36th European Film Awards

2023 award ceremony

36th European Film Awards

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Date| 9 December 2023 (2023-12-09)
Site| Berlin, Germany
Organized by| European Film Academy
Official website| EFA

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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.[1]

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.[2] 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.[3]

## Selections

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### Feature films

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Selection's part 1 was announced on 16 August 2023.[4] 2nd part of the selection was announced on 27 September 2023.[5]

* 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

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The selection was announced on August 30, 2023.[6]

* 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

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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.[7]

* 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

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Source:[2]

### European Film

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English title  | Director(s)  | Producer(s)

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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

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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

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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

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Actor  | English title  | Role

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|

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

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Actor  | English title  | Role

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|

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

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European Cinematography | European Editing | European Production Design | European Costume Design

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|
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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

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|
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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

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### European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI

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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

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English title  | Original title  | Director(s)

|
|

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

### European Animated Feature Film

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English title[8] | Original title  | Director(s)

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|

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

### European Short Film

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English title[9] | Original title  | Director(s)

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|

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

## Honorary Awards

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EFA Lifetime Achievement Award[10] | Honorary Award of the Academy President and the Board[11] | European Achievement in World Cinema

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Vanessa Redgrave

Béla Tarr

Isabel Coixet

European Innovative Storytelling  | Eurimages Co-Production Award[12] | European Sustainability Award – Prix4Climate

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Uljana Kim

Güler Sabancı

## Special Awards

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### Lux European Audience Film Award 2024

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The award is directed to recognize films which help to raise awareness of socio-political issues in Europe.[13]

English title  | Original title  | Director(s)

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|

Fallen Leaves | Kuolleet lehdet |  Aki Kaurismäki
On the Adamant | Sur l'Adamant |  Nicolas Philibert
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood | Savvusanna sõsarad |  Anna Hints
The Teachers' Lounge[14] | Das Lehrerzimmer |  İlker Çatak
20,000 Species of Bees | 20.000 especies de abejas |  Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren

### European University Film Award (EUFA)

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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.[15]

English title  | Original title  | Director(s)

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|

Anatomy of a Fall | Anatomie d'une chute |  Justine Triet
Green Border | Zielona granica |  Agnieszka Holland
Housekeeping for Beginners |  /  Goran Stolevski
How to Have Sex |  Molly Manning Walker
The Teachers' Lounge | Das Lehrerzimmer |  İlker Çatak

## References

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1. ^ "2023 Berlin". European Film Academy. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
2. ^ a b Goodfellow, Melanie (7 November 2023). "'Fallen Leaves' & 'The Zone Of Interest' Top European Film Award Nominations In Main Categories". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
3. ^ "The winners of the European Film Awards 2023". European Film Academy. Retrieved 20 September 2024.
4. ^ Tabbara, Mona (16 August 2023). "European Film Awards first 2023 selection includes 'Anatomy Of A Fall, 'How To Have Sex'". ScreenDaily. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
5. ^ "Feature Film Selection 2023 – Part 2". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 28 September 2023.
6. ^ "Documentary Film Selection 2023". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 30 August 2023.
7. ^ "Short Film Candidates". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
8. ^ "Five films nominated for European Animated Film 2023". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
9. ^ "Five films nominated for European Short Film 2023". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
10. ^ "The Academy Honours Vanessa Redgrave". European Film Academy. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
11. ^ "The Academy Honours Béla Tarr". European Film Academy. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
12. ^ "The European Film Academy Honours Uljana Kim". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
13. ^ "Here come the nominees for LUX – The European Audience Film Award 2024". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
14. ^ "THE TEACHERS' LOUNGE wins the LUX Audience Award 2024". European Film Academy. Retrieved 20 September 2024.
15. ^ "These are the five nominated films for European University Film Award (EUFA)". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 5 October 2023.

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