33rd European Film Awards

The 33rd European Film Awards was scheduled to be presented in Reykjavík, Iceland on 12 December 2020. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic the awards were announced in a virtual event online.

Selection

Feature

The list of feature-length fiction films recommended for a nomination for the 2020 European Film Awards.

Documentary

Short Film

The European Short Film 2020 is presented in co-operation with the following 24 European film festivals. At each of the festivals, the jury of the international competition appointed by the festival chooses a single candidate (there shall be no ex-aequo candidates). Then the participating festivals nominate five short films from the list of 24 candidates.

12 - 18 October 2019: International Film Festival of Cyprus () - the jury has chosen In Between (dir. Samir Karahoda)
17 - 27 October 2019: Riga International Film Festival () - the jury has chosen Uncle Thomas, Accounting for the Days (dir. Regina Pessoa)
19 - 26 October 2019: Valladolid International Film Festival () - the jury has chosen Flesh (dir. Camila Kater)
21 - 27 October 2019: Uppsala International Short Film Festival () - the jury has chosen Past Perfect (dir. Jorge Jácome)
5 - 10 November 2019: Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur () - the jury has chosen Community Gardens (dir. Vytautas Katkus)
7 - 17 November 2019: Cork Film Festival () - the jury has chosen Things That Happen in the Bathroom (dir. Maggie M. Bailey)
15 November - 1 December 2019: Black Nights Festival / PÖFF Shorts () - the jury has chosen 12 K. Marx Street (dir. Irine Jordania)
30 November - 7 December 2019: Leuven International Short Film Festival () - the jury has chosen Lake of Happiness (dir. Aliaksei Paluyan)
22 January - 2 February 2020: International Film Festival Rotterdam () - the jury has chosen The Bite (dir. Pedro Neves Marques)
31 January - 8 February 2020: Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival () - the jury has chosen Invisible Hero (dir. Cristèle Alves Meira)
20 February - 1 March 2020: Berlin International Film Festival () - the jury has chosen It Wasn't the Right Mountain, Mohammad (dir. Mili Pecherer)
4 - 8 March 2020: Tampere Film Festival () - the jury has chosen Memorable (dir. Bruno Collet)
1 - 5 April 2020: Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen () - the jury has chosen Sun Dog (dir. Dorian Jespers)
28 May - 2 June 2020: VIS Vienna Shorts Festival () - the jury has chosen The Best City Is No City At All (dir. Christoph Schwarz)
31 May - 7 June 2020: Krakow Film Festival () - the jury has chosen The Golden Buttons (dir. Alex Evstigneev)
2 - 8 June 2020: Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg () - the jury has chosen Genius Loci (dir. Adrien Mérigeau)
11 - 19 July 2020: Curtas Vila do Conde - International Film Festival () - the jury has chosen Nha Mila (dir. Denise Fernandes)
28 July - 1 August 2020: Motovun Film Festival () - the jury has chosen To the Dusty Sea (dir. Héloïse Ferlay)
5 - 15 August 2020: Locarno Film Festival () - the jury has chosen People on Saturday (dir. Jonas Ulrich)
14 - 21 August 2020: Sarajevo Film Festival () - the jury has chosen All Cats Are Grey in the Dark (dir. Lasse Linder)
24 - 30 August 2020: OFF - Odense International Film Festival () - the jury has chosen Nina (dir. Hristo Simeonov)
2 - 12 September 2020: Venice Film Festival () - the jury has chosen The Shift (dir. Laura Carreira)
20 - 26 September 2020: International Short Film Festival In Drama () - the jury has chosen Favourites (dir. Martin Monk)
22 - 27 September 2020: Encounters Film Festival () - the jury has chosen The Tiger Who Came to Tea (dir. Robin Shaw)

Awards voted by EFA Members

Nomination has been announced on 10 November 2020.

Feature

Best Film

European Comedy

The nominees were announced on 27 October 2020. The nominations were determined by a committee consisting of EFA Board Members Katriel Schory (Israel) and Angela Bosch Ríus (Spain), director/screenwriter Paddy Breathnach (Ireland), festival programmer Markus Duffner (Germany/Italy) and distributor/festival programmer Selma Mehadžić (Croatia).

Documentary

Animated Feature

The nominations were determined by a committee consisting of EFA Board Member EFA Board Member Béatrice Thiriet (France), director Anca Damian (Romania), producer Antonio Saura (Spain) and, representing CARTOON, the European Association of Animation Film, Diogo Carvalho (producer, Portugal), Camilla Deakin (producer, UK) and Norbert Laporte (institutional, Luxembourg).

Short Film

Critics Award

European Discovery - Prix FIPRESCI

The nominees were announced on 8 October 2020. The nominations were determined by a committee composed of EFA Board Members Valérie Delpierre (Spain) and Anita Juka (Croatia), curator Giona A. Nazzaro (Italy) as well as film critics Marta Bałaga (Finland/Poland), Andrei Plakhov (Russia) and Frédéric Ponsard (France), all three as representatives of FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics.

Audience awards

Lux European Audience Film Award

The three nominated films are viewed by audiences in cinemas (online if the situation requires it) across Europe, via the LUX Film Days (February – May) and the LUX Audience Week (March or May depending on the ceremony date). Voting opens for the public from day 1 after the EFA Ceremony until two weeks before the LUX Ceremony. Members of the European Parliament vote from the beginning of March until the day before the Awards Ceremony (exact timeline TBD/TBC). The final ranking will be determined by combining the public vote ratings and the vote ratings by the Members of the European Parliament, with each group weighing 50 per cent. The film with the highest average rating will become the winner.