European Film 2024 – Nominations (for all 15 films please click on "View all")

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  • BYE BYE TIBERIAS

    BYE BYE TIBERIADE
    France, Belgium, Palestine, Qatar

    Nominated for European Documentary 2024, European Film 2024

    In her early twenties, Hiam Abbass left her native Palestinian village of Deir Hanna in Galilee to follow her dream of becoming an actress in Europe, leaving behind her mother, grandm...

  • DAHOMEY

    France, Senegal

    Nominated for European Documentary 2024, European Film 2024

    November 2021. 26 royal treasures of the Kingdom of Dahomey are about to leave Paris to return to their country of origin, the present-day Republic of Benin. Along with thousands of others, these artefacts were plundere...

  • EMILIA PÉREZ

    France

    Nominated for European Director 2024, European Screenwriter 2024, European Actress 2024, European FIlm 2024

    From renegade auteur Jacques Audiard comes EMILIA PÉREZ, an audacious fever dream that defies genres and expectations. Through liberating song and dance and bold visuals, this odys...

  • FLOW

    STRAUME
    Latvia, France, Belgium

    Nominated for European Animated Feature Film 2024, European Film 2024

    The world seems to be coming to an end, teeming with the vestiges of a human presence. Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, it finds refuge on a boat popul...

  • IN LIMBO

    W ZAWIESZENIU
    Poland

    Nominated for European Documentary 2024, European Film 2024

    Russia's invasion of Ukraine hits Alina in Irpin, near Kiev. She is alone, with her leg in a plaster after recent surgery. She manages to escape together with her cat from a bombed and cut off city with one of the ...

  • LIVING LARGE

    ŽIVOT K SEŽRÁNÍ
    Czech Republic, France, Slovakia

    Nominated for European Animated Feature Film 2024, European Film 2024

    12-year-old Ben has just hit puberty and suddenly his weight's a problem – for him and for everyone else. The other kids bully him, his divorced parents don't know what to do ....

  • NO OTHER LAND

    NO OTHER LAND
    Palestine, Norway

    Nominated for European Documentary 2024, European Film 2024

    Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community's mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. Basel documents the gradual erasure of Masafer Yat...

  • SAVAGES

    SAUVAGES
    Switzerland, France, Belgium

    Nominated for European Animated Feature Film 2024, European Film 2024

    In Borneo, near the tropical forest, Kéria rescues a baby orangutang in the palm oil plantation where her father works. Kéria's cousin Selaï comes to live with them seeking refuge from th...

  • SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D'ETAT

    France, Belgium, Netherlands

    Nominated for European Documentary 2024, European Film 2024

    Jazz and decolonisation are entwined in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against th...

  • SULTANA'S DREAM

    EL SUEÑO DE LA SULTANA
    Spain, Germany, India

    Nominated for European Animated Feature Film 2024, European Film 2024

    Inés, a Spanish artist, lives in India and stumbles upon SULTANA’S DREAM, a science fiction story written by Rokeya Hossain in 1905. It describes ‘Ladyland’, a utopia in which wome...

  • THE ROOM NEXT DOOR

    Spain

    Nominated for European Director 2024, European Screenwriter 2024, European Actress 2024, European Film 2024

    Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war repor...

  • THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG

    DANAYE ANJIR-E MOABAD
    Germany, France

    Nominated for European Director 2024, European Screenwriter 2024, European Film 2024

    The celebration of Iman’s latest promotion as investigating judge in the Revolutionary Guard Court coincides with widespread public protests after the death of a young woma...

  • THE SUBSTANCE

    United Kingdom, United States, France

    Nominated for European Screenwriter 2024, European Film 2024

    Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself?
    You. Only better in every way.
    You’ve got to try this product: The Substance.
    It changed my life.
    Elisabeth Sparkle, a former A-lister past he...

  • THEY SHOT THE PIANO PLAYER

    Spain, France, Netherlands, Portugal, Peru

    Nominated for European Animated Feature Film 2024, European Film 2024

    A New York music journalist goes on a quest to uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of young Brazilian piano virtuoso Tenorio Jr. A celebratory origin story of the w...

  • VERMIGLIO

    Italy, France, Belgium

    Nominated for European Director 2024, European Film 2024

    1944. In Vermiglio, a mountain village where the war is a distant but omnipresent horizon, the arrival of Pietro, a soldier escaping the war, disrupts the dynamics of the local schoolmaster’s large family, changing ...