European Film Award for European Discovery of the Year
| European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI | |
|---|---|
| Country |  Europe |
| Presented by | European Film Academy |
| First award | 1988 |
| Currently held by | Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel for Armand (2024) |
| Website | europeanfilmawards.eu |
The European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI or European Discovery, originally titled Young European Film of the Year, has been awarded annually since 1988 by the European Film Academy. The award is presented in co-operation with the International Federation of Film Critics, to a director for the first full-length feature film.
Winners and nominees
[edit]1980s
[edit]| Year | English title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country of production/co-production | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Young European Film of the Year | ||||||
| Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Pedro Almodóvar | Augustin Almodovár |  Spain
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| Days of Eclipse | Aleksandr Sokurov | ? |  Soviet Union
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| It's Happening Tomorrow | Daniele Luchetti | Marco Alfieri |  Italy
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| Damnation | Béla Tarr | József Marx |  Hungary
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| Pathfinder | Nils Gaup | John M. Jacobsen |  Norway
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| Reefer and the Model | Joe Comerford | Lelia Doolan |  Ireland
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| Stormy Monday | Mike Figgis | Nigel Stafford-Clark |  United Kingdom,  United States
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| 1989 | |||||||
| 300 Miles to Heaven | Maciej Dejczer | Prod. Film Unit “TOR“ |  Poland,  Denmark,  France
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| Cinema Paradiso | Giuseppe Tornatore | Franco Cristaldi, Giovanna Romagnoli | Italy, France
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| Mist | Zülfü Livaneli | Ülker Livaneli |  Turkey,  Switzerland
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| Kuduz | Ademir Kenović | Bakir Tanović |  Yugoslavia
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| Scandal | Michael Caton-Jones | Steve Woolley | United Kingdom, United States
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| My Left Foot | Jim Sheridan | Noel Pearson | Ireland, United Kingdom
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| Waller’s Last Walk | Christian Wagner |  West Germany
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1990s
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2000s
[edit]2010s
[edit]| Year | English title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI | |||
| 2010 [11][12] |
Lebanon | Samuel Maoz | Israel, France, Germany |
| Nothing Personal | Urszula Antoniak | Netherlands, Ireland | |
| When We Leave | Feo Aladag | Germany | |
| If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle | Florin Serban | Romania | |
| The Double Hour | Giuseppe Capotondi | Italy | |
| 2011 [13][14] |
Oxygen | Hans Van Nuffel | Belgium, Netherlands |
| Breathing | Karl Markovics | Austria | |
| Michael | Markus Schleinzer | Austria | |
| Nothing's All Bad | Mikkel Munch-Fals | Denmark | |
| Tilva Roš | Nikola Ležaić | Serbia | |
| 2012 [15][16] |
Kauwboy | Boudewijn Koole | Netherlands |
| Broken | Rufus Norris | UK | |
| Reported Missing | Jan Speckenbach | Germany | |
| Teddy Bear | Mads Matthiesen | Denmark | |
| Twilight Portrait | Angelina Nikonova | Russia | |
| 2013 [17][18] |
A Coffee in Berlin | Jan Ole Gerster | Germany |
| Eat Sleep Die | Gabriela Pichler | Sweden | |
| Call Girl | Mikael Marcimain | Sweden, Norway, Ireland, Finland | |
| Miele | Valeria Golino | Italy, France | |
| The Plague | Neus Ballús | Spain | |
| 2014 [19][20] |
The Tribe | Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy | Ukraine |
| 10,000 km | Carlos Marqués-Marcet | Spain | |
| Wounded | Fernando Franco | Spain | |
| '71 | Yann Demange | UK | |
| Party Girl | Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis | France | |
| 2015 [21][22] |
Mustang | Deniz Gamze Ergüven | France, Germany, Turkey |
| Goodnight Mommy | Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala | Austria | |
| Limbo | Anna Sofie Hartmann | Germany, Denmark | |
| Slow West | John Maclean | New Zealand, United Kingdom | |
| Summers Downstairs | Tom Sommerlatte | Germany, France | |
| 2016 [23][24] |
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki | Juho Kuosmanen | Finland, Sweden, Germany |
| Dogs | Bogdan Mirica | France, Romania, Bulgaria, Qatar | |
| Liebmann | Jules Herrmann | Germany | |
| Sand Storm | Elite Zexer | Israel | |
| Thirst | Svetla Tsotsorkova | Bulgaria | |
| 2017 [25][26] |
Lady Macbeth | William Oldroyd | United Kingdom |
| Bloody Milk | Hubert Charuel | France | |
| Godless | Ralitza Petrova | Bulgaria, Denmark, France | |
| Summer 1993 | Carla Simón | Spain | |
| The Eremites | Ronny Trocker | Germany, Austria | |
| 2018 [27][28] |
Girl | Lukas Dhont | Belgium, Netherlands |
| One Day | Zsófia Szilágyi | Hungary | |
| Scary Mother | Ana Urushadze | Georgia, Estonia | |
| The Guilty | Gustav Möller | Denmark | |
| Those Who Are Fine | Cyril Schäublin | Switzerland | |
| Touch Me Not | Adina Pintilie | Romania, Germany, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, France | |
| 2019 [29][30] |
Les Misérables | Ladj Ly | France |
| Aniara | Pella Kagerman, Hugo Lilja | Sweden, Denmark | |
| Atlantics | Mati Diop | France, Senegal, Belgium | |
| Blind Spot | Tuva Novotny | Norway, Denmark | |
| Irina | Nadejda Koseva | Bulgaria | |
| Ray & Liz | Richard Billingham | UK | |
2020s
[edit]| Year | English title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI | |||
| 2020 [31][32] |
Sole | Carlo Sironi | Italy, Poland |
| Full Moon | Nermin Hamzagic | Bosnia & Herzegovina | |
| Gagarine | Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh | France | |
| Instinct | Halina Reijn | Netherlands | |
| Isaac | Jurgis Matulevicius | Lithuania | |
| Jumbo | Zoé Wittock | France, Belgium, Luxembourg | |
| 2021 [33][34] |
Promising Young Woman | Emerald Fennell | USA, UK |
| Beginning | Dea Kulumbegashvili | France, Georgia | |
| Lamb | Valdimar Jóhannsson | Iceland, Sweden, Poland | |
| Playground | Laura Wandel | Belgium | |
| Pleasure | Ninja Thyberg | Sweden, Netherlands, France | |
| The Whaler Boy | Philipp Yuryev | Russia, Poland, Belgium | |
| 2022 [35][36] |
Small Body | Laura Samani | Italy, Slovenia, France |
| Love According to Dalva | Emmanuelle Nicot | Belgium, France | |
| 107 Mothers | Peter Kerekes | Slovakia, Czech Republic, Ukraine | |
| Other People | Aleksandra Terpińska | Poland, France | |
| Pamfir | Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk | Ukraine, France, Poland, Germany, Chile | |
| Sonne | Kurdwin Ayub | Austria | |
| 2023 [37] |
How to Have Sex | Molly Manning Walker | United Kingdom, Greece |
| 20,000 Species of Bees | Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren | Spain | |
| La Palisiada | Philip Sotnychenko | Ukraine | |
| Safe Place | Juraj Lerotić | Croatia, Slovenia | |
| The Quiet Migration | Malene Choi | Denmark | |
| Vincent Must Die | Stéphan Castang | France, Belgium | |
| 2024 [38] |
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 | Bogdan Mureșanu | Romania, Serbia | |
| Toxic | Saulė Bliuvaitė | Lithuania | |
- ^[a] Award given as Best Young Film or Young European Film of the Year
Most wins for European Discovery by country
[edit]| Country | Awards | Nominations | Awards (with co-productions) | Nominations (with co-productions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| France |
6 | 17 | 11 | 35 |
| United Kingdom |
5 | 17 | 5 | 20 |
| Spain |
2 | 8 | 2 | 8 |
| Denmark |
2 | 6 | 3 | 10 |
 Netherlands |
2 | 4 | 4 | 6 |
 Belgium |
2 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
 Israel |
2 | 4 | 2 | 5 |
| Germany |
1 | 17 | 4 | 37 |
| Italy |
1 | 10 | 3 | 14 |
| Hungary |
1 | 5 | 2 | 6 |
| Ireland |
1 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| Poland |
1 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
 Russia |
1 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
 Georgia |
1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
 Finland |
1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
 Ukraine |
1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
 Austria |
0 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
 Sweden |
0 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| Turkey |
0 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| Soviet Union |
0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
 Bosnia and Herzegovina |
0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
 Romania |
0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Norway |
0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
 Kazakhstan |
0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
 Bulgaria |
0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
 Croatia |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Czech Republic |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Greece |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Iceland |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Kyrgyzstan |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 New Zealand |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Portugal |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Serbia |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Slovenia |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Tajikistan |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Yugoslavia |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| United States |
0 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
 Iceland |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Lebanon |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Switzerland |
0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
 Japan |
0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
 Australia |
0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 India |
0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 Iran |
0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 Qatar |
0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
References
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External links
[edit]- Nominees and winners at the European Film Academy website
