Five nominated films announced by European University Film Award

Drumroll for the five nominees in the running for the European University Film Award (EUFA).

The European Film Academy and Filmfest Hamburg announce this year’s nominated films. Introduced in 2016, the award is presented by university students from across Europe. Based on the European Film Awards Feature and Documentary Film Selections 2023, these are the five nominations:

ANATOMY OF A FALL (ANATOMIE D’UNE CHUTE)
France
DIRECTED BY Justine Triet
WRITTEN BY Justine Triet & Arthur Harari
PRODUCED BY Marie-Ange Luciani & David Thion

GREEN BORDER (ZIELONA GRANICA)
Poland, France, Czech Republic, Belgium
DIRECTED BY Agnieszka Holland
WRITTEN BY Maciej Pisuk, Gabriela Lazarkiewicz-Sieczko & Agnieszka Holland
PRODUCED BY Marcin Wierzchosłąwski, Fred Bernstein & Agnieszka Holland

HOUSEKEEPING FOR BEGINNERS (DOMAKINSTVO ZA POCETNICI)
North Macedonia, Croatia, Serbia, Poland, Kosovo
DIRECTED & WRITTEN BY Goran Stolevski
PRODUCED BY Marija Dimitrova, Klaudia Śmieja-Rostworowska, Ankica Jurić Tilić, Beata Rzeźniczek, Milan Stojanović & Blerta Basholli

HOW TO HAVE SEX
United Kingdom, Greece
DIRECTED & WRITTEN BY Molly Manning Walker
PRODUCED BY Ivana MacKinnon, Emily Leo & Konstantinos Kontovrakis

THE TEACHER’S LOUNGE (DAS LEHRERZIMMER)
Germany
DIRECTED BY Ilker Çatak
WRITTEN BY Ilker Çatak & Johannes Duncker
PRODUCED BY Ingo Fliess

The nominated films will be viewed and discussed in 25 universities in 25 countries and each institution will select its favourite film. In early December, one student representative from each university will attend a three-day deliberation meeting in Hamburg to decide on the overall winner. The winner will then be announced on 7 December, shortly before this year’s European Film Awards Ceremony on 9 December in Berlin.

The aim of this initiative by the European Film Academy and Filmfest Hamburg is to involve a younger audience, to spread the European idea and to transport the spirit of European cinema to an audience of university students. It shall also support film dissemination, film education and the culture of debating.

The European University Film Award 2023 is made possible with the support of the Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Research and Culture, the Claussen-Simon Foundation and the Alfred Toepfer Foundation F.V.S..