The 33rd

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was scheduled to be presented in

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on 12 December 2020. Because of the

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the awards were announced in a virtual event online.

Selection

Feature

The list of feature-length fiction films recommended for a nomination for the 2020 European Film Awards. * ''

Adults in the Room ''Adults in the Room'' ( gr, Ενήλικοι στην αίθουσα, Enílikoi stin aíthousa) is a 2019 French-Greek political film directed by Costa-Gavras. It is based on the book ''Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishme ...

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Costa-Gavras Costa-Gavras (short for Konstantinos Gavras; el, Κωνσταντίνος Γαβράς; born 12 February 1933) is a Greek-French film director, screenwriter, and producer who lives and works in France. He is known for films with political and s ...

(France/Greece) * '' Another Round'' -

Thomas Vinterberg Thomas Vinterberg (; born 19 May 1969) is a Danish film director who, along with Lars von Trier, co-founded the Dogme 95 movement in filmmaking, which established rules for simplifying movie production. He is best known for the films ''The Celeb ...

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Atlantis Atlantis ( grc, Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος, , island of Atlas (mythology), Atlas) is a fictional island mentioned in an allegory on the hubris of nations in Plato's works ''Timaeus (dialogue), Timaeus'' and ''Critias (dialogue), Critias'' ...

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Bad Tales ''Bad Tales'' ( it, Favolacce) is a 2020 Italian-Swiss drama film written and directed by Damiano and Fabio D'Innocenzo. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section at the 70th Berlin International Film Festiv ...

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Damiano D'Innocenzo Damiano and Fabio D'Innocenzo (born 14 July 1988), collectively referred to as the D'Innocenzo brothers, are Italian film directors and screenwriters who collaborated in productions of note. Biography Twin brothers Damiano and Fabio D'Innocenz ...

Fabio D'Innocenzo Damiano and Fabio D'Innocenzo (born 14 July 1988), collectively referred to as the D'Innocenzo brothers, are Italian film directors and screenwriters who collaborated in productions of note. Biography Twin brothers Damiano and Fabio D'Innocenz ...

(Italy/Switzerland) * '' Berlin Alexanderplatz'' - Burhan Qurbani (Germany/Netherlands) * '' Between Heaven and Earth'' -

Najwa Najjar Najwa Najjar ( ar, نجوى نجار) is a film writer and director. She was born to a Jordan, Jordanian father and Palestinian mother. She began her career making commercials and has worked in both documentary and fiction since 1999. Her debut f ...

(Palestine/Luxembourg/Iceland) * ''

Cat in the Wall The cat (''Felis catus'') is a domestic species of small carnivorous mammal. It is the only domesticated species in the family Felidae and is commonly referred to as the domestic cat or house cat to distinguish it from the wild members of ...

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Mina Mileva Mina Nikolova Mileva ( bg, Мина Николова Милева) is a Bulgarian director and animator. She is best known for her cinematography in ''Cat in the Wall'' (2019) and '' Women Do Cry'' (2021) alongside directing partner Vesela Kazako ...

Vesela Kazakova Vesela Yordanova Kazakova ( bg, Весела Йорданова Казакова; born 4 July 1977) is a Bulgarian actress, screenwriter, director and producer. She is best known for her roles in '' Mila from Mars'' (2004) and ''Stolen Eyes'' (20 ...

(Bulgaria/UK/France) * ''

Charlatan A charlatan (also called a swindler or mountebank) is a person practicing quackery or a similar confidence trick in order to obtain money, power, fame, or other advantages through false pretenses, pretense or deception. Synonyms for ''charlatan ...

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Agnieszka Holland Agnieszka Holland (born 28 November 1948) is a Poles, Polish film and television director and screenwriter, best known for her political contributions to Polish cinema. She began her career as assistant to directors Krzysztof Zanussi and Andrzej ...

(Czech Republic/Ireland/Poland/Slovakia) * ''

Charter A charter is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified. It is implicit that the granter retains superiority (or sovereignty), and that the rec ...

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Amanda Kernell Amanda Kernell (; born 9 September 1986) is a Swedish, Southern Sami director and screenwriter. She is best known for the movie ''Sami Blood'', which won several awards. Biography Amanda Kernell was born in Umeå. In her early teens, she devote ...

(Sweden/Denmark/Norway) * '' Corpus Christi'' -

Jan Komasa Jan Tadeusz Komasa (born October 28, 1981) is a Polish film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for directing '' Suicide Room'' (2011), '' Warsaw 44'' (2014), and ''Corpus Christi'' (2019), which was nominated for the Best Internatio ...

(Poland/France) * '' DAU. Natasha'' -

Ilya Khrzhanovskiy Ilya, Iliya, Ilia, Ilja, or Ilija (russian: Илья́, Il'ja, , or russian: Илия́, Ilija, ; uk, Ілля́, Illia, ; be, Ілья́, Iĺja ) is the East Slavic form of the male Hebrew name Eliyahu (Eliahu), meaning "My God is Yahu/Jah." ...

& Jekaterina Oertel (Germany/Ukraine/UK/Russia) * ''

Delete History ''Delete History'' (french: Effacer l'historique) is a 2020 French-Belgian comedy film co-produced, written and directed by Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section a ...

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Gustave Kervern Gustave Kervern (born 27 August 1962), also known as Gustave de Kervern and Gustave K/Vern, is a French actor, director and screenwriter. He is best known for his collaboration with Benoît Delépine. Life and career In 2004 he wrote, directed, ...

(France/Belgium) * ''

Echo In audio signal processing and acoustics, an echo is a reflection of sound that arrives at the listener with a delay after the direct sound. The delay is directly proportional to the distance of the reflecting surface from the source and the list ...

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Rúnar Rúnarsson Rúnar Rúnarsson (born 20 January 1977 in Reykjavík Reykjavík ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of Iceland. It is located in southwestern Iceland, on the southern shore of Faxaflói bay. Its latitude is 64°08' N, making it the ...

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Enfant terrible ''Enfant terrible'' (; ; "terrible child") is a French expression, traditionally referring to a child who is terrifyingly candid by saying embarrassing things to parents or others. However, the expression has drawn multiple usage in careers of ...

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Oskar Roehler Oskar Roehler (born 21 January 1959) is a German film director, screenwriter and journalist. He was born in Starnberg, the son of writers Gisela Elsner and Klaus Roehler. Since the mid-1980s, he has been working as a screenwriter, for, among ot ...

(Germany) * ''

Falling Falling or fallin' may refer to: *Falling (physics), movement due to gravity *Falling (accident) *Falling (execution) *Falling (sensation) People * Christine Falling (born 1963), American serial killer who murdered six children Books * ''Fall ...

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Viggo Mortensen Viggo Peter Mortensen Jr. R (; born October 20, 1958) is an American actor, writer, director, producer, musician, and multimedia artist. Born and raised in the State of New York to a Danish father and American mother, he also lived in Argentin ...

(UK/Canada/Denmark) * ''

Father A father is the male parent of a child. Besides the paternal bonds of a father to his children, the father may have a parental, legal, and social relationship with the child that carries with it certain rights and obligations. An adoptive fathe ...

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Srdan Golubović Srdan Golubović ( sr-cyr, Срдан Голубовић; born August 24, 1972) is a Serbian film director. Biography Golubović's father was a film director Predrag Golubović. His first feature film '' Absolute 100'' participated in main prog ...

(Serbia/Germany/France/Croatia/Slovenia/Bosnia and Herzegovina) * '' Final Report'' -

István Szabó István Szabó (; born 18 February 1938) is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, and opera director. Szabó is one of the most notable Hungarian filmmakers and one who has been best known outside the Hungarian-speaking world since the la ...

(Hungary) * '' Hidden Away'' - Giorgio Diritti (Italy) * ''

Hope Hope is an optimistic state of mind that is based on an expectation of positive outcomes with respect to events and circumstances in one's life or the world at large. As a verb, its definitions include: "expect with confidence" and "to cherish ...

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Maria Sødahl Maria Sødahl (born 31 December 1965) is a Norwegian film director and screenwriter who is best known for her internationally acclaimed film '' Hope'' (2019) and ''Limbo'' (2010). The former earned her the nomination of European Film Award for Best ...

(Norway/Sweden) * ''

Let There Be Light "Let there be light" is an English translation of the Hebrew (''yehi 'or'') found in Genesis 1:3 of the Torah, the first part of the Hebrew Bible. In Old Testament translations of the phrase, translations include the Greek phrase (''genēth ...

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Marko Škop Marko Škop (born 1974 in Prešov, Slovakia) is a Slovak film director. He received degrees in journalism at Comenius University in Bratislava in 1996 and in film directing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava in 2001. He gained his Ph ...

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Martin Eden ''Martin Eden'' is a 1909 novel by American author Jack London about a young proletarian autodidact struggling to become a writer. It was first serialized in ''The Pacific Monthly'' magazine from September 1908 to September 1909 and then publish ...

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Pietro Marcello Pietro Marcello (born 2 July 1976) is an Italian film director. He has directed more than eight documentary films since 2004. In 2015 he directed his first fiction film, '' Lost and Beautiful''. Several of his films have been presented at internat ...

(Italy/France) * ''

Mother ] A mother is the female parent of a child. A woman may be considered a mother by virtue of having given childbirth, birth, by raising a child who may or may not be her biological offspring, or by supplying her ovum for fertilisation in the cas ...

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Rodrigo Sorogoyen Rodrigo Sorogoyen del Amo (born 16 September 1981) is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He won the Goya Award for Best Director and the Goya Award for Best Original Screenplay for '' The Realm''. He was previously nominated for the Goya ...

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Motherland A homeland is a place where a cultural, national, or racial identity has formed. The definition can also mean simply one's country of birth. When used as a proper noun, the Homeland, as well as its equivalents in other languages, often has ethni ...

'' - Tomas Vengris (Lithuania/Latvia/Greece/Germany) * '' My Little Sister'' - Stéphanie Chuat & Véronique Reymond (Switzerland) * ''

Persian Lessons ''Persian Lessons'' (german: Persischstunden) is a 2020 Russian-Belarusian war drama film directed by Vadim Perelman. The film was partially inspired by the short story ''Erfindung einer Sprache'' by German writer Wolfgang Kohlhaase. It was sel ...

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Vadim Perelman Vadim Perelman ( ukr, Вадим Перельман; born 8 September 1963) is a Ukrainian-Canadian-American film director. Perelman made his feature film directorial debut in 2003 with '' House of Sand and Fog'', following a successful career as ...

(Russia/Germany/Belarus) * ''

Servants A domestic worker or domestic servant is a person who works within the scope of a residence. The term "domestic service" applies to the equivalent occupational category. In traditional English contexts, such a person was said to be "in service ...

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Ivan Ostrochovský Ivan () is a Slavic languages, Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name (English: John (given name), John) from Hebrew language, Hebrew meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. T ...

(Slovakia/Romania/Czech Republic/Ireland) * ''

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Summer of 85 ''Summer of 85'' (french: Été 85) is a 2020 romantic drama film written and directed by François Ozon, partly based on the 1982 novel ''Dance on My Grave'' by Aidan Chambers. It stars Félix Lefebvre and Benjamin Voisin. It was released in Fr ...

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François Ozon François Ozon (; born 15 November 1967) is a French film director and screenwriter. Ozon is considered one of the most important modern French filmmakers. His films are characterized by aesthetic beauty, sharp satirical humor and a free-wheeli ...

(France, Belgium) * ''

The Big Hit ''The Big Hit'' is a 1998 American action comedy film directed by Hong Kong filmmaker Che-Kirk Wong, and stars Mark Wahlberg, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christina Applegate, Bokeem Woodbine, Antonio Sabàto Jr., China Chow, Avery Brooks, Lainie Kazan, ...

'' - Emmanuel Courcol (France) * ''

The Endless Trench ''The Endless Trench'' ( es, La trinchera infinita, links=no) is a 2019 Spanish-French historical drama film directed by Jon Garaño, Aitor Arregi and Jose Mari Goenaga. It premiered at the 2019 San Sebastián International Film Festival, wher ...

'' - Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño & Jose Mari Goenaga (Spain/France) * '' The Painted Bird'' -

Václav Marhoul Václav Marhoul (; born 30 January 1960 in Prague) is a Czech film director, screenwriter and actor. He studied at Prague's FAMU, graduating in 1984. He directed his first film ''Mazaný Filip'', based on Raymond Chandler's books, in 2003. In ...

(Czech Republic/Ukraine/Slovakia) * ''

The Personal History of David Copperfield ''The Personal History of David Copperfield'' is a 2019 comedy-drama film written and directed by Armando Iannucci, based on the 1850 novel ''David Copperfield'' by Charles Dickens. It stars Dev Patel as the title character, along with Aneurin B ...

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Armando Iannucci Armando Giovanni Iannucci (; born 28 November 1963) is a Scottish satirist, writer, director, producer, performer, and panellist. Born in Glasgow to Italian parents, Iannucci studied at the University of Glasgow followed by the University of ...

(UK/USA) * '' The Platform'' - Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia (Spain) * ''

Undine Undines (; also ondines) are a category of elemental beings associated with water, stemming from the alchemical writings of Paracelsus. Later writers developed the undine into a water nymph in its own right, and it continues to live in modern li ...

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Radu Jude Radu Jude (; born 28 March 1977) is a Romanian film director and screenwriter. Biography In 2003, Jude graduated from the Film Directing Department of the Media University of Bucharest. He worked as an assistant director for feature films inclu ...

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Vitalina Varela ''Vitalina Varela'' is a 2019 Portuguese drama directed by acclaimed director Pedro Costa. It won the Golden Leopard and Best Actress Award at the 2019 Locarno Film Festival. The film follows Vitalina Varela, a character who previously appeare ...

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Pedro Costa Pedro Costa (born 30 December 1958) is a Portuguese film director. He is best known for his sequence of films set in Lisbon, which focuses on the lives of the impoverished residents of a slum in the Fontainhas neighbourhood. Biography After com ...

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Wildland Wilderness or wildlands (usually in the plural), are natural environments on Earth that have not been significantly modified by human activity or any nonurbanized land not under extensive agricultural cultivation. The term has traditionally re ...

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Milcho Manchevski Milcho Manchevski ( mk, Милчо Манчевски, )"Milcho Manchevski: Full Biography"

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Documentary
* '' Acasă, My Home'' - Radu Ciorniciuc (Romania/Germany/Finland) * ''
Collective A collective is a group of entities that share or are motivated by at least one common issue or interest, or work together to achieve a common objective. Collectives can differ from cooperatives in that they are not necessarily focused upon an ...
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Alexander Nanau Alexander Nanau (born 18 May 1979) is an Oscar-nominated German/Romanian film director, film producer and screenwriter. Biography Alexander Nanau was born on 18 May 1979, in Bucharest, Romania. He has lived in Germany since 1990. Nanau stud ...
(Romania/Luxembourg) * '' I Am Not Alone'' - Garin Hovannisian (Armenia) * '' Little Girl'' -
Sébastien Lifshitz Sébastien Lifshitz (born 21 January 1968) is a French screenwriter and director. He teaches at La Fémis, a school that focuses on the subject of image and sound. He studied at the École du Louvre, and has a bachelor's degree from the Universit ...
(France) * '' Il varco - Once More Unto the Breach'' - Federico Ferrone & Michele Manzolini (Italy) * '' Saudi Runaway'' - Susanne Regina Meures (Switzerland) * ''
Self Portrait A self-portrait is a representation of an artist that is drawn, painted, photographed, or sculpted by that artist. Although self-portraits have been made since the earliest times, it is not until the Early Renaissance in the mid-15th century tha ...
'' - Margreth Olin, Katja Hogset & Espen Wallin (Norway) * ''
State Funeral A state funeral is a public funeral ceremony, observing the strict rules of Etiquette, protocol, held to honour people of national significance. State funerals usually include much pomp and ceremony as well as religious overtones and distinctive ...
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Sergei Loznitsa Sergei Vladimirovich Loznitsa ( be, Сяргей Уладзіміравіч Лазніца, russian: Сергей Владимирович Лозница, uk, Сергій Володимирович Лозниця; born 5 September 1964) is a Uk ...
(Netherlands/Lithuania) * '' The Cave'' -
Feras Fayyad Feras Fayyad (born September 20, 1984) is a Syrian film director, producer, and writer. Fayyad best known for his 2017 documentary '' Last Men in Aleppo and his 2019 documentary The Cave,'' both films earned him critical acclaim and numerous a ...
(Syria/Denmark/Germany/USA/Qatar) * ''
The Earth Is Blue as an Orange ''The Earth Is Blue as an Orange'' is a 2020 documentary film, directed and written by Iryna Tsilyk, who won the Directing Award in the "World Cinema Documentary” category for the film at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Synopsis Single moth ...
'' - Iryna Tsilyk (Ukraine/Lithuania) * '' The Euphoria of Being'' - Réka Szabó (Hungary) * '' They Call Me Babu'' - Sandra Beerends (Netherlands) * '' Walchensee Forever'' - Janna Ji Wonders (Germany)

Short Film
The European Short Film 2020 is presented in co-operation with the following 24 European film festivals. At each of the festivals, the jury of the international competition appointed by the festival chooses a single candidate (there shall be no ex-aequo candidates). Then the participating festivals nominate five short films from the list of 24 candidates. * 12 - 18 October 2019: International Film Festival of Cyprus () - the jury has chosen ''In Between'' (dir. Samir Karahoda) * 17 - 27 October 2019: Riga International Film Festival () - the jury has chosen '' Uncle Thomas, Accounting for the Days'' (dir. Regina Pessoa) * 19 - 26 October 2019:
Valladolid International Film Festival The Valladolid International Film Festival, popularly known as Seminci (short for ; ), is a film festival held annually in Valladolid, Spain. First held in 1956 as ('Valladolid Religious Film Week'), the Seminci is one of the longest-standing fi ...
() - the jury has chosen ''Flesh'' (dir. Camila Kater) * 21 - 27 October 2019: Uppsala International Short Film Festival () - the jury has chosen ''Past Perfect'' (dir. Jorge Jácome) * 5 - 10 November 2019: Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur () - the jury has chosen ''Community Gardens'' (dir. Vytautas Katkus) * 7 - 17 November 2019:
Cork Film Festival The Cork International Film Festival, also known as the Cork Film Festival (), is a film festival held annually in Cork City, Ireland. It was established in 1956 as part of An Tóstal An Tóstal (, meaning "The Gathering") was the name for a serie ...
() - the jury has chosen ''Things That Happen in the Bathroom'' (dir. Maggie M. Bailey) * 15 November - 1 December 2019: Black Nights Festival / PÖFF Shorts () - the jury has chosen ''12 K. Marx Street'' (dir. Irine Jordania) * 30 November - 7 December 2019: Leuven International Short Film Festival () - the jury has chosen ''Lake of Happiness'' (dir. Aliaksei Paluyan) * 22 January - 2 February 2020:
International Film Festival Rotterdam The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) is an annual film festival held at the end of January in various locations in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Since its foundation in 1972, it has maintained a focus on independent and experimental fi ...
() - the jury has chosen ''The Bite'' (dir. Pedro Neves Marques) * 31 January - 8 February 2020:
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival The Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (French: ''Festival international du court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand'') is an international film festival dedicated to short films held annually in Clermont-Ferrand, France. History I ...
() - the jury has chosen ''Invisible Hero'' (dir. Cristèle Alves Meira) * 20 February - 1 March 2020:
Berlin International Film Festival The Berlin International Film Festival (german: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (), is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festi ...
() - the jury has chosen ''It Wasn't the Right Mountain, Mohammad'' (dir. Mili Pecherer) * 4 - 8 March 2020:
Tampere Film Festival The Tampere Film Festival ( fi, Tampereen elokuvajuhlat) is a short film festival held every March, mostly at the Finnkino Plevna movie theatre, in Tampere, Finland. It is accredited by the film producers' society FIAPF, and together with the shor ...
() - the jury has chosen '' Memorable'' (dir. Bruno Collet) * 1 - 5 April 2020: Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen () - the jury has chosen ''Sun Dog'' (dir. Dorian Jespers) * 28 May - 2 June 2020: VIS Vienna Shorts Festival () - the jury has chosen ''The Best City Is No City At All'' (dir. Christoph Schwarz) * 31 May - 7 June 2020: Krakow Film Festival () - the jury has chosen ''The Golden Buttons'' (dir. Alex Evstigneev) * 2 - 8 June 2020: Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg () - the jury has chosen ''Genius Loci'' (dir. Adrien Mérigeau) * 11 - 19 July 2020: Curtas Vila do Conde - International Film Festival () - the jury has chosen ''Nha Mila'' (dir. Denise Fernandes) * 28 July - 1 August 2020:
Motovun Film Festival The Motovun Film Festival is an annual film festival established in 1999 and held in the small town of Motovun, Croatia. It usually takes place over five or six days in late July or early August. Overview Motovun Film Festival is entirely dedic ...
() - the jury has chosen ''To the Dusty Sea'' (dir. Héloïse Ferlay) * 5 - 15 August 2020:
Locarno Film Festival The Locarno Film Festival is an annual film festival, held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, s ...
() - the jury has chosen ''People on Saturday'' (dir. Jonas Ulrich) * 14 - 21 August 2020:
Sarajevo Film Festival The Sarajevo Film Festival is the premier and largest film festival in Southeast Europe, and is one of the largest film festivals in Europe. It was founded in Sarajevo in 1995 during the siege of Sarajevo in the Bosnian War, and brings internation ...
() - the jury has chosen ''All Cats Are Grey in the Dark'' (dir. Lasse Linder) * 24 - 30 August 2020: OFF - Odense International Film Festival () - the jury has chosen ''Nina'' (dir. Hristo Simeonov) * 2 - 12 September 2020:
Venice Film Festival The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival he ...
() - the jury has chosen ''The Shift'' (dir. Laura Carreira) * 20 - 26 September 2020: International Short Film Festival In Drama () - the jury has chosen ''Favourites'' (dir. Martin Monk) * 22 - 27 September 2020: Encounters Film Festival () - the jury has chosen ''
The Tiger Who Came to Tea ''The Tiger Who Came to Tea'' is a short children's story, first published by William Collins, Sons in 1968, written and illustrated by Judith Kerr. The book concerns a girl called Sophie, her mother, and an anthropomorphised tiger who invites hi ...
'' (dir. Robin Shaw)

Awards voted by EFA Members
Nomination has been announced on 10 November 2020.

Feature

Best Film This is a list of categories of awards commonly awarded through organizations that bestow film awards, including those presented by various film, festivals, and people's awards. Best Actor/Best Actress *See Best Actor#Film awards, Best Actress#F ...

European Comedy
The nominees were announced on 27 October 2020. The nominations were determined by a committee consisting of EFA Board Members Katriel Schory (Israel) and Angela Bosch Ríus (Spain), director/screenwriter Paddy Breathnach (Ireland), festival programmer Markus Duffner (Germany/Italy) and distributor/festival programmer Selma Mehadžić (Croatia).

Best Director Best Director is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organizations, festivals, and people's awards. It may refer to: Film awards * AACTA Award for Best Direction * Academy Award for Best Director * BA ...

Best Screenwriter

Best Actor

Best Actress Best Actress is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organisations, festivals, and people's awards to leading actresses in a film, television series, television film or play. The first Best Actress awar ...

Documentary

Animated Feature
The nominations were determined by a committee consisting of EFA Board Member EFA Board Member Béatrice Thiriet (France), director Anca Damian (Romania), producer Antonio Saura (Spain) and, representing CARTOON, the European Association of Animation Film, Diogo Carvalho (producer, Portugal), Camilla Deakin (producer, UK) and Norbert Laporte (institutional, Luxembourg).

Short Film

Critics Award

European Discovery - Prix FIPRESCI
The nominees were announced on 8 October 2020. The nominations were determined by a committee composed of EFA Board Members Valérie Delpierre (Spain) and Anita Juka (Croatia), curator Giona A. Nazzaro (Italy) as well as film critics Marta Balaga (Finland/Poland), Andrei Plakhov (Russia) and Frédéric Ponsard (France), all three as representatives of FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics.

Audience awards

Lux European Audience Film Award
The three nominated films are viewed by audiences in cinemas (online if the situation requires it) across Europe, via the LUX Film Days (February – May) and the LUX Audience Week (March or May depending on the ceremony date). Voting opens for the public from day 1 after the EFA Ceremony until two weeks before the LUX Ceremony. Members of the European Parliament vote from the beginning of March until the day before the Awards Ceremony (exact timeline TBD/TBC). The final ranking will be determined by combining the public vote ratings and the vote ratings by the Members of the European Parliament, with each group weighing 50 per cent. The film with the highest average rating will become the winner.

University Award
The European Film Academy and Filmfest Hamburg have announced five following movies as a European University Film Award (EUFA) nominee.

Technical awards
The winners for the Excellence Awards were presented on 9 December 2020.

Best Composer

Best Production Designer

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Best Sound Designer

Best Cinematographer

Best Costume Designer Best or The Best may refer to: People * Best (surname), people with the surname Best * Best (footballer, born 1968), retired Portuguese footballer Companies and organizations * Best & Co., an 1879–1971 clothing chain * Best Lock Corporation, ...

Best Editor

Best Visual Effects

References

External links
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