37th European Film Awards
| 37th European Film Awards | |
|---|---|
| Date | 7 December 2024 |
| Site | KKL, Lucerne, Switzerland |
| Hosted by | Fernando Tiberini |
| Organized by | European Film Academy |
| Official website | EFA |
| Highlights | |
| Best Picture | Emilia Pérez |
| Most awards | Emilia Pérez (5) |
| Most nominations | Emilia Pérez (5) |
| Television coverage | |
| Network | europeanfilmawards.eu[1] |
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.[2] Swiss host and voiceover actor Fernando Tiberini hosted the ceremony.[3]
The winners of the Excellence Awards were announced on 13 November 2024, honoring the arts and crafts of filmmaking in eight categories.[4][5] On 7 December the other winners were revealed during the cerimony, with Jacques Audiard's Emilia Perez winning in each of the categories it was nominated.[6]
Selections
Feature films
The first part of the Academy’s Feature Film Selection was announced on 14 August 2024.[7][8] The second part with 16 further titles was announced on 26 September 2024.[9][10]
- 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.[11][12]
- 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.[13] The nominees for European Short Film were revealed on 16 October 2024.[14][15] The nominees for the main categories were announced on 5 November 2024.[16][17]
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Actor | Work |
|---|---|
| Abou Sangare
|
Souleymane's Story |
| Franz Rogowski
|
Bird |
| Ralph Fiennes
|
Conclave |
| Lars Eidinger
|
Dying |
| Daniel Craig
|
Queer |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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
Honorary Awards
| EFA Lifetime Achievement Award | European Achievement in World Cinema | Eurimages International Co-Production Award |
|---|---|---|
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.[21][22]
| 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.[23] The winner was announced at the Mayor’s Night in Lucerne on 6 December 2024, the evening before the European Film Awards Ceremony.[24]
| 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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