# European University Film Award

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. The 2023 edition included participants from 24 universities, and the 2024 edition saw that number drop to 23 in the absence of Israel's Tel Aviv University.

### Universities

The following universities participated in the 5th EUFA edition:
* Kosovo – AAB College in Pristina
* Denmark – Aarhus University in Aarhus
* Czech Republic – Charles University in Prague
* Germany – Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF in Potsdam
* Turkey – Kadir Has University in Istanbul
* Latvia – Latvian Academy of Culture in Riga
* Sweden – Linnaeus University in Växjö
* United Kingdom – Liverpool John Moores University in Liverpool
* Hungary – Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest
* Romania – Sapientia – Hungarian University of Transylvania in Cluj-Napoca
* Israel – Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv
* Ireland – University College Cork in Cork
* Belgium – University of Antwerp in Antwerp
* Serbia – University of Arts Belgrade in Belgrade
* Greece – University of the Aegean in Lesbos
* Spain – University of the Basque Country in Bilbao
* Portugal – University of Beira Interior in Covilhã
* Iceland – University of Iceland in Reykjavík
* Switzerland – University of Lausanne in Lausanne
* Poland – University of Łódź in Łódź
* Finland – University of Oulu in Oulu
* France – University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris
* Italy – University of Udine in Udine
* Netherlands – Utrecht University in Utrecht
* Lithuania – Vilnius University in Vilnius

## Winners and nominees
### 2010s

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

### 2020s

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