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 [+lire aussi :
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interview : Kurdwin Ayub
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interview : Michiel Blanchart
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fiche film] (Cyprus), Jiří Mádl's Waves [+lire aussi :
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interview : Jiří Mádl
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interview : Jeanette Nordahl
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interview : Léonor Serraille
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interview : Scandar Copti
fiche film] (Palestine/Germany/France/Italy/Qatar), Dimitris Nakos' Meat [+lire aussi :
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interview : Dimitris Nakos
fiche film] (Greece), Rúnar Rúnarsson's When the Light Breaks [+lire aussi :
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interview : Elín Hall
interview : Rúnar Rúnarsson
fiche film] (Iceland/Netherlands/Coratia/France), Brendan Canty's Christy [+lire aussi :
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interview : Brendan Canty
fiche film] (Ireland/UK), Eric Lamhène's Breathing Underwater [+lire aussi :
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interview : Éric Lamhène et Rae Lyn Lee
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interview : Peter Hoogendoorn
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interview : Iveta Grófová
fiche film] (Slovakia/Czech Republic), Urška Djukić's Little Trouble Girls [+lire aussi :
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interview : Eva Libertad
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interview : Petra Volpe
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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 [+lire aussi :
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interview : İlker Çatak
interview : Leonie Benesch
fiche film] (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.