2021 Films

2021 Films

Celebrated in a hybrid format from Berlin, the 34th European Film Awards highlighted achievements in various European co-productions. While TITANE had most nominations, QUO VADIS, AIDA? and FLEE both took home three awards.

QUO VADIS, AIDA? (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Austria, The Netherlands, France, Poland, Norway, Germany, Romania, Turkey) received the awards European Film, Director for Jasmila Žbanić and Actress for Jasna Đuričić. FLEE (Denmark, France, Sweden, Norway) by Jonas Poher Rasmussen won European Documentary, Animated Feature Film and the European University Film Award.

NINJABABY (Norway) by Yngvild Sve Flikke won European Comedy, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN (USA, UK) by Emerald Fennell won European Discovery - Prix FIPRESCI, and MY UNCLE TUDOR (Belgium, Portugal, Hungary, Moldova) by Olga Lucovnicova won European Short Film.

Anthony Hopkins was honoured for his role iin THE FATHER which also received European Screenwriter for Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton.

Further awards went to GREAT FREEDOM (Crystel Fournier for Cinematography, Nils Petter Molvaer and Peter Brötzmann for Original Score), UNCLENCHING THE FISTS (Mukharam Kabulova for Editing), NATURAL LIGHT (Márton Ágh for Production Design), AMMONITE (Michael O'Connor for Costume Design), TITANE (Flore Masson, Olivier Afonso and Antoine Mancini for Make-up & Hair), THE INNOCENTS (Gisle Tveito and Gustaf Berger for Sound) and LAMB (Peter Hjorth and Fredrik Nord for Visual Effects).

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2021 Films
  • BELLA

    Greece 1986-1987, a little before the fall of State Socialism and just at the end of the Cold War. In front of Anthi’s eyes the country is changing, the world is changing and with them Christos seems to be changing too.

    Direction: Thelyia Petraki

    Script: Thelyia Petraki

    Production: Kostas Taga...

  • DISPLACED

    In post-war Kosovo, driven by the ambition of keeping their beloved sport alive, two local players wander from one obscure location to another carrying with them the only possession of the club: their tables.

    Direction: Samir Karahoda

    Script: Samir Karahoda

    Production: Eroll Bilibani

    Cinemato...

  • WELCOME TO SPAIN

    Torreblanca is Sevilla’s last neighbourhood. There, beside the highway, you can find the former Maravilla whorehouse, which has just closed for it to be turned into a refugee centre. It’s Christmas and, before the neighbours’ curious eyes, the newcomers to Spain are received by one of the Three W...

  • THE BELLY OF THE SEA

    Based on real events.
    The Italian writer Alessandro Baricco narrates these events in the novel “Oceano Mare”, concentrated in a chapter titled “The Belly of the Sea”.

    June 1816. The frigate the Alliance, of the French Navy, ran aground on a sandbar off the coast of Senegal. The attempts to free...

  • COMPARTMENT NO. 6

    A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of compartment no. 6 to face the truth about their own year...

  • ANNETTE

    Los Angeles, today. Henry is a stand-up comedian with a fierce sense of humor. Ann, a world-renowned opera singer. 

    Under the spotlight, they form a wholesome and glamorous couple.

    The birth of their first child, Annette, a mysterious little girl with an exceptional destiny, will turn their l...

  • THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD

    Julie is turning thirty and her life is an existential mess. Several of her talents have gone to waste and her older boyfriend, Aksel - a successful graphic novelist - is pushing for them to settle down. One night she gatecrashes a party and meets the young and charming Eivind. Before long, she h...

  • 200 METERS

    A Palestinian father trapped on the other side of the separation wall is trying to reach the hospital for his son.

    Direction: Ameen Nayfeh

    Script: Ameen Nayfeh

    Production: May Odeh

    Co-Production: Francesco Melzi d'Eril, Faycal Hassairi, Marco Colombo, Julia Gebauer

    Cinematography: Elin Kirsc...

  • THE STORY OF MY WIFE

    A FELESÉGEM TÖRTÉNETE
    Hungary, Germany, Italy, France

    Jakob Störr, a Dutch seasoned sea captain, makes a bet in a café to marry the first woman who enters the place. And then in walks Lizzy …

    Written & directed by: Ildikó Enyedi
    Produced by: Mónika Mécs, Jonas Dornbach, Flaminio Zadra, Ernő Mes...

  • SUPERNOVA

    Sam and Tusker have spent twenty years together, and they are as passionately in love as they have ever been. But in the two years since Tusker was diagnosed with young-onset dementia, their lives have had to change. As autumn comes, they plan a road trip while Tusker is still able to travel, to ...

  • OASIS

    Upon her arrival at an institution for people with mental disabilities, Maria quickly becomes friends with the equally fiery Dragana. When it becomes clear that they are both in love with the more withdrawn Robert, their relationship is upset and gradually grows into a dangerous game of hide-and-...

  • QUO VADIS, AIDA?

    Bosnia, 11 July 1995.
    Aida is a translator for the United Nations in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. As an insider to the negotiations, Aida has access to crucial information...

  • LUZZU

    Jesmark, a Maltese fisherman, contends with a newfound leak in his wooden Luzzu boat. Barely getting by, he sees his livelihood — and a family tradition from generations before him — imperiled by diminishing harvests, a ruthless fishing industry, and a stagnating ecosystem. Desperate ...

  • HAMMAMET

    The last year in the life of Bettino Craxi, as told by Gianni Amelio.

    An undisputed protagonist of international politics and, until recently, revered in Italy, Bettino Craxi is now in Hammamet, far from his homeland. Overwhelmed by the populist surge that toppled the formerly governing democrat...

  • THE FAM

    A group of teen-aged girls have been placed in a residential care home with social workers. They live under the same roof but haven’t chosen each other. This experience creates unexpected tensions and intimacies. An incident triggers a chain of over-reactions but their lust for life also strength...

  • LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES

    In a village in the south east of Turkey, Mahmut wants to divorce his newly-wed wife. At the same time, his sister Zeynep enrols in an open high school and takes on a job in a factory. Against her father’s wishes, she wants to leave the village and ultimately go to university. The siblings’ deman...

  • BROTHER'S KEEPER

    Yusuf and his best friend Memo are Kurdish pupils at a boarding school secluded in the Anatolian mountains. When Memo falls mysteriously ill, Yusuf is forced to struggle through the bureaucratic obstacles put up by the school’s repressive authorities to try to help him. When the adults finally un...

  • NATURAL LIGHT

    TERMÉSZETES FÉNY
    Hungary, Germany, Latvia, France

    World War II, occupied Soviet Union. István Semetka is a simple Hungarian farmer who serves as a Caporal in a special unit scouting for partisan groups. On their way to a remote village, his company falls under enemy fire. As the commander is kil...

  • THE APE STAR

    Jonna (8) has lived at the orphanage Sunnyside all her life. She always dreamt of a mother. One day a Gorilla drives up in an old car and adopts Jonna. It takes some time for Jonna to get used to the situation, but just as everything starts becoming good, the local authorities threaten their exis...

  • WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY?

    It’s love at first sight when Lisa and Giorgi meet by chance on a street in the Georgian city of Kutaisi. Love hits them so suddenly, they even forget to ask for each other’s names. Before continuing on their way, they agree to meet the next day. Little do they know that an evil eye casts its spe...

  • MY NAME IS FRANCESCO TOTTI

    On the night before his farewell to football, Francesco Totti goes back to his early memories, re-living his entire life as a movie, together with his fans. Images and feelings flow between key moments of his career, flashes from his personal life, and untold memories. An intimate, first-person t...

  • AMMONITE

    In the 1840s, acclaimed self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning works alone on the wild and brutal Southern English coastline of Lyme Regis. The days of her famed discoveries behind her, she now hunts for common fossils to sell to rich tourists to support herself and her ailing widowed mother. Wh...

  • MR BACHMANN AND HIS CLASS

    MR BACHMANN AND HIS CLASS is an intimate documentary portraying the bond between an elementary school teacher and his students. His unconventional methods clash with the complex social and cultural realities of the provincial German industrial town they live in.

    Direction: Maria Speth

    Productio...

  • THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER

    19-year-old Hala crossed the Euphrates River to escape a forced marriage and her IS supporting family. She finds shelter in a Military Academy where she is trained with a weapon to free other women in danger. After the Kurdish military takes over her city from ISIS, she returns to free her sister...