Association for the Promotion of Romanian Film announces the 19th edition of Gopo Awardsthe annual event that celebrates and rewards the achievements of Romanian cinema. The gala that brings together actors, directors, producers and stars every year will take place Tuesday, April 29, 2025in Bucharest. 38 feature films, fiction films and documentaries released in cinemas during 2024 meet the eligibility criteria and will be able to be judged and nominated for the 2025 Gopo Awards.
The organizers also announce the opening of the call for entries for the documentary and short film categories, the deadline for entries being February 7, 2025.
Eligible films for the 2025 Gopo Awards
Romanian films produced in Romania or made in a co-production regime, but with majority Romanian participation, which had their national premiere during January 1 – December 31, 2024 and which have benefited from at least one week of broadcast in cinema halls, with ticket access, as well as those which premiered on a streaming platform, will be judged by 11 professionals from the cinema industry, who will make up the jury Gopo Awards 2024. Nominations will be announced in March.
One of the most talked about films of 2024, the feature film The New Year that was not (dir. Bogdan Mureșanu) is on the list of eligible productions for the title The best Romanian film. Awarded in the Orizzonti section in Venice, but also in Cairo or Palm Springs, Bogdan Mureșanu’s debut attracted the attention of international critics, but also of the Romanian public. The list of eligible films also includes the production Three kilometers to the end of the world (dir. Emanuel Pârvu), selected in the Official Competition at Cannes 2024, where it received the Queer Palm award. The film won the grand prize at the 2024 Sarajevo Film Festival and was Romania’s proposal for Best Foreign Film at the Oscars. Holy Week (dir. Andrei Cohn) had its international premiere in the Forum section at the Berlinale, and Doru Bem, the actor in the lead role, was awarded in Sarajevo for his performance. The film inspired by a novel by IL Caragiale is eligible for the Gopo Awards. And one of the most visible Romanian documentaries of the past year – Nasty (r. Tudor Giurgiu, Cristian Pascariu, Tudor D. Popescu) – is on this list. Ilie Năstase’s career story had a special screening at Cannes 2024. Titles include Where the elephants go (dir. Gabi Virginia Șarga and Cătălin Rotaru) selected in the Official Competition of TIFF 2024, or the last part of Stere Gulea’s trilogy – Murometii 3. The list is completed by films such as Tati Part-Time (r. Letitia Rosculeț), Buzz House: The Movie (Florin Babai) or The perfect candidate (r. Alex Coteț).
Registration of documentaries and short films
For the category Best Documentary Film (only in the case of films that did not benefit from screenings in cinemas for more than a week) it is necessary to register Romanian films that had their premiere during the year 2024 and that did not benefit from broadcast in the cinema circuit, but were shown on TV or in the festival circuit (national or international). Television reports are not eligible for the documentary film category.
For the category Best Short Film Romanian productions that premiered on the big screens, on TV or in at least one competitive festival (national or international) during the year 2024 are eligible. For them to be considered by the jury that will decide the nominations, it is mandatory registration by producers.
The jury that will determine the nominations for the categories Best Documentary Film and Best Short Film is composed of 5 professionals in the field (2 film critics and 3 members representing various guilds of the film industry: directors, producers, actors, cinematographers, screenwriters, etc.)
Enrollments take place during the period 15 January 2025 – 7 February 2025.
Producers and filmmakers from Romania are invited to complete technical sheet available online.
Nominations in all categories will be determined in March. After the announcement of the nominations, over 650 active professionals from all fields of the domestic film industry will be invited to vote for the designation of the winners of the Gopo 2025 trophies, through a voting mechanism provided by the prestigious auditing and consulting firm PwC Romania, partner of Gopo Awards since 2011.
Photo credit: Milută Flueraș
Gopo Awards Gala 2025 is organized by the Association for the Promotion of Romanian Film, with the support of the National Cinema Center and Babel Communications.
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