‘Triangle of Sadness,’ ‘Close,’ ‘Holy Spider’ among European Film Award finalists for Feature Film

Erik Anderson October 23, 2022

35 films will be eligible for the 35th European Film Awards feature film award, including Cannes winners Close from Lukas Dhont, EO from Jerzy Skolimowski, Holy Spider from Ali Abbasi as well as the Palme d’Or winner, Triangle of Sadness from Ruben Östlund. Belfast, which won the Original Screenplay Oscar for Kenneth Branagh at the 94th Academy Awards, is also in the running for one of the five nomination slots. Nominations will be announced on November 8, 2022.

Presented by the European Film Academy to recognize achievements in European filmmaking, the 35th European Film Awards will take place in Reykjavík, Iceland on December 10, 2022. According to the academy, films eligible for the awards are those that had their first official screening between June 1, 2021 and May 31, 2022 and have a European director.

This year’s eligible feature films are:

Aftersun – Charlotte Wells (UK)
Alcarràs – Carla Simón (Italy)
All Quiet on the Western Front – Edward Berger (Germany)
As Far as I Can Walk – Stefan Arsenijević (Serbia/Luxembourg/France/Bulgaria/Lithuania)
The Beasts – Rodrigo Sorogoyen (Spain/France)
Beautiful Beings – Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson (Iceland/Denmark/Sweden/The Netherlands/Czech Republic)
Belfast – Kenneth Branagh (UK)
Benediction – Terence Davies (UK)
Boy from Heaven – Tarik Saleh (Sweden/France/Finland)
Burning Days – Emin Alper (Turkey/France/Germany/The Netherlands/Greece/Croatia)
Close – Lukas Dhont (Belgium/France/The Netherlands)
Corsage – Marie Kreutzer (Austria/Luxembourg/Germany/France)
The Eight Mountains – Felix van Groeningen & Charlotte Vandermeersch (Italy/Belgium/France)
EO – Jerzy Skolimowski (Poland/Italy)
Girl Picture – Alli Haapasalo (Finland)
Godland – Hlynur Pálmason (Denmark/Iceland/France/Sweden)
The Hole – Michelangelo Frammartino (Italy/Germany/France)
Holy Spider – Ali Abbasi (Denmark/Germany/Sweden/France)
Maixabel – Iciar Bollain (Spain)
Mediterranean Fever – Maha Haj (Germany/France/Cyprus/Palestine)
More Than Ever – Emily Atef (France/Germany/Luxembourg/Norway)
Nostalgia – Mario Martone (Italy/France)
One Fine Morning – Mia Hansen-Løve (France/Germany)
Pacifiction – Albert Serra (France/Spain/Germany/Portugal)
Parallel Mothers – Pedro Almodóvar (Spain)
The Quiet Girl – Colm Bairéad (Ireland)
Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush – Andreas Dresen (Germany/France)
Reflection – Valentyn Vasyanovych (Ukriane)
Saint Omer – Alice Diop (France)
The Souvenir Part II – Joanna Hogg (UK)
Tori and Lokita – Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne (Belgium/France)
Triangle of Sadness – Ruben Östlund (Sweden/Germany/France/UK)
Vera – Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel (Austria)
Will-o’-the-Wisp – João Pedro Rodrigues (Portugal/France)
Women Do Cry – Mina Mileva & Vesela Kazakova (Bulgaria/France)

The European University Film Award (EUFA) iPresented in co-operation with Filmfest Hamburg, the award actively involves university students, spreads the “European idea” and transports the spirit of European cinema to an audience group of 20-29-year-olds. It also supports film dissemination, film education and the culture of debating. Based on the Feature Film Selection 2022 and the Documentary Selection 2022 Filmfest Hamburg and EFA nominate five films. They are later viewed in non-commercial closed jury sessions and discussed at the participating universities. The students at each institution select their favorite film. The nominees are:

The selection of 13 documentary films eligible for a nomination are:

Angels of Sinjar – Hanna Polak
The Balcony Movie – Paweł Łoziński
The Eclipse – Nataša Urban
Girl Gang – Susanne Regina Meures
A House Made of Splinters – Simon Lereng Wilmont
How to Save a Dead Friend – Marusya Syroechkovskaya
Karaoke Paradise – Einari Paakkanen
The March on Rome – Mark Cousins
Mariupolis 2 – Mantas Kvedaravicius
Mr. Landsbergis – Sergei Loznitsa
Nelly & Nadine – Magnus Gertten
Republic of Silence – Diana El Jeiroudi
A Thousand Fires – Saeed Taji Farouky
Three Minutes – A Lengthening – Bianca Stigter

The European Short Film 2022 is presented in co-operation with the following European film festivals. At each of the festivals, a jury appointed by the festival chooses a single candidate. The nominees are:

Granny’s Sexual Life – Urška Djukič & Émile Pigeard
Ice Merchants – João Gonzalez
Love, Dad – Diana Cam Van Nguyen
Techno, Mama – Saulius Baradinskas
Will My Parents Come to See Me – Mo Harawe

In co-operation with CARTOON, the European Association of Animation Film, the European Animated Feature Film award is presented to the European director(s) of a European animated feature film intended for theatrical release. The nominees are:

Little Nicholas – Happy as Can Be – Amandine Fredon & Benjamin Massoubre
My Love Affair with Marriage – Signe Baumane
My Neighbor’s Neighbors – Anne-Laure Daffis & Léo Marchard
No Dogs or Italians Allowed – Alain Ughetto
Oink – Mascha Halberstad

The EFA Young Audience Award (YAA) is presented to the director of a European film that addresses an audience between 12 and 14 years of age. The nominees are:

Animal – Cyril Dion
Comedy Queen – Sanna Lenken
Dreams are like Wild Tigers – Lars Montag

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Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.