Variety MENA Talent of the Year Award for EAVE project THE BRINK OF DREAMS

Awards October 2024

BAFTA Cymru Awards

• CHUCK CHUCK BABY by Janis Pugh, producer: EAVE graduate Anne Beresford won the Breakthrough Cymru Award for Best Feature/Television Film at the BAFTA Cymru Awards, the biggest annual celebration of creative excellence across film and television in Wales.

www.bafta.org/

 

Prix Europa

• BEHIND THE LINES (part of the series EAVE project DRAW FOR CHANGE) by Alisar Hasan & Alaa Amer, producer: EAVE graduate Hanne Phlypo won the Special Commendation of The Video Documentary.

www.prixeuropa.eu

 

Viennale

• THE VILLAGE NEXT TO PARADISE by Mo Harawe, producer: EAVE graduate Oliver Neumann, co-producer: EAVE graduate Nicole Gerhards won the Vienna Film Award for Best Austrian Film.
• I’M NOT EVERYTHING I WANT TO BE by Klara Tasovska, producer: EAVE graduate Jakub Viktorin won the Erste Bank MehrWERT Award

www.viennale.at/en

 

The Gotham

• Eisei Shu, the producer of TIES THAT BIND Project OMIONNA, received a Special Mention as Global Producer of the Year at the inaugural Gotham Week Honors.

thegotham.org

 

Young Horizons Film Festival

• KENSUKE’S KINGDOM by Kirk Hendry, producer: EAVE graduate Stéphan Roelants won the European Children’s Film Association Jury Award
• EAVE Marketing Workshop project LIVING LARGE by Kristina Dufkova, co-producer: EAVE MW graduate Agata Novinski won the Film Experts’ Jury Award
• FLOW by Gints Zilbalodis, producer: EAVE MW graduate Matiss Kaza won the Discoveries Competition Award and the Youth Jury Award
• JULIE KEEPS QUIET by Leonardo van Dijl, co-producers: PUENTES graduate Nima Yousefi, in association with EAVE graduate Jan Naszewski & PUENTES graduate Marcin Łuczaj received a Honourable Mention from the Discoveries Competition Jury

Young Horizons Industry

• SNEAKERMANIA produced by Helsinki-Filmi, Aleksi Bardy won the ORKA Production Award – Services
• MEGA PALS, co-produced by Coin Film, EAVE + graduate Herbert Schwering won the FIXAFILM Award

https://industry.younghorizons.pl

 

Zurich Film Festival

• ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL by Rungano Nyoni, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney won the Golden Eye in the Feature Film Competition at the Zurich Film Festival.
• BRIEF HISTORY OF A FAMILY by Jianjie Lin, co-producer: EAVE graduate Rikke Tambo Andersen received a Special Mention
• MARCHING IN THE DARK (part of the series EAVE project DRAW FOR CHANGE) by Kinshuk Surjan, producer: EAVE graduate Hanne Phlypo received an Extra Special Mention
• THE COURAGEOUS by Jasmin Gordon, producer: EAVE graduate Brigitte Hofer won the Critics' Award and the Zurich Churches Award

https://zff.com/en

 

Sitges Fantastic Film Festival

• 3 awards for THE DEVIL’S BATH by Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala, producer: EAVE+ graduate Bettina Brokemper at the Sitges Fantastic Film Festival. The film won Best Film and received the José Luis Guarner Critics' Award and the Carnet Jove Jury Award.
• ELSE by Thibault Emin, producer: EAVE graduate Benoit Roland won Best Special, Visual or Makeup Effects and the Citizen Kane Award for Best New Director 
• BODY ODYSSEY by Grazia Tricarico, producer: EAVE+ graduate Michela Pini won Best Direction in the Noves Visions section
• FREE THE CHICKENS by Matus Vizar, producer: EAVE graduate Jakub Viktorin won Best Animated Short Film
• ANIMALE by Emma Benestan, producer: PUENTES graduate Naomi Denamur, co-producer: EAVE graduate Jean-Yves Roubin won Best European Fantastic Genre Feature Film at the Méliès d’Argent Awards
• PUENTES project MI BESTIA by Camila Beltran, producer: PUENTES graduate Lionel Massol, co-producer: PUENTES graduate Paola Perez Nieto won Best Feature Film / Blood Window Award for Best Ibero-American Production

https://sitgesfilmfestival.com

 

CinÉast

• WINDLESS by Pavel G. Vesnakov, producers: EAVE graduates Veselka Kiryakova, Luigi Chimienti and PUENTES graduate Alessandro Amato was awarded the Special Jury Prize at CinÉast – Luxembourg’s Central and Eastern European Film Festival. 
• LESSON LEARNED by Balint Szimler, co-producers: EAVE graduate Julia Berkes, EAVE graduate and Hungarian Nationel Coordinator Viktoria Petranyi received the Special Mention of the Press Jury
• WAVES by Jiri Madl, co-producer: EAVE graduate Wanda Adamik Hrycova won the Audience Award for Best Feature Film
• THE MAN WHO COULD NOT REMAIN SILENT by Nebojsa Slijepcevic, producers: EAVE graduates Katarina Prpic, Danijel Pek, co-producers: EAVE graduates Katya Trichkova, Bostjan Virc won the Audience Award for Best Short Fiction Film
• HELLO SUMMER by Martin Smatana, Veronika Zacharova, producer: EAVE MW graduate Kamila Dohnalova won the Audience Award for Best Short Animated Film

www.cineast.lu

 

Festival du Nouveau Film Montréal

• I’M NOT EVERYTHING I WANT TO BE by Klara Tasovska, producer: EAVE graduate Jakub Viktorin receives the Daniel Langlois innovation award at the Festival du Nouveau Film Montréal.

https://nouveaucinema.ca/fr

 

BFI London Film Festival

• ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL by Rungano Nyoni, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney received a Special Mention
• ON FALLING by Laura Carreira, executive producer: EAVE graduate Luis Campos won the Sutherland Award in the First Feature Competition

https://www.bfi.org.uk/

 

Film Fest Gent

• GRAND TOUR by Miguel Gomes, producers: EAVE graduate Filipa Reis, Interchange graduate Marta Donzelli, co-producer: EAVE + graduate Tom Dercourt won the Georges Delerue Award for Best Soundtrack at the Film Fest Gent.
• POOR THINGS by Yorgos Lanthimos, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney won Film Composer of the Year and Discovery of the Year at the World Soundtrack Awards
• 78 DAYS by Emilija Gasic, producer: EAVE graduate Milos Ivanovic, EAVE MW graduate Andrijana Sofranic Sucur won the Explore Award

www.filmfestival.be

 

Warsaw International Film Festival

• THE BLACK HOLE by Moonika Siimets, producer: EAVE graduate and Estonian National Coordinator Riina Sildos, EAVE graduate Jussi Rantamäki won the Free Spirit Award at the Warsaw International Film Festival
• LIONESS by Liina Trishkina-Vanhatalo, producer: EAVE graduate Guntis Trekteris won the Special Jury Award for Best Screenwriter
• RED PATH by Lotfi Achour, co-producer: EAVE graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart received a Special Mention
• MADE IN ETHIOPIA by Xinyan Yu and Max Duncan, producer: EAVE graduate Tamara Dawit received a Special Mention
• MY LATE SUMMER by Danis Tanovic, producers: EAVE graduates Miha Cernec, Jozko Rutar, Anamaria Antoci received a Honourable Mention

https://wff.pl

 

Chicago International Film Festival

• VERMIGLIO by Maura Delpero, co-producer: EAVE graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart won the Golden Hugo for Best Film
• ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT by Payal Kapadia, producers: EAVE graduate and Dutch National Coordinator Frank Hoeve, CPI graduate Thomas Hakim, co-producer: EAVE graduate Gilles Chanial won the Silver Hugo - Jury Prize
• GRAND TOUR by Miguel Gomes, producers: EAVE graduate Filipa Reis, Interchange graduate Marta Donzelli, co-producer: EAVE + graduate Tom Dercourt won the Silver Hugo for Best Director and Best Editing
• WHEN THE LIGHT BREAKS by Runar Runarsson, co-producer: EAVE graduate Raymond van der Kaaij won the Silver Hugo for Best Female Performance
• ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL by Rungano Nyoni, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney received a Special Mention
• THE VILLAGE NEXT TO PARADISE by Mo Harawe, producer: EAVE graduate Oliver Neumann, co-producer: EAVE graduate Nicole Gerhards won the Gold Hugo in the New Directors Competition
• MY FAVOURITE CAKE by Maryam Moghaddam & Behtash Sanaeeha, producer: EAVE graduate Christopher Zitterbart won the Silver Hugo in the New Directors Competition
• HANAMI by Denise Fernandes, producer: EAVE graduate Eugenia Mumenthaler won the Roger Ebert Award
• FOUR MOTHERS by Darren Thornton, producer: EAVE graduate Martina Niland won the Silver Q-Hugo in the Outlook Competition
• VOX HUMANA by Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan, producer: EAVE and TTB graduate Alemberg Ang won the Gold Hugo for Best Live Action Short.

www.chicagofilmfestival.com

 

Riga International Film Festival

• SONGS OF SLOW BURNING EARTH by Olha Zhurba, producers: EAVE graduates Darya Bassel, Anne Köhncke won Best Film in the Feature Film Competition
• DROWNING DRY by Laurynas Bareisa, co-producer: EAVE graduate Matiss Kaza received a Special Mention

https://rigaiff.lv/en

 

Rome Film Festival

• BRING THEM DOWN by Christopher Andrews, co-producer: EAVE graduate Jean-Yves Roubin won Best Screenplay
• THEY WILL BE DUST by Carlos Marqués-Marcet, producers: EAVE graduates Giovanni Pompili, Eugenia Mumenthaler won Best Actress – “Monica Vitti” Award (Ángela Molina)
• READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN by Eran Riklis, producer: EAVE graduate Marica Stocchi won the Jury Special Award and FS Audience Award
• PIERCE by Nelicia Low, producer: TTB graduate Jeremy Chua, EAVE graduate Izabela Igel received a Special Mention

www.romacinemafest.it

 

Filmfest Hamburg

Three awards for EAVE graduates at the Filmfest Hamburg:

• EMILIA PEREZ by Jacques Audiard, co-producer: PUENTES graduate Nicolas Celis won the Douglas Sirk Award
• HAPPY HOLIDAYS by Scandar Copti, producer: EAVE graduate Dorothe Beinemeier won the International Cinema Co-production Award 
• NINETEEN by Giovanni Tortorici, producer: PUENTES graduate Agustina Costa Varsi won the NDR Young Talent Award
• STEPNE by Maryna Vroda, co-producers: EAVE graduates Anna Katchko, Agnieszka Dziedzic won the Scythian Deer Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival Award
• LARS IS LOL by Eirik Sæter Stordahl, producer: EAVE MW graduate Caroline Hitland won the Michel Award for Best Children's and Youth Film

www.filmfesthamburg.de

 

Cinemed – Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival

• TO A LAND UNKNOWN by Mahdi Fleifel, producer: EAVE graduate Maria Drandaki won the Golden Antigone, rewarding the best fiction feature, at the 46th Cinemed – Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival. It also won the Student Award for Best Debut Work
• PANOPTICON by George Sikharulidze, producer: EAVE graduates Vladimer Katcharava, co-producers: EAVE graduates Archil Gelovani, Anamaria Antoci was awarded the Critics’ Prize
• THE VIRGIN AND CHILD by Binevsa Berivan, co-producer: EAVE graduate Xavier Rombaut won the Audience Award and the Social Energy Activities Award

https://www.cinemed.tm.fr

 

Astra Film Festival, Sibiu

• TATA by Radu Ciorniciuc, Lina Vdovii, producer: EAVE graduate Monica Lazurean-Gorgan won Best Directing in the Central and Eastern European Competition at the Astra Film Festival, Sibiu.
• ALICE ON&OFF by Isabela Trent, producer: EAVE graduate Irina Malcea-Candea won Best Documentary in the Romanian Competition
• ZAGOR’S DEATH by Adrian Dohotaru, producer: EAVE graduate Monica Lazurean-Gorgan received a Special Mention in the Romanian Competition

www.astrafilm.ro/en

 

European Work in Progress, Cologne

• MADE IN EU by EAVE graduate Stephan Komandarev, producer: EAVE graduate Katya Trichkova won the MMC Studios Award at the European Work in Progress, Cologne

www.european-work-in-progress.eu

 

Film Festival Cologne

• THE DEVIL’S BATH by Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala, producer: EAVE + graduate Martina Brokemper won the Film Festival Cologne winning the NRW Award.

https://filmfestival.cologne/en

 

Batumi International Art-house Film Festival

• PANOPTICON by George Sikharulidze, producer: EAVE graduates Vladimer Katcharava, co-producers: EAVE graduates Archil Gelovani, Anamaria Antoci won Best Film and a Special Jury Mention for Actor Data Chachua at the Batumi International Art-house Film Festival.

www.biaff.org

 

Namur Film Festival

4 awards for EAVE graduates at the Namur Film Festival:

• RED PATH by Lotfi Achour, co-producer: EAVE graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart won the Golden Bayard for Best Film and the Bayard for Best Cinematography
• THE MOST PRECIOUS OF CARGOES by Michel Hazanavicius, producer: EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman won the Bayard for Best Screenplay
• WHO DO I BELONG TO by Meryam Joobeur, producer: EAVE graduate Sarra Ben Hassen won the Bayard for Best First Work
• WILD DIAMOND by Agathe Riedinger, producer:TTB graduate Judith Nora won Best Acting Award
• THE FOURTH WALL by David Oelhoffen, producer: EAVE+ graduate Alexandru Dumreicher-Ivanceanu won the RTBF Prize

https://www.fiff.be/palmares

 

Polish Film Festival Gdynia

10 awards for EAVE graduates at the Polish Film Festival Gdynia.

• GREEN BORDER by Agnieszka Holland, producers: EAVE graduate Maria Blicharska, EAVE graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum received the Grand Prize Golden Lion, the Audience Award and the award for Best Sound
• THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE by Magnus von Horn, co-producer: EAVE graduate Marius Wlodarski won the Silver Lion, Best Supporting Actress (Trine Dyrholm), Best Cinematography, Best Music, Best Production Design, and Best Costume Design
• WHITE COURAGE by Marcin Koszalka, producer: EAVE graduate Magdalena Kaminska won Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress in a Leading Role and Best Actor in a Supporting Role

https://festiwalgdynia.pl/en/
 

Festival of Slovenian Film, Portoroz

• FAMILY THERAPY by Sonja Prosenc, producer: EAVE graduate Rok Secen, co-producers: EAVE graduates Marta Zaccaron, Tamara Babun won seven Vesna Awards: Best Feature Film, Best Screenplay, Best Leading Actress, Best Lead Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Music, Best Production Design at the Festival of Slovenian Film, Portoroz.
• EAVE project NOT A WORD by Hanna Slak, producer: EAVE graduate Michel Balagué won 3 Vesna Awards for Best Director, Best Make-up, Best Minority Co-production
• BLOCK 5 by Klemen Dvornik, co-producers: EAVE graduates Katarina Prpic, Danijel Pek, Vlado Bulajic, Lija Pogacnik, MW graduate Peter Badac won Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design
• THE MAN WHO COULD NOT REMAIN SILENT by Nebojsa Slijepcevic, producers: EAVE graduates Katarina Prpic, Danijel Pek, co-producers: EAVE graduates Katya Trichkova, Bostjan Virc received a Special Mention
• THE VOLTA CINEMA by Martin Turk, co-producer: EAVE graduate Marta Zaccaron won the Art Kino Network of Slovenia (AKMS) Award

https://fsf.si/2024/en

 

El Gouna Film Festival

• Variety MENA Talent of the Year Award for EAVE project THE BRINK OF DREAMS by Nada Riyadh and EAVE graduate Ayman El Amir, producer: EAVE graduate Ayman El Amir

elgounafilmfestival.com

 

Athens International Film Festival

• FLOW by Gints Zilbalodis, producer: EAVE MW graduate Matiss Kaza won the Golden Athena for Best Film and the Fischer Audience Award at the Athens International Film Festival.
• VERMIGLIO by Maura Delpero, co-producer: EAVE graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart won the Best Screenplay Award
• BRIEF HISTORY OF A FAMILY by Lin Jianjie, co-producer: EAVE graduate Rikke Tambo Andersen received a Special Mention
• APRIL by Dea Kulumbegashvili, producer: EAVE graduate Archil Gelovani received a Special Mention
• ARMAND by Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, producer: EAVE graduate Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, co-producers: EAVE graduates Fred Burle, Derk-Jan Warrink won the Greek Film Critics Association Award

http://en.aiff.gr

 

Doclisboa

• THE SHARDS by Masha Chernaya, producer: EAVE graduate Archil Gelovani won the City of Lisbon Award for Best International Competition Film
• THE NIGHTS STILL SMELL OF GUNPOWDER by Inadelso Cossa, producer: CPI graduate Thomas Kaske, co-producer: EAVE graduate and Dutch National Coordinator Frank Hoeve, EAVE graduate Elisa Pirir won the Portuguese Authors Society Portuguese Competition Jury Award
• DAD’S LULLABY by Lesia Diak, producer: EAVE graduate Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan, Dagne Vildziunaite received a Honourable Mention

https://doclisboa.org

 

CFAP Prize

EAVE graduate Rogier Kramer, producer at Labyrint Film, has been awarded the CFAP Prize 2024 worth €25,000 by the Dutch Cultureel Fonds Audiovisuele Producenten.

Selected from a shortlist of 10 outstanding producers, Rogier was recognized for his pioneering work in queer cinema and his profound impact on creators and audiences alike.

https://cfap.nl/

Page published 31 October 2024. Updated 5 November 2024.