# European Film Award for European Discovery of the Year

The European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI or European Discovery, originally titled Young European Film of the Year, has been awarded annually since 1988 by the European Film Academy. The award is presented in co-operation with the International Federation of Film Critics, to a director for the first full-length feature film.

## Winners and nominees
### 1980s

| Year | English title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country of production/co-production |
| 1988 | Young European Film of the Year | Young European Film of the Year | Young European Film of the Year | Young European Film of the Year |
| 1988 | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Pedro Almodóvar | Augustin Almodovár | Spain |
| 1988 | Days of Eclipse | Aleksandr Sokurov | ? | Soviet Union |
| 1988 | It's Happening Tomorrow | Daniele Luchetti | Marco Alfieri | Italy |
| 1988 | Damnation | Béla Tarr | József Marx | Hungary |
| 1988 | Pathfinder | Nils Gaup | John M. Jacobsen | Norway |
| 1988 | Reefer and the Model | Joe Comerford | Lelia Doolan | Ireland |
| 1988 | Stormy Monday | Mike Figgis | Nigel Stafford-Clark | United Kingdom, United States |
| 1989 |
| 1989 | 300 Miles to Heaven | Maciej Dejczer | Prod. Film Unit “TOR“ | Poland, Denmark, France |
| 1989 | Cinema Paradiso | Giuseppe Tornatore | Franco Cristaldi, Giovanna Romagnoli | Italy, France |
| 1989 | Mist | Zülfü Livaneli | Ülker Livaneli | Turkey, Switzerland |
| 1989 | Kuduz | Ademir Kenović | Bakir Tanović | Yugoslavia |
| 1989 | Scandal | Michael Caton-Jones | Steve Woolley | United Kingdom, United States |
| 1989 | My Left Foot | Jim Sheridan | Noel Pearson | Ireland, United Kingdom |
| 1989 | Waller’s Last Walk | Christian Wagner | Christian Wagner | West Germany |

### 1990s

| Year | English title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country of production/co-production |
| 1990 | Young European Film of the Year | Young European Film of the Year | Young European Film of the Year | Young European Film of the Year |
| 1990 | Henry V | Kenneth Branagh | Bruce Sharman | United Kingdom |
| 1990 | The White Dove | Juan Minon | Eduardo Campoy | Spain |
| 1990 | On Tour | Gabriele Salvatores | Gianni Minervini | Italy |
| 1990 | Love Without Pity | Eric Rochant | Alain Rocca | France |
| 1990 | Lie Still – Die - Revive | Vitali Kanevsky | Lenfilm Studios Leningrad | Soviet Union |
| 1991 |
| 1991 | Toto the Hero | Jaco van Dormael | Pierre Drouot, Dany Geys, Iblis Films Bruxelles | Belgium, France, Germany |
| 1991 | Delicatessen | Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Claudie Ossard | France |
| 1991 | Ultra | Ricky Tognazzi | Claudio Bonivento | Italy |
| 1992 |
| 1992 | The Northerners | Alex van Warmerdam | Laurens Geels, Dick Maas, First Floor Features | Netherlands |
| 1992 | Three Days | Šarūnas Bartas | Audrius Kuprevičius | Lithuania |
| 1992 | Nord | Xavier Beauvois | Bernard Verley | France |
| 1993 |
| 1993 | Orlando | Sally Potter | Christopher Sheppard | United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Russia, Italy |
| 1993 | Man Bites Dog | Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde | Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde | Belgium |
| 1993 | Antonio's Girlfriend | Manuel Poirier | Jean-Christophe Colson | France |
| 1994 |
| 1994 | The Son of the Shark | Agnès Merlet | Francois Fries | France, Belgium, Luxembourg |
| 1994 | Woyzeck | János Szász | Péter Barbalics, László Sipos | Hungary |
| 1994 | Kosh ba kosh | Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov | Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov | Tajikistan, Russia, Germany, Switzerland, Japan |
| 1995 |
| 1995 | Hate | Mathieu Kassovitz | Christophe Rossignon | France, United States |
| 1995 | Butterfly Kiss | Michael Winterbottom | Julie Baines, Sarah Daniel | United Kingdom |
| 1995 | The Deathmaker | Romuald Karmakar | Christian Granderath, Gebhard Henke, Romuald Karmakar, Thomas Schühly | Germany |
| 1996 |
| 1996 | Some Mother's Son | Terry George | Edward Burke, Arthur Lappin, Jim Sheridan | Ireland, United States |
| 1996 | Lea | Ivan Fíla | Ivan Fíla, Eliska Sekavova, Herbert Rimbach | Czech Republic, Germany, France |
| 1996 | Beautiful Thing | Hettie MacDonald | Tony Garnett, Bill Shapter | United Kingdom |
| 1997 | European Discovery of the Year – Fassbinder Award | European Discovery of the Year – Fassbinder Award | European Discovery of the Year – Fassbinder Award | European Discovery of the Year – Fassbinder Award |
| 1997 | The Life of Jesus | Bruno Dumont | Rachid Bouchareb, Jean Bréhat | France |
| 1998 | European Discovery – Fassbinder Award | European Discovery – Fassbinder Award | European Discovery – Fassbinder Award | European Discovery – Fassbinder Award |
| 1998 | The Celebration | Thomas Vinterberg | Birgitte Hald, Morten Kaufmann | Denmark, Sweden |
| 1998 | The Dream Life of Angels | Erick Zonca | François Marquis | France |
| 1999 |
| 1999 | The War Zone | Tim Roth | Sarah Radclyffe, Dixie Linder | United Kingdom, Italy |

### 2000s

| Year | English title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country of production/co-production |
| 2000 | European Discovery – Fassbinder Award | European Discovery – Fassbinder Award | European Discovery – Fassbinder Award | European Discovery – Fassbinder Award |
| 2000 | Human Resources | Laurent Cantet | Caroline Benjo, Carole Scotta | France, United Kingdom |
| 2000 | 101 Reykjavík | Baltasar Kormákur | Michael P. Aust, Baltasar Kormákur, Þorfinnur Ómarsson, Ingvar Þórðarson | Iceland, Denmark, France, Norway, Germany, Finland |
| 2000 | Gangster No. 1 | Paul McGuigan | Jonathan Cavendish, Norma Heyman | , Germany, Ireland |
| 2000 | Kennedy And I | Sam Karmann | Christian Bérard, Edouard Weil | France |
| 2000 | Northern Skirts | Barbara Albert | Erich Lackner | Austria, Germany, Switzerland |
| 2000 | Some Voices | Simon Cellan-Jones | Damian Jones, Graham Broadbent | United Kingdom |
| 2000 | Together | Lukas Moodysson | Lars Jönsson | Sweden, Denmark, Italy |
| 2000 | Tuvalu | Veit Helmer | Vladimir Andreyev | Germany |
| 2000 | Forget America | Vanessa Jopp | Katja De Bock, Alena Rimbach, Herbert Rimbach | Germany |
| 2001 |
| 2001 | Pellet | Achero Mañas | Francisco Lázaro, José Antonio Félez | Spain |
| 2001 | alaska.de | Esther Gronenborn | Dietmar Güntsche, Eberhard Junkersdorf | Germany |
| 2001 | The Sea That Thinks | Gert de Graaff | René Huybrechtse, René Scholten | Netherlands |
| 2001 | Dog Days | Ulrich Seidl | Philippe Bober, Helmut Grasser | Austria |
| 2001 | Jalla! Jalla! | Josef Fares | Anna Anthony | Sweden |
| 2001 | Dead End Streets | Stavros Ioannou | ? | Greece |
| 2001 | Last Resort | Paweł Pawlikowski | Ruth Caleb | United Kingdom |
| 2001 | Lovely Rita | Jessica Hausner | Barbara Albert | Austria, Germany |
| 2001 | The Chimp | Aktan Abdykalykov | Marc Baschet | Kyrgyzstan, Russia, France, Japan |
| 2001 | Happy Man | Małgorzata Szumowska | Wojciech Has | Poland |
| 2002 |
| 2002 | Hukkle | György Pálfi | András Böhm, Csaba Bereczky | Hungary |
| 2002 | Two Friends | Spiro Scimone, Francesco Sframeli | Andrea Nuzzolo, Francesco Tornatore | Italy |
| 2002 | Minor Mishaps | Annette K. Olesen | Ib Tardini | Denmark, Sweden |
| 2002 | Respiro | Emanuele Crialese | Domenico Procacci, Anne-Dominique Toussaint | Italy, Germany |
| 2002 | No Regrets | Benjamin Quabeck | Michael Schaefer, Stephanie Wagner | Germany |
| 2002 | Smoking Room | Roger Gual, Julio D. Wallovits | Adolfo Blanco, Quique Camín | Spain |
| 2002 | Pleasant Days | Kornél Mundruczó | Philippe Bober, Zsófia Kende, Viktória Petrányi, Kornél Sipos | Hungary |
| 2002 | The Warrior | Asif Kapadia | F. Serkan Acar, Kadir Sözen | United Kingdom, Germany, France, India |
| 2002 | Guardian of the Frontier | Maja Weiss | Ida Weiss | Slovenia, Germany, France |
| 2002 | What's Going On? | Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche | ? | France |
| 2002 | The Kite | Aleksei Muradov | Pyotr Chernyayev, Robert Filatov, Aleksei Muradov, Yevgeniya Tirdatova | Russia |
| 2003 |
| 2003 | The Return | Andrei Zvyagintsev | Yelena Kovalyova, Dmitry Lesnevsky | Russia |
| 2003 | Fuse | Pjer Žalica | Ademir Kenović | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Turkey, France |
| 2003 | The Hours of the Day | Jaime Rosales | María José Díez, Ismael Glück | Spain |
| 2003 | Whatever You Say | Guillaume Canet | Alain Attal | France |
| 2003 | Reconstruction | Christoffer Boe | Tine Grew Pfeiffer | Denmark |
| 2003 | Schultze Gets the Blues | Michael Schorr [de] | Jens Körner | |
| 2003 | Young Adam | David Mackenzie | Jeremy Thomas | United Kingdom, France |
| 2004 |
| 2004 | A Children's Story | Antonio Frazzi, Andrea Frazzi | Rosario Rinaldo | Italy |
| 2004 | A Common Thread | Éléonore Faucher | Alain Benguigui, Bertrand Van Effenterre | France |
| 2004 | Kroko | Sylke Enders | Christiane Hartmann, Gudrun Ruzicková-Steiner | Germany |
| 2004 | Or | Keren Yedaya | Emmanuel Agneray, Jérôme Bleitrach, Marek Rozenbaum, Itai Tamir | Israel, France |
| 2004 | A Wonderful Night in Split | Arsen Anton Ostojić | Jozo Patljak | Croatia |
| 2004 | Harvest Time | Marina Razbezhkina | Tatyana Kanayeva, Natalia Zheltukhina | Russia |
| 2005 |
| 2005 | Accused | Jakob Thuesen | Thomas Heinesen | Denmark |
| 2005 | Alice | Marco Martins | Paulo Branco | Portugal |
| 2005 | 4 | Ilya Khrzhanovsky | Yelena Yatsura | Russia |
| 2005 | Stranger | Małgorzata Szumowska | Karl Baumgartner, Raimond Goebel | Poland, Germany, France |
| 2005 | When The Tide Comes In | Yolande Moreau, Gilles Porte | Humbert Balsan, Catherine Burniaux | Belgium, France |
| 2005 | Saimir | Francesco Munzi | Cristiano Bortone, Daniele Mazzocca | Italy |
| 2005 | Uno | Aksel Hennie | Jørgen Storm Rosenberg | Norway |
| 2006 |
| 2006 | 13 Tzameti | Géla Babluani | Géla Babluani | Georgia, France |
| 2006 | Fresh Air | Ágnes Kocsis | Ferenc Pusztai | Hungary |
| 2006 | Pingpong | Matthias Luthardt | Niklas Bäumer, Anke Hartwig | Germany |
| 2006 | Retrieval | Sławomir Fabicki | Łukasz Dzięcioł, Piotr Dzięcioł | Poland |
| 2007 |
| 2007 | The Band's Visit | Eran Kolirin | Ehud Bleiberg, Koby Gal-Raday, Guy Jacoel, Eylon Ratzkovsky, Yossi Uzrad | Israel, France, United States |
| 2007 | Control | Anton Corbijn | Anton Corbijn, Todd Eckert, Orian Williams, Iain Canning, Peter Heslop, Tony Wilson, Deborah Curtis | United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Japan |
| 2007 | A Man’s Fear of God | Özer Kiziltan | Sevil Demirci, Önder Çakar | Turkey, Germany |
| 2007 | Counterparts | Jan Bonny | Bettina Brokemper | Germany |
| 2008 |
| 2008 | Hunger | Steve McQueen | Laura Hastings-Smith, Robin Gutch | United Kingdom, Ireland |
| 2008 | Snow | Aida Begić | Benny Drechsel, Karsten Stoeter, Elma Tataragić | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, France, Iran |
| 2008 | Summer Book | Seyfi Teoman | Yamaç Okur, TNadir Operli | Turkey |
| 2008 | Tulpan | Sergei Dvortsevoy | Karl Baumgartner, Thanassis Karathanos | Kazakhstan, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, Switzerland |
| 2009 |
| 2009 | Katalin Varga | Peter Strickland | Tudor Giurgiu, Oana Giurgiu, Peter Strickland | United Kingdom, Romania, Hungary |
| 2009 | The Other Bank | George Ovashvili | George Ovashvili, Sain Gabdullin | Georgia, Kazakhstan |
| 2009 | Ajami | Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani | Mosh Danon, Thanassis Karathanos, Talia Kleinhendler | Germany, Israel |
| 2009 | Be Good | Juliette Garcias | Marianne Slot | France, Denmark |
| 2009 | Autumn | Özcan Alper | F. Serkan Acar, Kadir Sözen | Turkey, Germany |

### 2010s

| Year | English title | Director(s) | Country |
| European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI ||||
| 2010 | Lebanon | Samuel Maoz | Israel, France, Germany |
| 2010 | Nothing Personal | Urszula Antoniak | Netherlands, Ireland |
| 2010 | When We Leave | Feo Aladag | Germany |
| 2010 | If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle | Florin Serban | Romania |
| 2010 | The Double Hour | Giuseppe Capotondi | Italy |
| 2011 | Oxygen | Hans Van Nuffel | Belgium, Netherlands |
| 2011 | Breathing | Karl Markovics | Austria |
| 2011 | Michael | Markus Schleinzer | Austria |
| 2011 | Nothing's All Bad | Mikkel Munch-Fals | Denmark |
| 2011 | Tilva Roš | Nikola Ležaić | Serbia |
| 2012 | Kauwboy | Boudewijn Koole | Netherlands |
| 2012 | Broken | Rufus Norris | UK |
| 2012 | Reported Missing [de] | Jan Speckenbach [de] | Germany |
| 2012 | Teddy Bear | Mads Matthiesen | Denmark |
| 2012 | Twilight Portrait | Angelina Nikonova | Russia |
| 2013 | A Coffee in Berlin | Jan Ole Gerster | Germany |
| 2013 | Eat Sleep Die | Gabriela Pichler | Sweden |
| 2013 | Call Girl | Mikael Marcimain | Sweden, Norway, Ireland, Finland |
| 2013 | Miele | Valeria Golino | Italy, France |
| 2013 | The Plague | Neus Ballús | Spain |
| 2014 | The Tribe | Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy | Ukraine |
| 2014 | 10,000 km | Carlos Marqués-Marcet | Spain |
| 2014 | Wounded | Fernando Franco | Spain |
| 2014 | '71 | Yann Demange | UK |
| 2014 | Party Girl | Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis | France |
| 2015 | Mustang | Deniz Gamze Ergüven | France, Germany, Turkey |
| 2015 | Goodnight Mommy | Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala | Austria |
| 2015 | Limbo | Anna Sofie Hartmann | Germany, Denmark |
| 2015 | Slow West | John Maclean | New Zealand, United Kingdom |
| 2015 | Summers Downstairs [de] | Tom Sommerlatte [de] | Germany, France |
| 2016 | The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki | Juho Kuosmanen | Finland, Sweden, Germany |
| 2016 | Dogs | Bogdan Mirica | France, Romania, Bulgaria, Qatar |
| 2016 | Liebmann | Jules Herrmann | Germany |
| 2016 | Sand Storm | Elite Zexer | Israel |
| 2016 | Thirst | Svetla Tsotsorkova | Bulgaria |
| 2017 | Lady Macbeth | William Oldroyd | United Kingdom |
| 2017 | Bloody Milk | Hubert Charuel | France |
| 2017 | Godless | Ralitza Petrova | Bulgaria, Denmark, France |
| 2017 | Summer 1993 | Carla Simón | Spain |
| 2017 | The Eremites | Ronny Trocker | Germany, Austria |
| 2018 | Girl | Lukas Dhont | Belgium, Netherlands |
| 2018 | One Day | Zsófia Szilágyi | Hungary |
| 2018 | Scary Mother | Ana Urushadze | Georgia, Estonia |
| 2018 | The Guilty | Gustav Möller | Denmark |
| 2018 | Those Who Are Fine | Cyril Schäublin | Switzerland |
| 2018 | Touch Me Not | Adina Pintilie | Romania, Germany, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, France |
| 2019 | Les Misérables | Ladj Ly | France |
| 2019 | Aniara | Pella Kagerman, Hugo Lilja | Sweden, Denmark |
| 2019 | Atlantics | Mati Diop | France, Senegal, Belgium |
| 2019 | Blind Spot | Tuva Novotny | Norway, Denmark |
| 2019 | Irina | Nadejda Koseva | Bulgaria |
| 2019 | Ray & Liz | Richard Billingham | UK |

### 2020s

| Year | English title | Director(s) | Country |
| European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI ||||
| 2020 | Sole | Carlo Sironi | Italy, Poland |
| 2020 | Full Moon | Nermin Hamzagic | Bosnia & Herzegovina |
| 2020 | Gagarine | Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh | France |
| 2020 | Instinct | Halina Reijn | Netherlands |
| 2020 | Isaac | Jurgis Matulevicius | Lithuania |
| 2020 | Jumbo | Zoé Wittock | France, Belgium, Luxembourg |
| 2021 | Promising Young Woman | Emerald Fennell | USA, UK |
| 2021 | Beginning | Dea Kulumbegashvili | France, Georgia |
| 2021 | Lamb | Valdimar Jóhannsson | Iceland, Sweden, Poland |
| 2021 | Playground | Laura Wandel | Belgium |
| 2021 | Pleasure | Ninja Thyberg | Sweden, Netherlands, France |
| 2021 | The Whaler Boy | Philipp Yuryev | Russia, Poland, Belgium |
| 2022 | Small Body | Laura Samani | Italy, Slovenia, France |
| 2022 | Love According to Dalva | Emmanuelle Nicot | Belgium, France |
| 2022 | 107 Mothers | Peter Kerekes | Slovakia, Czech Republic, Ukraine |
| 2022 | Other People | Aleksandra Terpińska | Poland, France |
| 2022 | Pamfir | Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk | Ukraine, France, Poland, Germany, Chile |
| 2022 | Sonne | Kurdwin Ayub | Austria |
| 2023 | How to Have Sex | Molly Manning Walker | United Kingdom, Greece |
| 2023 | 20,000 Species of Bees | Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren | Spain |
| 2023 | La Palisiada | Philip Sotnychenko | Ukraine |
| 2023 | Safe Place | Juraj Lerotić | Croatia, Slovenia |
| 2023 | The Quiet Migration | Malene Choi | Denmark |
| 2023 | Vincent Must Die | Stéphan Castang | France, Belgium |
| 2024 | Armand | Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel | Norway, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden |
| 2024 | Hoard | Luna Carmoon | UK |
| 2024 | Kneecap | Rich Peppiatt | Ireland, UK |
| 2024 | Santosh | Sandhya Suri | UK, France, Germany |
| 2024 | The New Year That Never Came | Bogdan Mureșanu | Romania, Serbia |
| 2024 | Toxic | Saulė Bliuvaitė | Lithuania |
    Award given as Best Young Film or Young European Film of the Year

## Most wins for European Discovery by country

| Country | Awards | Nominations | Awards (with co-productions) | Nominations (with co-productions) |
| France | 6 | 17 | 11 | 35 |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 17 | 5 | 20 |
| Spain | 2 | 8 | 2 | 8 |
| Denmark | 2 | 6 | 3 | 10 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 |
| Belgium | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| Israel | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 |
| Germany | 1 | 17 | 4 | 37 |
| Italy | 1 | 10 | 3 | 14 |
| Hungary | 1 | 5 | 2 | 6 |
| Ireland | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| Poland | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Russia | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| Georgia | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Finland | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Austria | 0 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| Sweden | 0 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| Turkey | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| Soviet Union | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Romania | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Norway | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Kazakhstan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Bulgaria | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Croatia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Czech Republic | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Greece | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Iceland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| New Zealand | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Portugal | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Serbia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Slovenia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Tajikistan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Yugoslavia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| United States | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Iceland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Lebanon | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Japan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Australia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| India | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Iran | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qatar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |