwriter

European Actor

European Actress

European Documentary

European Animated Feature Film

European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI

European Young Audience Award

European Short Film

Excellence Awards

Honorary Awards

Special Awards

Lux European Audience Film Award 2025

The LUX Audience Award, presented by the European Parliament and the European Film Academy, recognize films that help to raise awareness of socio-political issues in Europe.

European University Film Award (EUFA)

The nominees for the European University Film Award were announced on 23 October 2024 by the European Film Academy and Filmfest Hamburg. The winner was announced at the Mayor’s Night in Lucerne on 6 December 2024, the evening before the European Film Awards Ceremony.

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