28/04/2025 - 37 critics from 13 Latin American countries will choose three favourites from among 19 films, before crowning the winning movie at the Guadalajara Film Festival in June

For the second time, European Film Promotion (EFP) is presenting the Latin American Critics’ Award for European Films. 37 film critics and journalists from 13 Latin American countries will choose three favourites from among 19 nominated films, before crowning the winning movie at the Guadalajara Film Festival (FICG) on 7 June 2025.

Nominated by 19 national film promotion institutes from throughout Europe, the shortlist includes outstanding feature-length films which celebrated international premieres at recent renowned film festivals and were honoured with prestigious film awards:

Kurdwin Ayub's Moon [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Kurdwin Ayub
film profile] (Austria), Michiel Blanchart's Night Call [+see also:
film review
interview: Michiel Blanchart
film profile] (Belgium/France), Igor Bezinović's Fiume o Morte! [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] (Croatia/Italy/Slovenia), Emilios Avraam's Smaragda - I Got Thick Skin and I Can't Jump [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] (Cyprus), Jiří Mádl's Waves [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Jiří Mádl
film profile] (Czech Republic/Slovakia), Jeanette Nordahl's Beginnings [+see also:
film review
interview: Jeanette Nordahl
film profile] (Denmark/Sweden/Belgium), Eva Kübar's My Partners (Estonia), Léonor Serraille's Ari [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Léonor Serraille
film profile] (France/Belgium), Scandar Copti's Happy Holidays [+see also:
film review
interview: Scandar Copti
film profile] (Palestine/Germany/France/Italy/Qatar), Dimitris Nakos' Meat [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Dimitris Nakos
film profile] (Greece), Rúnar Rúnarsson's When the Light Breaks [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Elín Hall
interview: Rúnar Rúnarsson
film profile] (Iceland/Netherlands/Coratia/France), Brendan Canty's Christy [+see also:
film review
interview: Brendan Canty
film profile] (Ireland/UK), Eric Lamhène's Breathing Underwater [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Eric Lamhène, Rae Lyn Lee
film profile] (Luxembourg/Belgium), Peter Hoogendoorn's Three Days of Fish [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Peter Hoogendoorn
film profile] (Netherlands/Belgium), Rita Nunes' The Best of All Worlds (Portugal), Iveta Grófová's The Hungarian Dressmaker [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Iveta Grófová
film profile] (Slovakia/Czech Republic), Urška Djukić's Little Trouble Girls [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] (Slovenia/Italy/Croatia/Serbia), Eva Libertad's Deaf [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Eva Libertad
film profile] (Spain) and Petra Volpe's Late Shift [+see also:
film review
interview: Petra Volpe
film profile] (Switzerland/Germany).

The 37 jury members from 13 Latin American countries (find them here) are currently busy selecting before deciding on the three finalists. In the next step, they will vote for the winning film to receive the Latin American Critics’ Award at the Guadalajara Film Festival.

In 2024, EFP launched the Latin American Critics’ Award to enhance the exposure and the circulation of European films in Latin America, while at the same time recognising the invaluable role of film critics and journalists in promoting arthouse cinema. The previous winner was İlker Çatak's The Teachersʼ Lounge [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: İlker Çatak
interview: Leonie Benesch
film profile] (Germany) (read news).  

The Latin American Critics’ Awards, in cooperation with the Guadalajara Film Festival, is made possible thanks to the support of Creative Europe – the MEDIA Programme of the European Union and the national film promotion institutes. Media partners are LatAm cinema and Cineuropa.