# 36th European Film Awards

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 ( Spain)
* Afire – Christian Petzold ( Germany)
* Anatomy of a Fall – Justine Triet ( France)
* Animal – Sofia Exarchou ( Greece, Austria, Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus)
* The Animal Kingdom – Thomas Cailley ( France)
* Behind the Haystacks – Asimina Proedrou ( Greece, Germany, North Macedonia)
* Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry – Elene Naveriani ( Switzerland, Georgia)
* Blaga's Lessons – Stephan Komandarev ( Bulgaria, Germany)
* Close Your Eyes – Victor Erice ( Spain, Argentina)
* Club Zero – Jessica Hausner ( Austria, UK, Germany, France, Denmark, Qatar)
* Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World – Radu Jude ( Romania, Luxembourg, France, Croatia)
* Excursion – Una Gunjak ( Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, France, Norway, Qatar)
* Explanation for Everything – Gábor Reisz ( Hungary, Slovakia)
* Fallen Leaves – Aki Kaurismäki ( Finland, Germany)
* Femme – Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon Ping ( United Kingdom)
* Firebrand – Karim Aïnouz ( United Kingdom)
* The Goldman Case – Cédric Kahn ( France)
* Green Border – Agnieszka Holland ( Poland, France, Czechia, Belgium)
* The Happiest Man in the World – Teona Strugar Mitevska ( North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium, Slovenia, Croatia, Denmark)
* Holly – Fien Troch ( Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, France)
* Housekeeping for Beginners – Goran Stolevski ( North Macedonia, Croatia, Serbia, Poland, Kosovo)
* How to Have Sex – Molly Manning Walker ( United Kingdom, Greece)
* Kidnapped – Marco Bellocchio ( Italy, France, Germany)
* La chimera – Alice Rohrwacher ( Italy, France, Switzerland)
* Me, Captain – Matteo Garrone ( Italy, Belgium)
* The Old Oak – Ken Loach ( United Kingdom, France, Belgium)
* Paradise Is Burning – Mika Gustafson ( Sweden, Italy, Denmark, Finland)
* The Pot-au-Feu – Tran Anh Hung ( France)
* The Promised Land – Nikolaj Arcel ( Denmark, Germany, Sweden)
* Safe Place – Juraj Lerotic ( Croatia, Slovenia)
* Slow – Marija Kavtaradze ( Lithuania, Spain, Sweden)
* Society of the Snow – J. A. Bayona ( Spain)
* Stepne – Maryna Vroda ( Ukraine, Slovakia, Germany, Poland)
* Sweet Dreams – Ena Sendijarević ( Netherlands, Sweden, Indonesia)
* Tatami – Guy Nattiv & Zar Amir Ebrahimi ( Georgia, USA)
* The Teachers' Lounge – İlker Çatak ( Germany)
* The Universal Theory – Timm Kröger ( Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
* The Vanishing Soldier – Dani Rosenberg ( Israel)
* Woman Of... – Małgorzata Szumowska & Michał Englert ( Poland, Sweden)
* The Zone of Interest – Jonathan Glazer ( UK, Poland, USA)

### Documentary

The selection was announced on August 30, 2023.
* Apolonia, Apolonia – Lea Glob ( Denmark, Poland)
* Between Revolutions – Vlad Petri ( Romania, Croatia)
* Four Daughters – Kaouther Ben Hania ( France, Tunisia, Germany, Saudi Arabia)
* The Hearing – Lisa Gerig ( Switzerland)
* In the Rearview – Maciej Hamela ( Poland, France, Ukraine)
* Light Falls Vertical – Efthymia Zymvragaki ( Spain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands)
* Motherland – Hanna Badziaka & Alexander Mihalkovich ( Sweden, Ukraine, Norway)
* On the Adamant – Nicolas Philibert ( France, Japan)
* Orlando, My Political Biography – Paul B. Preciado ( France)
* Our Body – Claire Simon ( France)
* Paradise – Alexander Abaturov ( France, Switzerland)
* Smoke Sauna Sisterhood – Anna Hints ( Estonia, France, Iceland)
* We Will Not Fade Away – Alisa Kovalenko ( Ukraine, France, Poland)
* Who I Am Not – Tunde Skovran ( Romania, Canada, Germany)

### 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 ( Greece) – selected at International Short Film Festival of Cyprus
* Asterión – Francesco Montagner ( Czechia, Slovakia) – selected at Riga International Film Festival
* Aqueronte – Manuel Muñoz Rivas ( Spain) = selected at Drama International Short Film Festival
* Been There – Corina Schwingruber Ilić ( Switzerland) – selected at Locarno Film Festival
* The Birthday Party – Francesco Sossai ( Germany, Italy, France) – selected at Curtas Vila do Conde – International Film Festival
* Chords – Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren ( Spain) – selected at Go Short – International Short Film Festival
* Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays – Christian Avilés ( Spain) – selected at DokuFest – International Documentary and Short Film Festival
* The Debutante – Elizabeth Hobbs ( UK) – selected at Black Nights Film Festival – PÖFF Shorts
* Emotional Architecture 1959 – León Siminiani ( Spain) – selected at Valladolid International Film Festival
* A Free Run – Lauriane Lagarde ( France) – selected at Uppsala Short Film Festival
* Hardly Working – Susanna Flock, Leonhard Müllner, Robin Klengel & Michael Stumpf ( Austria) – selected at Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
* Headspace – Aisling Byrne ( Ireland) – selected at Cork International Film Festival
* How I Learned to Hang Laundry – Barbara Zemljič ( Slovenia) – selected at Sarajevo Film Festival
* I Can See the Sun But I Can't Feel It Yet – Joseph Wilson ( UK) – selected at Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg
* I Think of Silences When I Think of You – Jonelle Twum ( Sweden) – selected at International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
* Les Chenilles – Michelle Keserwany & Noel Keserwany ( France) – selected at Berlin International Film Festival
* Papa – Notes on Life and Death – Andreas Bøggild Monies ( Denmark) – selected at OFF – Odense International Film Festival
* Red Ears – Paul Drey ( Germany) – selected at Tampere Film Festival
* Remember How I Used to Ride a White Horse – Ivana Bošnjak Volda & Thomas Johnson Volda ( Croatia) – VIENNA SHORTS – International Short Film Festival
* A Short Trip – Erenik Beqiri ( France) – selected at Venice Film Festival
* There Are People in the Forest – Szymon Ruczyński ( Poland) – selected at Kraków Film Festival
* Things Unheard Of – Ramazan Kiliç ( Turkey) – selected at Motovun Film Festival
* 27 – Flóra Anna Buda ( France, Hungary) – selected at Cannes Film Festival
* Women Visiting the City – Enrique Buelo ( Spain, France) – selected at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
* Zoon – Jonatan Schwenk ( Germany) – 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 title | Director(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 Cinematography | European Editing | European Production Design | European Costume Design |
| Rasmus Videbæk for The Promised Land | Laurent Sénéchal for Anatomy of a Fall | Emita Frigato for La chimera | Kicki Ilander for The Promised Land |
| European Make-Up & Hair | European Original Score | European Sound | European Visual Effects |
| Ana López-Puigcerver, Belén López-Puigcerver, David Martí & Montse Ribé for Society of the Snow | Markus Binder for Club Zero | Johnnie Burn & Tarn Willers for The Zone of Interest | Félix Bergés & Laura Pedro for Society of the Snow |

## 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 title | Original title | Director(s) |
| Smoke Sauna Sisterhood | Savvusanna sõsarad | Anna Hints |
| Apolonia, Apolonia | Apolonia, Apolonia | Lea Glob |
| Four Daughters | Les Filles d'Olfa | Kaouther Ben Hania |
| Motherland | Motherland | Hanna Badziaka Alexander Mihalkovich |
| On the Adamant | Sur l’Adamant | Nicolas Philibert |

### European Animated Feature Film

| English title | Original title | Director(s) |
| Robot Dreams | Robot Dreams | Pablo Berger |
| The Amazing Maurice | The Amazing Maurice | Toby Genkel |
| Chicken for Linda! | Linda veut du poulet! | Sébastien Laudenbach Chiara Malta |
| A Greyhound of a Girl | A Greyhound of a Girl | Enzo D'Alò |
| White Plastic Sky | Müanyag égbolt | Tibor Bánóczki Sarolta Szabó |

### European Short Film

| English title | Original title | Director(s) |
| Hardly Working | Hardly Working | Susanna Flock Robin Klengel Leonhard Müllner Michael Stumpf |
| 27 | 27 | Flóra Anna Buda |
| Aqueronte | Aqueronte | Manuel Muñoz Rivas |
| Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays | La herida luminosa | Christian Avilés |
| Flores del otro patio | Flores del otro patio | / Jorge Cadena |

## Honorary Awards

| EFA Lifetime Achievement Award | Honorary Award of the Academy President and the Board | European Achievement in World Cinema |
| Vanessa Redgrave | Béla Tarr | Isabel Coixet |
| European Innovative Storytelling | Eurimages Co-Production Award | European Sustainability Award – Prix4Climate |
| — | Uljana Kim | Güler Sabancı |

## 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 title | Original title | Director(s) |
| Fallen Leaves | Kuolleet lehdet | Aki Kaurismäki |
| On the Adamant | Sur l'Adamant | Nicolas Philibert |
| Smoke Sauna Sisterhood | Savvusanna sõsarad | Anna Hints |
| The Teachers' Lounge | Das Lehrerzimmer | İlker Çatak |
| 20,000 Species of Bees | 20.000 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 title | Original title | Director(s) |
| Anatomy of a Fall | Anatomie d'une chute | Justine Triet |
| Green Border | Zielona granica | Agnieszka Holland |
| Housekeeping for Beginners | Housekeeping for Beginners | / Goran Stolevski |
| How to Have Sex | How to Have Sex | Molly Manning Walker |
| The Teachers' Lounge | Das Lehrerzimmer | İlker Çatak |