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.

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