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35th European Film Awards

The 35th European Film Awards, presented by the European Film Academy to recognize achievements in European filmmaking, took place at the Harpa Conference and Concert Hall in Reykjavík, Iceland on 10 December 2022.[1] According to the academy, films eligible for the awards are those that had their first official screening between 1 June 2021 and 31 May 2022 and have a European director.[1]

35th European Film Awards
Date10 December 2022 (2022-12-10)
SiteHarpa Conference and Concert Hall, Reykjavík, Iceland
Organized byEuropean Film Academy
Official websiteEFA

German actress, director and screenwriter Margarethe von Trotta received the Lifetime Achievement Award while Palestinian actor and director Elia Suleiman was honoured with the Achievement in World Cinema Award.[2][3]

Selection edit

Feature Film edit

Selection's part 1 was announced on 18 August 2022.[4]

Documentary edit

The selection of 13 documentary films was announced on 30 August 2022.[5] Selection was determined by a committee consisting of Salma Abdallah (sales agent/Austria), Nenad Puhovski (festival director/Croatia), Katriel Schory (Academy Board – institutional/Israel) and Giedrė Žickytė (director/producer/Lithuania).[6]

Short Film edit

The European Short Film 2022 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]

  • Affairs of the Art – Joanna Quinn (  UK /   Canada) – Valladolid International Film Festival
  • Bachelorette Party – Lola Combourieu & Yann Berlier (  France) – Sarajevo Film Festival
  • The Bayview – Daniel Cook (  UK) – Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
  • Becoming Male in the Middle Ages – Pedro Neves Marques (  Portugal) – International Film Festival Rotterdam
  • Cherries – Vytautas Katkus (  Lithuania) – Cannes Film Festival
  • Dad's Sneakers – Olha Zhurba (  Ukraine) – Kort Film Festival Leuven
  • Dawn – Leonor Noivo (  Portugal) – Hamburg Short Film Festival
  • Granny's Sexual Life – Urška Djukić & Émilie Pigeard (  Slovenia /   France) – Uppsala Short Film Festival
  • Handbook – Pavel Mozhar (  Germany) – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen
  • Ice Merchants – João Gonzalez (  Portugal /   France /   UK) – Motovun Film Festival
  • Le Saboteur – Anssi Kasitonni (  Finland) – Tampere Film Festival
  • Love, Dad – Diana Cam Van Nguyen (  Czechia /   Slovakia) – Kraków Film Festival
  • Memoir of a Veering Storm – Sofia Georgovassili (  Greece) – DokuFest
  • Neighbour Abdi – Douwe Dijkstra (  Netherlands) – Locarno Film Festival
  • Nest – Hlynur Pálmason (  Denmark /   Iceland) – Odense Film Festival
  • North Pole – Marija Apcevska (  North Macedonia /   Serbia) – International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao
  • On Solid Ground – Jela Hasler (   Switzerland) – Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
  • The Potemkinists – Radu Jude (  Romania) – Curtas Vila do Conde – International Film Festival
  • The Red Suitcase – Cyrus Neshvad (  Luxembourg) – Tirana International Film Festival
  • The Salamander Child – Théo Degen (  Belgium) – Drama International Short Film Festival
  • Sekundenarbeiten – Christiana Perschon (  Austria) – International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
  • Snow in September – Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir (  France /   Mongolia) – Venice International Film Festival
  • The Sower of Stars – Lois Patiño (  Spain) – Berlin International Film Festival
  • Steakhouse – Špela Cadež (  Slovenia /   Germany /   France) – International Short Film and Animation Festival PÖFF Shorts
  • Techno, Mama – Saulius Baradinskas (  Lithuania) – International Short Film Festival of Cyprus
  • 38 – Joanna Rytel (  Sweden) – Riga International Film Festival
  • Urban Solutions – Arne Hector, Luciana Mazeto, Vinícius Lopes & Minze Tummescheit (  Germany) – Encounters Film Festival
  • When I Smile My Eyes Close – Daniel Bolda (  Greece) – Cork International Film Festival
  • Will My Parents Come to See Me – Mo Harawe (  Austria /   Germany /   Somalia) – Vienna Short Film Festival

Feature Film Awards edit

Source:[8][9]

Best Film edit

English title Director(s) Producer(s) Country Language
Alcarràs Carla Simón María Zamora, Stefan Schmitz, Tono Folguera, Giovanni Pompili   Spain /   Italy Catalan, Spanish, English
Close Lukas Dhont Frans Van Gestel, Dirk Impens, Michiel Dhont, Michel Saint-Jean, Laurette Schillings, Jacques-Henri Bronckart   Belgium /   France /   Netherlands Dutch, French, Flemish
Corsage Marie Kreutzer Alexander Glehr, Johanna Scherz, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Maren Ade, Jean-Christophe Reymand, Bernard Michaux   Austria /   Luxembourg /   Germany /   France German, French, English, Hungarian, Italian
Holy Spider Ali Abbasi Sol Bondy, Jacob Jarek   Denmark /   Germany /   Sweden /   France Persian
Triangle of Sadness Ruben Östlund Erik Hemmendorff, Philippe Bober   Sweden /   Germany /   France /   United Kingdom English

Excellence Awards edit

A special eight-members jury consisting of the following representatives of the different arts and crafts chose the winners based on the European Film Awards Feature Film Selection: Henrich Borarós (production designer, Czech Republic), Pascal Capitolin (sound designer, France), Jaime Cebrian (VFX supervisor, Spain), Charlotte Chang (make-up & hair artist, Germany), Christina Georgiou (composer, Cyprus), Magdalena Labuz (costume designer, Luxembourg), Sarah McTeigue (editor, Ireland/Italy), and Nathalie Pitters (cinematographer, UK).[10]

European Cinematography European Editing European Production Design European Costume Design
  Kate McCullough
for The Quiet Girl
  Özcan Vardar &   Eytan İpeker
for Burning Days
  Jim Clay
for Belfast
  Charlotte Walter
for Belfast
European Make-Up & Hair European Original Score European Sound European Visual Effects
  Heike Merker
for All Quiet on the Western Front
  Paweł Mykietyn
for Eo
  Simone Paolo Olivero,   Paolo Benvenuti,   Benni Atria,   Marco Saitta,   Ansgar Frerich &   Florian Holzner
for The Hole
  Frank Petzold,   Viktor Müller &   Markus Frank
for All Quiet on the Western Front

Awards Not Based on Feature Film Selection edit

European Comedy edit

The award is presented to the director of a feature-length European comedy intended for theatrical release. Nominations were announced on 19 October 2022.[11] Nominations were determined by a committee consisting of Graziella Bildesheim (Academy Board – institutional/Italy), Alby James (producer/UK), Denis Ivanov (producer/Ukraine), Roshi Behesht Nedjad (producer/Germany) and Mira Staleva (Academy Board – festival, distributor/Bulgaria).[12]

English title Director(s) Country Language
Cop Secret Hannes Þór Halldórsson   Icelandic, English, Mandarin, German
The Divide Catherine Corsini   French
The Good Boss Fernando León de Aranoa   Spanish

Source:[13]

European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI edit

In co-operation with FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics, the award is presented to a European director for their first full-length European feature film intended for theatrical release.[14] Nominations were determined by a committee consisting of Kaleem Aftab (film writer, programmer and producer/UK), Janet Bariş (FIPRESCI – film critic/Turkey), Paola Casella (FIPRESCI – film critic/Italy), Virginie Devesa (Academy Board – sales agent/France), Marion Döring (institutional/Germany), Frédéric Ponsard (FIPRESCI – film critic/France), Alik Shpilyuk (FIPRESCI – film critic/Ukraine), Britt Sørensen (FIPRESCI – film critic/Norway) and Joanna Szymańska (Academy Board – producer/Poland).[15]

Director(s) English title
  Emmanuelle Nicot Love According to Dalva
  Peter Kerekes 107 Mothers
  Aleksandra Terpińska Other People
  Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk Pamfir
  Laura Samani Small Body
  /   Kurdwin Ayub Sonne

Source:[16]

European Documentary edit

The award is presented to the European director(s) of a European documentary intended for theatrical release.[17]

English title Director(s) Country Language
The Balcony Movie Paweł Łoziński   Poland Polish
Girl Gang Susanne Regina Meures    Switzerland German
A House Made of Splinters Simon Lereng Wilmont   Denmark /   Sweden /   Finland /   Ukraine Russian, Ukrainian
The March on Rome Mark Cousins   Italy English, Italian
Mariupolis 2 Mantas Kvedaravičius   Lithuania /   France /   Germany Ukrainian, Russian

Source:[18]

European Animated Feature Film edit

In co-operation with CARTOON, the European Association of Animation Film, the award is presented to the European director(s) of a European animated feature film intended for theatrical release. Nominations were announced on 19 October 2022.[19] Nominations were determined by a committee consisting of Antonio Saura (Academy Board – sales agent/Spain), Jonas Poher Rasmussen (director/Denmark) and Denisa Grimmová (CARTOON – director/Czech Republic).[20]

English title Director(s) Country Language
Little Nicholas: Happy As Can Be Amandine Fredon & Benjamin Massoubre   France /   Luxembourg French
My Love Affair with Marriage Signe Baumane   Latvia /   United States /   Luxembourg English
My Neighbors' Neighbors Anne-Laure Daffis & Léo Marchand   France French
No Dogs or Italians Allowed Alain Ughetto   France /   Italy /   Belgium /    Switzerland /   Portugal French, Italian, German
Oink Mascha Halberstad   Netherlands /   Belgium Dutch

Source:[21]

European Short Film edit

The award is presented to the European director(s) of a European short film. The award is presented in cooperation with various European festivals (see Short Film selection above), all of which select a single candidate and later nominate 5 films. The nominees were announced on 19 October 2022.[22]

English title Director(s) Country Language
Granny's Sexual Life Urška Djukič & Émilie Pigeard   Slovenia /   France Slovenian
Ice Merchants João Gonzalez   Portugal /   France /   UK no dialogues
Love, Dad Diana Cam Van Nguyen   Czechia /   Slovakia Czech
Techno, Mama Saulius Baradinskas   Lithuania Lithuanian
Will My Parents Come to See Me Mo Harawe   Austria /   Germany /   Somalia Somali

Source:[23]

Honorary Awards edit

EFA Lifetime Achievement Award European Achievement in World Cinema European Innovative Storytelling Eurimages Co-Production Award European Sustainability Award – Prix Film4Climate
  Margarethe von Trotta[2]
  Elia Suleiman[3]
  Marco Bellocchio
for Exterior Night[24]
  Ukrainian producers[25]
  European Green Deal[26]

Special Awards edit

Lux European Audience Film Award 2023 edit

The award is directed to recognize films which help to raise awareness of socio-political issues in Europe.[27] Close, directed by Lukas Dhont, was awarded the prize in a ceremony in the European Parliament's Hemicycle in Brussels on 27 June 2023.[28]

English title Director(s) Country
Close Lukas Dhont   /   /  
Alcarràs Carla Simón   /  
Burning Days Emin Alper   /   /   /   /   /  
Triangle of Sadness Ruben Östlund   /   /   /  
Will-o'-the-Wisp João Pedro Rodrigues   /  

EFA Young Audience Award (YAA) edit

The award is presented to the director of a European film that addresses an audience between 12 and 14 years of age.[29] The winner was announced during the online award ceremony on Sunday, 13 November 2022, in Erfurt (Germany), hosted by youth council members Maria from Portugal and Emmerson from the UK.[30][31]

English title Director(s) Country Language
Animal Cyril Dion   France English, French
Comedy Queen Sanna Lenken   Sweden Swedish
Dreams Are Like Wild Tigers Lars Montag   Germany German

Source:[32]

European University Film Award (EUFA) edit

Presented in co-operation with Filmfest Hamburg, the award actively involves university students, spreads the “European idea” and transports the spirit of European cinema to an audience group of 20-29-year-olds. It also supports film dissemination, film education and the culture of debating. Based on the Feature Film Selection 2022 and the Documentary Selection 2022 Filmfest Hamburg and EFA nominate five films. They are later viewed in non-commercial closed jury sessions and discussed at the participating universities. The students at each institution select their favourite film.[33] The nominations were announced on 7 October 2022.[34][35] The winner was announced on 9 December 2022.[36]

English title Director(s) Country Language
Eo Jerzy Skolimowski   Poland /   Italy Polish, Italian, English, French
Alcarràs Carla Simón   Spain /   Italy Catalan, Spanish, English
Close Lukas Dhont   Belgium /   France /   Netherlands Dutch, French, Flemish
The Eclipse Nataša Urban   Norway Serbian, Romanian
Triangle of Sadness Ruben Östlund   Sweden /   Germany /   France /   United Kingdom English

Source:[37]

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