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Jacques Audiard’s genre-bending Emilia Pérez wins best film at European Film Awards
Musical also claims prizes for best director, screenplay, editing and best actress for Karla Sofía Gascón
At Saturday evening’s ceremony in the Swiss city of Lucerne, the veteran French film-maker won best film, best director and best screenplay prizes for his Spanish-language musical, about a Mexican cartel boss who has a sex-change operation and tries to make up for past crimes. The 37th edition of the EFAs were the last to be held in December, with the annual ceremony moving to the pre-awards season in January from 2026 – allowing distributors to streamline marketing campaigns and build up more of an intense buzz around select European titles. The best documentary prize went to No Other Land, in which Palestinian film-maker Basel Adra documents the Israeli military’s forced displacement of people from his native Masafer Yatta, a collection of villages in the West Bank.
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