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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LONGING
Ariel, a well-off, childless man, gets a phone call from his college girlfriend. She needs to tell him a couple of very surprising things: first, when they broke up twenty years ago, she was pregnant and went on to have a lovely boy. The second thing will make Ariel explore the hidden aspects of ...
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LOTS OF KIDS, A MONKEY AND A CASTLE
This is the story about Julita, a matriarch whose three childhood wishes have been granted: lots of kids, a monkey and a Spanish castle.
At her 81 years old, one of her children needs to find the vertebra of his murdered great-grandmother, lost among the exorbitant amount of weird objects she has... -
LUCIA'S GRACE
Single working mother Lucia is trying to find the right balance between life with her teenage daughter, a complicated romance and her career as a land surveyor. Lucia’s future is jeapordized when she realizes that an ambitious new building is environmentally dangerous due to the city council’s in...
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MADEMOISELLE PARADIS
Vienna, 1777. Maria Theresia (“Resi”) Paradis, 18 years old, is blind, and a pianist of remarkable talent. Resi lost her eyesight literally overnight when she was three. After countless failed medical experiments, her overprotective parents seek out a controversial “miracle doctor,” Franz Anton M...
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MEN DON'T CRY
The armed conflicts of the 1990s not only visibly destroyed the land of the former Yugoslavia, but also left the deepest wounds in the memory of each of its belligerent nations. There are as many different interpretations of that bleak past as there are countries affected. It is therefore hard to...
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MERYEM
Filmed during the battle of Kobani, this film reveals the women at the heart of the fight against IS. With stoical perseverance and the aid of American airstrikes, these women are leading the fight for freedom.
Direction: Reber Dosky
Production: Jos de Putter
Cinematography: Reber Dosky
Editi...
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METEORS
They come at night. Everyone steps out of their homes. They light torches and remember those who have walked these streets before them. In the next few hours, the city is on lockdown and an eclipse appears. At night, meteors start to fall. Blending documentary filmmaking and political commentary,...
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MICHAEL INSIDE
Michael McCrea is an impressionable eighteen-year-old who lives with his grandfather Francis in a Dublin housing-estate. Michael’s life is changed dramatically when he is caught holding a bag of drugs for his friend’s older brother, and is sentenced to three months in prison. Inside, Michael is b...
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MILADA
Based on a true story, “Milada” recounts the life of Milada Horakova,
a courageous woman who fought for her country's freedom – at the cost
of her own. She was a lawmaker whose own government turned on her,
arrested her, and, ultimately, carried out a death sentence for her
pro-democracy and anti... -
MUG
Jacek loves heavy metal, his girlfriend and his dog. His family, his small hometown, his fellow
parishioners all see him as an amusing freak. Jacek works at the construction site of what is
supposed to become the tallest statue of Jesus in the world. When a severe accident disfigures
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ONE DAY
EGY NAP
HungaryAnna is 40. She is always in a rush. She has three children, a husband, a job and financial stress. Anna meets deadlines, makes promises, takes care of things, brings stuff home and remembers everything. But she never catches up with her husband. She’d like to talk to him. She fe...
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PITY
The story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy, a man addicted to sadness, who has such need for pity, he’s willing to do everything to evoke it from others. This is the life of a man in a world not cruel enough for him.
Direction: Babis Makridis
Script: Babis Makridis, Efthimis Fil...
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POMEGRANATE ORCHARD
Gabil returns home to the humble family farmstead, surrounded by an orchard of venerable pomegranate trees; since his sudden departure twelve years ago he was never once in contact. However, the deep emotional scars he left behind cannot be erased from one day to the next.
Direction: Ilgar Najaf...
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POROROCA
Cristina and Tudor Ionescu have founded a happy family with their two children, Maria (5 and a half) and Ilie (7). They're in their thirties and live in a nice apartment in a Romanian town. He works for a phone company and she's an accountant. They seem to live the life of an ordinary couple with...
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PRISONER OF SOCIETY
What it means to be a stranger in your own home and country?
Prisoner of Society is an intimate journey into the world and mind of a young transgender woman, trapped between her personal desire for freedom and traditional expectations of her parents that threatens their unity.
Directed by: Rati...
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RELEASE THE DOGS
Anouck is a resigned girl, torn between two loves, two violences : her man, an attractive watchdog ,and her little brother, a young mad pup. The night of the boy’s 18th, this delicate triangle explodes, Anouck's revolt is on its way...
Directed by: Manue Fleytoux
Written by: Manue Fleytoux
Pro...
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SCARY MOTHER
A 50-year-old housewife, Manana, struggles with her dilemma - she has to choose between her family life and her passion, writing, which she had repressed for years – she decides to follow her passion and plunges herself into writing, sacrificing to it mentally and physically.
Direction: Ana Urus...
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SHAME
Macho is a poor boy, who skips school to work on a construction site. The only ray of light for him is his girlfriend, Donna .Yet, she is ashamed of his mother, who works as janitor in their school. Macho has to chose between his mother and his love, and he finds his own way to deal with his emot...
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SHOCK WAVES : DIARY OF MY MIND
A few minutes before shooting his father and his mother in cold blood, Benjamin Feller, an 18-year-old young man, apparently uneventful, sends his diary by mail to his literature teacher in which he confesses and explains his double murder. The choice to associate this woman with his act and to u...
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SRBENKA
In the winter of 1991, a 12-year-old Serbian girl was murdered in Zagreb. A quarter of a century later, director Oliver Frljić is working on a theatre play about the case.
Rehearsals become a collective psychotherapy, and the 12-year-old actress Nina feels as if the war had never ended.Directio...
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TARZAN'S TESTICLES
Sukhum is the capital of Abkhazia, a tiny, unrecognized republic on the shores of the Black Sea. On its highest hill lies a medical institute of research on monkeys, established by the Soviets in the 1920s. Legend states that it was meant to create a hybrid between man and ape. This creature neve...
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THE BREADWINNER
Based on the best selling children's novel by Deborah Ellis, The Breadwinner tells the story of Parvana, a 11 year old girl growing up in Afghanistan in 2001. When her father is arrested, Parvana dresses as a boy in order to work and provide for her family. Together with her best friend Shauzia, ...
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THE CAPTAIN
Based on the arresting true story of the Executioner of Emsland, The Captain follows a German army deserter, Willi Herold, after he finds an abandoned Nazi captain’s uniform in the final weeks of World War II.
Emboldened by the authority the uniform grants him, he amasses a band of stragglers w...
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THE DEAD NATION
A film constructed using the opposition of what a huge collection of recently discovered glass-plate photographs from the 30s and 40s tell us about Romania and what they do not show.
Direction: Radu Jude
Script: Radu Jude
Production: Ada Solomon
Cinematography: Costică Acsinte
Editing: Cătăl...