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