European Film Awards Select 5 Standout Nominees In Animated Feature Category
Five animated features have been nominated by the European Film Academy for the 37th annual European Film Awards (EFA). The awards are the most prestigious pan-European award for animated features.
The nominees in the category are:
- Flow directed by Gints Zilbalodis (Latvia, France, Belgium)
- Living Large directed by Kristina Dufková (Czech Republic, France, Slovakia)
- Savages directed by Claude Barras (Switzerland, France, Belgium)
- Sultana’s Dream directed by Isabel Herguera (Spain, Germany, India)
- They Shot the Piano Player directed by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal (Spain, France, Netherlands, Portugal, Peru)
The strong line-up includes two films by filmmakers who have previously won the EFA feature animation award: the stop-motion Savages by Claude Barras, who won in 2016 for My Life as a Zucchini, and the hand-drawn They Shot the Piano Player by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal, who won in 2011 for Chico and Rita.
Another key contender is Gints Zilbalodis’s Flow, which premiered in the Un Certain Regard sidebar of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, and was a big hit at Annecy in June, earning more awards than any other title in competition this year.
The other two nominees – Isabel Herguera’s Sultana’s Dream and Kristina Dufková’s Living Large – were both winners at Annecy this year too, winning the Contrechamp Grand Prix and Contrechamp Jury Award respectively.
The committee which decided on the nominations was comprised of representatives of the European Film Academy and CARTOON, the European Association of Animation Film.
Nominations have not yet been announced for the EFA’s short film category, which combines animation and live action in the same category.
The 2024 European Film Awards will be held in Switzerland for the first time this year. The awards will be presented on Saturday, December 7, in Lucerne.
