26/08/2024 - The European Film Academy has chosen 12 eligible productions, representing 9 European countries

The European Film Academy has revealed the Documentary Film Selection for the 2024 European Film Awards, which will be presented on 7 December in Lucerne.

After the first part of the Fiction Feature Film Selection (read news), the academy is presenting a selection of 12 feature-length documentary films. A committee consisting of a diverse range of invited European experts has chosen these productions. With 9 European countries represented – both EU and non-EU – the selection demonstrates the great diversity in European cinema.

Eligible for the European Film Awards are European documentaries 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”, exceptions can be made).

In the coming weeks, the 5,000 members of the European Film Academy will start to watch the selected films and after the final announcement of all films vote on the nominations in the category ‘European Documentary’. Based on the votes of all members, the nominations will be made public on 5 November. The members of the European Film Academy will then vote for the winner.

The 2024 Documentary Film Selection:

At Averroes & Rosa Parks [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Nicolas Philibert
film profile] - Nicolas Philibert (France)
Bye Bye Tiberias [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Lina Soualem
film profile] - Lina Soualem (France/Palestine/Belgium/Qatar)
Dahomey [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Mati Diop (France/Senegal/Benin)
Direct Action [+see also:
film review
film profile] - Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell (Germany/France)
In Limbo [+see also:
film review
film profile] - Alina Maksimenko (Poland)
Marching in the Dark [+see also:
film review
film profile] - Kinshuk Surjan (Belgium/Netherlands/India)
My Stolen Planet [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Farahnaz Sharifi (Germany/Iran)
No Other Land [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham
film profile] - Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal (Palestine/Norway)
Pelikan Blue [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Laszló Csaki
film profile] - László Csáki (Hungary)
Soundtrack to a Coup d’État [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Johan Grimonprez
film profile] - Johan Grimonprez (Belgium/France/Netherlands)
The Landscape and the Fury [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Nicole Vögele (Switzerland)
The Words Women Spoke One Day - Raphaël Pillosio (France)