It is with great pleasure that the European Film Academy and EFA Productions announce the EFA Documentary Selection, a list of 15 European documentaries recommended for a nomination for this year's European Film Awards.
Nominated are:
| | 21 X NEW YORK 21 X NOWY JORK Poland 71 min. WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Piotr Stasik PRODUCED BY Agnieszka Wasiak
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| | A FAMILY AFFAIR Netherlands / Belgium 115 min. WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Tom Fassaert PRODUCED BY Wout Conijn
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| | A GERMAN LIFE EIN DEUTSCHES LEBEN Austria 113 min. DIRECTED BY Christian Krönes, Olaf S. Müller, Roland Schrotthofer & Florian Weigensamer WRITTEN BY Florian Weigensamer PRODUCED BY Roland Schrotthofer & Christian Krönes
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| | BECOMING ZLATAN DEN UNGE ZLATAN Sweden / Netherlands / Italy 95 min. DIRECTED BY Fredrik & Magnus Gertten WRITTEN BY Jesper Osmund, Fredrik Gertten & Magnus Gertten PRODUCED BY Margarete Jangård & Lennart Ström
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| | DÉJÀ VU Denmark 88 min. WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Jon Bang Carlsen PRODUCED BY Marianne Christensen & Jon Bang Carlsen
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| | EUROPE, SHE LOVES Switzerland / Germany 99 min. DIRECTED BY Jan Gassmann PRODUCED BY Lisa Blatter, Jan Gassmann, Andreas Hörl, Florian Schneider & Maren Lüthje
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| | FIRE AT SEA FUOCOAMMARE Italy / France 106 min. WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Gianfranco Rosi PRODUCED BY Donatella Palermo, Gianfranco Rosi, Serge Lalou, Camille Laemle, Roberto Cicutto, Paolo Del Brocco, Martine Saada & Olivier Pere
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| | HERR VON BOHLEN Germany 90 min. WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY André Schäfer PRODUCED BY Jonas Niewianda
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| | LOST AND BEAUTIFUL BELLA E PERDUTA Italy 87 min. DIRECTED BY Pietro Marcello WRITTEN BY Maurizio Braucci & Pietro Marcello PRODUCED BY Sara Fgaier & Pietro Marcello
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| | MALLORY Czech Republic 97 min. WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Helena Třeštíková PRODUCED BY Kateřina Černá & Pavel Strnad
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| | MR. GAGA Israel / Sweden / Germany / Netherlands 100 min. WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Tomer Heymann PRODUCED BY Barak Heymann
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| | THE EVENT СОБЫТИЕ (SOBYTIE) Netherlands / Belgium 74 min. WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Sergei Loznitsa PRODUCED BY Sergei Loznitsa, Maria Choustova & Nicola Mazzanti
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| | THE LAND OF THE ENLIGHTENED Belgium / Ireland / Netherlands / Germany 87 min. DIRECTED BY Pieter-Jan De Pue WRITTEN BY Pieter-Jan De Pue & David Dusa PRODUCED BY Bart Van Langendonck
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| | THE LONGEST RUN Ο ΠΙΟ ΜΑΚΡΥΣ ΔΡΟΜΟΣ (O PIO MAKRIS DROMOS) Greece 74 min. WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Marianna Economou PRODUCED BY Marianna Economou & Spiros Mavrogenis
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| | WE'LL BE ALRIGHT BREF MANUEL DE LIBERATION France 78 min. WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Alexander Kuznetsov PRODUCED BY Rebecca Houzel
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EFA Members will now vote for five documentary nominations. Based on these nominations, the EFA Members will then elect the ‘European Documentary 2016’ which will be announced during the awards ceremony on 10 December in Wroclaw, European Capital of Culture 2016.
Berlin, 16 August 2016