36th European Film Awards
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
The 36th European Film Awards , presented by the European Film Academy to recognize achievements in European filmmaking, took place at Arena Berlin in Berlin 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 's Fallen Leaves and Jonathan Glazer 's The Zone of Interest led the nominations with five each.[ 2] Justine Triet 's Anatomy of a Fall swept the awards, winning in each of the categories it was nominated for, including European Film , European Director , European Screenwriter and European Actress .[ 3]
Selections
Feature films
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)
Documentary
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)
Short films
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 Neofotistou ( Greece) – selected at International Short Film Festival of Cyprus
Asterión – Francesco Montagner ( Czechia, Slovakia) – selected at Riga International Film Festival
Aqueronte – Manuel Muñoz Rivas ( Spain) = selected at Drama International Short Film Festival
Been There – Corina Schwingruber Ilić ( Switzerland) – selected at Locarno Film Festival
The Birthday Party – Francesco Sossai ( Germany, Italy, France) – selected at Curtas Vila do Conde – International Film Festival
Chords – Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren ( Spain) – selected at Go Short – International Short Film Festival
Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays – Christian Avilés ( Spain) – selected at DokuFest – International Documentary and Short Film Festival
The Debutante – Elizabeth Hobbs ( UK) – selected at Black Nights Film Festival – PÖFF Shorts
Emotional Architecture 1959 – León Siminiani ( Spain) – selected at Valladolid International Film Festival
A Free Run – Lauriane Lagarde ( France) – selected at Uppsala Short Film Festival
Hardly Working – Susanna Flock, Leonhard Müllner, Robin Klengel & Michael Stumpf ( Austria) – selected at Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
Headspace – Aisling Byrne ( Ireland) – selected at Cork International Film Festival
How I Learned to Hang Laundry – Barbara Zemljič ( Slovenia) – selected at Sarajevo Film Festival
I Can See the Sun But I Can't Feel It Yet – Joseph Wilson ( UK) – selected at Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg
I Think of Silences When I Think of You – Jonelle Twum ( Sweden) – selected at International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Les Chenilles – Michelle Keserwany & Noel Keserwany ( France) – selected at Berlin International Film Festival
Papa – Notes on Life and Death – Andreas Bøggild Monies ( Denmark) – selected at OFF – Odense International Film Festival
Red Ears – Paul Drey ( Germany) – selected at Tampere Film Festival
Remember How I Used to Ride a White Horse – Ivana Bošnjak Volda & Thomas Johnson Volda ( Croatia) – VIENNA SHORTS – International Short Film Festival
A Short Trip – Erenik Beqiri ( France) – selected at Venice Film Festival
There Are People in the Forest – Szymon Ruczyński ( Poland) – selected at Kraków Film Festival
Things Unheard Of – Ramazan Kiliç ( Turkey) – selected at Motovun Film Festival
27 – Flóra Anna Buda ( France, Hungary) – selected at Cannes Film Festival
Women Visiting the City – Enrique Buelo ( Spain, France) – selected at Clermont-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 Festival
Feature Film Awards
Source:[ 2]
European Film
European Director
European Screenwriter
European Actor
European Actress
Excellence Awards
Awards Not Based on Feature Film Selection
European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI
European Documentary
European Animated Feature Film
European Short Film
English title[ 9]
Original title
Director(s)
Hardly Working
Susanna Flock Robin Klengel Leonhard Müllner Michael Stumpf
27
Flóra Anna Buda
Aqueronte
Manuel Muñoz Rivas
Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays
La herida luminosa
Christian Avilés
Flores del otro patio
/ Jorge Cadena
Honorary Awards
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
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Special Awards
Lux European Audience Film Award 2024
The award is directed to recognize films which help to raise awareness of socio-political issues in Europe.[ 13]
European University Film Award (EUFA)
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]
References
Ceremonies Merit awards Special awards Defunct awards Countries of the nominees