37th European Film Awards

37th European Film Awards
Date	7 December 2024 (2024-12-07)
Site	Lucerne, Switzerland
Hosted by	Fernando Tiberini
Organized by	European Film Academy
Official website	EFA
Highlights
Best Picture	Emilia Pérez

The 37th European Film Awards, presented by the European Film Academy to recognize achievements in European filmmaking, took place at Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Luzern in Lucerne on 7 December 2024. It marked the first time the awards ceremony was held in Switzerland.^[1] Swiss host and voiceover actor Fernando Tiberini hosted the ceremony.^[2]

Selections

Feature films

The first part of the Academy’s Feature Film Selection was announced on 14 August 2024.^[3][4] The second part with 16 further titles was announced on 26 September 2024.^[5][6]

• April – Dea Kulumbegashvili ( France,  Georgia,  Italy)
• Arcadia – Yorgos Zois ( Bulgaria,  Greece,  United States)
• Armand – Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel ( Germany,  Netherlands,  Norway,  Sweden)
• Bird – Andrea Arnold ( France,  Germany,  United Kingdom,  United States)
• Conclave – Edward Berger ( United Kingdom,  United States)
• Crossing – Levan Akin ( France,  Georgia,  Germany,  Sweden,  Turkey)
• Dying – Matthias Glasner ( Germany)
• Emilia Pérez – Jacques Audiard ( France)
• Grand Tour – Miguel Gomes ( France,  Italy,  Portugal)
• Hard Truths – Mike Leigh ( Spain,  United Kingdom)
• Harvest – Athina Rachel Tsangari ( Germany,  United Kingdom,  United States)
• Hesitation Wound – Selman Nacar ( France,  Romania,  Spain,  Turkey)
• Julie Keeps Quiet – Leonardo Van Dijl ( Belgium,  Sweden)
• Kinds of Kindness – Yorgos Lanthimos ( Greece,  Ireland,  United Kingdom,  United States)
• Kneecap – Rich Peppiatt ( Ireland,  United Kingdom)
• Life – Zeki Demirkubuz ( Bulgaria,  Turkey)
• Misericordia – Alain Guiraudie ( France,  Portugal,  Spain)
• Misericordia – Emma Dante ( Italy)
• Moon – Kurdwin Ayub ( Austria)
• Mr. K – Tallulah Hazekamp Schwab ( Belgium,  Netherlands,  Norway)
• My Fathers' Daughter – Egil Pedersen ( Finland,  Norway,  Sweden)
• Queer – Luca Guadagnino ( Italy,  United States)
• Souleymane's Story – Boris Lojkine ( France)
• The Count of Monte Cristo – Matthieu Delaporte, Alexandre De La Patellière ( France)
• The Devil's Bath – Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala ( Austria,  Germany)
• The End – Joshua Oppenheimer ( Denmark,  Germany,  Ireland,  Italy,  Sweden,  United Kingdom)
• The Girl with the Needle – Magnus von Horn ( Denmark,  Poland,  Sweden)
• The Invisible Fight – Rainer Sarnet ( Estonia,  Finland,  Greece,  Latvia)
• The New Year That Never Came – Bogdan Mureșanu ( Romania)
• The Other Way Around – Jonás Trueba ( France,  Spain)
• The Room Next Door – Pedro Almodóvar ( Spain)
• The Rye Horn – Jaione Camborda ( Belgium,  Portugal,  Spain)
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig – Mohammad Rasoulof ( France,  Germany,  Iran)
• The Shameless – Konstantin Bojanov ( Bulgaria,  France,  India,   Switzerland,  Taiwan)
• The Sparrow in the Chimney – Ramon Zürcher (  Switzerland)
• The Substance – Coralie Fargeat ( France,  United Kingdom,  United States)
• The Village Next to Paradise – Mo Harawe ( Austria,  France,  Somalia)
• There's Still Tomorrow – Paola Cortellesi ( Italy)
• Three Kilometres to the End of the World – Emanuel Pârvu ( Romania)
• Toxic – Saulė Bliuvaitė ( Lithuania)
• Un amor – Isabel Coixet ( Spain)
• Vermiglio – Maura Delpero ( Belgium,  France,  Italy)
• When the Light Breaks – Rúnar Rúnarsson ( Croatia,  France,  Iceland,  Netherlands)
• Windless – Pavel G. Vesnakov ( Bulgaria,  Italy)
• Without Air – Katalin Moldovai ( Hungary)

Documentary

The Documentary Film Selection was announced on 21 August 2024.^[7][8]

• At Averroès & Rosa Parks – Nicolas Philibert ( France)
• Bye Bye Tiberias – Lina Soualem ( France,  Belgium,  Palestine,  Qatar)
• Dahomey – Mati Diop ( France,  Senegal)
• Direct Action – Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell ( Germany,  France)
• In Limbo – Alina Maksimenko ( Poland)
• Marching in the Dark – Kinshuk Surjan ( Belgium,  Netherlands,  India)
• My Stolen Planet – Farahnaz Sharifi ( Germany)
• No Other Land – Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal ( Palestine,  Norway)
• Pelikan Blue – László Csáki ( Hungary)
• Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat – Johan Grimonprez ( France,  Belgium,  Netherlands)
• The Landscape and the Fury – Nicole Vögele (  Switzerland)
• The Words Women Spoke One Day – Raphaël Pillosio ( France)

Winners and nominees

The nominees for European Animated Feature Film were revealed on 9 October 2024.^[9] The nominees for European Short Film were revealed on 16 October 2024.^[10][11] The nominees for the main categories were announced on 5 November 2024.^[12][13] The winners of the Excellence Awards were announced on 13 November 2024, honoring the arts and crafts of filmmaking in eight categories.^[14][15]

European Film

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Producer(s)
Emilia Pérez		Jacques Audiard	Pascal Caucheteux Jacques Audiard Valérie Schermann Anthony Vaccarello
The Room Next Door		Pedro Almodóvar	Agustín Almodóvar Esther García
The Seed of the Sacred Fig	دانه‌ی انجیر معابد	Mohammad Rasoulof	Mohammad Rasoulof Amin Sadraei Jean-Christophe Simon Mani Tilgner Rozita Hendijanian
The Substance		Coralie Fargeat	Coralie Fargeat Tim Bevan Eric Fellner
Vermiglio		Maura Delpero	Francesca Andreoli Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli Santiago Fondevila Sancet Maura Delpero

European Director

Director(s)	Work
Jacques Audiard	Emilia Pérez
Andrea Arnold	Bird
Pedro Almodóvar	The Room Next Door
Mohammad Rasoulof	The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Maura Delpero	Vermiglio

European Screenwriter

Screenwriter(s)	Work
Jacques Audiard	Emilia Pérez
Magnus von Horn Line Langebek	The Girl with the Needle
Pedro Almodóvar	The Room Next Door
Mohammad Rasoulof	The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Coralie Fargeat	The Substance

European Actor

Actor	Work
Abou Sangare	Souleymane's Story
Franz Rogowski	Bird
Ralph Fiennes	Conclave
Lars Eidinger	Dying
Daniel Craig	Queer

European Actress

Actress	Work
Karla Sofía Gascón	Emilia Pérez
Renate Reinsve	Armand
Trine Dyrholm	The Girl with the Needle
Vic Carmen Sonne
Tilda Swinton	The Room Next Door

European Documentary

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
No Other Land		Yuval Abraham Rachel Szor Basel Adra Hamdan Ballal	Palestine, Norway
Bye Bye Tiberias	باي باي طبريا	Lina Soualem	France, Belgium, Palestine, Qatar
Dahomey		Mati Diop	France, Senegal
In Limbo	W zawieszeniu	Alina Maksimenko	Poland
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat		Johan Grimonprez	France, Belgium, Netherlands

European Animated Feature Film

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
Flow	Straume	Gints Zilbalodis	Latvia, France, Belgium
Living Large	Život k sežrání	Kristina Dufková	Czech Republic, France, Slovakia
Savages	Sauvages	Claude Barras	Switzerland, France, Belgium
Sultana's Dream	El sueño de la sultana	Isabel Herguera	Spain, Germany, India
They Shot the Piano Player	Dispararon al pianista	Fernando Trueba Javier Mariscal	Spain, France, Netherlands, Portugal, Peru

European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
Armand		Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel	Norway, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden
Hoard		Luna Carmoon	UK
Kneecap		Rich Peppiatt	Ireland, UK
Santosh		Sandhya Suri	UK, France, Germany
The New Year That Never Came	Anul Nou care n-a fost	Bogdan Mureșanu	Romania, Serbia
Toxic	Akiplėša	Saulė Bliuvaitė	Lithuania

European Young Audience Award

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin	Ibelin	Benjamin Ree	Norway
Lars is LOL	Lars er LOL	Eirik Sæter Stordahl	Norway, Denmark
Winners	Sieger sein	Soleen Yusef	Germany

European Short Film

Title	Director(s)	Country
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent	Nebojša Slijepčević	Croatia, France, Bulgaria, Slovenia
2720	Basil da Cunha	Portugal, Switzerland
Clamor	Salomé Da Souza	France
The Exploding Girl	Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel	France
Wander to Wonder	Nina Gantz	The Netherlands, France, Belgium, United Kingdom

Excellence Awards

European Cinematography Benjamin Kračun – The Substance	European Editing Juliette Welfling – Emilia Pérez	European Production Design Jagna Dobesz – The Girl with the Needle	European Costume Design Tanja Hausner – The Devil's Bath
European Make-up & Hair Evalotte Oosterop – When the Light Breaks	European Original Score Frederikke Hoffmeier – The Girl with the Needle	European Sound Marc-Olivier Brullé Pierre Bariaud Charlotte Butrak Samuel Aïchoun Rodrigo Diaz – Souleymane's Story	European Visual Effects Bryan Jones Pierre Procoudine-Gorsky Chervin Shafaghi Guillaume Le Gouez – The Substance

Honorary Awards

EFA Lifetime Achievement Award	European Achievement in World Cinema	Eurimages International Co-Production Award
Wim Wenders[16]	Isabella Rossellini[17]	Labina Mitevska[18]

Special Awards

Lux European Audience Film Award 2025

The LUX Audience Award, presented by the European Parliament and the European Film Academy, recognize films that help to raise awareness of socio-political issues in Europe.^[19][20]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
Animal		Sofia Exarchou	Greece, Austria, Romania, Cyprus, Bulgaria
Dahomey		Mati Diop	France, Senegal, Benin
Flow		Gints Zilbalodis	Latvia, France, Belgium
Intercepted		Oksana Karpovych	Canada, France, Ukraine
Julie Keeps Quiet	Julie zwijgt	Leonardo van Dijl	Belgium, Sweden

European University Film Award (EUFA)

The nominees for the European University Film Award were announced on 23 October 2024 by the European Film Academy and Filmfest Hamburg.^[21] The winner was announced at the Mayor’s Night in Lucerne on 6 December 2024, the evening before the European Film Awards Ceremony.^[22]

English title	Original title	Director	Country
Three Kilometres to the End of the World	Trei kilometri până la capătul lumii	Emanuel Pârvu	Romania
April		Dea Kulumbegashvili	Georgia, France, Italy
Armand		Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel	Norway, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden
Kneecap		Rich Peppiatt	Ireland, UK
Moon	Mond	Kurdwin Ayub	Austria

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