14/08/2024 - A total of 29 productions whose first official screening took place between 1 June 2023 and 31 May 2024 have been selected to vie for the awards

Taking place on 7 December in Lucerne, Switzerland, the European Film Awards will honour the greatest achievements in European cinema. The European Film Academy board – consulted by a diverse range of invited European experts – chose 29 productions as the first part of the Academy’s Fiction Feature Film Selection.

Eligible for the European Film Awards are European feature films which, among other criteria, had their first official screening between 1 June 2023 and 31 May 2024 and have a European director (should a film director not be European, ‘provided they have a European refugee or similar status or have lived in Europe and worked in the European film industry for at least five consecutive years). Further titles will be announced in September.

With 26 European countries represented – both EU and non-EU, the list of the selected films reflects the excellency of European filmmakers demonstrating the variety, diversity and creativity throughout Europe. The announcement is the first step in the three-stage awarding procedure. In the coming weeks, the 5,000 members of the European Film Academy will start to watch and vote for the selected films. Based on the votes of the participating members the nominations in the feature film categories European Film, European Director, European Actor, European Actress and European Screenwriter, European Documentary as well as European Discovery and the Young Audience Award (which will be made public on 5 November). In addition to voting, the selected films will be considered for the Excellence Awards in the categories European Cinematography, European Editing, European Production Design, European Costume Design, European Make-up & Hair, European Original Score, European Sound and European Visual Effects which will be determined by an eight-member jury consisting of representatives of the different arts and crafts.

The first part of the 2024 Fiction Feature Film Selection is:

Arcadia [+see also:
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interview: Yorgos Zois
film profile] - Yorgos Zois (Greece/Bulgaria/USA)
Armand [+see also:
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interview: Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel
film profile] - Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel (Norway/Netherlands/Germany/Sweden)
Bird [+see also:
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film profile] - Andrea Arnold (UK/France)
Crossing [+see also:
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interview: Levan Akin
film profile] - Levan Akin (Sweden/Denmark/France/Turkey/Georgia)
Dying [+see also:
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interview: Matthias Glasner
film profile] - Matthias Glasner (Germany)
Emilia Pérez [+see also:
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film profile] - Jacques Audiard (France)
Grand Tour [+see also:
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interview: Marta Donzelli, Gregorio Pa…
interview: Miguel Gomes
film profile] - Miguel Gomes (Portugal/Italy/France/Germany/Japan/China)
Hesitation Wound [+see also:
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interview: Selman Nacar
film profile] - Selman Nacar (Turkey/Spain/Romania/France)
Julie Keeps Quiet [+see also:
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interview: Leonardo van Dijl
film profile] - Leonardo Van Dijl (Belgium/Sweden)
Kinds of Kindness [+see also:
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film profile] - Yorgos Lanthimos (Ireland/UK/USA)
Kneecap [+see also:
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film profile] - Rich Peppiatt (Ireland)
Life - Zeki Demirkubuz (Turkey)
Misericordia [+see also:
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interview: Alain Guiraudie
film profile] - Alain Guiraudie (France)
Souleymane’s Story [+see also:
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interview: Boris Lojkine
film profile] - Boris Lojkine (France)
The Count Of Monte-Cristo [+see also:
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film profile] - Matthieu Delaporte, Alexandre de la Patellière (France)
The Devil’s Bath [+see also:
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interview: Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala
film profile] - Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala (Austria/Germany)
The Girl With The Needle [+see also:
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interview: Magnus von Horn
film profile] - Magnus Von Horn (Denmark/Poland/Sweden)
The Invisible Fight [+see also:
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film profile] - Rainer Sarnet (Estonia/Latvia/Greece/Finland)
The Other Way Around [+see also:
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interview: Jonás Trueba
film profile] - Jonás Trueba (Spain/France)
The Rye Horn [+see also:
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interview: Jaione Camborda
film profile] - Jaione Camborda (Spain/Portugal/Belgium)
The Seed of the Sacred Fig [+see also:
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interview: Mohammad Rasoulof
film profile] - Mohammad Rasoulof (Iran/Germany/France)
The Shameless [+see also:
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interview: Konstantin Bojanov
film profile] - Konstantin Bojanov (Switzerland/France/Bulgaria/Taiwan/India)
The Substance [+see also:
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film profile] - Coralie Fargeat (UK/USA/France)
The Village Next to Paradise [+see also:
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film profile] - Mo Harawe (Austria/France/Germany/Somalia)
There’s Still Tomorrow [+see also:
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film profile] - Paola Cortellesi (Italy)
Three Kilometres to the End of the World [+see also:
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interview: Emanuel Pârvu
film profile] - Emanuel Pârvu (Romania)
Un amor [+see also:
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interview: Isabel Coixet
film profile] - Isabel Coixet (Spain)
When The Light Breaks [+see also:
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interview: Rúnar Rúnarsson
film profile] - Rúnar Rúnarsson (Iceland/Netherlands/Croatia/France)
Without Air [+see also:
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interview: Katalin Moldovai
film profile] - Katalin Moldovai (Hungary/Romania)