European Film Awards Kick-Off With Call For Unity Amid Geopolitical Tensions Around The World – Live Updating
deadline.comCinema professionals from across Europe are gathered in Berlin this evening for the 36th European Film Awards. Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves and UK director Jonathan Glazer The Zone Of Interest top the nominations this year, followed by Justine Triet’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner Anatomy Of A Fall and Poland’s Agnieszka Holland’s Green Border, which won the Venice Special Jury Prize.
The body’s 4,600 members – hailing from “geographical Europe” as well as Israel, Palestine and Russia, – have voted on an official Academy Selection made up of 40 films selected by the European Academy Board and a group of experts.
Korean-Lithuanian producer Uljana Kim, who recent credits include Sergei Loznitsa’s The Natural History Destruction received the Eurimage International Co-Production Award for “to mark her outstanding commitment to co-production”, while Spanish director Isabel Coixet will be presented with the European Achievement in World Cinema Award.
The awards are unfolding against the backdrop of the second year of the Ukraine War as well as the Israel-Hamas conflict, the reverberations of which are being felt in Europe.
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