Emile Awards 2024

EMILE AWARDS 2024 WINNERS

FEATURE FILM

Best Writing in Feature Film – MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE by Signe Baumane

Best Soundtrack in Feature Film – MARS EXPRESS by Jeremie Perin, soundtrack by Fred Avril and Philippe Monthaye

Best Backgrounds and Character Design – UNICORN WARS by Alberto Vázquez

Best Animation in Feature Film – CHICKEN FOR LINDA! by Chiara Malta, Sébastien Laudenbach, Key animator Danaé Mikrogeorgiou

Best of the Best in Feature Film – CHICKEN FOR LINDA! by Chiara Malta, Sébastien Laudenbach

SHORT FILM

Best Backgrounds and Character Design – EEVA by Morten Tšinakov, Lucija Mrzljak, art directors Morten Tšinakov and Lucija Mrzljak

Best Sound Design and Music – THE FAMILY PORTRAIT by Lea Vidaković, sound designer Zoran Maksimovic

Best Animation – ELECTRA by Daria Kashcheeva, animators Daria Kashcheeva, Marek Jasan, Vijtek Kiss, Isaac Vzk

Best Innovative film – A KIND OF TESTAMENT by Stephen Vuillemin

Best of the Best SHORT FILM – 27 by Flóra Anna Buda

CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYBODY!!!

 

LOTTE REINIGER LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD winner is PRIIT PÄRN

Congratulations, Mr PÄRN!

 

 

Emile Awards selection team has chosen the films for Emile Awards 2024.

The nominees in the following categories are:

SHORT FILM CATEGORIES

Nominees for “Best Backgrounds and Characters in Short Film“

A Kind of Testament (France), director Stephen Vuillemin

Above the Clouds (Hungary), director Vivien Hárshegyi, produced by József Fülöp

Ice Merchants (Portugal, United Kingdom, France), director João Gonzalez, produced by Bruno Caetano and Michael Proença

Eeva (Estonia, Croatia), directors Lucija Mrzljak & Morten Tšinakov,  produced by Draško Ivezić and Kalev Tamm

Such Miracles Do Happen (Poland), director Barbara Rupik, produced by Polish National Film School in Łodz

 

 

Nominees for “Best Animation in Short Film“

27 (France, Hungary), director Flóra Anna Buda, produced by Emmanuel-Alan Raynal, Pierre Baussaron, Péter Benjámin Lukács and Gábor Osváth

A Kind of Testament (France), director Stephen Vuillemin

Electra (Czech Republic, France, Slovakia) director Daria Kashcheeva, produced by Zuzana Krivkova Martin Vandas, Tomáš Šimon, Olivier Catherin, Richard Van Den Boom, Juraj Krasnohorsky

The Family Portrait (Croatia, France, Serbia), director Lea Vidaković, produced by Draško Ivezić

Nun or Never! (Finland), director Heta Jäälinoja, produced by Jani Lehto

Above the Clouds (Hungary), director Vivien Hárshegyi, produced by József Fülöp

Ice Merchants (Portugal, United Kingdom, France), director João Gonzalez, produced by Bruno Caetano and Michael Proença

Eeva (Estonia, Croatia), directors Lucija Mrzljak & Morten Tšinakov,  produced by Draško Ivezić and Kalev Tamm

Such Miracles Do Happen (Poland), director Barbara Rupik, produced by Polish National Film School in Łodz

Nominees for “Best Sound Design and Music in Short Film“

Greylands (Switzerland), director Charlotte Waltert, Alvaro Schoeck, produced by Saskia von Virág

Misaligned (Poland, Latvia), directed by Marta Magnuska, produced by Piotr Szczepanowicz, Grzegorz Wacławek, Sabine Andersone

A Kind of Testament (France), director Stephen Vuillemin

The Family Portrait (Croatia, France, Serbia), director Lea Vidaković, produced by Draško Ivezić

 

Nominees for “Best Innovative Short Film“

A Kind of Testament (France), director Stephen Vuillemin

Electra (Czech Republic, France, Slovakia) director Daria Kashcheeva, produced by Zuzana Krivkova Martin Vandas, Tomáš Šimon, Olivier Catherin, Richard Van Den Boom, Juraj Krasnohorsky

Goodbye Jérôme (France), directors Chloé Farr, Gabrielle Selnet, Adam Sillard, produced by GOBELINS, l’école de l’image

Such Miracles Do Happen (Poland), director Barbara Rupik, produced by Polish National Film School in Łodz

The Miracle (France, Belgium; Netherlands), director Nienke Deutz, produced by Annemie Degryse, Peter Lindhout, Koji Nelissen and Derk-Jan Warrink

Nominees for “Best of the Best Short Film“

27 (France, Hungary), director Flóra Anna Buda, produced by Péter Benjámin Lukács and Gábor Osváth

Above the Clouds (Hungary), director Vivien Hárshegyi, produced by József Fülöp

A Kind of Testament (France), director Stephen Vuillemin

The Family Portrait (Croatia, France, Serbia), director Lea Vidaković, produced by Draško Ivezić

Ice Merchants (Portugal, United Kingdom, France), director João Gonzalez, produced by Bruno Caetano and Michael Proença

 

FEATURE FILM CATEGORIES

The feature film categories are:

• Best Writing in a Feature
• Best Soundtrack in a Feature
• Best Backgrounds and Character Design in a Feature
• Best Animation in a Feature
• Best Of The Best Feature

 

 

And the following films are nominees for all above-mentioned categories:

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (France, Luxemburg, Canada, Netherlands), director Pierre Földes, produced by Tom Dercourt, Emmanuel-Alain Raynal and Pierre Baussaron

Chicken for Linda! (France, Italy), directors Chiara Malta, Sébastien Laudenbach, produced by Marc Irmer, Emmanuel-Alain Raynal and Pierre Baussaron

Mars Express (France), director Jeremie Perin, produced by Didier Creste

My Grandfather’s Demons (Portugal, Spain, France), director Nuno Beato, produced by Nuno Beato, Diego Carvalho, Emmanuel Quillet, Martine Vidalenc, Carlos Juárez and Xosé Manuel Zapata Pérez

My Love Affair with Marriage (Luxemburg, United States, Latvia), director Signe Baumane, produced by Roberts Vinovskis, Sturgis Warner, Raoul Nadalet and Signe Baumane

Nayola (Portugal, Netherlands, Belgium, France), director José Miguel Ribeiro, produced Ana Carina, Arnoud Rijken, Michiel Snijders, Linda Sterckx, Geert Van Goethem, Serge Kestmont, Tomás Oom Martins

Rosa and the Stone Troll (Denmark), director Karla Nor Holmbäck, produced by Marie Bro

Tender Metalheads (Spain), director Joan Tomas Monfort & Carlos Perez-Reche, produced by Juanjo Saez

Unicorn Wars (Spain, France, United Kingdom), director Alberto Vázquez, produced by Ivan Minambres, Chelo Loureiro, Nicolas Schmerkin