2014 Films

2014 Films

While most nominations for the European Film Awards 2014 had gone to LEVIATHAN by Andrey Zvyagintsev, the big winner was the film IDA (Poland, Denmark) which won European Film, Director for Pawel Pawlikowski, Screenwriter for Pawel Pawlikowski and Rebecca Lenkiewicz, and Cinematographer for Łukasz Żal and Ryszard Lenczewski, as well as the People's Choice Award.

European Discovery 2014 - Prix FIPRESCI went to Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy for THE TRIBE (Ukraine), Short Film 2014 went to the German-Croatian co-production THE CHICKEN by Una Gunjak, European Documentary 2014 to MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE (Germany, Austria) by Marc Bauder. Timothy Spall received the award European Actor for his role in MR. TURNER, his French colleague Marion Cotillard European Actress for TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT.

Further awards went to LOCKE (Justine Wright, Editor), THE DARK VALLEY (Claus-Rudolf Amler, Production Designer and Natascha Curtius-Noss, Costume Designer), UNDER THE SKIN (Mica Levi, Composer), and STARRED UP (Joakim Sundström, Sound Designer).

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2014 Films
  • TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT

    Sandra has only one weekend to visit her colleagues and - with the help of her husband - convince them to sacrifice their bonuses so she can keep her job.

    Direction: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne

    Script: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne

    Production: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne

    Ci...

  • UNDER THE SKIN

    An alien entity inhabits the earthly forms of a seductive young woman who combs the Scottish highways in search of the human prey it is here to plunder. It lures its isolated and forsaken male victims into an otherworldly dimension where they are stripped and consumed. But life in all its complex...

  • VIOLETTE

    Born out of wedlock early in the last century, Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in post‐war Saint‐Germain‐des‐Prés. An intense lifelong relationship develops between the two women authors, based on Violette’s quest for freedom through writing and on Simone’s conviction that she holds in h...

  • WAITING FOR AUGUST

    Georgiana Halmac turns 15 this winter. She lives with her six brothers and sisters in a social housing condo on the outskirts of Bacau, Romania. Their mother Liliana was forced to leave her family behind to go to Turin, Italy, to earn money. She won’t be back before summer. During their mother’s ...

  • WALESA

    1970, Gdansk. The communist authorities bloodily repress a workers’ protest. Among them Lech Walesa, an ordinary shipyard worker who tries to deal with daily problems with his wife Danuta. Refusing the rules, he soon start leading a revolution that will end up not only toppling a dictatorship in ...

  • WALL

    FAL
    Hungary

    Laci is a 16-year-old gypsy boy, who lives off casual jobs. One day, he gets picked up from the streets along with a small group of workers for a construction job. He has to participate in the completion of a wall, that surrounds a series of tenement buildings. The film follows the v...

  • WE COME AS FRIENDS

    We Come as Friends is a science fiction-like odyssey in a home-made flying machine. Set in central Africa, it explores a 'civilizing' pathology that transcends the news headlines - colonialism, imperialism, and holy wars over resources.
    This documentary leads us into improbable locations and into...

  • WHALE VALLEY

    The film shows a pure love story between two brothers who live in a remote Icelandic fjord with their parents. When the younger brother, a little boy, witnesses a life or death moment involving his big brother it sets in motion the possibility of either a great tragedy or a turning point to bette...

  • WHEN EVENING FALLS ON BUCHAREST OR METABOLISM

    It’s the middle of a film shoot and Paul, the director, is having an affair with Alina, an actress playing a supporting role. With Alina’s last day on set imminent, Paul decides to rewrite the script in order to shoot a nude scene with her. But tomorrow is always another day...

    Direction: Cornel...

  • WHITE GOD

    FEHÉR ISTEN
    Hungary, Germany, Sweden

    Kornel Mundruczó’s sixth feature film tells the tale of the eternal friendship of a girl and a dog in a world in which heavy tolls are cast on some and gains on others - where ancestry becomes a matter of life or death again.
    A new law in Hungary announces th...

  • WOLF

    Majid (Marwan Kenzari) is a talented kickboxer from a grey, anonymous suburb in The Netherlands. As his fighting prowess brings him increasing notoriety in-and outside the ring, the worlds of kickboxing and organised crime begin to blur into each another and Majid begins to lose sight of what it ...

  • WOUNDED

    Ana is 28. She feels useful and satisfied in her routine work helping others. Nevertheless, outside of her working day, Ana has serious problems relating to people. She is socially awkward and even aggressive towards those people closest to her and whom she loves.
    Ana can’t control this behaviour...