| European Film Award University Award | |
| Awarded For: | University Award |
| Presenter: | European Film Academy, Filmfest Hamburg |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Holder: | Flee (2021) |
| Website: | europeanfilmawards.eu eufa.org |
The European University Film Award is one of the awards presented by the European Film Academy, it was first awarded at the 29th European Film Awards in 2016 and is presented and voted by European university students.
The award was inspired by a model in Québec, the Prix collégial du cinéma québécois (PCCQ) and was launched by Filmfest Hamburg and the European Film Academy (EFA) in 2016 as the European University Film Award (EUFA). The creation of this initiative was 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".
For the first edition of the award 13 universities from 13 different European countries participated, the number has increased throughout the years with 20 participants in 2017, 22 in 2018 and 24 in 2019. For the 33rd European Film Awards, the participants were from 25 universities from 25 countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and United Kingdom.
The following universities participated in the 5th EUFA edition:
Denmark – Aarhus University in Aarhus
Czech Republic – Charles University in Prague
Germany – Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF in Potsdam
Turkey – Kadir Has University in Istanbul
Latvia – Latvian Academy of Culture in Riga
Sweden – Linnaeus University in Växjö
United Kingdom – Liverpool John Moores University in Liverpool
Hungary – Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest
Romania – Sapientia – Hungarian University of Transylvania in Cluj-Napoca
Israel – Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv
Ireland – University College Cork in Cork
Belgium – University of Antwerp in Antwerp
Serbia – University of Arts Belgrade in Belgrade
Greece – University of the Aegean in Lesbos
Spain – University of the Basque Country in Bilbao
Portugal – University of Beira Interior in Covilhã
Iceland – University of Iceland in Reykjavík
Switzerland – University of Lausanne in Lausanne
Poland – University of Łódź in Łódź
Finland – University of Oulu in Oulu
France – in Paris
Italy – University of Udine in Udine
Netherlands – Utrecht University in Utrecht
Lithuania – Vilnius University in Vilnius| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country of production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 (29th) [1] | ||||
| I, Daniel Blake | Ken Loach | United Kingdom, France | ||
| Graduation | Bacalaureat | Romania, France, Belgium | ||
| The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki | Hymyilevä mies | |||
| Fire at Sea | Fuocoammare | Italy, France | ||
| Toni Erdmann | Germany,  Austria | |||
| 2017 (30th) [2] | ||||
| Heartstone | Hjartasteinn | Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson | Iceland, Denmark | |
| Home | ||||
| Loveless | Нелюбовь / Nelyubov | , Belgium, Germany, France | ||
| The Other Side of Hope | Toivon tuolla puolen | Finland, Germany | ||
| The War Show | Andreas Dalsgaard, Obaidah Zytoon | Denmark,, Finland | ||
| 2018 (31st) [3] | ||||
| Happy as Lazzaro | Lazzaro felice | Alice Rohrwacher | Italy, Germany, France, Switzerland | |
| Foxtrot | פוֹקְסטְרוֹט | Israel, Germany, France, Switzerland | ||
| Styx | Wolfgang Fischer | |||
| Tarzan's Testicles | Ouăle lui Tarzan | Alexandru Solomon | Romania, France | |
| Utøya 22. juli | Erik Poppe | |||
| 2019 (32nd) [4] [5] | ||||
| Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Portrait de la jeune fille en feu | Céline Sciamma | France | |
| And Then We Danced | და ჩვენ ვიცეკვეთ / Da chven vitsek'vet | Levan Akin | ||
| God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunija | Господ постои, името ѝ е Петрунија / Gospod postoi, imeto ì e Petrunija | Teona Stugar Mitevska | , Belgium,  Slovenia, France,  Croatia | |
| Piranhas | La paranza dei bambini | Italy | ||
| System Crasher | Systemsprenger | |||
| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country of production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 (33rd) [6] [7] | ||||
| Saudi Runaway | Susanne Regina Meures | Switzerland | ||
| Another Round | Druk | |||
| Berlin Alexanderplatz | Germany | |||
| Corpus Christi | Boże Ciało | |||
| Slalom | Charlène Favier | |||
| 2021 (34th) [8] [9] | ||||
| Flee | Flugt | Jonas Poher Rasmussen | ,,, | |
| Apples | Mila / Μήλα | Christos Nikou | ,, | |
| Great Freedom | Große Freiheit | Sebastian Meise | , | |
| Happening | L'événement | |||
| Quo Vadis, Aida? | ,,,,,,,, | |||
| 2022 (35th)[10] [11] | ||||
| Alcarràs | , | |||
| Close | ,, | |||
| The Eclipse | Formørkelsen | Nataša Urban | ||
| Eo | , | |||
| Triangle of Sadness | ,,, | |||