37th European Film Awards
| 37th European Film Awards | |
|---|---|
| Date | 7 December 2024 |
| Site | Lucerne, Switzerland |
| Organized by | European Film Academy |
| Official website | EFA |
The 37th European Film Awards, presented by the European Film Academy to recognize achievements in European filmmaking, will take place at Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Luzern in Lucerne on 7 December 2024. It will be the first time the awards ceremony takes place in Switzerland.[1]
Selections
[edit]Feature films
[edit]The first part of the Academy’s Feature Film Selection was announced on 14 August 2024.[2][3] The second part with 16 further titles was announced on 26 September 2024.[4][5]
- 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
[edit]The Documentary Film Selection was announced on 21 August 2024.[6][7]
- 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
[edit]The nominees for European Animated Feature Film were revealed on 9 October 2024.[8] The nominees for European Short Film were revealed on 16 October 2024.[9][10]
European Animated Feature Film
[edit]| 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 |
European Short Film
[edit]| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2720 | Basil da Cunha | Portugal, Switzerland | |
| Clamor | Boucan | Salomé Da Souza | France |
| The Exploding Girl | La Fille qui explose | Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel | France |
| The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent | Čovjek koji nije mogao šutjeti | Nebojša Slijepčević | Croatia, France, Bulgaria, Slovenia |
| Wander to Wonder | Nina Gantz | Netherlands, France, Belgium, United Kingdom | |
Honorary Awards
[edit]| EFA Lifetime Achievement Award | European Achievement in World Cinema | Eurimages International Co-Production Award |
|---|---|---|
Special Awards
[edit]Lux European Audience Film Award 2025
[edit]The award was established to recognize films which help to raise awareness of socio-political issues in Europe.[13][14]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal |  Sofia Exarchou
|
Greece, Austria, Romania, Cyprus, Bulgaria | |
| Dahomey |  Mati Diop
|
France, Senegal, Benin | |
| Flow | Gints Zilbalodis
|
Latvia, France, Belgium | |
| Intercepted |  Oksana Karpovych
|
Canada, France, Ukraine | |
| Julie Keeps Quiet | Julie zwijgt |  Leonardo van Dijl
|
Belgium, Sweden |
European University Film Award (EUFA)
[edit]The nominees for the European University Film Award were announced on 23 October 2024 by the European Film Academy and Filmfest Hamburg,[15] based on the European Film Awards Feature and Documentary Film Selections 2024.[16]
| English title | Original title | Director | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| April |  Dea Kulumbegashvili
|
Georgia, France, Italy | |
| Armand |  Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel
|
Norway, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden | |
| Kneecap |  Rich Peppiatt
|
Ireland, UK | |
| Moon | Mond |   Kurdwin Ayub
|
Austria |
| Three Kilometres to the End of the World | Trei kilometri până la capătul lumii |  Emanuel Pârvu
|
Romania |
References
[edit]- ^ "The 37th European Film Awards in Lucerne". European Film Academy. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
- ^ "Feature Film Selection – Part 1". European Film Academy. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
- ^ Barraclough, Leo (14 August 2024). "European Film Awards Selection Revealed With 'Kinds of Kindness,' 'Emilia Pérez,' 'Sacred Fig,' 'The Substance' Among Titles". Variety. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
- ^ "Feature Film Selection - Part 2". European Film Academy. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
- ^ Calnan, Ellie (26 September 2024). "'Queer', 'The Room Next Door' among 16 titles added to European Film Awards 2024 contenders". Screen International. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
- ^ "European Film Awards 2024: The European Film Academy announces this year's Documentary Film Selection". European Film Academy. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
- ^ Roxborough, Scott (21 August 2024). "European Film Awards Pick 2024 Documentary Films Shortlist". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
- ^ Roxborough, Scott (9 October 2024). "European Animated Film Nominations Unveiled". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
- ^ "The European Film Awards announce their nominees in the Short Film category". Cineuropa. 16 October 2024. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
- ^ "Short Film – Prix Vimeo nominations 2024". European Film Academy. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
- ^ "The Academy Honours Wim Wenders". European Film Academy. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
- ^ "The Academy Honours Isabella Rossellini with the EUROPEAN ACHIEVEMENT IN WORLD CINEMA Award". European Film Academy. Retrieved 24 September 2024.
- ^ "Here come the nominees for LUX – The European Audience Film Award 2025". European Film Academy. 19 September 2024. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
- ^ Dalton, Ben (18 September 2024). "Five films nominated for 2025 Lux European Audience Film Award including 'Dahomey', 'Flow', 'Julie Keeps Quiet'". ScreenDaily. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
- ^ Calnan, Ellie (23 October 2024). "'Kneecap' among European University Film Award 2024 nominees". Screen International. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
- ^ "European University Film Award (EUFA) nominations 2024". European Film Academy. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
