2018 Films

2018 Films

Celebrated in Seville (Spain), the 31st European Film Awards honoured achievements in various films from across the continent. Among them were French-British-Belgian co-production THE DEATH OF STALIN by Armando Iannucci which won European Comedy, GIRL (Belgium, the Netherlands) by Lukas Dhont which won European Discovery - Prix FIPRESCI, ANOTHER DAY OF LIFE (Poland, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Hungary) by Raul de la Fuente and Damian Nenow which won European Animated Feature Film and THE YEARS (Italy, France) by Sara Fgaier which won European Short Film.

The big winner of the European Film Awards 2018 was the Polish-British-French co-production COLD WAR which received European Film, Director and Screenwriter for Pawel Pwalikowski, Actress for Joanna Kulig, and Editor for Jaroslaw Kaminski.

The Italian actor Marcello Fonte was honoured for his performance in DOGMAN which also won European Costume Designer for Massimo Cantini Parrini and European Make-up & Hair for Dalia Colli, Lorenzo Tamburini and Daniela Tartari.

Further awards went to U - JULY 22 (Martin Otterbeck, Cinematographer), THE SUMMER (Andrey Ponkratov, Production Designer), 3 DAYS IN QUIBERON (Christoph M. Kaiser, Julian Maas, Composers), THE CAPTAIN (Andre Bendocchi-Alves, Martin Steyer, Sound Designers) and BORDER (Peter Hjorth, Visual Effects). The People's Choice Award went to CALL ME BY YOUR NAME by Luca Guadagnino.

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2018 Films
  • 3 DAYS IN QUIBERON

    1981, Quibéron, a small village on the coast of Brittany, France. Hilde Fritsch arrives to visit her old friend who has retreated to a spa hotel to escape the daily pressures of her life. Her friend is world-famous star Romy Schneider, but together they appear like two regular women, who are just...

  • ÁGA

    In a yurt on the snow - covered fields of the North, Nanook and Sedna live following the traditions of their ancestors. Alone in the wilderness, they look like the last people on Earth.
    Nanook and Sedna’s traditional way of life starts changing – slowly, but inevitably. The game is disappearing, ...

  • ANNA'S WAR

    This film is about the life of 6-year-old, Anna during World War II. Amid the mass, coordinated execution of Jewish people, her parents were killed. Anna miraculously survives because her mother covered the little girl’s body with her own. Anna spent a few years living in a disused chimney in the...

  • ANOTHER DAY OF LIFE

    Warsaw, 1975. Kapuściński (43) is a brilliant veteran journalist, an idealist and a friend of lost causes and revolutions. At the Polish Press Agency, he convinces his boss to send him to Angola where a bloody civil war has broken out on the eve of the country’s independence. He embarks on a se...

  • AQUAPARQUE

    In an abandoned waterpark, a girl and a boy are hidden from the outside world. Between the graffited ruins of the old swimming pools and blunt slides, they find a shelter to grieve from their loss of hopes and dreams.

    Directed by: Ana Moreira

    Written by: Ana Moreira

    Produced by: Isabel Machado...

  • ARRHYTHMIA

    Oleg is a young gifted paramedic. His wife Katya works as a nurse at the hospital emergency department. She loves Oleg, but is fed up with him caring more about patients than her. She tells him she wants a divorce.

    The new head of Oleg’s EMA department is a cold-hearted manager who’s got new str...

  • A WOMAN CAPTURED

    Hungary, Germany

    A WOMAN CAPTURED is about Marish, a 52-year-old Hungarian woman, who has been serving a family for a decade, working 20 hours a day –without getting paid. Her ID was taken from her by her oppressors and she's not allowed to leave the house without permission. Treated like an ani...

  • AYKA

    Ayka just gave birth.
    She can’t afford to raise a child.
    She has no job, debts to be paid, not even a room of her own.
    But there is no way to suppress her natural instincts.

    Direction: Sergey Dvortsevoy

    Script: Sergey Dvortsevoy, Gennady Ostrovsky

    Production: Thanassis Karathanos

    Co-Productio...

  • BERGMAN - A YEAR IN A LIFE

    Much has been written and documented about Ingmar Bergman. His films and theatre productions have been analysed and dissected countless times, both in Sweden and internationally. He himself has written about his life and films. What is there left to say?

    What we are missing is an comprehensive p...

  • BORG/MCENROE

    Borg/McEnroe is a film of one of the world’s greatest icons Björn Borg and his biggest rival, the young and talented John McEnroe and their legendary duel during the 1980’s Wimbledon tournament. It's a story of two men that became legends and the price they had to pay.
    Wimbledon, 1980. The rainie...

  • BURKINA BRANDENBURG KOMPLEX

    A presumably African village, inhabited by Germans. The film Burkina Brandenburg Komplex describes a geographical construction that makes use of ‘our’ medial and collective image of Africa and puts it to the test through inaccuracies. An archaeological find is made in a mine: a Ferrari. We tag al...

  • CARMEN & LOLA

    Carmen lives in a gypsy community in the suburbs of Madrid. Like every other woman she has ever met, she is destined to live a life that is repeated generation after generation: getting married and raising as many children as possible. But one day she meets Lola, an uncommon gypsy girl who dreams...

  • COBAIN

    Cobain runs away from his new foster family because he is worried about his mother Mia, who is heavily pregnant and lives on the street. When Cobain demands that Mia get help for herself and the baby, the two argue bitterly. Cobain finds shelter with Wickmayer, Mia’s ex and a pimp. When Mia conta...

  • COLD WAR

    COLD WAR is a passionate love story between a man and
a woman who meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatally mismatched and yet fatefully condemned to each other. Set against the background of the Cold War in the 1950s
in Poland, Berlin, Yu...

  • DEDE

    It's 1992. Young Dina lives in a remote mountain village where life is strictly governed by centuries of tradition. Dina's grandfather has promised her to David, who is returning from the war. But with him comes a comrade-in-arms, the handsome Gegi, with whom Dina is in love. Is it possible to de...

  • DIAMANTINO

    Diamantino, the world’s premiere soccer star loses his special touch and ends his career in disgrace. Searching for a new purpose, the international icon sets out on a delirious odyssey where he confronts neo-fascism, the refugee crisis, genetic modi cation, and the hunt for the source of genius....

  • DISTANT CONSTELLATION

    This haunted reverie drops us inside an Istanbul retirement home, where the battle-scarred residents bask in the camera’s attention. A creaky- voiced woman confides her personal account of the Armenian genocide. A sweetly deluded pianist performs a composition before confessing his love. A blind ...

  • DOGMAN

    Dubbed an “urban Western,” DOGMAN takes place in an Italian suburb somewhere between metropolis and wild nature. Marcello (Marcello Fonte), a small and gentle dog groomer, finds himself involved in a dangerous relationship of subjugation with Simone (Edoardo Pesce), a former violent boxer who ter...

  • END OF LIFE

    END OF LIFE is the product of four years spent by John Bruce and Paweł Wojtasik with five individuals at various stages in the process of dying. In preparation for this project, the filmmakers trained to be end-of-life doulas and documented hundreds of hours of interactions with their subjects. T...

  • GIRL

    Determined 15-year-old Lara is committed to becoming a professional ballerina. With the support of her father, she throws herself into this quest for the absolute at a new school. Lara’s adolescent frustrations and impatience are heightened as she realizes her body does not bend so easily to the ...

  • GRADUATION '97

    Roman lives a lonely life in a provincial city and works as a technician. For the first time since graduation, Liuda, his ex-classmate, comes back to town. Nobody has heard anything from her for twenty years, but Roman is set on not losing her again.

    Direction: Pavlo Ostrikov

    Script: Pavlo Ostr...

  • HAPPY AS LAZZARO

    WINNER EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY FILM AWARD 2018

    The story of Lazzaro, a peasant still shy of 20 and so good he appears stupid, and Tancredi, a young man of the same age but spoilt by his own imagination, is the story of a friendship. It’s a friendship that begins genuinely amid a flurry of secret sch...

  • I SIGNED THE PETITION

    Immediately after a Palestinian man signs an online petition, he is thrown into a panic-inducing spiral of self-doubt. Over the course of a conversation with an understanding friend, he analyses, deconstructs and interprets the meaning of his choice to publicly support the cultural boycott of Isr...

  • KONTENER

    Container" (Original Titel: Kontener) – Maryna and Tava are working shifts on a milk farm in Eastern Germany. In the village, they are known as 'the two Poles'. They themselves ignore each other existence. When the farm manager goes on a business trip Tava does not show up at work and seems to ha...