It is with great pleasure that the European Film Academy and EFA Productions announce the first ever EFA Documentary Selection, a list of 15 European documentaries recommended for a nomination for this year’s European Film Awards.
The change follows a decision by the EFA Board to “acknowledge the growing importance of European documentary cinema,” says Israeli producer Marek Rozenbaum, EFA Board Member on the documentary committee, “there is a growing number of excellent documentaries which have to be seen by the members.”
Another change is the involvement of ten documentary festivals that recommended to the committee up to three films each which have had their world premiere at the respective festival’s latest edition. Chosen in co-operation with the European Documentary Network EDN, these festivals are:
• IDFA (the Netherlands)
• CPH:DOX (Denmark)
• Visions du Réel (Switzerland)
• DOK Leipzig (Germany)
• Docslisboa (Portugal)
• Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival (Greece)
• Jihlava (Czech Republic)
• Cinéma du Réel (France)
• Krakow Film Festival (Poland)
• Sheffield Doc/Fest (UK)
Based on their recommendations and the films individually submitted, the documentary committee, consisting of EFA Board Members Roberto Cicutto (Italy), Nadine Luque(Spain), Marek Rozenbaum (Israel) and Ada Solomons (Romania) and documentary expert Paul Pauwels (European Documentary Network, Belgium) decided on the EFA Documentary Selection.
EFA Members will now vote for five documentary nominations. Based on these nominations, the EFA Members will, as in the past, elect the ‘European Documentary 2015’ which will be announced during the awards ceremony on 12 December in Berlin.
For more information on the films and a complete list of the award categories: www.europeanfilmawards.
EFA DOCUMENTARY SELECTION |
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| A SYRIAN LOVE STORY UK, 76 min. DIRECTED BY: Sean McAllister |
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| ABOVE AND BELOW Switzerland/Germany, 118 min. WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Nicolas Steiner |
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| ALL THINGS ABLAZE ВСЕ ПАЛАЄ Ukraine, 81 min. DIRECTED BY: Oleksandr Techynskyi, Aleksey Solodunov & Dmitry Stoykov |
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| AMY UK, 127 min. DIRECTED BY: Asif Kapadia |
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| BOXING FOR FREEDOM Spain, 74 min WRITTEN, DIRECTED & PRODUCED BY: |
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| DANCING WITH MARIA Italy/Argentina/Slovenia, 75 min. WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Ivan Gergolet |
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| DEMOCRATS Denmark, 99 min. WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Camilla Nielsson |
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| DRIFTER Hungary/Germany, 72 min. DIRECTED BY: Gábor Hörcher |
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| ELECTROBOY Switzerland, 113 min. WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Marcel Gisler |
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| GOOD THINGS AWAIT SÅ MEGET GODT I VENTE Denmark, 96 min. WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Phie Ambo |
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| GROZNY BLUES Switzerland, 104 min. DIRECTED BY: Nicola Bellucci |
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| NO LAND´S SONG Germany/France, 93 min. WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Ayat Najafi |
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| THE GOOD LIFE LA BUENA VIDA Germany/Switzerland, 97 min. WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Jens Schanze |
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| THE LOOK OF SILENCE Denmark/Norway/Indonesia, 99 min. DIRECTED BY: Joshua Oppenheimer |
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| TOTO AND HIS SISTERS TOTO SI SURORILE LUI Romania/Hungary, 93 min. WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Alexander Nanau |
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