When the 24th European Film Awards return to Berlin on 3 December, there will be an impressive line-up of European filmmakers presenting the individual awards, among them EFA Ambassadors Maria de Medeiros (Portugal), Moritz Bleibtreu (Germany), and Maciej Stuhr (Poland). They will be joined by German actresses Karoline Herfurth, Nina Hoss, Sibel Kekilli, Alexandra Maria Lara and Heike Makatsch and their colleagues Zrinka Cvitesic (Croatia), Irène Jacob (Switzerland), Ludivine Sagnier and Sylvie Testud (both France) and Paz Vega (Spain) as well as German actors August Diehl and Alexander Fehling (Shooting Star 2011) and their colleagues Merab Ninidze from Georgia, Ulrich Thomsen from Denmark and cinematographer Peter Suschitzky (UK), for many years the director of photography for films by David Cronenberg.

The 1,000 guests – winners, nominees and EFA Members – will gather at the Tempodrom, a spectacular venue near Potsdamer Platz, its big arena under a 30m high dome. They will once again be welcomed by German comedy star Anke Engelke who will lead through the evening as the show’s host.

Among the guests this year will also be the German State Minister for Culture and the Media Bernd Neumann and the Austrian Minister for Education, Arts and Culture Claudia Schmied, EFA President Wim Wenders and the recipients of the honorary awards Stephen Frears and Mads Mikkelsen.