The European Film Awards, honouring the greatest achievements in European cinema, will be presented on 10 December in Reykjavík, Iceland, and the selection procedure is in full swing.
The European Film Academy Board – consulted by a diverse range of European invited experts – has chosen 30 films to be part of the Academy´s Feature Film Selection 2022. The Feature Film Selection includes films that the Board of the Academy recommends to all Academy members for a nomination for the European Film Awards 2022. In a second part, 10-15 further titles for the Feature Film Selection will be announced in September.
Eligible for the European Film Awards are European feature films which, among other criteria, had their first official screening between 1 June 2021 and 31 May 2022 and have a European director.
With the announcement of the Feature Film Selection, the first step in the three-stage awarding procedure is completed. In the coming weeks, the 4,400 members of the European Film Academy will start to watch the selected films and after the final announcement of all films vote on the nominations in the feature film categories ‘European Film’, ‘Director’, ‘Actor’, ‘Actress’ and ‘Screenwriter’ as well as for the nominations in the category ‘European Documentary’. Based on the votes of the participating members, the nominations will be made public on 8 November 2022. The members of the European Film Academy will then vote for the winners who will be announced at the European Film Awards ceremony in Reykjavík on 10 December 2022.
Additionally to the voting, the selected films will be considered for the Excellence Awards in the categories ‘European Cinematography’, ‘Editing’, ‘Production Design’, ‘Costume Design’, ‘Make-up & Hair’, ‘Original Score’, ‘Sound’ and ‘Visual Effects’ which will be determined by an eight-member jury consisting of representatives of the different arts and crafts. There will be no nominations in these categories.
The Academy Selection is deemed among the most excellent that European cinema has to offer and represents every year the very best of European cinema. With 27 European countries – both EU and non-EU – represented, the list of selected films once again illustrates the great variety in cinema throughout Europe.
The selection is based on the Diversity & Inclusion Standards of the European Film Academy, as displayed here.
The ceremony of the European Film Awards – the most renowned and prestigious award for European film – is presented by the European Film Academy and European Film Academy Production gGmbH.
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FEATURE FILM SELECTION
ALCARRÀS / ALCARRÀS
Spain, Italy (120 min)
Directed by: Carla Simón
Written by: Carla Simón, Arnau Vilaró
AS FAR AS I CAN WALK / STRAHINJA BANOVIĆ
Serbia, Luxembourg, France, Bulgaria, Lithuania (92 min)
Written by: Stefan Arsenijevic, Bojan Vuletic, Nicolas Ducray
BEAUTIFUL BEINGS / BERDREYMI
Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, The Netherlands, Czech Republic (123 min)
Written by: Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
BELFAST / BELFAST
UK, Ireland (97 min)
Written by: Kenneth Branagh
BENEDICTION / BENEDICTION
UK (137 min)
Written by: Terence Davies
BOY FROM HEAVEN / BOY FROM HEAVEN
Sweden, France, Finland (125 min)
Written by: Tarik Saleh
BURNING DAYS / KURAK GÜNLER
Turkey, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Greece, Croatia (130 min)
Written by: Emin Alper
CLOSE / CLOSE
Belgium, France, The Netherlands (108 min)
Written by: Lukas Dhont, Angelo Tijssens
CORSAGE / CORSAGE
Austria, Luxembourg, Germany, France (113 min)
Written by: Marie Kreutzer
EO / EO
Poland, Italy (88 min)
Written by: Ewa Piaskowska, Jerzy Skolimowski
GIRL PICTURE / TYTÖT TYTÖT TYTÖT
Finland (100 min)
Written by: Ilona Ahti, Daniela Hakulinen
GODLAND / VANSKABTE LAND / VOLAÐA LAND
Denmark, Iceland, France, Sweden (143 min)
Written by: Hlynur Pálmason
HOLY SPIDER / HOLY SPIDER
Denmark, Germany, Sweden, France (117 min)
Written by: Ali Abbasi, Afshin Kamran Bahrami
MAIXABEL / MAIXABEL
Spain (116 min)
Written by: Iciar Bollain, Isa Campo
MEDITERRANEAN FEVER / حمّى البحر المتوسط
Germany, France, Cyprus, Palestine (108 min)
Written by: Maha Haj
MORE THAN EVER / PLUS QUE JAMAIS
France, Germany, Luxembourg, Norway (73 min)
Written by: Emily Atef, Lars Hubrich
NOSTALGIA / NOSTALGIA
Italy, France (76 min)
Written by: Mario Martone, Ippolita Di Majo
ONE FINE MORNING / UN BEAU MATIN
France, Germany, UK, USA (69 min)
Written by: Mia Hansen-Løve
PACIFICTION / TOURMENT SUR LES ILES
France, Spain, Germany, Portugal (99 min)
Written by: Albert Serra
PARALLEL MOTHERS / MADRES PARALELAS
Spain (72 min)
Written by: Pedro Almodóvar
RABIYE KURNAZ VS. GEORGE W. BUSH / RABIYE KURNAZ GEGEN GEORGE W. BUSH
Germany, France, Germany (71 min)
Written by: Laila Stieler
REFLECTION / VIDBLYSK
Ukraine (77 min)
Written by: Valentyn Vasyanovych
THE BEASTS / AS BESTAS
Spain, France (127 min)
Written by: Isabel Peña Domingo, Rodrigo Sorogoyen
THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS / LE OTTO MONTAGNE
Italy, Belgium, France (147 min)
Written by: Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch
THE HOLE / IL BUCO
Italy, Germany, France (93 min)
Written by: Michelangelo Frammartino, Giovanna Giuliani
THE QUIET GIRL / AN CAILÍN CIÚIN
Ireland (95 min)
Directed by: Colm Bairéad
Written by: Colm Bairéad
TORI AND LOKITA / TORI ET LOKITA
Belgium, France (68 min)
Written by: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
TRIANGLE OF SADNESS / TRIANGLE OF SADNESS
Sweden, Germany, France, UK (142 min)
Written by: Ruben Östlund
WILL-O’-THE-WISP / FOGO-FÁTUO
Portugal, France (67 min)
Written by: João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata, Paulo Lopes Graça
WOMEN DO CRY / WOMEN DO CRY
Bulgaria, France (107 min)
Directed by: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
Written by: Bilyana Kazakova, Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
