The 2024 Fiction Feature Film selections are in and we have twenty-nine film titles as part of the first wave of eligible Euro items. the second wave will be announced in September. We of course have several 2024 Berlinale film items and a heavy load of Cannes Film Festival items from all sections with heavyweights in Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez, Miguel Gomes’ Grand Tour, Alain Guiraudie’s Misericordia, Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig and Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance. The ceremony will take place on December 7th in Lucerne, Switzerland. Categories include: European Film, European Director, European Actor, European Actress and European Screenwriter, European Documentary as well as European Discovery and the Young Audience Award (which will be made public on 5 November). In addition to voting, the selected films will be considered for the Excellence Awards in the categories European Cinematography, European Editing, European Production Design, European Costume Design, European Make-up & Hair, European Original Score, European Sound and European Visual Effects which will be determined by an eight-member jury consisting of representatives of the different arts and crafts. Look for the second wave to include Locarno, Venice and Toronto film selections. Here are the titles:
Arcadia – Yorgos Zois (Greece/Bulgaria/USA)
Armand – Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel (Norway/Netherlands/Germany/Sweden)
Bird – Andrea Arnold (UK/France)
Crossing – Levan Akin (Sweden/Denmark/France/Turkey/Georgia)
Dying – Matthias Glasner (Germany)
Emilia Pérez – Jacques Audiard (France)
Grand Tour – Miguel Gomes (Portugal/Italy/France/Germany/Japan/China)
Hesitation Wound – Selman Nacar (Turkey/Spain/Romania/France)
Julie Keeps Quiet – Leonardo Van Dijl (Belgium/Sweden)
Kinds of Kindness – Yorgos Lanthimos (Ireland/UK/USA)
Kneecap – Rich Peppiatt (Ireland)
Life – Zeki Demirkubuz (Turkey)
Misericordia – Alain Guiraudie (France)
Souleymane’s Story – Boris Lojkine (France)
The Count Of Monte-Cristo – Matthieu Delaporte, Alexandre de la Patellière (France)
The Devil’s Bath – Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala (Austria/Germany)
The Girl With The Needle – Magnus Von Horn (Denmark/Poland/Sweden)
The Invisible Fight – Rainer Sarnet (Estonia/Latvia/Greece/Finland)
The Other Way Around – Jonás Trueba (Spain/France)
The Rye Horn – Jaione Camborda (Spain/Portugal/Belgium)
The Seed of the Sacred Fig – Mohammad Rasoulof (Iran/Germany/France)
The Shameless – Konstantin Bojanov (Switzerland/France/Bulgaria/Taiwan/India)
The Substance – Coralie Fargeat (UK/USA/France)
The Village Next to Paradise – Mo Harawe (Austria/France/Germany/Somalia)
There’s Still Tomorrow – Paola Cortellesi (Italy)
Three Kilometres to the End of the World – Emanuel Pârvu (Romania)
Un amor – Isabel Coixet (Spain)
When The Light Breaks – Rúnar Rúnarsson (Iceland/Netherlands/Croatia/France)
Without Air – Katalin Moldovai (Hungary/Romania)
