The European Film Academy announces this year’s feature film selection

Taking place on 7 December in Lucerne, Switzerland, the European Film Awards 2024 honour the greatest achievements in European cinema. The selection procedure for the prestigious awards, presented jointly by the European Film Academy and European Film Academy Productions, is underway.

The European Film Academy Board – consulted by a diverse range of invited European experts – chose 29 productions as the first part of the Academy’s Feature Film Selection 2024. 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 2024. Further titles 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 2023 and 31 May 2024 and have a European director.

With 26 European countries represented – both EU and non-EU, the list of the selected films reflects the excellency of European filmmakers demonstrating the variety, diversity and creativity throughout Europe.

The Feature Film Selection announcement is the first step in the three-stage awarding procedure. In the coming weeks, the 5,000 members of the European Film Academy will start to watch and vote for the selected films. Based on the votes of the participating members the nominations in the feature film categories ‘European Film’, ‘Director’, ‘Actor’, ‘Actress’ and ‘Screenwriter’, ‘European Documentary’ as well as ‘European Discovery’ and ‘Young Audience Award’ will be made public on 5November 2024. The winners will be announced at the European Film Awards ceremony in Lucerne on 7 December 2024.

In addition to 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 selection is based on the Diversity & Inclusion Standards of the European Film Academy.

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UN AMOR
Directed by: Isabel Coixet
Written by: Isabel Coixet, Laura Ferrero
Produced by: Marisa Fernández Armenteros, Sandra Hermida Múñiz
Festival: San Sebastian Film Festival (competition), best supporting performance winner

ARCADIA (ΑΡΚΑΝΤΙΑ)
Directed by: Yorgos Zois
Written by: Konstantina Kotzamani, Yorgos Zois
Produced by: Antigoni Rota, Maria Drandaki, Stelios Cotionis, Veselka Kiryakova
Festival: Berlin Film Festival (Encounters Award)

ARMAND
Directed by: Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel
Written by: Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel
Produced by: Andrea Berentsen Ottmar
Festival: Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard), Golden Camera winner

BIRD
Directed by: Andrea Arnold
Written by: Andrea Arnold
Produced by: Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, Lee Groombridge
Festival: Cannes Film Festival (competition)

THE COUNT OF MONTE-CRISTO (LE COMTE DE MONTE-CRISTO)
Directed by: Matthieu Delaporte, Alexandre De La Patellière
Written by: Matthieu Delaporte, Alexandre De La Patellière
Produced by: Dimitri Rassam, Ardavan Safaee
Festival: Cannes Film Festival (out of competition)

CROSSING
Directed by: Levan Akin
Written by: Levan Akin
Produced by: Mathilde Dedye, Katja Adomeit, Anna Kharahadze, Nino Chichua, Ersan Çongar, Nadia Turincev, Omar El Kadi
Festival: Berlin Film Festival (Panorama)

THE DEVIL’S BATH (DES TEUFELS BAD)
Directed by: Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala
Written by: Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala
Produced by: Ulrich Seidl, Bettina Brokemper
Festival: Berlin Film Festival (competition), Outstanding Artistic Contribution winner

DYING (STERBEN)
Directed by: Matthias Glasner
Written by: Matthias Glasner
Produced by: Jan Krüger, Ulf Israel, Matthias Glasner
Festival: Berlin Film Festival (competition), best screenplay winner

EMILIA PÉREZ
Directed by: Jacques Audiard
Written by: Jacques Audiard
Produced by: Pascal Caucheteux, Jacques Audiard, Valérie Schermann
Festival: Cannes Film Festival (competition), best actress, jury prize winner

THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE (PIGEN MED NÅLEN)
Directed by: Magnus von Horn
Written by: Magnus von Horn, Line Langebek
Produced by: Malene Blenkov, Mariusz Włodarski
Festival: Cannes Film Festival (competition)

GRAND TOUR
Directed by: Miguel Gomes
Written by: Mariana Ricardo, Telmo Churro, Maureen Fazendeiro, Miguel Gomes
Produced by: Filipa Reis
Festival: Cannes Film Festival (competition), best director winner

HESITATION WOUND (TEREDDÜT ÇİZGİSİ)
Directed by: Selman Nacar
Written by: Selman Nacar
Produced by: Diloy Gülün, Burak Çevik, Selman Nacar
Festival: Venice Film Festival (Horizons)

THE INVISIBLE FIGHT (NÄHTAMATU VÕITLUS)
Directed by: Rainer Sarnet
Written by: Rainer Sarnet
Produced by: Katrin Kissa, Amanda Livanou, Alise Gelze, Helen Vinogradov, Aleksi Bardy
Festival: Locarno Film Festival (competition)

JULIE KEEPS QUIET (JULIE ZWIJGT)
Directed by: Leonardo Van Dijl
Written by: Leonardo van Dijl, Ruth Becquart
Produced by: Gilles De Schryver, Gilles Coulier, Wouter Sap, Roxanne Sarkozi
Festival: Cannes Film Festival (Critics’ Week)

KINDS OF KINDNESS
Directed by: Yorgos Lanthimos
Written by: Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou
Produced by: Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos, Kasia Malipan
Festival: Cannes Film Festival (competition), best actor winner

KNEECAP
Directed by: Rich Peppiatt
Written by: Rich Peppiatt, JJ Ó Dochartaigh, Naoise Ó Cairealláin, Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh
Produced by: Patrick O’Neill, Trevor Birney, Jack Tarling
Festival: Sundance Film Festival (NEXT Innovator Award), audience award winner

LIFE (HAYAT)
Directed by: Zeki Demirkubuz
Written by: Zeki Demirkubuz
Produced by: Zeki Demirkubuz, Rossitsa Valkanova
Festival: Thessaloniki Film Festival

MISERICORDIA (MISERICORDE)
Directed by: Alain Guiraudie
Written by: Alain Guiraudie
Produced by: Charles Gillibert, Albert Serra, Montse Triola, Joaquim Sapinho, Marta Alves
Festival: Cannes Film Festival (Premiere)

THE OTHER WAY AROUND (VOLVERÉIS)
Directed by: Jonás Trueba
Written by: Jonás Trueba, Itsaso Arana, Vito Sanz
Produced by: Jonás Trueba, Javier Lafuente
Festival: Cannes Film Festival (Directors’ Fortnight), Label Europa Cinemas winner

THE RYE HORN (O CORNO)
Directed by: Jaione Camborda
Written by: Jaione Camborda
Produced by: Jaione Camborda, Andrea Vázquez,María Zamora
Festival: San Sebastian Film Festival (competition), best film winner

THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG (DANAYE ANJIR-E MOABAD)
Directed by: Mohammad Rasoulof
Written by: Mohammad Rasoulof
Produced by: Mohammad Rasoulof, Mani Tilgner, Jean-Christophe Simon, Rozita Hendijanian, Amin Sadraei
Festival: Cannes Film Festival (competition), jury special prize, Fipresci Award winner

THE SHAMELESS
Directed by: Konstantin Bojanov
Written by: Konstantin Bojanov
Produced by: Nicolas Wadimoff, Philippe Coeytaux, Séverine Pisani, Frédéric Corvez, Maéva Savinien, Rossitsa Valkanova, Vincent Wang, Mohaan Nadaar
Festival: Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard), best actress winner

SOULEYMANE’S STORY (L’HISTOIRE DE SOULEYMANE)
Directed by: Boris Lojkine
Written by: Boris Lojkine, Delphine Agut
Produced by: Bruno Nahon
Festival: Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard), jury prize, best actor winner

THE SUBSTANCE
Directed by: Coralie Fargeat
Written by: Coralie Fargeat
Produced by: Tim Bevan, Coralie Fargeat, Eric Fellner
Festival: Cannes Film Festival (competition), best screenplay winner

THERE’S STILL TOMORROW (C’È ANCORA DOMANI)
Directed by: Paola Cortellesi
Written by: Furio Andreotti, Giulia Calenda, Paola Cortellesi
Produced by: Mario Gianani, Lorenzo Gangarossa
Festival: Rome Film Festival, special jury award, audience award winner

THREE KILOMETRES TO THE END OF THE WORLD (TREI KILOMETRI PANA LA CAPATUL LUMII)
Directed by: Emanuel Pârvu
Written by: Emanuel Pârvu, Miruna Berescu
Produced by: Miruna Berescu
Festival: Cannes Film Festival (competition), Queer Palme winner

THE VILLAGE NEXT TO PARADISE
Directed by: Mo Harawe
Written by: Mo Harawe
Produced by: Sabine Moser, Oliver Neumann, Jean-Christophe Reymond, Nicole Gerhards, Mo Harawe
Festival: Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard)

WHEN THE LIGHT BREAKS (LJÓSBROT)
Directed by: Rúnar Rúnarsson
Written by: Rúnar Rúnarsson
Produced by: Heather Millard, Rúnar Rúnarsson, Raymond van der Kaaij, Igor A Nola, Mike Downey, Xenia Maingot, Sarah Chazelle
Festival: Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard)

WITHOUT AIR (ELFOGY A LEVEGŐ)
Directed by: Katalin Moldovai
Written by: Zita Palóczi, Katalin Moldovai
Produced by: Béla Attila Kovács, András Muhi, Katalin Moldovai
Festival: Toronto Film Festival