13-09-2011

Central European Films Among EFA Nominees

By FNE Staff

    Eleven films from FNE member countries are represented among the 45 films nominated for the European Film Academy's European Film Awards, including a high number of coproductions.

    Bulgarian producer and film festival director Stefan Kitanov was among the five-member expert jury who selected the bulk of the films vying for the prize. Final nominations will be announced on 5 November 2011, and the awards ceremony will take place in Berlin on 3 December.

    The nominees from FNE countries follows:

    ALMANYA - WILLKOMMEN IN DEUTSCHLAND

    ALMANYA

    Germany/Turkey, 101 min.

    DIRECTED BY: Yasemin Samdereli

    WRITTEN BY: Yasemin Samdereli & Nesrin Samdereli

    PRODUCED BY: Andreas Richter, Ursula Woerner & Annie Brunner

    AVE
    Bulgaria, 86 min.

    DIRECTED BY: Konstantin Bojanov

    WRITTEN BY: Konstantin Bojanov & Arnold Barkus

    PRODUCED BY: Dimitar Gotchev, Geoffroy Grison & Konstantin Bojanov

    CIRKUS COLUMBIA

    Bosnia & Herzegovina/France/UK/Germany/Slovenia/Belgium, 113 min.

    DIRECTED BY: Danis Tanović

    WRITTEN BY: Danis Tanović & Ivica Dikic

    PRODUCED BY: Cedomir Kolar, Amra Baksic Camo, Marc Bachet & Mirsad Purivatra

    CIRKUS FANTASTICUS
    SILENT SONATA
    Slovenia/Ireland, 75 min.
    WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Janez Burger
    PRODUCED BY: Jožko Rutar

    ESSENTIAL KILLING

    Poland/Norway/Ireland/Hungary, 84 min.

    DIRECTED BY: Jerzy Skolimowski

    WRITTEN BY: Jerzy Skolimowski & Ewa Piaskowska

    PRODUCED BY: Ewa Piaskowska & Jerzy Skolimowski


    LIDICE

    Czech Republic, 123 min.

    DIRECTED BY: Petr Nikolaev

    WRITTEN BY: Zdeněk Mahler

    PRODUCED BY: Adam Dvořák & Tomas Vican

    LOVERBOY

    Romania, 93 min.

    DIRECTED BY: Cătălin Mitulescu

    WRITTEN BY: Cătălin Mitulescu, Bianca Oana & Bogdan Mustaţă

    PRODUCED BY: Daniel Mitulescu, Cătălin Mitulescu & Marcian Lazăr

    PŘEŽÍT SVŮJ ŽIVOT

    SURVIVING LIFE

    Czech Republic/Slovakia, 109 min.

    WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Jan Švankmajer

    PRODUCED BY: Jaromír Kallista

    SALA SAMOBÓJCÓW

    SUICIDE ROOM

    Poland, 110 min.

    WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Jan Komasa

    PRODUCED BY: Jerzy Kapuściński


    A TORINÓI LÓ

    THE TURIN HORSE

    Hungary/France/Switzerland/Germany, 146 min.

    DIRECTED BY: Béla Tarr

    WRITTEN BY: Béla Tarr & László Krasznahorkai

    PRODUCED BY: Gábor Téni, Marie-Pierre Macia, Juliette Lepoutre, Ruth Waldburger & Martin Hagemann


    DIE UNABSICHTLICHE ENTFÜHRUNG DER FRAU ELFRIEDE OTT

    THE UNINTENTIONAL KIDNAPPING OF ELFRIEDE OTT

    Austria, 112 min.

    DIRECTED BY: Andreas Prochaska

    WRITTEN BY: Uwe Lubrich, Alfred Schwarzenberger, Michael Ostrowski &, Andreas Prochaska

    PRODUCED BY: Danny Krausz & Kurt Stocker

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