The EFA People’s Choice Award allows film fans across Europe to elect their favourite film. Every year, when the European Film Academy invites its members, Europe’s greatest film stars, directors, producers, cinematographers, screenwriters, designers, but also industry representatives and the in [...]

As announced at the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland, the fiction short DIARCHIA (Diarchy) has been selected by the festival’s international jury for a nomination for the 23rd European Film Awards. There are now thirteen short films already nominated for European Film Academy Sho [...]

On invitation by the Perth International Arts Festival and the Goethe Institute Australia, EFA Director Marion Döring visited Australia for a series of screenings and presentations. In Perth, Sydney and Melbourne, she introduced screenings of the EFA SHORT MATTERS! Programme, the short films nomina [...]

This year’s European Film Awards took place in Bochum, not Berlin, and in an industrial monument, not a gala hall. On Saturday evening, the 1,400 guests at the 22nd European Film Awards were driven up to the lavishly lit former gas power station of Bochum’s steel mills, the Jahrhunderthalle (Cen [...]

EUROPEAN FILM 2009: DAS WEISSE BAND (The White Ribbon) Germany/Austria/France/Italy written and directed by Michael Haneke produced by Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, Michael Katz, Margaret Menegoz & Andrea Occhipinti EUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2009: Michael Haneke for DAS WEISSE BAND (The White R [...]

When the doors open for the 22nd European Film Awards on Saturday, 12 December, the world of European cinema will step onto the red carpet at the spectacular venue of the Jahrhunderthalle in Bochum. Winners, nominees and EFA Members - altogether 1,400 guests will be welcomed by German comedy star AN [...]

This year’s EFA CRITICS’ AWARD - Prix FIPRESCI goes to Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda for TATARAK (Sweet Rush). The award is presented annually by the European Film Academy and FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics, as part of the European Film Awards. Based on a short story [...]

At the 22nd European Film Awards the European Film Academy will present an honorary award to Ken Loach. Having begun his career in British television, Ken Loach made his first film for cinema, POOR COW, in 1967. His breakthrough came with KES (1970) and FAMILY LIFE (1971). Ever since he has estab [...]

Sevilla, 7 November At the Sevilla European Film Festival, the European Film Academy and EFA Productions announced the nominations for the 22nd European Film Awards. Leading the field are A PROPHET, Jacques Audiard’s French prison drama with six nominations, and SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, Danny Boyle [...]

There’s a new kid on the block – and it’s animated! For the first time the European Film Academy will present an award in the category EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY ANIMATED FEATURE FILM in this year’s European Film Awards. A jury consisting of EFA Board Members Per Holst (producer, Denmark) and [...]

This year’s documentary award goes to Peter Liechti’s unique study of a suicide, the film THE SOUND OF INSECTS – Record of a Mummy. The decision was made by an independent jury composed of documentary filmmaker Nino Kirtadzé (France/Georgia), Austrian producer and ORF editor Franz Grabner, an [...]

When the lights go down for the 22nd European Film Awards Ceremony on 12 December, the 1,400 guests will be welcomed by German comedy star ANKE ENGELKE, the host of the evening. The charming and multi-talented comedienne is known in the international film world for hosting the opening of the Berlin [...]