35th European Film Awards | |
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Date | 10 December 2022 |
Site | Harpa Conference and Concert Hall, Reykjavík, Iceland |
Organized by | European Film Academy |
Official website | EFA |
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.[1] 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.[1]
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.[2][3]
Selection's part 1 was announced on 18 August 2022.[4]
The selection of 13 documentary films was announced on 30 August 2022.[5] 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).[6]
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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.[7]
English title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country | Language |
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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 |
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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).[10]
European Cinematography | European Editing | European Production Design | European Costume Design |
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European Make-Up & Hair | European Original Score | European Sound | European Visual Effects |
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The award is presented to the director of a feature-length European comedy intended for theatrical release. Nominations were announced on 19 October 2022.[11] 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).[12]
English title | Director(s) | Country | Language |
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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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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.[14] 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).[15]
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The award is presented to the European director(s) of a European documentary intended for theatrical release.[17]
English title | Director(s) | Country | Language |
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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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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.[19] 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).[20]
English title | Director(s) | Country | Language |
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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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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.[22]
English title | Director(s) | Country | Language |
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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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EFA Lifetime Achievement Award | European Achievement in World Cinema | European Innovative Storytelling | Eurimages Co-Production Award | European Sustainability Award – Prix Film4Climate |
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Ukrainian producers[25]
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The award is directed to recognize films which help to raise awareness of socio-political issues in Europe.[27] Close, directed by Lukas Dhont, was awarded the prize in a ceremony in the European Parliament's Hemicycle in Brussels on 27 June 2023.[28]
English title | Director(s) | Country |
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Close | Lukas Dhont | / / |
Alcarràs | Carla Simón | / |
Burning Days | Emin Alper | / / / / / |
Triangle of Sadness | Ruben Östlund | / / / |
Will-o'-the-Wisp | João Pedro Rodrigues | / |
The award is presented to the director of a European film that addresses an audience between 12 and 14 years of age.[29] 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.[30][31]
English title | Director(s) | Country | Language |
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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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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.[33] The nominations were announced on 7 October 2022.[34][35] The winner was announced on 9 December 2022.[36]
English title | Director(s) | Country | Language |
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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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