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34th European Film Awards
Berlin

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The European Film Academy increases membership by 30% in 5 years

Significant growth in Central Europe, the Baltic States as well as in Eastern and Southeastern European countries

The European Film Academy is proud to welcome 770 renowned film professionals as new members, who will be eligible to vote for the European Film Awards. The names of all new members have been announced on today’s Europe Day, 9 May 2025. New members are invited once per year. With a rapid growth in membership from 2020, a new record of European filmmakers has accepted membership in 2025, further strengthening the support for European cinema.

The European Film Academy has seen a fast growth of members in the past 5 years with 30% of its current membership having joined in that period. Especially in Central and Eastern European countries, as well as in the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), and in Southeastern European and Caucasus countries such as Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Moldova, Romania, and Turkey. Also, countries including Belarus, Cyprus, Montenegro, Slovenia, and Ukraine saw their number of members double or sometimes triple.

Among the new members, 51% are men, 48% are women, and 1% defines as non-binary. In total, new members from 52 countries joined the European Film Academy.

With 21%, more than a fifth of the new members joining are under 36 years old. This strengthens the representation of a younger, yet notable generation of European filmmakers within the European Film Academy. Overall, an increasing number of members representing the arts and crafts of cinema have been invited to strengthen the chapters newly created this year. In the upcoming years, the European Film Academy is keen to further increase the number of members working as casting directors, cinematographers, composers, costume designers, editors, make-up & hair artists, production designers, sound designers, and VFX supervisors.

New members of the European Film Academy include among others from Austria: Veronika Franz, Johanna Moder, from Belgium: Leonardo van Dijl, from Bulgaria: Martina Apostolova, Konstantin Bojanov, from Croatia: Nataša Dorčić, Vanja Juranić, from France: Zar Amir, Pan Nalin, Caroline Poggi, Lina Soualem, Wissam Tanios, from Germany: Maren Ade, Fatih Akin, Paula Beer, Maren Eggert, Popo Fan, Sara Fazilat, Christian Friedel, Leonard Grobien, Sibel Kekilli, Jerry Kwarteng, Ayse Polat, Franz Rogowski, Devid Striesow, Lea Wohl von Haselberg, Soleen Yusef, from Greece: Melia Kreiling (Greece/USA), Tonia Sotiropoulou, from Hungary: Kata Dobó, from Israel: Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, from Italy: Francesca Andreoli, Isabella Rossellini, from Lithuania: Saulius Baradinskas from Netherlands: Evalotte Oosterop, Mark de Cloe, from Norway: Renate Reinsve, Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, from Palestine: Annemarie Jacir, from Poland: Filip Marczewski, from Romania: Olimpia Melinte, from Serbia: Marina Cosic Mirković, from Slovenia: Katarina Čas, from Spain: Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren, Isabel Herguera, from Sweden: Frida Gustavsson, Noomi Rapace, Magnus von Horn, from Switzerland: Ramon Zürcher, Basil da Cunha, from Turkey: Burak Dakak, Demet Evgâr, Mehmet Günsür (Turkey/Italy), Ercan Kesal, Nejat İşler, Melisa Sözen, Leyla Tanlar, Selin Yeninci, from UK: Ann Akinjirin, Tom Blyth, Efe Cakarel (UK/Turkey), Stephen Daldry, Eliot Sumner, Maria Tanjala, Joshua Tedeku, from Ukraine: Maryna Vroda, from USA: Tricia Tuttle.

Among the new members of the European Film Academy are Romani filmmakers as well as Sámi filmmakers, stemming from the Roma and indigenous populations in various European countries, including Greenland. Currently, the European Film Academy has 5,400 members in 57 countries.

These are all newly accepted members of the European Film Academy.

The members of the European Film Academy are bound by a collective sense of European cultural identity and a dedication to celebrating the diversity and richness of European filmmaking. All members can register to vote every year for the European Film Awards and by doing so get access to the European Film Academy shortlisted films, from which nominations and award winners are chosen. Additionally, the Academy organises events throughout the year, both in-person or online, that help members to connect to each other. Throughout the year, special “Underscore” film programmes on the Academy VOD Platform promote European films, all exclusively accessible to registered members. Building a European film community of filmmakers, and by doing so growing interest and accessibility of European cinema to a community of film lovers, is a major driving force of the European Film Academy throughout the year.

Since 2024, Juliette Binoche has been the President of the European Film Academy. Originally, the Academy was founded in 1988 by renowned European filmmakers such as Ingmar Bergman, Pedro Almodóvar, Liliana Cavani, Claude Chabrol, Federico Fellini, Isabelle Huppert, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Giulietta Masina, Marcello Mastroianni, David Puttnam, Hanna Schygulla, István Szabó, Liv Ullmann, and Wim Wenders – and was limited to a maximum of 99 members. Since the 1990s, the number of members has gradually increased, and has seen a steep rise since 2020 with 30%.