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Cineuropa Award

Cineuropa Award Rules

  • The Cineuropa Award is given to a film that besides having indisputable artistic qualities also brings out the idea of European dialogue and integration
  • The Prize is given by one or more qualified editors or collaborators chosen by Cineuropa and present at the Festival
  • The Prize is given to a film produced or co-produced by a country participating in the MEDIA Programme or member of Eurimages
  • The Prize consists of promotion on the Cineuropa site, including a special newsletter dedicated to the film (including a review, an interview with the director, and trailers and excerpts), which will be sent to our mailing list of over 50,000 subscribers.

The Prize is awarded at the following partner festivals:

Trieste Film Festival
Mons International Love Film Festival
Vilnius Film Festival - Kino Pavasaris
Lecce European Film Festival
Cinema City International Film Festival
Sarajevo International Film Festival
Istanbul Film Festival
Brussels Mediterranean Film Festival
Les Arcs European Film Festival

Barbarians

Barbarians by Ivan Ikic, Festival de Cinéma Méditerranéen de Bruxelles 2014

Feb 17th 2008. Kosovo declares independence and Serbian government announces mass protests, so people could express their discontent. Luka, a troubled teenager on the verge of adulthood, lives in Mladenovac, a ruined ex-industrial town on the brinks of Belgrade, where, with his best friend Flash, he is a leader of local football club fans. During an unannounced visit by the social worker, Luka is faced with a family secret that his father, who was believed to had disappeared in Kosovo conflicts, is in fact alive and asking for him.

Angels of Revolution

Angels of Revolution by Aleksey Fedorchenko, Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival 2014

There’s something rotten in the north of the soviet union. The Shamans of the two native peoples, the Khanti and the Forrest Nenets, have no intention of signing on to the new ideology. To reconcile two such very different cultures, six artists leave for Siberia to reach the forests around the Ob River. Led by “Polina the revolutionary”, theysoon find themselves between a rock and a hard place: the revolution brewing like a vat of cider vs a world of dogs with wings, mischevious angels and heart shaped potatoes, all imune to the dictates of the new regime.

Three Windows and a Hanging

Three Windows and a Hanging by Isa Qosja, Sarajevo Film Festival 2014

Three Windows and a Hanging by Isa Qosja, Sarajevo Film Festival 2014

A critical view of a society which survived the war, won its independence but still struggles with human equality. An insightful portrait of a Balkan village, of a patriarchal microcosm, and of its mayor who desperately wants to control the village life. Of husbands who feel forced to behave strong, but act against their own emotional interest. A reflection of rituals which not only show gender inequality, but also the absence of freedom of expression within the male community.

Free Entry (One Day of Betty)

Free Entry (One Day of Betty) by Yvonne Kerékgyártó, Cinema City International Film Festival 2014

Free Entry (One Day of Betty) by Yvonne Kerékgyártó, Cinema City International Film Festival 2014

Two girls 'sneak' into the biggest music festival of Hungary. Betty and “W” are both 16. They’re at the threshold of adulthood. They want to party, and cross all boundaries in one night.

Vis-a-Vis

Vis-a-Vis by Nevio Marasović, Brussels Film Festival 2014

The director is preparing a new film. A well-known actor he wants to engage to play the role of the Father criticizes his screenplay and the selection of the actor for the role of the Son. The director invites the “Son” to come to the island of Vis to work on the screenplay and the role and to be sure that he has made the right choice when choosing him for the role. Due to the isolation they are confronted with on the island during winter season, the two of them are doomed to come to grips with their frustrations that are constantly being intertwined with the plot in a strange way.

Macondo

Macondo by Sudabeh Mortezai, Lecce European Film Festival 2014

Macondo by Sudabeh Mortezai, Lecce European Film Festival 2014

Tucked in between the airport, motorway and the banks of the Danube in the Viennese district of Simmering, an entire world of its own has emerged behind walls of corrugated iron and barracks: Macondo, a settlement of refugees where about 3,000 asylum-seekers from 22 different countries are housed. One of them is eleven-year-old Ramasan who has come here from Chechnya with his mother and two younger sisters. His father was killed in the conflict with the Russians, at least that’s what he's been told. Ramasan tries his best to take his father’s place – for instance by looking after his sisters or tucking his mother’s stray hair back underneath her headscarf. But then a brooding man named Isa, a friend of Ramasan’s father from the old days, suddenly arrives in Macondo and Ramasan's life is thrown into disarray.

Come to My Voice

Come to My Voice by Hüseyin Karabey, Istanbul International Film Festival 2014

Come to My Voice by Hüseyin Karabey, Istanbul International Film Festival 2014

In a remote Kurdish village in the mountains little Jiyan is worried about her father who has been arrested by the Turkish police as a suspected guerilla. He will only be released when his family surrenders his gun. The problem is: he has never possessed one. And so Jiyan’s grandmother Berfé has no choice but to set off in search of a weapon. A long march on foot leads Berfé and Jiyan through breathtakingly beautiful mountains to their relatives and beyond, into the unknown. On their journey Berfé displays courage and tenacity and Jiyan learns what it takes to survive in the adult world.

Class Enemy

Class Enemy by Rok Biček, Les Arcs Film Festival 2013

Due to a huge difference in the way they perceive life, the relationship between the students and their new German language teacher becomes critically tense. When one of the students commits suicide, her classmates accuse the teacher of being responsible for her death. The realisation that things are not so black and white comes too late.

Peace After Marriage

Peace After Marriage by Ghazi Albuliwi, Brussels Mediterranean Film Festival 2013

Peace After Marriage by Ghazi Albuliwi, Brussels Mediterranean Film Festival 2013

Arafat, a thirty year old Arab New Yorker, lives at home with his parents who are desperate to find him a Muslim bride. Horny and lonely, he tries the New York dating scene with zero luck. Then he meets Kenny, a smooth talking single New Yorker who becomes his wingman. According to Kenny the only solution for Arafat is to move out of his parents house. With no money or job, Arafat can't afford to move out. Then Kenny proposes an idea: a Green Card marriage for money! But with an Israeli girl…

The Strange Little Cat

The Strange Little Cat by Ramon Zürcher, Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival 2013

The Strange Little Cat by Ramon Zürcher, Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival 2013

Siblings Karin and Simon are visiting their parents and their little sister Clara. That evening, other relatives will be joining them for dinner. This sequence of seemingly unspectacular family scenes in a Berlin flat creates a wondrous world and an exciting choreography of the everyday.

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