2023 award ceremony
36th European Film Awards Logo for Berlin awards
Date 9 December 2023 (2023-12-09 ) Site Berlin , GermanyOrganized by European Film Academy Official website EFA
The36th European Film Awards , presented by theEuropean Film Academy to recognize achievements in European filmmaking, took place atArena Berlin inBerlin on 9 December 2023. It was the twenty-second time that the awards ceremony took place in Germany.[ 1]
The full list of nominations was revealed on 7 November 2023.Aki Kaurismäki 'sFallen Leaves andJonathan Glazer 'sThe Zone of Interest led the nominations with five each.[ 2] Justine Triet 'sAnatomy of a Fall swept the awards, winning in each of the categories it was nominated for, includingEuropean Film ,European Director ,European Screenwriter andEuropean Actress .[ 3]
Selection's part 1 was announced on 16 August 2023.[ 4] 2nd part of the selection was announced on 27 September 2023.[ 5]
20,000 Species of Bees –Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren ( Spain)Afire –Christian Petzold ( Germany)Anatomy of a Fall –Justine Triet ( France)Animal – Sofia Exarchou ( Greece, Austria, Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus)The Animal Kingdom –Thomas Cailley ( France)Behind the Haystacks – Asimina Proedrou ( Greece, Germany, North Macedonia)Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry – Elene Naveriani ( Switzerland, Georgia)Blaga's Lessons –Stephan Komandarev ( Bulgaria, Germany)Close Your Eyes –Victor Erice ( Spain, Argentina)Club Zero –Jessica Hausner ( Austria, UK, Germany, France, Denmark, Qatar)Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World –Radu Jude ( Romania, Luxembourg, France, Croatia)Excursion – Una Gunjak ( Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, France, Norway, Qatar)Explanation for Everything –Gábor Reisz ( Hungary, Slovakia)Fallen Leaves –Aki Kaurismäki ( Finland, Germany)Femme – Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon Ping ( United Kingdom)Firebrand –Karim Aïnouz ( United Kingdom)The Goldman Case –Cédric Kahn ( France)Green Border –Agnieszka Holland ( Poland, France, Czechia, Belgium)The Happiest Man in the World –Teona Strugar Mitevska ( North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium, Slovenia, Croatia, Denmark)Holly –Fien Troch ( Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, France)Housekeeping for Beginners –Goran Stolevski ( North Macedonia, Croatia, Serbia, Poland, Kosovo)How to Have Sex –Molly Manning Walker ( United Kingdom, Greece)Kidnapped –Marco Bellocchio ( Italy, France, Germany)La chimera –Alice Rohrwacher ( Italy, France, Switzerland)Me, Captain –Matteo Garrone ( Italy, Belgium)The Old Oak –Ken Loach ( United Kingdom, France, Belgium)Paradise Is Burning – Mika Gustafson ( Sweden, Italy, Denmark, Finland)The Pot-au-Feu –Tran Anh Hung ( France)The Promised Land –Nikolaj Arcel ( Denmark, Germany, Sweden)Safe Place – Juraj Lerotic ( Croatia, Slovenia)Slow – Marija Kavtaradze ( Lithuania, Spain, Sweden)Society of the Snow –J. A. Bayona ( Spain)Stepne –Maryna Vroda ( Ukraine, Slovakia, Germany, Poland)Sweet Dreams – Ena Sendijarević ( Netherlands, Sweden, Indonesia)Tatami –Guy Nattiv &Zar Amir Ebrahimi ( Georgia, USA)The Teachers' Lounge –İlker Çatak ( Germany)The Universal Theory –Timm Kröger ( Germany, Austria, Switzerland)The Vanishing Soldier – Dani Rosenberg ( Israel)Woman Of... –Małgorzata Szumowska &Michał Englert ( Poland, Sweden)The Zone of Interest –Jonathan Glazer ( UK, Poland, USA)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)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 Neofotistos ( Greece) – selected at International Short Film Festival of CyprusAsterión – Francesco Montagner ( Czechia, Slovakia) – selected atRiga International Film Festival Aqueronte – Manuel Muñoz Rivas ( Spain) = selected at Drama International Short Film FestivalBeen There – Corina Schwingruber Ilić ( Switzerland) – selected atLocarno Film Festival The Birthday Party – Francesco Sossai ( Germany, Italy, France) – selected atCurtas Vila do Conde – International Film FestivalChords –Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren ( Spain) – selected at Go Short – International Short Film FestivalDaydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays – Christian Avilés ( Spain) – selected atDokuFest – International Documentary and Short Film Festival The Debutante – Elizabeth Hobbs ( UK) – selected at Black Nights Film Festival – PÖFF ShortsEmotional Architecture 1959 –Mona León Siminiani ( Spain) – selected atValladolid International Film Festival A Free Run – Lauriane Lagarde ( France) – selected at Uppsala Short Film FestivalHardly Working – Susanna Flock, Leonhard Müllner, Robin Klengel & Michael Stumpf ( Austria) – selected at Internationale Kurzfilmtage WinterthurHeadspace – Aisling Byrne ( Ireland) – selected atCork International Film Festival How I Learned to Hang Laundry – Barbara Zemljič ( Slovenia) – selected atSarajevo Film Festival I Can See the Sun But I Can't Feel It Yet – Joseph Wilson ( UK) – selected at Kurzfilm Festival HamburgI Think of Silences When I Think of You – Jonelle Twum ( Sweden) – selected at International Short Film Festival OberhausenLes Chenilles – Michelle Keserwany & Noel Keserwany ( France) – selected atBerlin International Film Festival Papa – Notes on Life and Death – Andreas Bøggild Monies ( Denmark) – selected at OFF – Odense International Film FestivalRed Ears – Paul Drey ( Germany) – selected atTampere Film Festival Remember How I Used to Ride a White Horse – Ivana Bošnjak Volda & Thomas Johnson Volda ( Croatia) – VIENNA SHORTS – International Short Film FestivalA Short Trip – Erenik Beqiri ( France) – selected atVenice Film Festival There Are People in the Forest – Szymon Ruczyński ( Poland) – selected atKraków Film Festival Things Unheard Of – Ramazan Kiliç ( Turkey) – selected atMotovun Film Festival 27 –Flóra Anna Buda ( France, Hungary) – selected atCannes Film Festival Women Visiting the City – Enrique Buelo ( Spain, France) – selected atClermont-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 FestivalFeature Film Awards [ edit ] Source:[ 2]
European Screenwriter [ edit ] Awards Not Based on Feature Film Selection [ edit ] European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI[ edit ] European Documentary [ edit ] European Animated Feature Film [ edit ] European Short Film [ edit ] English title[ 9] Original title Director(s) Hardly Working Susanna FlockRobin Klengel Leonhard Müllner Michael Stumpf 27 Flóra Anna Buda Aqueronte Manuel Muñoz RivasDaydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays La herida luminosa Christian AvilésFlores del otro patio / Jorge Cadena
EFA Lifetime Achievement Award[ 10] Honorary Award of the Academy President and the Board[ 11] European Achievement in World Cinema
European Innovative Storytelling Eurimages Co-Production Award[ 12] European Sustainability Award – Prix4Climate — N/a Uljana Kim
Lux European Audience Film Award 2024 [ edit ] The award is directed to recognize films which help to raise awareness of socio-political issues in Europe.[ 13]
European University Film Award (EUFA)[ edit ] 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]
Ceremonies Merit awards Special awards Defunct awards Countries of the nominees