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.
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. 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.
Selections Feature films Selection's part 1 was announced on 16 August 2023. 2nd part of the selection was announced on 27 September 2023.
20,000 Species of Bees – Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren () Afire – Christian Petzold () Anatomy of a Fall – Justine Triet () Animal – Sofia Exarchou (, , , , ) The Animal Kingdom – Thomas Cailley () Behind the Haystacks – Asimina Proedrou (, , ) Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry – Elene Naveriani (, ) Blaga's Lessons – Stephan Komandarev (, ) Close Your Eyes – Victor Erice (, ) Club Zero – Jessica Hausner (, , , , , ) Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World – Radu Jude (, , , ) Excursion – Una Gunjak (, , , , , ) Explanation for Everything – Gábor Reisz (, ) Fallen Leaves – Aki Kaurismäki (, ) Femme – Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon Ping () Firebrand – Karim Aïnouz () The Goldman Case – Cédric Kahn () Green Border – Agnieszka Holland (, , , ) The Happiest Man in the World – Teona Strugar Mitevska (, , , , , ) Holly – Fien Troch (, , , ) Housekeeping for Beginners – Goran Stolevski (, , , , ) How to Have Sex – Molly Manning Walker (, ) Kidnapped – Marco Bellocchio (, , ) La chimera – Alice Rohrwacher (, , ) Me, Captain – Matteo Garrone (, ) The Old Oak – Ken Loach (, , ) Paradise Is Burning – Mika Gustafson (, , , ) The Pot-au-Feu – Tran Anh Hung () The Promised Land – Nikolaj Arcel (, , ) Safe Place – Juraj Lerotic (, ) Slow – Marija Kavtaradze (, , ) Society of the Snow – J. A. Bayona () Stepne – Maryna Vroda (, , , ) Sweet Dreams – Ena Sendijarević (, , ) Tatami – Guy Nattiv & Zar Amir Ebrahimi (, ) The Teachers' Lounge – İlker Çatak () The Universal Theory – Timm Kröger (, , ) The Vanishing Soldier – Dani Rosenberg () Woman Of... – Małgorzata Szumowska & Michał Englert (, ) The Zone of Interest – Jonathan Glazer (, , )
Documentary The selection was announced on August 30, 2023.
Apolonia, Apolonia – Lea Glob (, ) Between Revolutions – Vlad Petri (, ) Four Daughters – Kaouther Ben Hania (, , , ) The Hearing – Lisa Gerig () In the Rearview – Maciej Hamela (, , ) Light Falls Vertical – Efthymia Zymvragaki (, , , ) Motherland – Hanna Badziaka & Alexander Mihalkovich (, , ) On the Adamant – Nicolas Philibert (, ) Orlando, My Political Biography – Paul B. Preciado () Our Body – Claire Simon () Paradise – Alexander Abaturov (, ) Smoke Sauna Sisterhood – Anna Hints (, , ) We Will Not Fade Away – Alisa Kovalenko (, , ) Who I Am Not – Tunde Skovran (, , )
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.
Airhostess-737 – Thanasis Neofotistos () – selected at International Short Film Festival of Cyprus Asterión – Francesco Montagner (, ) – selected at Riga International Film Festival Aqueronte – Manuel Muñoz Rivas () = selected at Drama International Short Film Festival Been There – Corina Schwingruber Ilić () – selected at Locarno Film Festival The Birthday Party – Francesco Sossai (, , ) – selected at Curtas Vila do Conde – International Film Festival Chords – Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren () – selected at Go Short – International Short Film Festival Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays – Christian Avilés () – selected at DokuFest – International Documentary and Short Film Festival The Debutante – Elizabeth Hobbs () – selected at Black Nights Film Festival – PÖFF Shorts Emotional Architecture 1959 – Mona León Siminiani () – selected at Valladolid International Film Festival A Free Run – Lauriane Lagarde () – selected at Uppsala Short Film Festival Hardly Working – Susanna Flock, Leonhard Müllner, Robin Klengel & Michael Stumpf () – selected at Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur Headspace – Aisling Byrne () – selected at Cork International Film Festival How I Learned to Hang Laundry – Barbara Zemljič () – selected at Sarajevo Film Festival I Can See the Sun But I Can't Feel It Yet – Joseph Wilson () – selected at Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg I Think of Silences When I Think of You – Jonelle Twum () – selected at International Short Film Festival Oberhausen Les Chenilles – Michelle Keserwany & Noel Keserwany () – selected at Berlin International Film Festival Papa – Notes on Life and Death – Andreas Bøggild Monies () – selected at OFF – Odense International Film Festival Red Ears – Paul Drey () – selected at Tampere Film Festival Remember How I Used to Ride a White Horse – Ivana Bošnjak Volda & Thomas Johnson Volda () – VIENNA SHORTS – International Short Film Festival A Short Trip – Erenik Beqiri () – selected at Venice Film Festival There Are People in the Forest – Szymon Ruczyński () – selected at Kraków Film Festival Things Unheard Of – Ramazan Kiliç () – selected at Motovun Film Festival 27 – Flóra Anna Buda (, ) – selected at Cannes Film Festival Women Visiting the City – Enrique Buelo (, ) – selected at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival Zoon – Jonatan Schwenk () – selected at ZINEBI – International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao and at Leuven International Short Film Festival
Feature Film Awards Source:
European Film English titleDirector(s)Producer(s) Anatomy of a Fall Justine Triet Marie-Ange Luciani David Thion Fallen Leaves Aki Kaurismäki Reinhard Brundig Misha Jaari Aki Kaurismäki Mark Lwoff Green Border Agnieszka Holland Fred Bernstein Agnieszka Holland Marcin Wierzchoslawski Me Captain Matteo Garrone Paolo Del Brocco Matteo Garrone Joseph Rouschop Ardavan Safaee The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer Ewa Puszczyńska James Wilson
European Director Director(s)English title Justine Triet Anatomy of a Fall Aki Kaurismäki Fallen Leaves Agnieszka Holland Green Border Matteo Garrone Me Captain Jonathan Glazer The Zone of Interest
European Screenwriter Screenwriter(s)English title Arthur Harari Justine Triet Anatomy of a Fall Aki Kaurismäki Fallen Leaves Agnieszka Holland Gabriela Łazarkiewicz-Sieczko Maciej Pisuk Green Border İlker Çatak Johannes Duncker The Teachers' Lounge Jonathan Glazer The Zone of Interest
European Actor Actor English title Role Mads Mikkelsen The Promised Land Ludvig Kahlen Thomas Schubert Afire Leon Jussi Vatanen Fallen Leaves Holappa Josh O'Connor La chimera Arthur Christian Friedel The Zone of Interest Rudolf Höss
European Actress Actor English title Role Sandra Hüller Anatomy of a Fall Sandra Voyter Eka Chavleishvili Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry Etero Alma Pöysti Fallen Leaves Ansa Mia McKenna-Bruce How to Have Sex Tara Leonie Benesch The Teachers' Lounge Carla Nowak Sandra Hüller The Zone of Interest Hedwig Höss
Excellence Awards European CinematographyEuropean EditingEuropean Production DesignEuropean Costume Design European Make-Up & HairEuropean Original ScoreEuropean SoundEuropean Visual Effects
Awards Not Based on Feature Film Selection
European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI Director(s)English title Molly Manning Walker How to Have Sex Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren 20,000 Species of Bees Philip Sotnychenko La Palisiada Malene Choi The Quiet Migration Juraj Lerotić Safe Place Stéphan Castang Vincent Must Die
European Documentary English titleOriginal titleDirector(s) Smoke Sauna SisterhoodSavvusanna sõsarad Anna Hints Apolonia, Apolonia Lea Glob Four DaughtersLes Filles d'Olfa Kaouther Ben Hania Motherland Hanna Badziaka Alexander Mihalkovich On the AdamantSur l’Adamant Nicolas Philibert
European Animated Feature Film English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Robot Dreams Pablo BergerThe Amazing Maurice Toby GenkelChicken for Linda!Linda veut du poulet! Sébastien Laudenbach Chiara MaltaA Greyhound of a Girl Enzo D'AlòWhite Plastic SkyMüanyag égbolt Tibor Bánóczki Sarolta Szabó
European Short Film English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Hardly Working Susanna Flock Robin Klengel Leonhard Müllner Michael Stumpf 27 Flóra Anna BudaAqueronte Manuel Muñoz RivasDaydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish HolidaysLa herida luminosa Christian AvilésFlores del otro patio / Jorge Cadena
Honorary Awards EFA Lifetime Achievement AwardHonorary Award of the Academy President and the BoardEuropean Achievement in World Cinema
European Innovative StorytellingEurimages Co-Production AwardEuropean Sustainability Award – Prix4Climate
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. English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Fallen LeavesKuolleet lehdet Aki KaurismäkiOn the AdamantSur l'Adamant Nicolas PhilibertSmoke Sauna SisterhoodSavvusanna sõsarad Anna HintsThe Teachers' LoungeDas Lehrerzimmer İlker Çatak20,000 Species of Bees20.000 especies de abejas Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren
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. English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Anatomy of a FallAnatomie d'une chute Justine TrietGreen BorderZielona granica Agnieszka HollandHousekeeping for Beginners / Goran Stolevski How to Have Sex Molly Manning Walker The Teachers' LoungeDas Lehrerzimmer İlker Çatak
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