European University Film Award

European Film Award
University Award
Awarded forUniversity Award
Country Europe
Presented byEuropean Film Academy, Filmfest Hamburg
First awarded2016
Currently held byFlee (2021)
Websiteeuropeanfilmawards.eu eufa.org

The European University Film Award is one of the awards presented by the European Film Academy, it was first awarded at the 29th European Film Awards in 2016 and is presented and voted by European university students.

Background

The award was inspired by a model in Québec, the Prix collégial du cinéma québécois (PCCQ) and was launched by Filmfest Hamburg and the European Film Academy (EFA) in 2016 as the European University Film Award (EUFA). The creation of this initiative was to "involve a younger audience, to spread the "European idea" and to transport the spirit of European cinema to an audience of university students. It shall also support film dissemination, film education and the culture of debating".

For the first edition of the award 13 universities from 13 different European countries participated, the number has increased throughout the years with 20 participants in 2017, 22 in 2018 and 24 in 2019. For the 33rd European Film Awards, the participants were from 25 universities from 25 countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and United Kingdom.

Universities

The following universities participated in the 5th EUFA edition:

Winners and nominees

2010s

Year English title Original title Director(s) Country of production
2016
(29th)
[1]
I, Daniel Blake Ken Loach  United Kingdom,  France
Graduation Bacalaureat Cristian Mungiu  Romania,  France,  Belgium
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki Hymyilevä mies Juho Kuosmanen  Finland,  Germany,  Sweden
Fire at Sea Fuocoammare Gianfranco Rosi  Italy,  France
Toni Erdmann Maren Ade  Germany,  Austria
2017
(30th)
[2]
Heartstone Hjartasteinn Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson  Iceland,  Denmark
Home Fien Troch  Belgium
Loveless Нелюбовь / Nelyubov Andrey Zvyagintsev  Russia,  Belgium,  Germany,  France
The Other Side of Hope Toivon tuolla puolen Aki Kaurismäki  Finland,  Germany
The War Show Andreas Dalsgaard, Obaidah Zytoon  Denmark,  Syria,  Finland
2018
(31st)
[3]
Happy as Lazzaro Lazzaro felice Alice Rohrwacher  Italy,  Germany,  France,   Switzerland
Foxtrot פוֹקְסטְרוֹט Samuel Maoz  Israel,  Germany,  France,   Switzerland
Styx Wolfgang Fischer  Germany,  Austria
Tarzan's Testicles Ouăle lui Tarzan Alexandru Solomon  Romania,  France
Utøya: July 22 Utøya 22. juli Erik Poppe  Norway
2019
(32nd)
[4][5]
Portrait of a Lady on Fire Portrait de la jeune fille en feu Céline Sciamma  France
And Then We Danced და ჩვენ ვიცეკვეთ / Da chven vitsek'vet Levan Akin  Sweden,  Georgia
God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunija Господ постои, името ѝ е Петрунија / Gospod postoi, imeto ì e Petrunija Teona Stugar Mitevska  North Macedonia,  Belgium,  Slovenia,  France,  Croatia
Piranhas La paranza dei bambini Claudio Giovannesi  Italy
System Crasher Systemsprenger Nora Fingscheidt  Germany

2020s

Year English title Original title Director(s) Country of production
2020
(33rd)
[6][7]
Saudi Runaway Susanne Regina Meures   Switzerland
Another Round Druk Thomas Vinterberg  Denmark
Berlin Alexanderplatz Burhan Qurbani  Germany
Corpus Christi Boże Ciało Jan Komasa  Poland
Slalom Charlène Favier  France
2021
(34th)
[8][9]
Flee Flugt Jonas Poher Rasmussen  Denmark,  France,  Sweden,  Norway
Apples Mila / Μήλα Christos Nikou  Greece,  Poland,  Slovenia
Great Freedom Große Freiheit Sebastian Meise  Austria,  Germany
Happening L'événement Audrey Diwan  France
Quo Vadis, Aida? Jasmila Žbanić  Bosnia and Herzegovina,  Austria,  the Netherlands,  France,  Poland,  Norway,  Germany,  Romania,  Turkey
2022
(35th)[10]
[11]
Alcarràs Carla Simón  Spain,  Italy
Close Lukas Dhont  Belgium,  France,  Netherlands
The Eclipse Formørkelsen Nataša Urban  Norway
Eo Jerzy Skolimowski  Poland, Italy
Triangle of Sadness Ruben Östlund  Sweden,  Germany,  France,  United Kingdom

References

  1. ^ Roxborough, Scott (December 10, 2016). "'Toni Erdmann' Wins European Film Awards". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
  2. ^ Pond, Steve (December 9, 2017). "Swedish Comedy 'The Square' Dominates European Film Awards". TheWrap. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
  3. ^ Nordine, Michael (December 15, 2018). "'Cold War' Is the Big Winner at the European Film Awards, Picking Up Oscar Momentum". Indiewire. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
  4. ^ "Five Films Nominated for European University Film Award (EUFA)".
  5. ^ Roxborough, Scott (December 7, 2019). "'The Favourite' Wins Big at European Film Awards". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
  6. ^ "Five Films Nominated for European University Film Award (EUFA)". europeanfilmawards.eu. 2020-09-29.
  7. ^ Roxborough, Scott (December 12, 2020). "'Another Round' Wins 2020 European Film Awards". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
  8. ^ "European Film Award Nominations 2021".
  9. ^ Blaney, Martin (11 December 2021). "'Quo Vadis, Aida?' wins top prize at 2021 European Film Awards". ScreenDaily.
  10. ^ Nikkhah Azad, Navid (2022-12-09). "The European University Film Award (EUFA) 2022 goes to EO by Jerzy Skolimowski". www.deed.news. Retrieved 2022-12-09.
  11. ^ "Five Films Nominated for European University Film Award (EUFA)". European Film Academy. Retrieved 2022-10-07.