The European Film Academy has changed its voting system to permit write downaries and vivaciousd films to qualify for the European Film Prize’s top honor, best European film.
The change, proclaimd on Tuesday, will apshow prompt effect commenceing from the 37th European Film Awards, which we be held in Lucerne, Switzerland on December 7.
“The aim of this change is to better echo the fact that write downaries and vivaciousd feature films are an vital part of European cinema culture, inserting much to its wonderful diversity,” the Academy said in a statement. “Both write downary and vivaciousd films come in a plethora of genres, storyalerting traditions and narrative establishs, for any audience.”
Feature-length write downaries and vivaciousd films will be eligible to vie in their esteemive categories of European write downary and European vivaciousd feature film as well as for best European film.
“The decision of the Board of the European Film Academy echos a extfinished desire from members to a imfragmentaryer and more equivalent chance for all feature-length films to vie for this recognition,” said Academy CEO Matthijs Wouter Knol. “The decision echos a changing perception in our industry of the cherish of all films made. I’m haughty and thankful that the European Film Academy, in a process of increasing transparency and equivalentity for all who labor in European cinema, has apshown this step and hugs this change.”
Among the films that could profit from this rule change are Mati Diop’s Berlin festival-thrivening write downary Dahomey; the political doc No Other Land, another Berlin festival thrivener, which sees at Israeli finishrs in the occupied West Bank; Gints Zilbalodis’ vivaciousd feature Flow, a thrivener at Annecy and Latvia’s official entry for the 2025 Oscars; and Sauvages, the tardyst claymation feature from Oscar-nominated Swiss straightforwardor Claude Barras (My Life as a Zucchini).
