European Film Award for European Discovery of the Year
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| European Discovery of the Year | |
|---|---|
| Country |  Europe |
| Presented by | European Film Academy |
| First awarded | 1988 |
| Currently held by | The Tribe (2014) |
| Website | europeanfilmawards.eu |
European Film Award - Prix Eurimages or European Discovery has been awarded annually since 1988 by the European Film Academy. Originally it was called Young European Film of the Year.
Contents
1 Winners and nominees
1.1 1980s
1.2 1990s
1.3 2000s
1.4 2010s
2 Most wins for Best Discovery by country
3 External links
Winners and nominees
1980s
| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country of production | Country of co-production | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1988 | Best Young Film | ||||||
| Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios | Pedro Almodóvar | Augustin Almodovár |  | |||
| Days of Eclipse | Дни затмения | Aleksandr Sokurov | ? |  | |||
| It's Happening Tomorrow | Domani accadrà | Daniele Luchetti | Marco Alfieri |  | |||
| Damnation | Kárhozat | Béla Tarr | József Marx |  | |||
| Pathfinder | Ofelaš or Veiviseren | Nils Gaup | John M. Jacobsen |  | |||
| Reefer and the Model | Joe Comerford | Lelia Doolan |  | ||||
| Stormy Monday | Mike Figgis | Nigel Stafford-Clark |  |  | |||
1989 | Young European Film of the Year | ||||||
| 300 Miles to Heaven | 300 mil do nieba | Maciej Dejczer | Prod. Film Unit “TOR“ |  |   | ||
| Cinema Paradiso | Nuovo Cinema Paradiso | Giuseppe Tornatore | Franco Cristaldi, Giovanna Romagnoli | | | ||
| Mist | Sis | Zülfü Livaneli | Ülker Livaneli |  |  | ||
| Kuduz | Ademir Kenović | Bakir Tanović |  | ||||
| Scandal | Michael Caton-Jones | Steve Woolley | | | |||
| My Left Foot | My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown | Jim Sheridan | Noel Pearson | | | ||
| Waller’s Last Walk | Wallers letzter Gang | Christian Wagner | Christian Wagner |  | |||
1990s
| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country of production | Country of co-production | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1990 | Young European Film of the Year | ||||||
| Henry V | Kenneth Branagh | Bruce Sharman | | ||||
| The White Dove | La Blanca Paloma | Juan Minon | Eduardo Campoy | | |||
| On Tour | Turnè | Gabriele Salvatores | Gianni Minervini | | |||
| Love Without Pity | Un monde sans pitié | Eric Rochant | Alain Rocca | | |||
| Lie Still – Die - Revive | Замри, умри, воскресни | Vitali Kanevsky | Lenfilm Studios Leningrad | | |||
1991 | Young European Film of the Year | ||||||
| Toto the Hero | Toto le héros | Jaco van Dormael | Pierre Drouot, Dany Geys, Iblis Films Bruxelles |  | | ||
| Delicatessen | Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Claudie Ossard | | ||||
| Ultra | Ultrà | Ricky Tognazzi | Claudio Bonivento | | |||
1992 | Young European Film of the Year | ||||||
| The Northerners | De noorderlingen | Alex van Warmerdam | Laurens Geels, Dick Maas, First Floor Features |  | |||
| Three Days | Trys dienos | Šarūnas Bartas | Audrius Kuprevičius |  | |||
| Nord | Xavier Beauvois | Bernard Verley | | ||||
1993 | Young European Film of the Year | ||||||
| Orlando | Sally Potter | Christopher Sheppard | |  | |||
| Man Bites Dog | C'est arrivé près de chez vous | Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde | Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde | | |||
| Antonio's Girlfriend | La petite amie d'Antonio | Manuel Poirier | Jean-Christophe Colson | | |||
1994 | Young European Film of the Year | ||||||
| The Son of the Shark | Le fils du requin | Agnès Merlet | Francois Fries | |  | ||
| Woyzeck | János Szász | Péter Barbalics, László Sipos | | ||||
| Kosh ba kosh | Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov | Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov |  |  | |||
1995 | Young European Film of the Year | ||||||
| Hate | La haine | Mathieu Kassovitz | Christophe Rossignon | | | ||
| Butterfly Kiss | Michael Winterbottom | Julie Baines, Sarah Daniel | | ||||
| The Deathmaker | Der Totmacher | Romuald Karmakar | Christian Granderath, Gebhard Henke, Romuald Karmakar, Thomas Schühly | | |||
1996 | Young European Film of the Year | ||||||
| Some Mother's Son | Terry George | Edward Burke, Arthur Lappin, Jim Sheridan | | | |||
| Lea | Ivan Fíla | Ivan Fíla, Eliska Sekavova, Herbert Rimbach |  | | |||
| Beautiful Thing | Hettie MacDonald | Tony Garnett, Bill Shapter | | ||||
1997 | European Discovery of the Year – Fassbinder Award | ||||||
| The Life of Jesus | La vie de Jésus | Bruno Dumont | Rachid Bouchareb, Jean Bréhat | | |||
| no other nominees | |||||||
1998 | European Discovery – Fassbinder Award 1998 | ||||||
| The Celebration | Festen | Thomas Vinterberg | Birgitte Hald, Morten Kaufmann | |  | ||
| The Dream Life of Angels | La vie rêvée des anges | Erick Zonca | François Marquis | | |||
| no other nominees | |||||||
1999 | European Discovery 1999 – Fassbinder Award | ||||||
| The War Zone | Tim Roth | Sarah Radclyffe, Dixie Linder | | | |||
| no other nominees | |||||||
2000s
| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country of production | Country of co-production | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2000 | European Discovery 2000 – Fassbinder Award | ||||||
| Human Resources | Ressources humaines | Laurent Cantet | Caroline Benjo, Carole Scotta | | | ||
| 101 Reykjavík | 101 Reikiavik | Baltasar Kormákur | Michael P. Aust, Baltasar Kormákur, Þorfinnur Ómarsson, Ingvar Þórðarson |  |  | ||
| Gangster No. 1 | Paul McGuigan | Jonathan Cavendish, Norma Heyman | | | |||
| Kennedy And I | Kennedy et moi | Sam Karmann | Christian Bérard, Edouard Weil | | |||
| Northern Skirts | Nordrand | Barbara Albert | Erich Lackner |  | | ||
| Some Voices | Simon Cellan-Jones | Damian Jones, Graham Broadbent | | ||||
| Together | Tillsammans | Lukas Moodysson | Lars Jönsson | | | ||
| Tuvalu | Veit Helmer | Vladimir Andreyev | | | |||
| Forget America | Vergiss Amerika | Vanessa Jopp | Katja De Bock, Alena Rimbach, Herbert Rimbach | | |||
2001 | European Discovery 2001 - Fassbinder Award | ||||||
| Pellet | El bola | Achero Mañas | Francisco Lázaro, José Antonio Félez | | |||
| alaska.de | Esther Gronenborn | Dietmar Güntsche, Eberhard Junkersdorf | | ||||
| The Sea That Thinks | De zee die denkt | Gert de Graaff | René Huybrechtse, René Scholten | | |||
| Dog Days | Hundstage | Ulrich Seidl | Philippe Bober, Helmut Grasser | | |||
| Jalla! Jalla! | Josef Fares | Anna Anthony | | ||||
| Dead End Streets | Kleistoi dromoi | Stavros Ioannou | ? |  | |||
| Last Resort | Paweł Pawlikowski | Ruth Caleb | | ||||
| Lovely Rita | Jessica Hausner | Barbara Albert | | | |||
| The Chimp | Маймыл | Aktan Abdykalykov | Marc Baschet |  | | ||
| Happy man | Szczęśliwy człowiek | Małgorzata Szumowska | Wojciech Has | | |||
2002 | European Discovery 2002 - Fassbinder Award | ||||||
| Hukkle | György Pálfi | András Böhm, Csaba Bereczky | | ||||
| Two Friends | Due amici | Spiro Scimone, Francesco Sframeli | Andrea Nuzzolo, Francesco Tornatore | | |||
| Minor Mishaps | Annette K. Olesen | Ib Tardini | | | |||
| Respiro | Emanuele Crialese | Domenico Procacci, Anne-Dominique Toussaint | | | |||
| No Regrets | Nichts bereuen | Benjamin Quabeck | Michael Schaefer, Stephanie Wagner | | |||
| Smoking Room | Roger Gual, Julio D. Wallovits | Adolfo Blanco, Quique Camín | | ||||
| Pleasant Days | Szép napok | Kornél Mundruczó | Philippe Bober, Zsófia Kende, Viktória Petrányi, Kornél Sipos | | |||
| The Warrior | El guerrero | Asif Kapadia | F. Serkan Acar, Kadir Sözen | |  | ||
| Guardian of the Frontier | Varuh meje | Maja Weiss | Ida Weiss |  | | ||
| What's Going On? | Wesh wesh, qu'est-ce qui se passe? | Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche | ? | | |||
| The Kite | Zmey | Aleksei Muradov | Pyotr Chernyayev, Robert Filatov, Aleksei Muradov, Yevgeniya Tirdatova | | |||
2003 | European Film Academy Discovery 2003 - Prix Fassbinder | ||||||
| The Return | Возвращение | Andrei Zvyagintsev | Yelena Kovalyova, Dmitry Lesnevsky | | |||
| Fuse | Gori vatra | Pjer Žalica | Ademir Kenović |  | | ||
| The Hours of the Day | Las horas del día | Jaime Rosales | María José Díez, Ismael Glück | | |||
| Whatever You Say | Mon idole | Guillaume Canet | Alain Attal | | |||
| Reconstruction | Christoffer Boe | Tine Grew Pfeiffer | | ||||
| Schultze Gets the Blues | Michael Schorr | Jens Körner | | ||||
| Young Adam | David Mackenzie | Jeremy Thomas | | | |||
2004 | European Film Academy Discovery 2004 – Prix Fassbinder | ||||||
| A Children's Story | Certi bambini | Antonio Frazzi, Andrea Frazzi | Rosario Rinaldo | | |||
| A Common Thread | Brodeuses | Éléonore Faucher | Alain Benguigui, Bertrand Van Effenterre | | |||
| Kroko | Sylke Enders | Christiane Hartmann, Gudrun Ruzicková-Steiner | | ||||
| Or | אור / Mon trésor | Keren Yedaya | Emmanuel Agneray, Jérôme Bleitrach, Marek Rozenbaum, Itai Tamir |  | | ||
| A Wonderful Night in Split | Ta divna splitska noć | Arsen Anton Ostojić | Jozo Patljak |  | |||
| Harvest Time | Marina Razbezhkina | Tatyana Kanayeva, Natalia Zheltukhina | | ||||
2005 | European Film Academy Discovery 2005 - Prix Fassbinder | ||||||
| Accused | Anklaget | Jakob Thuesen | Thomas Heinesen | | |||
| Alice | Marco Martins | Paulo Branco |  | ||||
| 4 | Ilya Khrzhanovsky | Yelena Yatsura | | ||||
| Stranger | Ono | Małgorzata Szumowska | Karl Baumgartner, Raimond Goebel | | | ||
| When The Tide Comes In | Quand la mer monte... | Yolande Moreau, Gilles Porte | Humbert Balsan, Catherine Burniaux | | |||
| Saimir | Francesco Munzi | Cristiano Bortone, Daniele Mazzocca | | ||||
| Uno | Aksel Hennie | Jørgen Storm Rosenberg | | ||||
2006 | European Discovery 2006 | ||||||
| 13 Tzameti | Géla Babluani | Géla Babluani |  | | |||
| Fresh Air | Friss levegö | Ágnes Kocsis | Ferenc Pusztai | | |||
| Pingpong | Matthias Luthardt | Niklas Bäumer, Anke Hartwig | | ||||
| Retrieval | Z odzysku | Sławomir Fabicki | Łukasz Dzięcioł, Piotr Dzięcioł | | |||
2007 | European Discovery 2007 | ||||||
| The Band's Visit | ביקור התזמורת | Eran Kolirin | Ehud Bleiberg, Koby Gal-Raday, Guy Jacoel, Eylon Ratzkovsky, Yossi Uzrad | | | ||
| Control | Anton Corbijn | Anton Corbijn, Todd Eckert, Orian Williams, Iain Canning, Peter Heslop, Tony Wilson, Deborah Curtis | |  | |||
| A Man’s Fear of God | Takva | Özer Kiziltan | Sevil Demirci, Önder Çakar | | | ||
| Counterparts | Gegenüber | Jan Bonny | Bettina Brokemper | | |||
2008 | European Discovery 2008 | ||||||
| Hunger | Steve McQueen | Laura Hastings-Smith, Robin Gutch | | | |||
| Snow | Snijeg | Aida Begić | Benny Drechsel, Karsten Stoeter Elma Tataragić | |  | ||
| Summer Book | Ajami | Seyfi Teoman | Yamaç Okur, TNadir Operli | | |||
| Tulpan | Tulpan | Sergei Dvortsevoy | Karl Baumgartner, Thanassis Karathanos |  | | ||
2009 | European Discovery 2009 | ||||||
| Katalin Varga | Peter Strickland | Tudor Giurgiu, Oana Giurgiu, Peter Strickland | |  | |||
| The Other Bank | Gagma napiri | George Ovashvili | George Ovashvili, Sain Gabdullin | | | ||
| Ajami | Ajami | Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani | Mosh Danon, Thanassis Karathanos, Talia Kleinhendler | | | ||
| Be Good | Sois sage | Juliette Garcias | Marianne Slot | | | ||
| Autumn | Sonbahar | Özcan Alper | F. Serkan Acar, Kadir Sözen | | | ||
2010s
| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country of production | Country of co-production | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2010 | European Discovery - Prix Fipresci | ||||||
| Lebanon | לבנון | Samuel Maoz | Moshe Edery, Leon Edery, David Silber, Uri Sabag, Einat Bickel, Benjamina Mirnik, Illan Girard | |  | ||
| Nothing Personal | Urszula Antoniak | Reinier Selen, Edwin van Meurs | | | |||
| When We Leave | Die Fremde | Feo Aladag | Feo Aladag, Züli Aladag, | | |||
| If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle | Eu când vreau să fluier, fluier | Florin Serban | Catalin Mitulescu, Florin Serban | | | ||
| The Double Hour | La doppia ora | Giuseppe Capotondi | Alessandro Fabbri, Ludovica Rampoldi, Stefano Sardo | | |||
2011 | European Discovery 2011 | ||||||
| Oxygen | Adem | Hans Van Nuffel | Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem, Dries Phlypo | | | ||
| Breathing | Atmen | Karl Markovics | Dieter Pochlatko, Nikolaus Wisiak | | |||
| Michael | Michael | Markus Schleinzer | Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Michael Kitzberger, Wolfgang Widerhofer, Markus Glaser | | |||
| Nothing’s All Bad | Smukke mennesker | Mikkel Munch-Fals | Meta Louise Foldager Stine Meldgaard Madsen | | |||
| Tilva Roš | Nikola Ležaić | Uroš Tomić, Nikola Ležaić, Mina Đukić |  | ||||
2012 | European Discovery 2012 - Prix Fipresci | ||||||
| Kauwboy | Boudewijn Koole | Jan van der Zanden, Wilant Boekelman | | ||||
| Broken | Broken | Rufus Norris | Dixie Linder, Tally Garner, Nick Marston, Bill Kenwright | | |||
| Reported Missing | Die Vermissten | Jan Speckenbach | Anke Hartwig | | |||
| Teddy Bear | 10 Timer til Paradis | Mads Matthiesen | Morten Kiems Juhl | | |||
| Twilight Portrait | Портрет в сумерках | Angelina Nikonova | Leonid Ogaryov, Angelina Nikonova, Olga Dihovichnaya | | |||
2013 | European Discovery - Prix Fipresci | ||||||
| Oh Boy! | Jan Ole Gerster | Marcos Kantis, Alexander Wadouh | | ||||
| Eat Sleep Die | Äta sova dö | Gabriela Pichler | China Åhlander | | |||
| Call Girl | Mikael Marcimain | Mimmi Spång | | | |||
| Miele | Valeria Golino | Riccardo Scamarcio, Viola Prestieri, Anne-Dominique Toussaint, Raphaël Berdugo | | | |||
| The Plague | La Plaga | Neus Ballús | Pau Subirós | | |||
2014 | European Discovery 2014 - Prix Fipresci (Critics Choice Award) | ||||||
| The Tribe | Племя | Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy |  | ||||
| 10,000 km | Carlos Marques-Marcet | | |||||
| '71 | Yann Demange | | |||||
| Party Girl | Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis | | |||||
| Wounded | La herida | Fernando Franco | | ||||
2015 | European Discovery 2015 - Prix Fipresci (Critics Choice Award) | ||||||
| Mustang | Deniz Gamze Ergüven | | | ||||
| Goodnight Mommy | Ich seh Ich seh | Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala | | ||||
| Limbo | Anna Sofie Hartmann | | | ||||
| Slow West | John Maclean |  | | ||||
| Summers Downstairs | Im Sommer wohnt er unten | Tom Sommerlatte | | | |||
2016 | European Discovery 2016 - Prix Fipresci (Critics Choice Award) | ||||||
| The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki | Hymyilevä mies | Juho Kuosmanen | Juho Kuosmanen | | | ||
| Dogs | Câini | Bogdan Mirica | Marcela Ursu | |   | ||
| Liebmann | Jules Herrmann | Jules Herrmann | | ||||
| Sand Storm | Sufat Chol | Elite Zexer | Haim Mecklberg, Estee Yacov-Mecklberg | | |||
| Thirst | Жажда | Svetla Tsotsorkova | Svetla Tsotsorkova, Nadejda Koseva | | |||
2017 | European Discovery 2017 - Prix Fipresci (Critics Choice Award) | ||||||
| Lady Macbeth | William Oldroyd | Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly | | ||||
| Bloody Milk | Petit Paysan | Hubert Charuel | Stéphanie Bermann, Alexis Dulguerian | | |||
| Godless | Bezbog | Ralitza Petrova | Rossitsa Valkanova, Eva Jakobsen, Laurence Clerc | | | ||
| Summer 1993 | Estiu 1993 | Carla Simón | Valérie Delpierre, Stefan Schmitz, María Zamora | | |||
| The Eremites | Die Einsiedler | Ronny Trocker | Susanne Mann, Paul Zischler | | | ||
2018 | European Discovery 2018 - Prix Fipresci (Critics Choice Award) | ||||||
| Girl | - | Lukas Dhont | Dirk Impens | | |||
| One Day | Egy nap | Zsófia Szilágyi | Edina Kenesei, Ági Pataki | | |||
| Scary Mother | საშიში დედა | Ana Urushadze | Lasha Khalvashi, Tinatin Kajrishvili | |  | ||
| The Guilty | Den skyldige | Gustav Möller | Lina Flint | | |||
| Those Who Are Fine | Dene wos guet geit | Cyril Schäublin | Silvan Hillmann, Cyril Schäublin, Lara Hacisalihzade | | |||
| Touch Me Not | Nu mă atinge-mă | Adina Pintilie | Adina Pintilie, Bianca Oana, Philippe Avril | | | ||
^[a] Award given as Best Young Film or Young European Film of the Year
Most wins for Best Discovery by country
| Country | Awards | Nominations | Awards (with co-productions) | Nominations (with co-productions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| France | 6 | 17 | 11 | 35 |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 17 | 5 | 20 |
| Spain | 2 | 8 | 2 | 8 |
| Denmark | 2 | 6 | 3 | 10 |
| Belgium | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| Israel | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 |
| Germany | 1 | 17 | 4 | 37 |
| Italy | 1 | 10 | 3 | 14 |
| Hungary | 1 | 5 | 2 | 6 |
| Ireland | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| Poland | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Russia | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| Georgia | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Finland | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Austria | 0 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| Sweden | 0 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| Turkey | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| Soviet Union | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Romania | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Norway | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Kazahstan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Bulgaria | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Croatia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Czech Republic | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Greece | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Iceland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| New Zealand | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Portugal | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Serbia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Slovenia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Tajikistan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Yugoslavia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| United States | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Iceland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Lebanon | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Japan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Australia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| India | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Iran | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qatar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
External links
Nominees and winners at the European Film Academy website