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]
| 37th European Film Awards | |
|---|---|
| Date | 7 December 2024 |
| Site | Lucerne, Switzerland |
| Organized by | European Film Academy |
| Official website | EFA |
Selections
editFeature films
editThe 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
editThe 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
editThe 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] The nominees for the main categories were announced on 5 November 2024.[11][12]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bye Bye Tiberias | باي باي طبريا |  Lina Soualem
|
Jean-Marie Nizan Guillaume Malandrin Ossama Bawardi |
| Dahomey | Mati Diop
|
Eve Robin Judith Lou-Lévy Mati Diop | |
| Emilia Pérez | Jacques Audiard
|
Pascal Caucheteux Jacques Audiard Valérie Schermann Anthony Vaccarello | |
| Flow | Straume |  Gints Zilbalodis
|
Matīss Kaža Gints Zilbalodis Ron Dyens Gregory Zalcman |
| In Limbo | W zawieszeniu |  Alina Maksimenko
|
Filip Marczewski |
| Living Large | Život k sežrání |  Kristina Dufková
|
Matej Chlupacek Agata Novinski Marc Faye |
| No Other Land |  Yuval Abraham Rachel Szor Basel Adra Hamdan Ballal
|
Fabien Greenberg Bård Kjøge Rønning Yuval Abraham Basel Adra Rachel Szor Hamdan Ballal | |
| Savages | Sauvages |  Claude Barras
|
Nicolas Burlet Laurence Petit Barbara Letellier Carole Scotta Vincent Tavier Hugo Deghilage Annemie Degryse Olivier Glassey |
| Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat |  Johan Grimonprez
|
Daan Milius Rémi Grellety | |
| Sultana's Dream | El sueño de la sultana |  Isabel Herguera
|
Chelo Loureiro Diego Herguera Fabian Driehorst Mariano Baratech Iván Miñambres |
| 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 | |
| They Shot the Piano Player | Dispararon al pianista | Fernando Trueba Javier Mariscal
|
Cristina Huete Serge Lalou Sophie Cabon Bruno Felix Janneke van de Kerkhoff Femke Wolting Humberto Santana |
| Vermiglio |  Maura Delpero
|
Francesca Andreoli Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli Santiago Fondevila Sancet Maura Delpero | |
| Director(s) | English title |
|---|---|
 Andrea Arnold
|
Bird |
| Jacques Audiard
|
Emilia Pérez |
| Pedro Almodóvar
|
The Room Next Door |
| Mohammad Rasoulof
|
The Seed of the Sacred Fig |
| Maura Delpero
|
Vermiglio |
| Screenwriter(s) | English title |
|---|---|
| Jacques Audiard
|
Emilia Pérez |
  Magnus von Horn Line Langebek
|
The Girl with the Needle |
| Pedro Almodóvar
|
The Room Next Door |
| Mohammad Rasoulof
|
The Seed of the Sacred Fig |
| Coralie Fargeat
|
The Substance |
| Actor | English title |
|---|---|
 Franz Rogowski
|
Bird |
| Ralph Fiennes
|
Conclave |
| Lars Eidinger
|
Dying |
| Daniel Craig
|
Queer |
| Abou Sangare
|
Souleymane's Story |
| Actress | English title |
|---|---|
 Renate Reinsve
|
Armand |
| Karla Sofía Gascón
|
Emilia Pérez |
| Trine Dyrholm
|
The Girl with the Needle |
| Vic Carmen Sonne
| |
| Tilda Swinton
|
The Room Next Door |
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bye Bye Tiberias | باي باي طبريا | Lina Soualem
|
France, Belgium, Palestine, Qatar |
| Dahomey | Mati Diop
|
France, Senegal | |
| In Limbo | W zawieszeniu | Alina Maksimenko
|
Poland |
| No Other Land | Yuval Abraham Rachel Szor Basel Adra Hamdan Ballal
|
Palestine, Norway | |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lars is LOL | Lars er LOL | Eirik Sæter Stordahl | Norway, Denmark |
| The Remarkable Life of Ibelin | Ibelin | Benjamin Ree | Norway |
| Winners | Sieger sein | Soleen Yusef | Germany |
| Title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 2720 | Basil da Cunha | Portugal, Switzerland |
| Clamor | Salomé Da Souza | France |
| The Exploding Girl | Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel | France |
| The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent | Nebojša Slijepčević | Croatia, France, Bulgaria, Slovenia |
| Wander to Wonder | Nina Gantz | The Netherlands, France, Belgium, United Kingdom |
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
editThe LUX Audience Award, presented by the European Parliament and the European Film Academy, recognize films that help to raise awareness of socio-political issues in Europe.[15][16]
| 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)
editThe nominees for the European University Film Award were announced on 23 October 2024 by the European Film Academy and Filmfest Hamburg,[17] based on the European Film Awards Feature and Documentary Film Selections 2024.[18]
| 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.
- ^ Szalai, Georg (5 November 2024). "European Film Awards: 'The Substance,' 'Emilia Pérez,' 'The Room Next Door,' Daniel Craig, Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton Among Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
- ^ "Nominations 2024". European Film Academy. Retrieved 5 November 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.