# 35th European Film Awards

The 35th European Film Awards, presented by the European Film Academy to recognize achievements in European filmmaking, took place at the Harpa Conference and Concert Hall in Reykjavík, Iceland on 10 December 2022. According to the academy, films eligible for the awards are those that had their first official screening between 1 June 2021 and 31 May 2022 and have a European director.
German actress, director and screenwriter Margarethe von Trotta received the Lifetime Achievement Award while Palestinian actor and director Elia Suleiman was honoured with the Achievement in World Cinema Award.

## Selection
### Feature Film

Selection's part 1 was announced on 18 August 2022.
* Aftersun – Charlotte Wells ( UK)
* Alcarràs – Carla Simón ( Spain / Italy)
* All Quiet on the Western Front – Edward Berger ( Germany / United States)
* As Far as I Can Walk – Stefan Arsenijević ( Serbia / Luxembourg / France / Bulgaria / Lithuania)
* The Beasts – Rodrigo Sorogoyen ( Spain / France)
* Beautiful Beings – Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson ( Iceland / Denmark / Sweden / Netherlands / Czech Republic)
* Belfast – Kenneth Branagh ( United Kingdom / Ireland)
* Benediction – Terence Davies ( United Kingdom)
* Boy from Heaven – Tarik Saleh ( Sweden / France / Finland)
* Burning Days – Emin Alper ( Turkey / France / Germany / Netherlands / Greece / Croatia)
* Close – Lukas Dhont ( Belgium / France / Netherlands)
* Corsage – Marie Kreutzer ( Austria / Luxembourg / Germany / France)
* The Eight Mountains – Felix van Groeningen & Charlotte Vandermeersch ( Italy / Belgium / France)
* Eo – Jerzy Skolimowski ( Poland / Italy)
* Girl Picture – Alli Haapasalo ( Finland)
* Godland – Hlynur Pálmason ( Denmark / Iceland / France / Sweden)
* The Hole – Michelangelo Frammartino ( Italy / Germany / France)
* Holy Spider – Ali Abbasi ( Denmark / Germany / Sweden / France)
* Maixabel – Iciar Bollain ( Spain)
* Mediterranean Fever – Maha Haj ( Germany / France / Cyprus / Palestine)
* More Than Ever – Emily Atef ( France / Germany / Luxembourg / Norway)
* Nostalgia – Mario Martone ( Italy / France)
* One Fine Morning – Mia Hansen-Løve ( France / Germany)
* Pacifiction – Albert Serra ( France / Spain / Germany / Portugal)
* Parallel Mothers – Pedro Almodóvar ( Spain)
* The Quiet Girl – Colm Bairéad ( Ireland)
* Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush – Andreas Dresen ( Germany / France)
* Reflection – Valentyn Vasyanovych ( Ukraine)
* Saint Omer – Alice Diop ( France)
* The Souvenir Part II – Joanna Hogg ( UK)
* Tori and Lokita – Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne ( Belgium / France)
* Triangle of Sadness – Ruben Östlund ( Sweden / Germany / France / United Kingdom)
* Vera – Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel ( Austria)
* Will-o'-the-Wisp – João Pedro Rodrigues ( Portugal / France)
* Women Do Cry – Mina Mileva & Vesela Kazakova ( Bulgaria / France)

### Documentary

The selection of 13 documentary films was announced on 30 August 2022. Selection was determined by a committee consisting of Salma Abdallah (sales agent/Austria), Nenad Puhovski (festival director/Croatia), Katriel Schory (Academy Board – institutional/Israel) and Giedrė Žickytė (director/producer/Lithuania).

### Short Film

The European Short Film 2022 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.
* Affairs of the Art – Joanna Quinn ( UK / Canada) – Valladolid International Film Festival
* Bachelorette Party – Lola Combourieu & Yann Berlier ( France) – Sarajevo Film Festival
* The Bayview – Daniel Cook ( UK) – Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
* Becoming Male in the Middle Ages – Pedro Neves Marques ( Portugal) – International Film Festival Rotterdam
* Cherries – Vytautas Katkus ( Lithuania) – Cannes Film Festival
* Dad's Sneakers – Olha Zhurba ( Ukraine) – Kort Film Festival Leuven
* Dawn – Leonor Noivo ( Portugal) – Hamburg Short Film Festival
* Granny's Sexual Life – Urška Djukić & Émilie Pigeard ( Slovenia / France) – Uppsala Short Film Festival
* Handbook – Pavel Mozhar ( Germany) – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen
* Ice Merchants – João Gonzalez ( Portugal / France / UK) – Motovun Film Festival
* Le Saboteur – Anssi Kasitonni ( Finland) – Tampere Film Festival
* Love, Dad – Diana Cam Van Nguyen ( Czechia / Slovakia) – Kraków Film Festival
* Memoir of a Veering Storm – Sofia Georgovassili ( Greece) – DokuFest
* Neighbour Abdi – Douwe Dijkstra ( Netherlands) – Locarno Film Festival
* Nest – Hlynur Pálmason ( Denmark / Iceland) – Odense Film Festival
* North Pole – Marija Apcevska ( North Macedonia / Serbia) – International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao
* On Solid Ground – Jela Hasler ( Switzerland) – Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
* The Potemkinists – Radu Jude ( Romania) – Curtas Vila do Conde – International Film Festival
* The Red Suitcase – Cyrus Neshvad ( Luxembourg) – Tirana International Film Festival
* The Salamander Child – Théo Degen ( Belgium) – Drama International Short Film Festival
* Sekundenarbeiten – Christiana Perschon ( Austria) – International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
* Snow in September – Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir ( France / Mongolia) – Venice International Film Festival
* The Sower of Stars – Lois Patiño ( Spain) – Berlin International Film Festival
* Steakhouse – Špela Cadež ( Slovenia / Germany / France) – International Short Film and Animation Festival PÖFF Shorts
* Techno, Mama – Saulius Baradinskas ( Lithuania) – International Short Film Festival of Cyprus
* 38 – Joanna Rytel ( Sweden) – Riga International Film Festival
* Urban Solutions – Arne Hector, Luciana Mazeto, Vinícius Lopes & Minze Tummescheit ( Germany) – Encounters Film Festival
* When I Smile My Eyes Close – Daniel Bolda ( Greece) – Cork International Film Festival
* Will My Parents Come to See Me – Mo Harawe ( Austria / Germany / Somalia) – Vienna Short Film Festival

## Feature Film Awards

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### Best Film

| English title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country | Language |
| Alcarràs | Carla Simón | María Zamora, Stefan Schmitz, Tono Folguera, Giovanni Pompili | Spain / Italy | Catalan, Spanish, English |
| Close | Lukas Dhont | Frans Van Gestel, Dirk Impens, Michiel Dhont, Michel Saint-Jean, Laurette Schillings, Jacques-Henri Bronckart | Belgium / France / Netherlands | Dutch, French, Flemish |
| Corsage | Marie Kreutzer | Alexander Glehr, Johanna Scherz, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Maren Ade, Jean-Christophe Reymand, Bernard Michaux | Austria / Luxembourg / Germany / France | German, French, English, Hungarian, Italian |
| Holy Spider | Ali Abbasi | Sol Bondy, Jacob Jarek | Denmark / Germany / Sweden / France | Persian |
| Triangle of Sadness | Ruben Östlund | Erik Hemmendorff, Philippe Bober | Sweden / Germany / France / United Kingdom | English |

### Excellence Awards

A special eight-members jury consisting of the following representatives of the different arts and crafts chose the winners based on the European Film Awards Feature Film Selection: Henrich Borarós (production designer, Czech Republic), Pascal Capitolin (sound designer, France), Jaime Cebrian (VFX supervisor, Spain), Charlotte Chang (make-up & hair artist, Germany), Christina Georgiou (composer, Cyprus), Magdalena Labuz (costume designer, Luxembourg), Sarah McTeigue (editor, Ireland/Italy), and Nathalie Pitters (cinematographer, UK).
| European Cinematography | European Editing | European Production Design | European Costume Design |
| Kate McCullough for The Quiet Girl | Özcan Vardar & Eytan İpeker for Burning Days | Jim Clay for Belfast | Charlotte Walter for Belfast |
| European Make-Up & Hair | European Original Score | European Sound | European Visual Effects |
| Heike Merker for All Quiet on the Western Front | Paweł Mykietyn for Eo | Simone Paolo Olivero, Paolo Benvenuti, Benni Atria, Marco Saitta, Ansgar Frerich & Florian Holzner for The Hole | Frank Petzold, Viktor Müller & Markus Frank for All Quiet on the Western Front |

## Awards Not Based on Feature Film Selection
### European Comedy

The award is presented to the director of a feature-length European comedy intended for theatrical release. Nominations were announced on 19 October 2022. Nominations were determined by a committee consisting of Graziella Bildesheim (Academy Board – institutional/Italy), Alby James (producer/UK), Denis Ivanov (producer/Ukraine), Roshi Behesht Nedjad (producer/Germany) and Mira Staleva (Academy Board – festival, distributor/Bulgaria).
| English title | Director(s) | Language |
| Cop Secret | Hannes Þór Halldórsson | Icelandic, English, Mandarin, German |
| The Divide | Catherine Corsini | French |
| The Good Boss | Fernando León de Aranoa | Spanish |
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### European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI

In co-operation with FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics, the award is presented to a European director for their first full-length European feature film intended for theatrical release. Nominations were determined by a committee consisting of Kaleem Aftab (film writer, programmer and producer/UK), Janet Bariş (FIPRESCI – film critic/Turkey), Paola Casella (FIPRESCI – film critic/Italy), Virginie Devesa (Academy Board – sales agent/France), Marion Döring (institutional/Germany), Frédéric Ponsard (FIPRESCI – film critic/France), Alik Shpilyuk (FIPRESCI – film critic/Ukraine), Britt Sørensen (FIPRESCI – film critic/Norway) and Joanna Szymańska (Academy Board – producer/Poland).
| Director(s) | English title |
| Emmanuelle Nicot | Love According to Dalva |
| Peter Kerekes | 107 Mothers |
| Aleksandra Terpińska | Other People |
| Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk | Pamfir |
| Laura Samani | Small Body |
| / Kurdwin Ayub | Sonne |
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### European Documentary

The award is presented to the European director(s) of a European documentary intended for theatrical release.
| English title | Director(s) | Country | Language |
| The Balcony Movie | Paweł Łoziński | Poland | Polish |
| Girl Gang | Susanne Regina Meures | Switzerland | German |
| A House Made of Splinters | Simon Lereng Wilmont | Denmark / Sweden / Finland / Ukraine | Russian, Ukrainian |
| The March on Rome | Mark Cousins | Italy | English, Italian |
| Mariupolis 2 | Mantas Kvedaravičius | Lithuania / France / Germany | Ukrainian, Russian |
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### European Animated Feature Film

In co-operation with CARTOON, the European Association of Animation Film, the award is presented to the European director(s) of a European animated feature film intended for theatrical release. Nominations were announced on 19 October 2022. Nominations were determined by a committee consisting of Antonio Saura (Academy Board – sales agent/Spain), Jonas Poher Rasmussen (director/Denmark) and Denisa Grimmová (CARTOON – director/Czech Republic).
| English title | Director(s) | Country | Language |
| Little Nicholas: Happy As Can Be | Amandine Fredon & Benjamin Massoubre | France / Luxembourg | French |
| My Love Affair with Marriage | Signe Baumane | Latvia / United States / Luxembourg | English |
| My Neighbors' Neighbors | Anne-Laure Daffis & Léo Marchand | France | French |
| No Dogs or Italians Allowed | Alain Ughetto | France / Italy / Belgium / Switzerland / Portugal | French, Italian, German |
| Oink | Mascha Halberstad | Netherlands / Belgium | Dutch |
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### European Short Film

The award is presented to the European director(s) of a European short film. The award is presented in cooperation with various European festivals (see Short Film selection above), all of which select a single candidate and later nominate 5 films. The nominees were announced on 19 October 2022.
| English title | Director(s) | Country | Language |
| Granny's Sexual Life | Urška Djukič & Émilie Pigeard | Slovenia / France | Slovenian |
| Ice Merchants | João Gonzalez | Portugal / France / UK | no dialogues |
| Love, Dad | Diana Cam Van Nguyen | Czechia / Slovakia | Czech |
| Techno, Mama | Saulius Baradinskas | Lithuania | Lithuanian |
| Will My Parents Come to See Me | Mo Harawe | Austria / Germany / Somalia | Somali |
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## Honorary Awards

| EFA Lifetime Achievement Award | European Achievement in World Cinema | European Innovative Storytelling | Eurimages Co-Production Award | European Sustainability Award – Prix Film4Climate |
| Margarethe von Trotta | Elia Suleiman | Marco Bellocchio for Exterior Night | Ukrainian producers | European Green Deal |

## Special Awards
### Lux European Audience Film Award 2023

The award is directed to recognize films which help to raise awareness of socio-political issues in Europe. Close, directed by Lukas Dhont, was awarded the prize in a ceremony in the European Parliament's Hemicycle in Brussels on 27 June 2023.
| English title | Director(s) | Country |
| Close | Lukas Dhont | / / |
| Alcarràs | Carla Simón | / |
| Burning Days | Emin Alper | / / / / / |
| Triangle of Sadness | Ruben Östlund | / / / |
| Will-o'-the-Wisp | João Pedro Rodrigues | / |

### EFA Young Audience Award (YAA)

The award is presented to the director of a European film that addresses an audience between 12 and 14 years of age. The winner was announced during the online award ceremony on Sunday, 13 November 2022, in Erfurt (Germany), hosted by youth council members Maria from Portugal and Emmerson from the UK.
| English title | Director(s) | Country | Language |
| Animal | Cyril Dion | France | English, French |
| Comedy Queen | Sanna Lenken | Sweden | Swedish |
| Dreams Are Like Wild Tigers | Lars Montag | Germany | German |
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### European University Film Award (EUFA)

Presented in co-operation with Filmfest Hamburg, the award actively involves university students, spreads the “European idea” and transports the spirit of European cinema to an audience group of 20-29-year-olds. It also supports film dissemination, film education and the culture of debating. Based on the Feature Film Selection 2022 and the Documentary Selection 2022 Filmfest Hamburg and EFA nominate five films. They are later viewed in non-commercial closed jury sessions and discussed at the participating universities. The students at each institution select their favourite film. The nominations were announced on 7 October 2022. The winner was announced on 9 December 2022.
| English title | Director(s) | Country | Language |
| Eo | Jerzy Skolimowski | Poland / Italy | Polish, Italian, English, French |
| Alcarràs | Carla Simón | Spain / Italy | Catalan, Spanish, English |
| Close | Lukas Dhont | Belgium / France / Netherlands | Dutch, French, Flemish |
| The Eclipse | Nataša Urban | Norway | Serbian, Romanian |
| Triangle of Sadness | Ruben Östlund | Sweden / Germany / France / United Kingdom | English |
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