{"id":600401,"date":"2023-12-08T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/despite-acclaim-european-art-house-films-struggle\/"},"modified":"2023-12-08T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T13:15:00","slug":"despite-acclaim-european-art-house-films-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/despite-acclaim-european-art-house-films-struggle\/","title":{"rendered":"#Despite Acclaim, European Art House Films Struggle\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n The nominees for the 2023 European Film Awards (EFAs) are among the very best movies<\/a> of the year, in Europe or anywhere. The five best picture nominees include Justine Triet\u2019s legal thriller Anatomy of a Fall<\/em>; Jonathan Glazer\u2019s harrowing Holocaust film The Zone of Interest<\/em>; the refugee dramas Io Capitano<\/em>, from Italian director Matteo Garrone, and Green Border<\/em> from Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland; and dour romantic comedy Fallen Leaves<\/em>, by Finland\u2019s Aki Kaurism\u00e4ki. Award winners all \u2014 Anatomy<\/em>, Zone<\/em> and Fallen Leaves<\/em> picked up top honors in Cannes, while Green Border <\/em>and Io Capitano<\/em> won plaudits at this year\u2019s Venice Film Festival \u2014 this lineup of critical hits could hold its own at any awards ceremony.<\/p>\n

\n The quality at the EFAs goes deep, including first-time filmmakers like Britain\u2019s Mia McKenna-Bruce (How to Have Sex<\/em>), France\u2019s St\u00e9phan Castang (Vincent Must Die<\/em>) and Spanish filmmaker Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren (20,000 Species of Bees<\/em>), whose debuts were among the buzziest movies on this year\u2019s festival circuit and are all up for the EFA Discovery prize for best first feature.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThey are very, very strong movies,\u201d says Holland. \u201cAnd I have to say that most years the international selection is stronger than the main American selection of films.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n But as a who\u2019s who of the Euro film scene descends on Berlin on Dec.\u00a09 for the 36th EFAs, European cinema is struggling to find its audience, and its gala awards show is fighting to stay relevant.<\/p>\n

\n Box office across Europe has bounced back significantly from its COVID-era dip. Theater revenue last year was up 70\u00a0percent year-over-year to $5.6\u00a0billion (5.1\u00a0billion euros), according to figures from the European Audiovisual Observatory, a media<\/a> think tank, though still around a third below the pre-pandemic peak. More worrying for local industry: The top 20 films of the year, by theatrical admissions, were all Hollywood-backed productions.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cClearly, there is a segment of the art house audience for European films that hasn\u2019t come back to the cinema on a regular basis,\u201d says European Film Academy chairman Mike Downey, who notes that audiences for European movies tend to skew older, a demographic that has been more wary about returning to theaters. \u201cThis is what the industry needs to focus on for the next few years, [getting] audiences for [European films] back into the cinemas.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Pan-European distribution, or the lack of it, is one the biggest problems. Many of this year\u2019s EFA nominees are local hits, but without a strong U.S. partner to release and promote them, they have struggled to translate that success across EU borders.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe way these films are being made, sold and distributed makes it hard for people to watch them across Europe,\u201d says European Film Academy CEO Matthijs Wouter Knol.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n Knol points to last year\u2019s EFA best film winner Triangle of Sadness<\/em>, which earned some $20\u00a0million at the EU box office in part\u00a0thanks to a more coordinated rollout. The movie\u2019s financing structure, which included co-producers and distributors from Europe\u2019s three largest markets (the U.K., France and Germany), meant that Ruben \u00d6stlund\u2019s satire on capitalism was able to translate the hype from its festival run into pan-European success.<\/p>\n

\n To boost their own profile, the EFAs will be changing their dates. After next year\u2019s event, the EFAs will take a 13-month break, to hold their 2026 gala in mid-January, strategically scheduled between the Golden Globes and the closing of voting for the Academy Awards.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe Oscars play an incredibly important role in the visibility for European films,\u201d says Knol. \u201cBy positioning ourselves in the middle [of awards season], we think we can benefit by giving the winners of the European Film Awards a greater visibility and better promotion leading into the Oscars.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n This story first app<\/a>eared in the Dec. 7 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Click here to subscribe<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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