EAVE Marketing Workshop project THE SETTLERS wins at Stockholm
Awards November 2023
Film Festival Cottbus
6 awards for EAVE graduates at the Film Festival Cottbus:
- FOREVER-FOREVER by Anna Buryachkova, producer: EAVE graduate Reinier Selen scooped the Main Award for Best Film.
- PATIENT #1 by Rezo Gigineishvili, producer: EAVE graduate Archil Gelovani won the Special Award for Best Director
- BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBERRY by Elene Naveriani, producer: EAVE+ graduate Britta Rindelaub, associate producer: EAVE+ graduate Bettina Brokemper won the Award for an Outstanding Individual Performance (Eka Chavleishvili), the Ecumenical Jury Prize and the "Cottbus to Cinema" Award
- FREEDOM by Tudor Giurgiu, producer: EAVE graduate Oana Giurgiu was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
10 awards for EAVE graduates at the Black Nights Film Festival, Tallinn:
- MISERICORDIA by Emma Dante, producer: EAVE graduate Marica Stocchi won the Grand Prix for the Best Film and Best Actor (Simone Zambelli).
- NATASHA’S DANCE by Jos Stelling, co-producer: EAVE graduate Heino Deckert was awarded Best Cinematography (Goert Giltay)
- AMAL by Jawad Rhalib, co-producer: EAVE graduate Ellen de Waele won Best Actress (Lubna Azabal)
- THE MAGNET MAN by Gust Van den Berghe, producer: EAVE graduate Thomas Leyers, co-producers: EAVE graduates Leontine Petit, Gilles Chanial received the award for Best Original Score (David Van Keer, Birger Embrechts)
- PATIENT #1 by Rezo Gigineishvili, producer: EAVE graduate Archil Gelovani won Best Production Design
- THE MILKY WAY by Maya Kenig, producer: EAVE MW graduate Gal Greenspan received a Special Jury Mention
- SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD by Anna Hints, producer: EAVE graduate Marianne Ostrat was awarded Best Baltic Film
- SLOW by Marija Kavtaradze, producer: EAVE graduate Marija Razgute won the Award for Best Baltic Producer for Co-production
- FIVE AND A HALF LOVE STORIES IN AN APARTMENT IN VILNIUS, LITHUANIA by Tomas Vengris, co-producer: EAVE FFF graduate Roberts Vinovskis won the Award for Best Film in the Rebels with a Cause competition
- FALLING INTO PLACE by Aylin Tezel, producers: EAVE graduate and German National Coordinator Jonas Weydemann, EAVE graduate Yvonne Wellie won the FIPRESCI Award
- POOR THINGS by Yorgos Lanthimos, producer: EAVE graudate Ed Guiney received the annual Dennis Davidson Spotlight Award
Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event
- THE ELF by Hannes Vartiainen, produced by EAVE graduate Joonas Berghäll won Best Project Award at the Baltic Event Co-production Market.
- FLIGHT FROM KABUL by Sahraa Karimi, produced by EAVE graduate Wanda Adamik Hrycova won the Screen International Best Pitch Award at the Baltic Event Co-production Market
- POGANA by David Kapac, produced by EAVE MW graduate Rea Rajcic won the Cannes Marché du Film Producers Network Award
- MAMIFERA by Liliana Torres, producer: EAVE graduate Carla Sospedra won Best International Project in the Works in Progress section
- SOUTHERN CHRONICLES by Ignas Miskinis, producer: EAVE graduate Lukas Trimonis, co-producer: EAVE graduate Esko Rips won Best Baltic Project Award at the Works in Progress section
Sundance Film Festival
- THE ETERNAL MEMORY, directed and produced by PUENTES graduate Maite Alberdi was given the annual Vanguard Award of the Sundance Film Festival.
Asia Pacific Screen Awards
- TTB graduate producer Jeremy Chua won the FIAPF Award for outstanding achievement in film in the Asia Pacific region at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2023.
- THE SIREN by Sepideh Farsi, producer: EAVE graduate David Grumbach won Best Animated Film
- INSHALLAH A BOY by Amjad Al Rasheed, producer: EAVE graduate Rula Nasser won Best Performance (Mouna Hawa)
- BAURYNA SALU by Askhat Kuchinchirekov, producer: EAVE graduate and Russian National Coordinator Anna Katchko won Best Youth Film
- INSIDE THE YELLOW COCOON SHELL by Thien An Pham, producer: TTB graduate Jeremy Chua, co-producers: EAVE graduates Marie Dubas, Adria Mones won the Young Cinema Award in Partnership with NETPAC and GFS
- TTB project TIGER STRIPES by Amanda Nell, co-producers: TTB graduate Foo Fei Ling, EAVE and TTB graduates Fran Borgia and Yulia Evina Bhara, EAVE graduate, TTB group leader and German National Coordinator Jonas Weydemann, EAVE graduate Ellen Havenith received a Special Mention for Best Cinematography (Yoshio Kitagawa)
www.asiapacificscreenawards.com/awards
Stockholm International Film Festival
Four awards for EAVE graduates at the Stockholm International Film Festival:
- EAVE Marketing Workshop project THE SETTLERS by Felipe Galvez, producer: TTB, PUENTES, MW and EAVE+ graduate Giancarlo Nasi, PUENTES and EAVE+ graduate Benjamin Domenech and Santiago Gallelli, TTB graduate Stefano Centini, co-producers: EAVE and PUENTES graduate Katrin Pors, EAVE graduate Ingmar Trost, TTB graduate Mikkel Jersin won the Bronze Horse for Best Film
- HOW TO HAVE SEX by Molla Manning Walker, producer: EAVE graduate Konstantinos Kontrovrakis, executive producer: EAVE+ graduate Giorgos Karnavas won Best Director and Best First Feature
- THE ETERNAL MEMORY directed and produced by PUENTES graduate Maite Alberdi was awarded Best Documentary.
Thessaloniki International Film Festival
- ANIMAL by Sofia Exarchoiu, producer: EAVE graduate Maria Drandaki scooped the Best Feature Film Award the “Theo Angelopoulos” Golden Alexander and the Best Actress Award (Dimitra Vlagkopoulou).
- INSHALLAH A BOY by Amjad Al Rasheed, producer: EAVE graduate Rula Nasser the Best Actress Award (Mouna Haw) (ex aequo)
- THE HUMAN SURGE 3 by Eduardo Williams, co-producers: EAVE graduates Raymond van der Kaaij, Germen Boelens, Julia Alves, Stefano Centini won the Silver Alexander
- EMBRYO LARVA BUTTERFLY by Kyros Papavassiliou, producer: EAVE gradudate Mario Piperides won the ERT Original Music Award
Agora Crossroads
- EAVE graduate Ioanna Bolomyti of Atalante Productions won the Thessaloniki EAVE Marketing Workshop Scholarship.
- AND ME TOO by Sondos Shabayek, producer: EAVE graduate Kesmat Elsayed won the Greener Screen Consultancy Award
- FRIENDS, BIRTHDAYS, MURDER, ETC by Lida Vartzioti, Dimitris Tsakaleas, producer: EAVE graudate Ioanna Bolomyti won the CNC Development Award
- I MATTER by Alina Serban, producer: EAVE graduate and Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon won the ArteKino International Award
- HAPPY PEOPLE by Filip Peruzović, producer: EAVE graduate Tena Gojić won the Authorwave Post-production Award
- MALDIVES by Daniel Bolda, producer: EAVE+ graduate Nicholas Alavanos won the Onassis Cinema Award
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
- CANUTO’S TRANSFORMATION by Ariel Kuaray Ortega, Ernesto de Carvalho, producer: PUENTES graduate Leonardo Mecchi won the IDFA Award for Best Film in the Envision Competition and the Award for Outstanding Artistic Contribution.
- GERLACH by Aliona van der Horst and Luuk Bouwman, producer: EAVE graduate Ilja Roomans won the IDFA Award for Best Dutch Film
Gijón International Film Festival
- BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBERRY by Elene Naveriani, producer: EAVE+ graduate Britta Rindelaub, associate producer: EAVE+ graduate Bettina Brokemper won the AISGE Award for Best Female Actor (Eka Chavleishvili), the AISGE Award for Best Male Actor (Temiko Chinchinadze) and the Distribution Award.
- DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH OF THE END OF THE WORLD by Radu Jude, producer: EAVE graduate and Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon, co-producers: EAVE graduate Paul Thiltges, EAVE group leader and Croatian National Coordinator Ankica Juric Tilic, executive producer: EAVE graduate Dan Wechsler Best Feature Film in the Albar Competition.
- EUREKA by Lisandro Alonso, producer: EAVE graduate Jonas Dornbach won the section’s Distribution Award
Lëtzebuerger Filmpräis
- KOMMUNIOUN by Jacques Molitor, producer: EAVE graduate Gilles Chanial won Best Luxembourgish Fiction or Animated Feature Film.
- CORSAGE by Marie Kreutzer, producers: EAVE graduate and Luxembourgish National Coordinator Bernard Michaux, EAVE graduate Jonas Dornbach won Best Female Performance
- KOMMUNIOUN by Jacques Molitor, producer: EAVE graduate Gilles Chanial won Best Creative Contribution in a Fiction or Documentary Work
- WHERE IS ANNE FRANK by Ari Folman, producer: EAVE+ Head of Studies and EAVE group leader Jani Thiltges won Best Animated Feature Film in Co-production
- MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE by Signe Baumane, producer: EAVE FFF graduate Roberts Vinovskis won Best Creative Contribution in an Animation Work
- THE RESTLESS by Joachim Lafosse, producers: EAVE+ Head of Studies Jani Thiltges, EAVE graduates Alexandre Gavras and Anton Iffland Stettner, EAVE participant Eva Kuperman, co-producer: EAVE graduate Antonio Lombardo won the ALPC Luxembourg Critics Award
Nordic Film Days Lübeck
- FAMILY TIME by Tia Kouvo, producer: EAVE graduate Jussi Rantamäki was awarded the NDR Film Prize at the Nordic Film Days, Lübeck.
- PARADISE IS BURNING by Mika Gustafson, producers: EAVE graduates Venla Hellstedt, Jenni Jauri, Marco Valerio Fusco, Maria Stevnbak Westergren and PUENTES graduate Nima Yousefi won the INTERFILM Church Prize and the Youth Jury Award.
Scanorama Lithuania
- STEPNE by Maryna Vroda, co-producers: EAVE graduates Anna Katchko, Agnieszka Dziedzic won the top-prize of the European Film Forum Scanorama, Lithuania.
Amiens International Film Festival
- THE CASTLE by Martin Benchimol, producer: EAVE graduate Gema Juárez Allen won the Grand Prize of the Amiens International Film Festival (FIFAM).
Lecce European Film Festival
4 awards for EAVE graduates at the Lecce European Film Festival:
- LÉGUA by João Miller Guerra and EAVE and TTB graduate Filipa Reis, producers: EAVE graduate Rachel Daisy Ellis, EAVE and TTB graduate Filipa Reis, co-producer: EAVE graduate Alexandre Gavras won the Special Jury Prize.
- COPENHAGEN DOES NOT EXIST by Martin Skovbjerg, producer: EAVE graduate Katrin Pors and TTB graduate Mikkel Jersin was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize and the SNGCI Prize for Best European Actor/Actress (Angela Bundalovic)
- DISCO BOY by Giacomo Abbruzzese, producer: PUENTES graduate Lionel Massol, co-producer: EAVE graduate Maria Blicharska won the Mario Verdone Prize
www.festivaldelcinemaeuropeo.com/en
Arras Film Festival
- HOLLY by Fien Troch, producer: EAVE graduate Donato Rotunno, Elisa Heene, Antonino Lombardo, Frans Van Gestel won the Arras Film Festival. The film was awarded the Golden Atlas - Grand Jury Prize.
- HESITATION WOUND by Selman Nacar, producers: EAVE graduates Guillaume de Seille, Oana Giurgiu won the Silver Atlas
- LIBERTATE by Tudor Giurgiu, producers: EAVE graduates Tudor Giurgiu and Oana Giurgiu received the SFCC Critics’ Award
- SLOW by Marija Kavtaradze, producer: EAVE graduate Marija Razgute won the ‘Young Outlook’ Award - Hauts-de-France Region
- MADE IN EU by Stephan Komandarev, producer: EAVE graduate Katya Trichkova was given the Arras Days Development Grant
https://www.arrasfilmfestival.com/?lang=en
Zagreb Film Festival
- HOW TO HAVE SEX by Molla Manning Walker, producer: EAVE graduate Konstantinos Kontrovrakis, executive producer: EAVE+ graduate Giorgos Karnavas received the Golden Pram for Best Feature Film at the Zagreb Film Festival.
Belfast Film Festival
- BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBERRY by Elene Naveriani, producer: EAVE+ graduate Britta Rindelaub, associate producer: EAVE+ graduate Bettina Brokemper won Best Performance (Eka Chaleishvili) at the Belfast Film Festival.
- INSIDE THE YELLOW COCOON SHELL by Thien An Pham, producer: TTB graduate Jeremy Chua, co-producers: EAVE graduates Marie Dubas, Adria Mones won the Best Craft Award
https://belfastfilmfestival.org
Viennale
- SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD by Anna Hints, producer: EAVE graduate Marianne Ostrat won the FIPRESCI Award at the Austrian Viennale.
Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival
- DANCING ON THE EDGE OF A VOLCANO by Cyril Aris, producer: EAVE graduate Myriam Sassine won the Viewfinder award at the Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival.
Cinemed Montpellier
- 20,000 SPECIES OF BEES by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren, producer: EAVE+ graduate Valérie Delpierre won the Prix du Public Midi Libre at the Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival.
Ljubljana International Film Festival
- FOUR LITTLE ADULTS by Selma, producers: EAVE graduates Venla Hellstedt, Elli Toivoniemi won the Slovenian Art Cinema Association Award at the Ljubljana IFF
Rolan International Film Festival for Children & Youth, Armenia
- THE SONG OF FLYING LEAVES directed and produced by EAVE graduate Armine Anda received the award for Best Animated Short Film.
- OKTHANKSBYE by Nicole van Kilsdonk, producer: EAVE graduate Rogier Kramer won Best Feature Film
Chicago International Children’s Film Festival
- TOTEM by Sander Burger, producers: EAVE graduates Denis Vaslin, Fleur Knopperts won 2nd Prize of the Children’s Jury for Live-action Feature Film
- OKTHANKSBYE by Nicole van Kilsdonk, producer: EAVE graduate Rogier Kramer won the 1st Prize of the Youth Jury for Live-action Feature Film
- A GREYHOUND OF A GIRL by Enzo d’Alò, producers: EAVE graduate Paul Thiltges, Adrien Chef, EAVE graduate, group leader and Estonian National Coordinator Riina Sildos won the 1st Prize of the Professional Jury for Animated Feature Film
- KIDDO by Zara Dwinger, producer: EAVE graduate Maarten van der Ven won the 1st Prize of the Professional Jury for Live-action Feature Film
https://facets.org/cicff40-awards
Oulu International Children's and Youth Film Festival
- HÅKAN BRÅKAN by Ted Kjellsson, producer: EAVE graduate Malin Söderlund won the Oulun Energia Children's Film Competition Award
- TOTEM by Sander Burger, producers: EAVE graduates Denis Vaslin, Fleur Knopperts won the ECFA Award for the Best European Children's Film
https://www.oulufilmfestival.fi/
Page published 30 November 2023. Updated 21 December 2023.

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