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.

Adults in the Room - Costa-Gavras (France/Greece) Another Round - Thomas Vinterberg (Denmark/Netherlands/Sweden) Atlantis - Valentyn Vasyanovich (Ukraine) Bad Tales - Damiano D'Innocenzo & Fabio D'Innocenzo (Italy/Switzerland) Berlin Alexanderplatz - Burhan Qurbani (Germany/Netherlands) Between Heaven and Earth - Najwa Najjar (Palestine/Luxembourg/Iceland) Cat in the Wall - Mina Mileva & Vesela Kazakova (Bulgaria/UK/France) Charlatan - Agnieszka Holland (Czech Republic/Ireland/Poland/Slovakia) Charter - Amanda Kernell (Sweden/Denmark/Norway) Corpus Christi - Jan Komasa (Poland/France) DAU. Natasha - Ilya Khrzhanovskiy & Jekaterina Oertel (Germany/Ukraine/UK/Russia) Delete History - Benoît Delépine & Gustave Kervern (France/Belgium) Echo - Rúnar Rúnarsson (Iceland/France) Enfant terrible - Oskar Roehler (Germany) Falling - Viggo Mortensen (UK/Canada/Denmark) Father - Srdan Golubović (Serbia/Germany/France/Croatia/Slovenia/Bosnia and Herzegovina) Final Report - István Szabó (Hungary) Hidden Away - Giorgio Diritti (Italy) Hope - Maria Sødahl (Norway/Sweden)

Let There Be Light - Marko Škop (Slovakia/Czech Republic) Martin Eden - Pietro Marcello (Italy/France) Mother - Rodrigo Sorogoyen (Spain/France) Motherland - Tomas Vengris (Lithuania/Latvia/Greece/Germany) My Little Sister - Stéphanie Chuat & Véronique Reymond (Switzerland) Persian Lessons - Vadim Perelman (Russia/Germany/Belarus) Servants - Ivan Ostrochovský (Slovakia/Romania/Czech Republic/Ireland) Slalom - Charlène Favier (France) Summer of 85 - François Ozon (France, Belgium) The Big Hit - Emmanuel Courcol (France) The Endless Trench - Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño & Jose Mari Goenaga (Spain/France) The Painted Bird - Václav Marhoul (Czech Republic/Ukraine/Slovakia) The Personal History of David Copperfield - Armando Iannucci (UK/USA) The Platform - Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia (Spain) Undine - Christian Petzold (Germany/France) Uppercase Print - Radu Jude (Romania) Vitalina Varela - Pedro Costa (Portugal) Wildland - Jeanette Nordahl (Denmark) Willow - Milcho Manchevski (North Macedonia/Hungary/Belgium/Albania)

Documentary

Acasă, My Home - Radu Ciorniciuc (Romania/Germany/Finland) Collective - Alexander Nanau (Romania/Luxembourg) I Am Not Alone - Garin Hovannisian (Armenia) Little Girl - Sébastien Lifshitz (France) Il varco - Once More Unto the Breach - Federico Ferrone & Michele Manzolini (Italy) Saudi Runaway - Susanne Regina Meures (Switzerland) Self Portrait - Margreth Olin, Katja Hogset & Espen Wallin (Norway)

State Funeral - Sergei Loznitsa (Netherlands/Lithuania) The Cave - Feras Fayyad (Syria/Denmark/Germany/USA/Qatar) The Earth Is Blue as an Orange - Iryna Tsilyk (Ukraine/Lithuania) The Euphoria of Being - Réka Szabó (Hungary) They Call Me Babu - Sandra Beerends (Netherlands) Walchensee Forever - Janna Ji Wonders (Germany)

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 English titleDirector(s)Producer(s)Production companiesCountryLanguageAnother RoundThomas VinterbergSisse Graum Jørgensen, Kasper DissingZentropa Entertainments, Zentropa Productions2 / / Danish, SwedishBerlin AlexanderplatzBurhan QurbaniLeif Alexis, Jochen Laube, Fabian MaubachSommerhaus Filmproduktion, Lemming Film, ARTE, Entertainment One, Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Nederlands Filmfonds, Eurimages, Wild at Art / German, EnglishCorpus ChristiJan KomasaLeszek Bodzak, Aneta HickinbothamAurum Films / PolishMartin EdenPietro MarcelloPietro Marcello, Beppe Caschetto, Thomas Ordonneau, Michael Weber, Viola FügenAvventurosa, IBC Movie, Rai Cinema / Italian, Neapolitan, FrenchThe Painted BirdVáclav MarhoulVáclav Marhoul, Igor Savychenko, Zuzana Mistríková, Eduard Kucera, Richard KauckýSilver Screen, Ceská Televize, PubRes, RTVS, Directory Films / / Czech, German, Russian, LatinUndineChristian PetzoldFlorian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber, Margaret MenegozSchramm Film Koerner & Weber / German, English

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). English titleDirector(s)Producer(s)Production companiesCountryLanguageAdvantages of Travelling by TrainAritz MorenoMerry Colomer, Leire Apellaniz & Juan GordonMorena Films, Logical Pictures, CNC, Castelao Pictures, Departamento de Cultura del Gobierno Vasco, Euskal Irrati Telebista (EiTB), Filmax, Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA), Movistar+, Radio Televisión Española (RTVE), Señor & Señora, Ventajas de Viajar en Tren / Spanish, French, English, RussianThe Big HitEmmanuel CourcolMarc Bordure & Robert GuédiguianAgat Films & CieFrenchLadies of SteelPamela TolaAleksi Bardy, Dome Karukoski & Sirkka RautiainenHelsinki-FilmiFinnish

Best Director Director(s)English title Thomas VinterbergAnother Round Agnieszka HollandCharlatan Jan KomasaCorpus Christi Maria SødahlHope Pietro MarcelloMartin Eden François OzonSummer of 85

Best Screenwriter Screenwriter(s)English title / Costa-GavrasAdults in the Room Thomas Vinterberg Tobias LindholmAnother Round the D'Innocenzo BrothersBad Tales Martin Behnke / Burhan QurbaniBerlin Alexanderplatz Mateusz PacewiczCorpus Christi Maurizio Braucci Pietro MarcelloMartin Eden

Best Actor Actor English title Role Mads Mikkelsen Another Round Martin Bartosz Bielenia Corpus Christi Daniel / Viggo Mortensen Falling John Petersen Goran Bogdan Father Nikola Elio Germano Hidden Away Antonio Ligabue Luca Marinelli Martin Eden Martin Eden

Best Actress Actress English title Role Paula Beer Undine Undine Ane Dahl Torp Charter Alice Natasha Berezhnaya DAU. Natasha Natasha Andrea Bræin Hovig Hope Anja Marta Nieto Mother Elena Nina Hoss My Little Sister Lisa

Documentary English titleDirector(s)Producer(s)Production companiesCountryLanguageAcasă, My Home Radu CiorniciucMonica Lazurean-GorganHBO Europe, HBO Romania, Manifest Film / / Romanian, EnglishThe CaveFeras FayyadKirstine Barfod, Sigrid DyekjærDanish Documentary Production / Arabic, EnglishCollectiveAlexander NanauAlexander Nanau, Bianca Oana, Bernard Michaux, Hanka KastelocovaAlexander Nanau Production, HBO Europe, Samsa Film / Romanian, EnglishGundaVictor KossakovskyJoslyn Barnes, Anita Rehoff LarsenArtemis Rising Foundation, Empathy Arts, Fritt Ord Foundation, Louverture Films, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Norwegian Film Institute, Sant & Usant, Storyline Studios / EnglishLittle GirlSébastien LifshitzMuriel MeynardAgat & CieFrenchSaudi RunawaySusanne Regina MeuresChristian Frei - -

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). English titleDirector(s)Producer(s)Production companiesCountryLanguageCalamityRémy ChayéHenri Magalon & Claire LacombeMaybe Movies, Noerlum Studios / French JosepAurelSerge LalouLes Films d'Ici Méditerranée, Imagic Telecom / /French, Spanish, Catalan, EnglishKlausSergio PablosJinko Gotoh, Sergio Pablos & Marisa RománThe SPA Studios, Atresmedia CineEnglish, SaamiThe Nose or the Conspiracy of MavericksAndrey KhrzhanovskyAndrey Khrzhanovsky & Nikolay MakovskySchool Studio 'Shar' Russian, English

Short film English titleDirector(s)Producer(s)Country All Cats Are Grey in the Dark Lasse Linder Edith Flückiger Genius Loci Adrien Mérigeau Jean-Christophe Reymond, Amaury Ovise Past Perfect Jorge Jácome Jorge Jácome Sun Dog Dorian Jespers Dorian Jespers , Uncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days Regina Pessoa Abi Feijó, Julie Roy, Reginald de Guillebon , ,

Critics Award

European Discovery - Prix FIPRESCI