The European Film Awards (EFA), the top pan-European cinema honor, has kicked off in Berlin.
Arco, Ugo Bienvenu’s hopeful animated fantasy about a boy from the future who offers humanity an alternative to climate change disaster, one the top prize for European Animation Feature Film, perhaps giving the hand-drawn feature a leg-up in awards season.
The EFAs this year moved from December to mid-January, hopping putting the event in peak awards territory will help boost buzz around European contenders for international honors, including the Oscars.
All of this year’s EFA Best Film nominees are Oscar contenders: Joachim Trier‘s Norwegian melodrama Sentimental Value, Jafar Panahi‘s Palme d’Or winning Iranian/French moral thriller It Was Just an Accident, Olivier Laxe’s post-apocalyptic road movie Sirāt, Mascha Schilinski’s multi-generational German period film Sound of Falling, and Kaouther Ben Hania’s harrowing Gaza drama The Voice of Hind Rajab.
In the director’s race, Laxe, Panahi, Trier and Schilinski will be going up against Yorgos Lanthimos, nominated for the Emma Stone/Jessie Plemons starrer Bugonia.
Trier’s Sentimental Value has a slight edge in the overall nominations, with 5 noms across the top 5 categories. Laxe’s Sirāt is right behind it with 4 noms, for best feature, director, actor and screenplay, followed by It Was Just an Accident and Sound of Falling, with 3 noms each.
Liv Ullmann, the two-time Oscar-nominated Norwegian actress and director, best known for such 1970s classics as Cries and Whispers, and Scenes From a Marriage, will receive a lifetime achievement honor at this year’s EFAs. Alice Rohrwacher, the Italian director of La Chimera, Futura, and Happy as Lazzaro will be honored with the European Achievement in World Cinema Award.
Check out the full list of winners below.
EUROPEAN FILM
Afternoons of Solitude
Arco
Dog of God
Fiume o Morte!, dir. Igor Bezinović
It Was Just an Accident, dir. Jafar Panahi
Little Amelie, dir. Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han
Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake, dir. Irene Iborra Rizo
Riefenstahl, dir. Andres Veiel
Sentimental Value, dir. Joachim Trier
Sirāt, dir. Oliver Laxe
Songs of Slow Burning Earth, dir. Olha Zhurba
Sound of Falling, dir. Mascha Schilinski
Tales From the Magic Garden, dir. David Súkup, Patrik Pašš, Leon Vidmar and Jean-Claude Rozec
The Voice of Hind Rajab, dir. Kaouther Ben Hania
With Hasan in Gaza, dir. Kamal Aljafari
EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY
Afternoons of Solitude, dir. Albert Serra
Fiume o Morte!, dir. Igor Bezinović
Riefenstahl, dir. Andres Veiel
Songs of Slow Burning Earth, dir. Olha Zhurba
With Hasan in Gaza, dir. Kamal Aljafari
EUROPEAN ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Arco (WINNER)
Dog of God
Little Amelie
Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake
Tales From the Magic Garden
EUROPEAN DIRECTOR
Yorgos Lanthimos for Bugonia
Oliver Laxe for Sirāt
Jafar Panahi for It Was Just an Accident
Mascha Schilinski for Sound of Falling
Joachim Trier for Sentimental Value
EUROPEAN ACTRESS
Leonie Benesch for Late Shift
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi for Duse
Léa Drucker for Case 137
Vicky Krieps for Love Me Tender
Renate Reinsve for Sentimental Value
EUROPEAN ACTOR
Sergi López for Sirāt
Mads Mikkelsen for The Last Viking
Toni Servillo for La Grazia
Stellan Skarsgård for Sentimental Value
Idan Weiss for Franz
EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER
Santiago Fillol and Oliver Laxe for Sirāt
Jafar Panahi for It Was Just an Accident
Mascha Schilinski and Louise Peter for Sound of Falling
Paolo Sorrentino for La Grazia
Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier for Sentimental Value
EUROPEAN DISCOVERY – PRIX FIPRESCI
Little Trouble Girls, dir. Urška Djukić
My Father’s Shadow, dir. Akinola Davies Jr
On Falling, dir. Laura Carreira (WINNER)
One of Those Days When Hemme Dies, dir. Murat Fıratoğlu
Sauna, dir. Mathias Broe
Under the Grey Sky, dir. Mara Tamkovich
EUROPEAN YOUNG AUDIENCE AWARD
Arco
I Accidentally Wrote a Book
Siblings (WINNER)
EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER
Mauro Herce for Sirāt
Fabian Gamper for Sound of Falling
Manu Dacosse for The Stranger
EUROPEAN EDITOR
Yorgos Mavropsaridis for Bugonia
Toni Froschhammer for Die My Love
Cristóbal Fernández for Sirāt
EUROPEAN PRODUCTION DESIGNER
James Price for Bugonia
Jørgen Stangebye Larsen for Sentimental Value
Laia Ateca for Sirāt (WINNER)
EUROPEAN COSTUME DESIGNER
Ursula Patzak for Duse
Michaela Horáčková Hořejší for Franz
Sabrina Krämer for Sound of Falling (WINNER)
EUROPEAN CASTING DIRECTOR
Yngvill Kolset Haga and Avy Kaufman for Sentimental Value
Nadia Acimi, Luís Bértolo and María Rodrigo for Sirāt
Karimah El-Giamal and Jacqueline Rietz for Sound of Falling
EUROPEAN MAKE-UP & HAIR ARTIST
Torsten Witte for Bugonia
Gabriela Poláková for Franz
Irina Schwarz and Anne-Marie Walther for Sound of Falling
EUROPEAN SOUND DESIGNER
Johnnie Burn for Bugonia
Laia Casanovas, Amanda Villavieja and Yasmina Praderas for Sirāt
Gwennolé Le Borgne, Marion Papinot, Lars Ginzel, Elias Boughedir and Amal Attia for The Voice of Hind Rajab
LUX AUDIENCE AWARD
Christy
Deaf
It Was Just an Accident
Love Me Tender
Sentimental Value
EUROPEAN SHORT FILM – PRIX VIMEO
Being John Smith
City of Poets (WINNER)
L’Avance
Man Number 4
The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing