The 36th European Film Awards, presented by the European Film Academy to recognize achievements in European filmmaking, will be held in Berlin. The ceremony will take place on 9 December 2023 in Arena Berlin.

Selections

Feature Films 
Selection's part 1 was announced on 16 August 2022.

 20,000 Species of Bees – Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren ()
 Afire – Christian Petzold ()
 Anatomy of a Fall – Justine Triet ()
 Behind the Haystacks – Asimina Proedrou (, , )
 Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry – Elene Naveriani (, )
 Close Your Eyes – Victor Erice (, )
 Fallen Leaves – Aki Kaurismäki (, )
 Femme – Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon Ping ()
 Firebrand – Karim Aïnouz ()
 How to Have Sex – Molly Manning Walker (, )
 Kidnapped – Marco Bellocchio (, , )
 La chimera – Alice Rohrwacher (, , )
 Safe Place – Juraj Lerotic (, )
 Slow – Marija Kavtaradze (, , )
 The Animal Kingdom – Thomas Cailley ()
 The Goldman Case – Cédric Kahn ()
 The Happiest Man in the World – Teona Strugar Mitevska (, , , , , )
 The Old Oak – Ken Loach (, , )
 The Teachers' Lounge – İlker Çatak ()

Documentary 
The selection was announced on August 30, 2023.

 Apolonia, Apolonia - Lea Glob (, )
 Between Revolutions - Vlad Petri (, )
 Four Daughters - Kaouther Ben Hania (, , , )
 The Hearing - Lisa Gerig ()
 In the Rearview - Maciej Hamela (, , )
 Light Falls Vertical - Efthymia Zymvragaki (, , , )
 Motherland - Hanna Badziaka & Alexander Mihalkovich (, , )
 On the Adamant - Nicolas Philibert (, )
 Orlando, My Political Biography - Paul B. Preciado ()
 Our Body - Claire Simon ()
 Paradise - Alexander Abaturov (, )
 Smoke Sauna Sisterhood - Anna Hints (, , )
 We Will Not Fade Away - Alisa Kovalenko (, , )
 Who I Am Not - Tunde Skovran (, , )

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 Neofotistou () - selected at International Short Film Festival of Cyprus
 Asterión – Francesco Montagner (, ) - selected at Riga International Film Festival
 Been There – Corina Schwingruber Ilić () - selected at Locarno Film Festival
 The Birthday Party – Francesco Sossai (, , ) - selected at Curtas Vila do Conde – International Film Festival
 Chords – Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren () - selected at Go Short – International Short Film Festival
 Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays - Christian Avilés () - selected at DokuFest - International Documentary and Short Film Festival
 The Debutante – Elizabeth Hobbs () - selected at Black Nights Film Festival - PÖFF Shorts 
 Emotional Architecture 1959 - León Siminiani () - selected at Valladolid International Film Festival
 A Free Run – Lauriane Lagarde () - selected at Uppsala Short Film Festival
 Hardly Working – Susanna Flock, Leonhard Müllner, Robin Klengel & Michael Stumpf () - selected at Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
 Headspace – Aisling Byrne () - selected at Cork International Film Festival
 How I Learned to Hang Laundry - Barbara Zemljič () - selected at Sarajevo Film Festival
 I Can See the Sun But I Can't Feel It Yet – Joseph Wilson () - selected at Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg
 I Think of Silences When I Think of You – Jonelle Twum () - selected at International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
 Les Chenilles – Michelle Keserwany & Noel Keserwany () - selected at Berlin International Film Festival
 Red Ears – Paul Drey () - selected at Tampere Film Festival
 Remember How I Used to Ride a White Horse – Ivana Bošnjak Volda & Thomas Johnson Volda () - VIENNA SHORTS - International Short Film Festival
 There Are People in the Forest – Szymon Ruczyński () - selected at Kraków Film Festival
 Things Unheard Of – Ramazan Kiliç () - selected at Motovun Film Festival
 27 – Flóra Anna Buda (, ) - selected at Cannes Film Festival
 Women Visiting the City – Enrique Buelo (, ) - selected at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
 Zoon – Jonatan Schwenk () - selected at ZINEBI - International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao and at Leuven International Short Film Festival

Feature Film Awards

Feature Film Awards

Excellence Awards

Awards Not Based on Feature Film Selection

European Comedy

European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI

European Documentary

European Animated Feature Film

European Short Film

Honorary Awards

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.

European University Film Award (EUFA)

References 

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