31st European Film Awards
# 31st European Film Awards

The 31st European Film Awards were presented on 15 December 2018 in Seville, Spain.

## Selection

* 3 Days in Quiberon
* Ága
* Anna's War
* Arrhythmia
* Ayka
* Beast
* Border
* Borg/McEnroe
* Carmen & Lola
* Cobain
* Cold War
* Custody
* Diamantino
* Dogman
* Donbass
* Dovlatov
* Foxtrot
* Fugue
* Girl
* Happy as Lazzaro
* Longing
* Mademoiselle Paradis
* Men Don't Cry
* Michael Inside
* Milada
* Mug
* One Day
* Paddington 2
* Petra
* Pity
* Pomegranate Orchard
* Pororoca
* Scary Mother
* Shock Waves – Diary of My Mind
* Styx
* The Captain
* Giant
* The Guilty
* The House by the Sea
* The House That Jack Built
* Summer
* The Wild Pear Tree
* Those Who Are Fine
* Touch Me Not
* Transit
* Utøya: July 22
* Under the Tree
* What Will People Say
* Woman at War

## Awards voted by EFA Members

### Best Film

The nominees were announced on 10 November 2018.

| English title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Production companies | Language |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Cold War | Pawel Pawlikowski | Tanya Seghatchian, Ewa Puszczynska | Apocalypso Pictures, BFI Film Fund, Film4, MK2 Productions, Opus Film, Protagonist Pictures | Polish |
| Border | Ali Abbasi | Nina Bisgaard, Peter Gustafsson, Petra Jonsson | META Film, Black Spark Film & TV, Karnfilm, TriArt Film | Swedish |
| Dogman | Matteo Garrone | Matteo Garrone, Jeremy Thomas, Jean Labadie, Paolo Del Brocco | Archimede, Le Pacte, 01 Distribution | Italian |
| Girl | Lukas Dhont | Dirk Impens | Menuet, Frakas Productions, Topkapi Films, Netflix | Dutch, French |
| Happy as Lazzaro | Alice Rohrwacher | Carlo Cresto-Dina, Gregory Gajos, Pierre-François Piet, Tiziana Soudani, Michael Weber | Tempesta SRL, Amka Films Productions, Ad Vitam Production, Pola Pandora, Filmproduktions | Italian |

### Best Comedy

| English title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Production companies | Language |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| The Death of Stalin | Armando Iannucci | Yann Zenou, Laurent Zeitoun, Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Kevin Loader | eOne Films, IFC, Gaumont | English |
| C'est la vie! | Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache | Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Laurent Zeitoun, Yann Zenou | Quad Productions, Ten Films | French |
| Diamantino | Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt | Justin Taurand, Maria João Mayer, Daniel van Hoogstraten | Maria & Mayer, Les Films du Bélier, Syndrome Films | Portuguese |

## Critics Award

### European Discovery

| English title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Production companies | Language |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Girl | Lukas Dhont | Dirk Impens | Menuet, Frakas Productions, Topkapi Films, Netflix | Dutch, French |
| One Day | Zsófia Szilágyi | Edina Kenesei, Ági Pataki | Filmpartners, Sparks, Vertigo Média Kft., Zeta Filmes | Hungarian, Italian |
| Scary Mother | Ana Urushadze | Lasha Khalvashi, Tinatin Kajrishvili | Artizm, Gemini, Allfilm, Georgian National Film Centre | Georgian |
| The Guilty | Gustav Möller | Lina Flint | Nordisk Film Spring, New Danish Screen, Magnolia Pictures | Danish |
| Those Who Are Fine | Cyril Schäublin | Silvan Hillmann, Cyril Schäublin, Lara Hacisalihzade | Seeland Filmproduktion, Film IGRF | Swiss, German |
| Touch Me Not | Adina Pintilie | Adina Pintilie, Bianca Oana, Philippe Avril | Manekino Film, 4 Proof Film, Agitprop, Les Films de l'Étranger, Pink Productions, Rohfilm | English, German |

## Best Animated Feature Film

| English title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Production companies | Language |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Another Day of Life | Raul de la Fuente & Damian Nenow | Jarek Sawko, Amaia Remirez, Ole Østergaard | Platige Image, Kanaki Films | Polish |
| Early Man | Nick Park | Peter Lord, David Sproxton, Nick Park, Carla Shelley, Richard Beek | Aardman Animations, British Film Institute, StudioCanal | English |
| The Breadwinner | Nora Twomey | Anthony Leo, Tomm Moore, Andrew Rosen, Paul Young | Cartoon Saloon, Aircraft Pictures, Guru Studio, Jolie Pas, Irish Film Board, Melusine Productions, Telefilm Canada, Elevation Pictures, StudioCanal | English |
| White Fang | Alexandre Espigares | Clément Calvet, Jérémie Fajner, Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub, Lilian Eche, Christel Henon | Superprod, Bidibul Productions, Big Beach, Wild Bunch | French |

## Audience awards

### People's Choice Award

| English title | Director(s) |
| - | - |
| Call Me by Your Name | Luca Guadagnino |
| Borg vs McEnroe | Janus Metz Pedersen |
| C'est la vie! | Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache |
| Dunkirk | Christopher Nolan |
| Darkest Hour | Joe Wright |
| In the Fade | Fatih Akin |
| The Death of Stalin | Armando Iannucci |
| Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets | Luc Besson |
| Victoria & Abdul | Stephen Frears |

### University Award

| English title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Production companies | Language |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Happy as Lazzaro | Alice Rohrwacher | Carlo Cresto-Dina, Gregory Gajos, Pierre-François Piet, Tiziana Soudani, Michael Weber | Tempesta SRL, Amka Films Productions, Ad Vitam Production, Pola Pandora, Filmproduktions | Italian |
| Foxtrot | Samuel Maoz | Michael Weber, Viola Fügen, Eitan Mansuri, Cedomir Kolar, Marc Baschet & Michel Merktri | Bord Cadre Films | Hebrew |
| Styx | Wolfgang Fischer | Marcos Kantis, Martin Lehwald | A.S.A.P.,ARTE,Arte France Cinéma | German |
| Tarzan's Testicles | Alexandru Solomon | Ada Solomon, Cedric Bonin, Pascaline Geoffroy | HI Film Productions,Seppia Production | Russian |
| Utøya: July 22 | Erik Poppe | Stein B. Kvae & Finn Gjerdrum | Paradox Film 7,Paradox,MEDIA Programme of the European Union | Norwegian |

## Best Documentary

| English title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Production companies | Language |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Bergman - A Year in a Life | Jane Magnusson | Mattias Nohrborg, Cecilia Nessen, Fredrik Heinig | B-Reel Films, Carlotta Films, Filmarti, Imovision | Swedish, English, German |
| A Woman Captured | Bernadett Tuza-Ritter | Julianna Ugrin, Viki Réka Kiss | Éclipse Film, Corso Film | Hungarian |
| Of Fathers and Sons | Talal Derki | Eva Kemme, Hans Robert Eisenhauer, Ansgar Frerich, Tobias Siebert | Cinema Group Production, Südwestrundfunk, Impact Partners, Basis Berlin Filmproduktion, Ventana Film- und Fernsehproduktion | Arabic |
| The Distant Barking of Dogs | Simon Lering Wilmont | Monica Hellström | Final Cut for Real | Russian |
| The Silence of Others | Almudena Carracedo [es] & Robert Bahar | Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar | Semilla Verde Productions, Lucernam Films, Blue Ice Docs, El Deseo, ITVS, Latino Public Broadcasting, P.O.V. | Spanish |

## Best Short Film

| Original title | Director(s) | Minutes |
| - | - | - |
| The Years | Sara Fgaier | 20 min. |
| Aquaparque | Ana Moreira | 17 min. |
| Burkina Brandenburg Komplex | Ulu Braun | 19 min. |
| Graduation '97 | Pavlo Ostrikov | 19 min. |
| I Signed The Petition | Mahdi Fleifel | 19 min. |
| Kapitalistis | Pablo Muñoz Gómez | 15 min. |
| Kontener | Sebastian Lang | 30 min. |
| Meryem | Reber Dosky | 16 min. |
| Prisoner of Society | Rati Tsiteladze | 15 min. |
| Release The Dogs | Manue Fleytoux | 21 min. |
| Shame | Petar Krumov | 24 min. |
| The Escape | Laëtitia Martinoni | 10 min. |
| Those Who Desire | Elena López Riera | 24 min. |
| What's The Damage | Heather Phillipson | 7 min. |
| Wildebeest | Nicolas Keppens, Matthias Phlips | 19 min. |

## European Co-Production Award — Prix Eurimages

| Recipient | Occupation |
| - | - |
| Konstantinos Kontovrakis Giorgos Karnavas | Producer |
