EAVE project THE JUNGLE wins Eurimages Award in San Sebastian

Awards September 2018

Great success for EAVE graduates at the Venice International Film Festival:

• ROMA Alfonso Cuaron, producer: PUENTES graduate Nicolás Celis López scooped the main award, the Golden Lion.
• THE FAVOURITE by Yorgos Lanthimos, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney won the Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize and the Coppa Volpi for Best Actress (Olivia Colman).
• THE DAY I LOST MY SHADOW by Soudade Kaadan, co-producer: EAVE graduate Claire Lajoumard won the Lion of the Future Award for Best Debut Film.
• MANTA RAY by Phuttiphong Aroonpheng, producer: TTB graduate Mai Meksawan and EAVE graduate Philippe Avril was awarded Best Film in the Orizzonti section.
• THE RIVER by Emir Baigazin, producer: EAVE graduate Guillaume de Seille won the Orizzonti Best Director award.
• THE ANNOUNCEMENT by Mahmut Fazil Coskun, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Borislav Chouchkov won the Orizzonti Special Jury Prize.
• THE MAN WHO SURPRISED EVERYONE by Natasha Merkulova, Aleksey Chupov, co-producers: EAVE graduates Katrin Kissa, Guillaume de Seille was awarded Best Actress (Natalya Kudryashova)
• TEL AVIV ON FIRE by Sameh Zoabi, producer: EAVE graduate Bernard Michaux won Best Actor (Kais Nashif)
• EAVE project SUNSET by Laszlo Nemes, producer in development stage: Eszter Gyarfas, won the Venice's FIPRESCI Award
• JOY by Sudabeh Mortezai, producer: EAVE graduate EAVE graduate Oliver Neumann Europa received the Cinemas Label Award and Hearst Film Award Giornate degli Autori.
• STILL RECORDING by Saaed Al Batal, Ghiath Ayoub, producer: EAVE graduate Jean-Laurent Csinidis won five awards: the Audience Award of the Settimana della Critica, the Prix FIPRESCI, the award for Best Technical Contribution as well as the Edipo Re Award & Vivere da sportivo il fair-play al cinema award.

www.labiennale.org/en/cinema

Four awards for EAVE graduates at the Toronto International Film Festival:

• ROADS IN FEBRUARY by Katherine Jerkovic, producer: EAVE+ graduate Nicolas Comeau won the City of Toronto Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film.
• BROTHERHOOD by Meryam Joobeur, producer: EAVE participant Sarra Ben-Hassen received the IWC Short Cuts Award for Best Canadian Short Film.
• FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY by Carmel Winters, producer: EAVE graduate Martina Niland gets the FIPRESCI Prize.
• THE RIVER by Emir Baigazin, producer: EAVE graduate Guillaume de Seille was given an Honourable Mention.

www.tiff.net

FIG TREE by Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian, producer: EAVE graduate Saar Yogev wins the third Audentia Award for Best Female Director handed out by the Council of Europe’s Eurimages Fund at the Toronto International Film Festival.

https://www.coe.int/en/web/eurimages/-/the-audentia-award-2018

Six Industry awards for EAVE graduates at the San Sebastian Film Festival:

• PUENTES project LOS TIBURONES (THE SHARKS) by Lucia Garibaldi, producer: PUENTES graduate Pancho Magnou has won the Films in Progress 34 Award and the Film Factory Award.
• NEMATOMA (INVISIBLE) by Ignas Jonynas, co-producer: EAVE participant Vladimir Yatsenko won the Glocal in Progress Award.
• HERMANO PELIGRO by Pablo Fendrik, producers: EAVE graduate Santiago Galleli, PUENTES graduate Benjamin Domenech, co-producer: EAVE graduate Katrin Pors received the VII Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum Best Project Award.
• EAVE project THE JUNGLE by Matthias Huser, producer: EAVE participant Tolga Dilsiz won the Eurimages Development Co-production Award.
• LIBERTAD by Clara Roquet, producer: EAVE graduate and Spanish National Coordinator Maria Zamora, co-producer: EAVE graduate Katrin Pors was awarded the Arte International Prize.

https://sansebastianfestival.com

Three awards for EAVE graduates at the Polish Film Festival Gdynia:  

• WEREWOLF by Adrian Panek, producers: EAVE graduates Magdalena Kaminska, Agata won Best Directing and Best Music (Antoni Komasa-Lazarkiewicz)
• EAVE project THE MUTE by Bartosz Konopka, producer: EAVE graduate Anna Wydra was awarded Best Cinematography (Jacek Podgorski)

www.festiwalgdynia.pl/en

Ten awards for EAVE graduates at the Film Festival Oostende:

• LE FIDÈLE by Michael R. Roskam, co-producer: EAVE graduate Peter Bouckaert scooped six Ensors, the Belgian Film Awards. The film was awarded Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor (Matthias Schoenaerts), Best Photography (Nicolas Karakatsanis), Best Set Design (Geert Paredis, Kristin Van Passel, Mariel Hoevenaars), and Best Editing (Alain Dessauvage).
• ZAGROS by Sahim Omar Kalifa, co-producer: EAVE graduate Marleen Slot received two Ensors: Best Film and Best Screenplay (Sahim Omar Kalifa, Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem).  
• GIRL by Lukas Dhont, producers: EAVE graduates Arnold Heslenfeld, Laurette Schillings & Frans van Gestel won Best First Film.
• GANGSTA (PATSER) by Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah, producer: EAVE graduate Benoit Roland won the Telenet Audience Award.

www.filmfestivaloostende.be

The Lëtzebuerger Filmpräis, the Luxembourgish film award, went to:

• GUTLAND by Govinda Van Maele, producer: EAVE graduate Gilles Chanial won best fiction feature length film.
• LA SUPPLICATION by Pol Cruchten, co-producer: EAVE graduate Gabriele Kranzelbinder was awarded best documentary.
• NOCES by Stephan Strecker, co-producers: EAVE graduates Donato Rotunno, Tomas Leyers won best fiction film in co-production.

www.dfilmakademie.lu

Eight awards for EAVE graduates at the Festival of Slovenian Film in Portorose:

• MY LAST YEAR AS A LOSER by Ursa Menart, producer: EAVE group leader Danijel Hocevar won the main award, the Vesna Award for Best Feature. The film also won the Vesna awards for Best script and Best supporting actress and a Special Mention from the Slovenian Film Critics’ Jury.
• EAVE project HISTORY OF LOVE by Sonja Prosenc, producer: EAVE graduate Rok Secen, co-producers: EAVE graduates Nadia Trevisan, Jarle Bjørknes wins the Vesna Award for Best Photography and the Vesna Award for Best Original Achievement.
• ERASED, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Frenk Celarc received the Vesna Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Judita Frankovic Brdar)
• WINTER FLIES by Olmo Omerzu, producer: EAVE graduate Jiri Konecny won the Vesna Award for Best Minority Co-production.

www.fsf.si

SOFIA by Meryem Benm'Barek, co-producer: EAVE graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart was awarded the Valois for Best Screenplay at the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival.

http://filmfrancophone.fr

Five Awards at the Batumi International Film Festival Georgia for EAVE graduates:  

• LAZZARO FELICE by Alice Rohrwacher, producer: EAVE graduate Carlo Cresta-Dina won Best Director, Best Actor (Adriano Tardiolo), and was given a Special Mention by the Georgian film critics.
• HORIZON by EAVE graduate Tinatin Kajrishvili, producers: EAVE graduates Tinatin Kajrishvili, David Herdies received the Special Jury Prize.
• STYX by Wolfgang Fischer, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu received the Special Jury Prize.
• DONBASS by Sergej Loznitsa, producer: EAVE graduate Heino Deckert was awarded Best Film by the Georgian film critics.

www.biaff.org

Page published 28 September 2018. Updated 10 September 2019.