About EUFA
Inspired by a successfully and passionately run model in Québec, the Prix collégial du cinéma québécois (PCCQ), Filmfest Hamburg and the European Film Academy (EFA) launched in 2016 the European University Film Award (EUFA) - presented and voted by European university students. The aim of this initiative is to involve a younger audience, to spread the "European idea" and to transport the spirit of European cinema to an audience of university students. It shall also support film dissemination, film education and the culture of debating. In 2019 it became an official category of the European Film Awards.
News
FLEE wins 6th EUFA 2021
After a three-day online deliberation meeting attended by 25 students representing 25 European countries the film FLEE (DK, F, S, NOR 2021) by Jonas Poher Rasmussen was awarded the European University Film Award (EUFA), which is organised by Filmfest Hamburg and the European Film Academy.
Five Films nominated for EUFA 2021
Based on the lists of 38 feature films and 13 documentaries from the European Film Award Selections 2021 five films are nominated for the 6th EUFA
EUFA 2020 goes to SAUDI RUNAWAY
In the framework of the digital award ceremony "The EFAs at Eight" on Thursday evening, the film SAUDI RUNAWAY (Switzerland 2020) was awarded the European University Film Award (EUFA).
Universities
Kosovo (Pristina)
AAB College
Austria (Vienna)
University of Vienna
Denmark (Aarhus)
Aarhus University
Czech Republic (Prague)
Charles University
Germany (Potsdam)
Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
Turkey (Istanbul)
Kadir Has University
Lativa (Riga)
Latvian Academy of Culture
Sweden (Växjö)
Linnaeus University
UK (Liverpool)
Liverpool John Moores University
Hungary (Budapest)
Budapest Metropolitan University
Romania (Cluj-Napoca)
Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania
Israel (Tel Aviv)
Tel Aviv University
Ireland (Cork)
University College Cork
Belgium (Antwerp)
University of Antwerp
Serbia (Belgrade)
University of Arts Belgrade
Greece (Lesbos)
University of the Aegean
Spain (Bilbao)
University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
Portugal (Covilhã)
University of Beira Interior
Iceland (Reykjavík)
University of Iceland
Switzerland (Lausanne)
University of Lausanne
Poland (Lodz)
University of Lodz
Finland (Turku)
University of Turku
France (Paris)
University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle
Italy (Udine)
University of Udine
Netherlands (Utrecht)
Utrecht University
Lithuania (Vilnius)
Vilnius University
Nominated Films 2021
Based on the lists of 53 feature films and 15 documentaries from the European Film Award Selections 2021, five films were nominated for the 6th European University Film Award.
Apples
Amidst a world-wide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged Aris finds himself enrolled in a recovery programme designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities. Prescribed daily tasks on cassette tapes so he can create new memories and document them on camera, Aris slides back into ordinary life, meeting Anna, a woman who is also in recovery. Through images deadpan, strange and surreal, Greek writer-director Christos Nikou posits a beguiling reflection on memory, identity, and loss, exploring how a society might handle an irreversible epidemic through one man’s story of self-discovery. Are we the sum of the images we compile and display of ourselves, or are we something richer, and deeper?
Flee
Amin Nawabi (a pseudonym), a 36-year-old high-achieving academic, grapples with a painful secret he has kept hidden for 20 years, one that threatens to derail the life he has built for himself and his soon to be husband. Recounted mostly through animation to director Jonas Poher Rasmussen — his close friend and high-school classmate, he tells for the first time the story of his extraordinary journey as a child refugee from Afghanistan. Through heartfelt interviews between Jonas and Amin, FLEE tells an unforgettable story of self-discovery. Showing how only by confronting the past it is possible to carve out a future, and the universal truth that only when you stop fleeing from who you are you can find the true meaning of home.
Great Freedom
In post-war Germany Hans is imprisoned again and again for being homosexual. Due to paragraph 175 his desire for freedom is systematically destroyed. The one steady relationship in his life becomes his long time cell mate, Viktor, a convicted murderer. What starts as revulsion grows into something called love.
Happening
Adapted from Annie Ernaux’s autobiographical novel, HAPPENING recounts the journey of a young woman’s physical and emotional battle to access illegal abortion in a desperate race against the clock. A powerful and gripping drama set in a society that condemned female desire and sexual liberty.
Quo vadis, Aida?
Bosnia, 11 July 1995. Aida is a translator for the United Nations in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. As an insider to the negotiations, Aida has access to crucial information that she needs to interpret. What is at the horizon for her family and people - rescue or death? Which move should she take?
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