36th European Film Awards
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| 36th European Film Awards | |
|---|---|
 Logo for Berlin awards | |
| Date | 9 December 2023 |
| Site | Berlin, Germany |
| Organized by | European Film Academy |
| Official website | EFA |
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]
Feature films
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
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
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 – Mona 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:[2]
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| European Make-Up & Hair | European Original Score | European Sound | European Visual Effects |
|---|---|---|---|
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 | 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
| English title[8] | Original title | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 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
| English title[9] | Original title | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
