Of the Belgian productions and co-productions that were nominated for the European Film Awards, the most important prizes for the European film industry, only one was able to cash in on the nomination. The short film ‘Nanu Tudor’ by Olga Lucovnicova won the European Short Film 2021 prize.
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The Franco-Belgian co-production ‘Titane’ saw none of its four nominations receive a statuette. The movie ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’ about the massacre in Srebrenica, and with a role for the Belgian actor Johan Heldenbergh, won three main prizes (best film, actress and director).
In ‘Nanu Tudor’ (‘My Uncle Tudor’), Lucovnicova’s final work, the filmmaker travels after 20 years of silence to the house of her great-grandparents in Moldova, where she suffered a deep-rooted trauma as a child. The short film was previously awarded the Golden Bear in Berlin, which means that it also has a chance to win the Oscar for Best Short Film in 2022.
The short film ‘Easter Eggs’ by Nicolas Keppens was also nominated in the same category.
‘Titane’ was therefore unable to cash in on any of the four nominations. The film by French director Julia Ducournau, which won the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival this year, has been co-produced on the Belgian side by Frakas Productions. The Best Picture Award went to the drama ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’ by Jasmila Zbanic, on the Srebrenica massacre. That film also won Best Actress, Jasna Duricic, and Best Director, Jasmila Zbanic. And ‘Titane’ also missed the prize for best actor. It went to Anthony Hopkins for his role in Florian Zeller’s ‘The Father’.
‘Titane’ had previously been awarded an award for hairdressing and make-up.
The Belgian entry for the Oscars, ‘Un monde’, also failed to live up to its nomination in the European discovery category – the prize for a feature film debut. The first feature film by the Brussels director Laura Wandel had to leave the credit to Emerald Fennell’s ‘Promising Young Woman’. The Belgian-Russian-Polish co-production ‘The Whaler Boy’ by Philipp Yuryev was also nominated in this category.
In the animation film category, ‘Where is Anne Frank’ by Israeli director Ari Folman, an international co-production between Belgium, Luxembourg, Israel, the Netherlands and France, was next to the main bird. The statuette was for ‘Flee’ by Jonas Poher Rasmussen. The animated film was also voted best documentary.
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