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