2019 Films

2019 Films

Back in Berlin, where the European Film Awards take place every second year, the 32nd edition saw the great success of the British-Irish co-production THE FAVOURITE which won European Film and Comedy, Director for Yorgos Lanthimos, Actress for Olivia Colman, Cinematography for Robbie Ryan, Editing for Yorgos Mavropsaridis, Costume Design for Sandy Powell and Make-up & Hair for Nadia Stacey.

European Discovery - Prix FIPRESCI went to LES MISÉRABLES (France) by Ladj Ly, European Documentary to FOR SAMA (UK, USA) by Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts, European Animated Feature Film to BUÑUEL IN THE LABYRINTH OF THE TURTLES (Spain, the Netherlands) by Salvador Simó, and European Short Film to THE CHRISTMAS GIFT (Romania, Spain) by Bogdan Mureşanu.

Antonio Banderas took home European Actor for his performance in PAIN AND GLORY which also won European Production Design for Antxon Gómez and Céline Sciamma European Screenwriter for PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE which also received the European University Film Award.

Further awards went to SYSTEM CRASHER (John Gürtler for Original Score), A TWELVE-YEAR NIGHT (Eduardo Esquide, Nacho Royo-Villanova and Laurent Chassaigne for Sound) and ABOUT ENDLESSNESS (Martin Ziebell, Sebastian Kaltmeyer, Néha Hirve, Jesper Brodersen and Torgeir Busch for Visual Effects).

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2019 Films
  • ABOUT ENDLESSNESS

    A reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendour and banality.

    We wander, dreamlike, gently guided by our Scheherazade-esque narrator. Inconsequential moments take on the same significance as historical events: a couple floats over a war-torn Cologne; on the way to a birt...

  • ADVOCATE

    Lea Tsemel defends Palestinians: from feminists to fundamentalists, from non-violent demonstrators to armed militants. As a Jewish-Israeli lawyer who has represented political prisoners for five decades, Tsemel, in her tireless quest for justice, pushes the praxis of a human rights defender to it...

  • AND THEN WE DANCED

    The young dancer Merab tries with tireless workout to become successful in the ensemble. His dream is to be a part of the main ensemble and he does his utmost to reach his goal.
    The arrival of the new dancer Irakli threatens everything. Irakli dances effortlessly with unwavering confidence. He qu...

  • ANIARA

    ANIARA is the story of one of the many spaceships used for transporting Earth's population to their new home-planet Mars. But just as Aniara leaves the ruined Earth, she collides with an asteroid and is knocked off her course. Aniara's passengers slowly realise that they'll never be able to retur...

  • A TWELVE-YEAR NIGHT

    1973. Uruguay is governed by a military dictatorship. One autumn night, three Tupamaro prisoners are taken from their jail cells in a secret military operation. The order is precise: “As we can’t kill them, let’s drive them mad.” The three men will remain in solitary confinement for twelve years....

  • A WHITE, WHITE DAY

    In a remote Icelandic town, an off-duty police chief begins to suspect a local man of having had an affair with his late wife, who died in a tragic accident two years earlier. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved one...

  • BAD POEMS

    ROSSZ VERSEK
    Hungary, France

    33-year-old Tamás Merthner is heartbroken after his girlfriend Anna, who is on a scholarship in Paris, breaks up with him. While wallowing in self-pity, Tamás takes a trip down memory lane to figure out if love only exists when it’s practically gone. As he’s trying t...

  • BEANPOLE

    1945, Leningrad. World War II has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Although the siege – one of the worst in history – is finally over, life and death continue their battle in the wreckage that remains. Two young women, Iy...

  • BLIND SPOT

    BLIND SPOT tells the story of a mother who struggles to come to terms with her daughter’s mental illness, revealed to be far worse than she had realised.

    Direction: Tuva Novotny

    Script: Tuva Novotny

    Production: Elisabeth Kvithyll

    Cinematography: Jonas Alarik

    Production Design: Nina Bjerch An...

  • BUÑUEL IN THE LABYRINTH OF THE TURTLES

    Paris, 1930. Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel are already the main figures of the Surrealist movement. Unexpectedly, Buñuel is left moneyless after the scandal surrounding his film THE GOLDEN AGE. In this difficult situation, he cannot even tackle his next project, a documentary about one of the poo...

  • DAFNE

    Dafne is a witty young woman with Down Syndrome, who is a spring of contagious energy. She is fiercely independent, but still lives with her parents, Luigi and Maria.
    Suddenly Maria dies and the family’s balance is shattered. Luigi falls into depression, tormented by the future, by the moment wh...

  • DIRTY GOD

    Parties, music and pretty boys: for Jade and her friends, London nightlife is a weekly highlight. But Jade meets mostly stares now that her face is scarred after a cowardly acid attack by her ex. Painful experiences are not enough to daunt the tough young mother, however; but will her life ever r...

  • DITTE & LOUISE

    Ditte and Louise are two middle-aged actresses and best friends. Together they form a comedy duo, which travels around the country. Louise has accepted that the entertainment industry can’t offer her more and when Ditte dreams of something bigger, Louise keeps her initiative down.

    Ditte decides...

  • DOGS BARKING AT BIRDS

    School is over and there's a bustle in the air. In Porto, tourists fill up the streets and cafés. The old and decadent are now highlights of the city’s gentrification. Vicente moves around town on his bike, watching the urban landscape modify day by day. The town is no longer the same, the world ...

  • FIRE WILL COME

    When Amador Coro gets out of prison for having provoked a fire, nobody is waiting for him. He returns to his hometown, a small village hidden in the mountains of rural Galicia, to live with his elder mother, Benedicta, and three cows. Life goes on calmly, following the rhythm of nature. Until the...

  • FRIEDKIN UNCUT

    FRIEDKIN UNCUT offers an introspective insight into the life and artistic journey of William Friedkin, an extraordinary and offbeat director of cult films such as THE FRENCH CONNECTION, THE EXORCIST, SORCERER, CRUISING, TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. and KILLER JOE. For the first time Friedkin opens up,...

  • GOD EXISTS, HER NAME IS PETRUNIJA

    In Stip, a small town in Macedonia, every January the local priest throws a wooden cross into the river and hundreds of men dive after it. Good fortune and prosperity are guaranteed to the man who retrieves it.

    This time, Petrunija dives into the water on a whim and manages to grab the cross bef...

  • HEIMAT IS A SPACE IN TIME

    HEIMAT IS A SPACE IN TIME picks up the biographical pieces of a family torn apart through the end of the 19th and into the 20th century. It is about people who by chance found each other, only then to lose each other. Now it is their descendants, their children and grandchildren who are beginning...

  • HOMEWARD

    Having lost the elder son on the war, Mustafa has to transfer his dead body to the homeland – Crimea. During this long and challenging trip, Mustafa tries to solve the innumerable problems and to find a common language with his younger son. On the way back home, the youngster becomes a man,finds ...

  • HONEYLAND

    Nestled in an isolated mountain region deep within the Balkans, Hatidze Muratova lives with her ailing mother in a village without roads, electricity or running water. She’s the last in a long line of Macedonian wild beekeepers, eking out a living farming honey in small batches to be sold in the ...

  • "I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS"

    military reenactment – Hannah Arendt – show – 1941, “the year that keeps returning”, as seen from 2018 – quotations – firearms – archive footage – the Odessa massacre – 16 mm and video – the Military Museum – negationism – videomapping – burlesque – dialogues – fanfare – Isaac Babel – fragmented...

  • I LOST MY BODY

    In Paris, Naoufel falls in love with Gabrielle. On another part of town, a severed hand escapes from a lab, determined to find its body again. During a dangerous expedition across the city, it remembers its life together with Naoufel until the accident. Naoufel, the hand and Gabrielle will find t...

  • I WAS AT HOME, BUT

    Phillip, a thirteen-year-old school boy, disappeared without a trace for a week. When he reappears, his mother is confronted with questions that lead to a changed view of her life.

    Direction: Angela Schanelec

    Script: Angela Schanelec

    Production: Angela Schanelec

    Co-Production: Vladimir Vidic,...

  • JUMPMAN

    Denis grew up in an orphanage, where his mother left him soon after his birth. He is a special boy, who due to a rare illness is immune to pain. This makes him popular among other boys, who take bets on how long he can endure cruel physical games. One day his mother turns up out of the blue and t...