2020 Films

2020 Films

Celebrated in a virtual format over several evenings, the 33rd European Film Awards witnessed the Danish-Dutch-Swedish co-production ANOTHER ROUND taking home four of the awards: European Film, Director for Thomas Vinterberg, Actor for Mads Mikkelsen, and Screenwriter for Thomas Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm.

European Comedy went to THE BIG HIT (France) by Emmanuel Courcol, European Discovery - Prix FIPRESCI to SOLE (Italy, Poland) by Carlo Sironi, Documentary to COLLECTIVE (Romania, Luxembourg) by Alexander Nanau, Animated Feature Film to JOSEP (France, Belgium, Spain) by Aurel, and Short Film to ALL CATS ARE GREY IN THE DARK (Switzerland) by Lasse Linder.

German actress Paula Beer was honoured for her performance in UNDINE.

Further awards went to HIDDEN AWAY (Matteo Cocco for Cinematography and Ursula Patzak for Costume Design), ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH (Maria Fantastica Valmori for Editing), THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD (Cristina Casali for Production Design), THE ENDLESS TRENCH (Yolanda Piña, Félix Terrero and Nacho Diaz for Make-up & Hair), BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ (Dascha Dauenhauer for Original Score), LITTLE GIRL (Yolande Decarsin and Kristian Selin Eidnes Andersen for Sound) and THE PLATFORM (Iñaki Madariaga for Visual Effects).

The LUX AUDIENCE AWARD, presented in co-operation with the European Parliament and the European Film Academy, in partnership with the European Commission and Europa Cinemas, later also went to COLLECTIVE.

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2020 Films
  • THE EUPHORIA OF BEING

    A LÉTEZÉS EUFÓRIÁJA
    Hungary

    Éva Fahidi was 20 years old when she returned to Hungary from Auschwitz Birkenau. She was all alone, 49 members of her family were murdered, including her mother, her father and her little sister. 70 years later, aged 90, Éva is asked to participate in a dance theatre...

  • THE NOSE OR THE CONSPIRACY OF MAVERICKS

    The film is based on the two greatest creations of the Russian genius: A short story, "The Nose" by Nikolai Gogol, and an opera, “The Nose” that composer Dmitri Shostakovich made Gogol’s novel into in 1930.
    The film is dedicated to pioneers, innovators in art. People who are ahead of their time. ...

  • THE PAINTED BIRD

    The boy is living with his foster mother Marta, but Marta unexpectedly dies.The boy is therefore all alone and forced to wander and fend for himself in a wild region. He can stay nowhere for long and is forced to wander from place to place. He is taken under wing by Olga, a so-called holy woman w...

  • THEY CALL ME BABU

    THEY CALL ME BABU is a film about native Indonesian girls working as nannies (pembantu) for the colonial Dutch in a rapidly changing world in the 1940s against the backdrop of WWII and the struggle for independence in Indonesia. The film is told from the perspective of Alima and begins with her d...

  • THOSE WHO REMAINED

    AKIK MARADTAK
    Hungary

    Aldo is 42, lost his wife and two children in the camps but is keeping himself together while working as a gynecologist.
    Klára is 16, and has not gotten her period yet. She is still waiting for her father and mother to return from … well, she only knows they are "war priso...

  • UNCLE THOMAS, ACCOUNTING FOR THE DAYS

    A tribute to the director’s uncle Thomas, a humble man with a simple and anonymous life. This is her acknowledgment how one does not have to be "somebody" to become exceptional in other’s eyes.

    Direction: Regina Pessoa

    Script: Regina Pessoa

    Production: Abi Feijó

    Co-Production: Julie Roy, Regi...

  • UPPERCASE PRINT

    UPPERCASE PRINT links two stories, two histories. One is the true story of teenager Mugur Călinescu, who in 1981 chalked protest messages against the Ceaușescu regime on walls. His story is presented as it appears in the voluminous file kept by the Secret Police, which observed, apprehended, inte...

  • WALCHENSEE FOREVER

    In her documentary family saga WALCHENSEE FOREVER, director Janna Ji Wonders embarks on a voyage of discovery spanning over a century. In order to uncover the secrets and her role in the generation chain, she leads us from the family café at the Bavarian Walchensee lake via Mexico to San Francis...

  • WILDLAND

    Following the tragic death of her mother, seventeen-year-old Ida falls into the care of her estranged aunt Bodil and Bodil’s three grown sons. Ida initially finds comfort in their home, which is filled with physical tenderness and a strong sense of unity. But the darker reality of her family’s cr...

  • WILLOW

    Three women cope with issues of control over their bodies, tradition and adoption. They have not set out to change the world, but their struggle to become mothers makes them unlikely heroines. Three stories set in Macedonia - one medieval, two contemporary - exploring themes of love, trust and mo...