The37th European Film Awards, presented by theEuropean Film Academy to recognize achievements in European filmmaking, took place atKultur- und Kongresszentrum Luzern inLucerne on 7 December 2024. It marked the first time the awards ceremony was held in Switzerland.[2] Swiss host and voiceover actor Fernando Tiberini hosted the ceremony.[3]
| 37th European Film Awards | |
|---|---|
| Date | 7 December 2024 (2024-12-07) |
| Site | KKL,Lucerne, Switzerland |
| Hosted by | Fernando Tiberini |
| Organized by | European Film Academy |
| Official website | EFA |
| Highlights | |
| Best Picture | Emilia Pérez |
| Most awards | Emilia Pérez (5) |
| Most nominations | Emilia Pérez (5) |
| Television coverage | |
| Network | europeanfilmawards.eu[1] |
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The winners of the Excellence Awards were announced on 13 November 2024, honoring the arts and crafts of filmmaking in eight categories.[4][5] On 7 December the other winners were revealed during the cerimony, withJacques Audiard'sEmilia Perez winning in each of the categories it was nominated.[6]
Selections
editFeature films
editThe first part of the Academy’s Feature Film Selection was announced on 14 August 2024.[7][8] The second part with 16 further titles was announced on 26 September 2024.[9][10]
- April –Dea Kulumbegashvili (
France,
Georgia,
Italy) - Arcadia – Yorgos Zois (
Bulgaria,
Greece,
United States) - Armand –Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel (
Germany,
Netherlands,
Norway,
Sweden) - Bird –Andrea Arnold ( France, Germany,
United Kingdom, United States) - Conclave –Edward Berger ( United Kingdom, United States)
- Crossing –Levan Akin ( France, Georgia, Germany, Sweden,
Turkey) - Dying –Matthias Glasner ( Germany)
- Emilia Pérez –Jacques Audiard ( France)
- Grand Tour –Miguel Gomes ( France, Italy,
Portugal) - Hard Truths –Mike Leigh (
Spain, United Kingdom) - Harvest –Athina Rachel Tsangari ( Germany, United Kingdom, United States)
- Hesitation Wound –Selman Nacar ( France,
Romania, Spain, Turkey) - Julie Keeps Quiet – Leonardo Van Dijl (
Belgium, Sweden) - Kinds of Kindness –Yorgos Lanthimos ( Greece,
Ireland, United Kingdom, United States) - Kneecap –Rich Peppiatt ( Ireland, United Kingdom)
- Life –Zeki Demirkubuz ( Bulgaria, Turkey)
- Misericordia –Alain Guiraudie ( France, Portugal, Spain)
- Misericordia –Emma Dante ( Italy)
- Moon –Kurdwin Ayub (
Austria) - Mr. K – Tallulah Hazekamp Schwab ( Belgium, Netherlands, Norway)
- My Fathers' Daughter – Egil Pedersen (
Finland, Norway, Sweden) - Queer –Luca Guadagnino ( Italy, United States)
- Souleymane's Story –Boris Lojkine ( France)
- The Count of Monte Cristo – Matthieu Delaporte, Alexandre De La Patellière ( France)
- The Devil's Bath –Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala ( Austria, Germany)
- The End –Joshua Oppenheimer (
Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, United Kingdom) - The Girl with the Needle –Magnus von Horn ( Denmark,
Poland, Sweden) - The Invisible Fight –Rainer Sarnet (
Estonia, Finland, Greece,
Latvia) - The New Year That Never Came – Bogdan Mureșanu ( Romania)
- The Other Way Around –Jonás Trueba ( France, Spain)
- The Room Next Door –Pedro Almodóvar ( Spain)
- The Rye Horn –Jaione Camborda ( Belgium, Portugal, Spain)
- The Seed of the Sacred Fig –Mohammad Rasoulof ( France, Germany,
Iran) - The Shameless –Konstantin Bojanov ( Bulgaria, France,
India,
Switzerland,
Taiwan) - The Sparrow in the Chimney – Ramon Zürcher ( Switzerland)
- The Substance –Coralie Fargeat ( France, United Kingdom, United States)
- The Village Next to Paradise –Mo Harawe ( Austria, France,
Somalia) - There's Still Tomorrow –Paola Cortellesi ( Italy)
- Three Kilometres to the End of the World –Emanuel Pârvu ( Romania)
- Toxic –Saulė Bliuvaitė (
Lithuania) - Un amor –Isabel Coixet ( Spain)
- Vermiglio –Maura Delpero ( Belgium, France, Italy)
- When the Light Breaks –Rúnar Rúnarsson (
Croatia, France,
Iceland, Netherlands) - Windless – Pavel G. Vesnakov ( Bulgaria, Italy)
- Without Air – Katalin Moldovai (
Hungary)
Documentary
editThe Documentary Film Selection was announced on 21 August 2024.[11][12]
- At Averroès & Rosa Parks –Nicolas Philibert ( France)
- Bye Bye Tiberias – Lina Soualem ( France, Belgium,
Palestine,
Qatar) - Dahomey –Mati Diop ( France,
Senegal) - Direct Action –Guillaume Cailleau,Ben Russell ( Germany, France)
- In Limbo – Alina Maksimenko ( Poland)
- Marching in the Dark – Kinshuk Surjan ( Belgium, Netherlands, India)
- My Stolen Planet – Farahnaz Sharifi ( Germany)
- No Other Land –Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor,Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal ( Palestine, Norway)
- Pelikan Blue – László Csáki ( Hungary)
- Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat –Johan Grimonprez ( France, Belgium, Netherlands)
- The Landscape and the Fury – Nicole Vögele ( Switzerland)
- The Words Women Spoke One Day – Raphaël Pillosio ( France)
Winners and nominees
editThe nominees forEuropean Animated Feature Film were revealed on 9 October 2024.[13] The nominees forEuropean Short Film were revealed on 16 October 2024.[14][15] The nominees for the main categories were announced on 5 November 2024.[16][17]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emilia Pérez | Jacques Audiard | Pascal Caucheteux Jacques Audiard Valérie Schermann Anthony Vaccarello | |
| The Room Next Door | Pedro Almodóvar | Agustín Almodóvar Esther García | |
| The Seed of the Sacred Fig | دانهی انجیر معابد | Mohammad Rasoulof | Mohammad Rasoulof Amin Sadraei Jean-Christophe Simon Mani Tilgner Rozita Hendijanian |
| The Substance | Coralie Fargeat | Coralie Fargeat Tim Bevan Eric Fellner | |
| Vermiglio | Maura Delpero | Francesca Andreoli Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli Santiago Fondevila Sancet Maura Delpero | |
| Director(s) | Work |
|---|---|
| Jacques Audiard | Emilia Pérez |
| Andrea Arnold | Bird |
| Pedro Almodóvar | The Room Next Door |
| Mohammad Rasoulof | The Seed of the Sacred Fig |
| Maura Delpero | Vermiglio |
| Actor | Work |
|---|---|
| Abou Sangare | Souleymane's Story |
| Franz Rogowski | Bird |
| Ralph Fiennes | Conclave |
| Lars Eidinger | Dying |
| Daniel Craig | Queer |
| Actress | Work |
|---|---|
| Karla Sofía Gascón | Emilia Pérez |
| Renate Reinsve | Armand |
| Trine Dyrholm | The Girl with the Needle |
| Vic Carmen Sonne | |
| Tilda Swinton | The Room Next Door |
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Other Land |  Yuval Abraham Rachel Szor Basel Adra Hamdan Ballal | Palestine, Norway | |
| Bye Bye Tiberias | باي باي طبريا | Lina Soualem | France, Belgium, Palestine, Qatar |
| Dahomey | Mati Diop | France, Senegal | |
| In Limbo | W zawieszeniu |  Alina Maksimenko | Poland |
| Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat | Johan Grimonprez | France, Belgium, Netherlands | |
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flow | Straume | Gints Zilbalodis | Latvia, France, Belgium |
| Living Large | Život k sežrání |  Kristina Dufková | Czech Republic, France, Slovakia |
| Savages | Sauvages | Claude Barras | Switzerland, France, Belgium |
| Sultana's Dream | El sueño de la sultana | Isabel Herguera | Spain, Germany, India |
| They Shot the Piano Player | Dispararon al pianista | Fernando Trueba Javier Mariscal | Spain, France, Netherlands, Portugal, Peru |
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Armand | Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel | Norway, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden | |
| Hoard | Luna Carmoon | UK | |
| Kneecap | Rich Peppiatt | Ireland, UK | |
| Santosh | Sandhya Suri | UK, France, Germany | |
| The New Year That Never Came | Anul Nou care n-a fost | Bogdan Mureșanu | Romania, Serbia |
| Toxic | Akiplėša | Saulė Bliuvaitė | Lithuania |
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Remarkable Life of Ibelin | Ibelin | Benjamin Ree | Norway |
| Lars is LOL | Lars er LOL | Eirik Sæter Stordahl | Norway, Denmark |
| Winners | Sieger sein | Soleen Yusef | Germany |
| Title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|
| The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent | Nebojša Slijepčević | Croatia, France, Bulgaria, Slovenia |
| 2720 | Basil da Cunha | Portugal, Switzerland |
| Clamor | Salomé Da Souza | France |
| The Exploding Girl | Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel | France |
| Wander to Wonder | Nina Gantz | The Netherlands, France, Belgium, United Kingdom |
Excellence Awards
edit
Honorary Awards
edit| EFA Lifetime Achievement Award | European Achievement in World Cinema | Eurimages International Co-Production Award |
|---|---|---|
Special Awards
editLux European Audience Film Award 2025
editTheLUX Audience Award, presented by theEuropean Parliament and theEuropean Film Academy, recognize films that help to raise awareness of socio-political issues in Europe.[21][22]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal | Sofia Exarchou | Greece, Austria, Romania, Cyprus, Bulgaria | |
| Dahomey | Mati Diop | France, Senegal, Benin | |
| Flow | Straume | Gints Zilbalodis | Latvia, France, Belgium[23] |
| Intercepted |  Oksana Karpovych | Canada, France, Ukraine | |
| Julie Keeps Quiet | Julie zwijgt | Leonardo van Dijl | Belgium, Sweden |
European University Film Award (EUFA)
editThe nominees for theEuropean University Film Award were announced on 23 October 2024 by theEuropean Film Academy andFilmfest Hamburg.[24] The winner was announced at the Mayor’s Night in Lucerne on 6 December 2024, the evening before the European Film Awards Ceremony.[25]
| English title | Original title | Director | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Three Kilometres to the End of the World | Trei kilometri până la capătul lumii | Emanuel Pârvu | Romania |
| April | Dea Kulumbegashvili | Georgia, France, Italy | |
| Armand | Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel | Norway, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden | |
| Kneecap | Rich Peppiatt | Ireland, UK | |
| Moon | Mond |  Kurdwin Ayub | Austria |
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