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.
Ten documentary festivals have suggested to the committee one film each which has had its world premiere at the respective festival’s latest edition. Chosen in co-operation with the European Documentary Network EDN, these festivals are:
- Cinéma du Réel (France)
- CPH:DOX (Denmark)
- Doclisboa (Portugal)
- DOK Leipzig (Germany)
- IDFA (Netherlands)
- Ji.hlava (Czech Republic)
- Krakow Film Festival (Poland)
- Sheffield Doc/Fest (UK)
- Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival (Greece)
- Visions du Réel (Switzerland)
Based on their recommendations and the films individually submitted, the documentary committee, consisting of EFA Board Member Ira von Gienanth (Germany), festival programmers Marek Hovorka (Czech Republic) and Elena Subirà i Roca (Spain), producer Nik Powell (UK) and commissioning editor Sari Volanen (Finland) decided on the EFA Documentary Selection.
EFA Members will now vote for five documentary nominations. Based on these nominations, the EFA Members will then elect the ‘European Documentary 2018’ which will be announced during the awards ceremony on 15 December in Seville.
 | A WOMAN CAPTURED Hungary, Germany DIRECTED BY Bernadett Tuza-Ritter PRODUCED BY Julianna Ugrin & Viki Réka | |
 | BERGMAN – A YEAR IN A LIFE BERGMAN - ETT ÅR ETT LIV Sweden, Norway DIRECTED BY Jane Magnusson PRODUCED BY Cecilia Nessen, Fredrik Heinig & Mattias Nohrborg | |
 | END OF LIFE Greece, USA DIRECTED BY Paweł Wojtasik & John Bruce PRODUCED BY Athina Tsangari & John Bruce | |
 | METEORS METEORLAR Netherlands, Turkey DIRECTED BY Gürcan Keltek PRODUCED BY Arda Çiltepe, Marc Van Goethem & Burak Çevik | |
 | OF FATHERS AND SONS Germany, Syria, Lebanon, Qatar DIRECTED BY Talal Derki PRODUCED BY Tobias Siebert, Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme & Hans Robert Eisenhauer | |
 | SAMOUNI ROAD Italy, France DIRECTED BY Stefano Savona PRODUCED BY Marco Alessi, Penelope Bortoluzzi & Cécile Lestrade | |
 | SRBENKA Croatia DIRECTED BY Nebojša Slijepčević PRODUCED BY Vanja Jambrović | |
 | TARZAN'S TESTICLES OUĂLE LUI TARZAN Romania, France DIRECTED BY Alexandru Solomon PRODUCED BY Ada Solomon, Cedric Bonin & Pascaline Geoffroy | |
 | THE DEAD NATION ȚARA MOARTĂ Romania DIRECTED BY Radu Jude PRODUCED BY Ada Solomon | |
 | THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS Denmark, Finland, Sweden DIRECTED BY Simon Lereng Wilmont PRODUCED BY Monica Hellström, Tobias Janson & Sami Jahnukainen | |
 | THE LUST FOR POWER MEČIAR Slovakia, Czech Republic DIRECTED BY Tereza Nvotová PRODUCED BY Zuzana Mistríková, Ľubica Orechovská, Tereza Polachová, Kateřina Černá & Pavel Strnad | |
 | THE OTHER SIDE OF EVERYTHING DRUGA STRANA SVEGA Serbia, France DIRECTED BY Mila Turajlic PRODUCED BY Mila Turajlic & Carine Chichkowsky | |
 | THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WALL AL OTRO LADO DEL MURO Spain, Mexico DIRECTED BY Pau Ortiz PRODUCED BY María Nova López | |
 | THE POETESS Germany, United Arab Emirates DIRECTED BY Stefanie Brockhaus & Andreas Wolff PRODUCED BY Andreas Wolff | |
 | THE SILENCE OF OTHERS Spain, USA DIRECTED BY Almudena Carracedo & Robert Bahar PRODUCED BY Almudena Carracedo & Robert Bahar | |