The European Film Academy has announced this year’s nominations for the EUROPEAN DISCOVERY - Prix FIPRESCI, an award presented annually as part of the European Film Awards to a young and upcoming director for a first full-length feature film.

Winners in the past have included films like LEBANON by Samuel Maoz, HUNGER by Steve McQueen, THE BAND’S VISIT by Eran Kolirin, 13 TZAMETI by Gela Babluani, HUMAN RESSOURCES by Laurent Cantet, THE WAR ZONE by Tim Roth, THE CELEBRATION by Thomas Vinterberg and LA VIE DE JESUS by Bruno Dumont.

The five nominees for 2011 are Hans Van Nuffel’s Belgian-Dutch co-production OXYGEN about two brothers suffering an uncurable illness, Karl Markovics' Austrian juvenile delinquent drama BREATHING, Markus Schleinzer’s MICHAEL, the portrait of a pedophile, from Austria as well, Mikkel Munch-Fals’s Danish NOTHING’S ALL BAD, an inter-generational caleidoscope on sexuality and relationships and Nikola Ležaić’s Serbian teenage drama TILVA ROŠ.

The films nominated for EUROPEAN DISCOVERY 2011 - Prix FIPRESCI are

ADEM (Oxygen)
by Hans Van Nuffel
Belgium/the Netherlands, 96 min.

ATMEN
by Karl Markovics
Austria, 90 min.

MICHAEL
by Markus Schleinzer
Austria, 93 min.

SMUKKE MENNESKER (Nothing's All Bad),
by Mikkel Munch-Fals
Denmark, 93 min.

TILVA ROŠ
by Nikola Ležaić
Serbia, 95 min.

The nominated films will now be made available to all 2,500 members of the European Film Academy. They will vote for the winner who will be announced at the 24th European Film Awards on 3 December in Berlin.