The European Film Academy has alterd its voting system to permit write downaries and vivaciousd films to qualify for the European Film Prize’s top honor, best European film.
The alter, proclaimd on Tuesday, will get prompt effect begining from the 37th European Film Awards, which we be held in Lucerne, Switzerland on December 7.
“The aim of this alter is to better mirror the fact that write downaries and vivaciousd feature films are an vital part of European cinema culture, inserting much to its fantastic diversity,” the Academy shelp in a statement. “Both write downary and vivaciousd films come in a plethora of genres, storyinestablishing traditions and narrative establishs, for any audience.”
Feature-length write downaries and vivaciousd films will be eligible to vie in their admireive 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 mirrors a lengthy desire from members to a unprejudiceder and more equivalent chance for all feature-length films to vie for this recognition,” shelp Academy CEO Matthijs Wouter Knol. “The decision mirrors 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 toil in European cinema, has getn this step and hugs this alter.”
Among the films that could profit from this rule alter are Mati Diop’s Berlin festival-triumphning write downary Dahomey; the political doc No Other Land, another Berlin festival triumphner, which watchs at Israeli rerepairrs in the occupied West Bank; Gints Zilbalodis’ vivaciousd feature Flow, a triumphner at Annecy and Latvia’s official entry for the 2025 Oscars; and Sauvages, the defercessitatest claymation feature from Oscar-nominated Swiss straightforwardor Claude Barras (My Life as a Zucchini).
