Six Debut Films Nominated

The European Film Academy congratulates the nominees for the EUROPEAN DISCOVERY 2019 – Prix FIPRESCI, an award presented annually as part of the European Film Awards to a director for a first full-length feature film.

This year’s nominations were determined by a committee comprised of EFA Board Members Mike Goodridge (UK) and Valérie Delpierre (Spain), festival programmer Azize Tan (Turkey) as well as film critics Marta Balaga (Finland), Robbie Eksiel (Greece) and Michael Pattison (UK) as representatives of FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics.

NOMINATED ARE

		ANIARA Sweden, Denmark WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Pella Kagerman & Hugo Lilja PRODUCED BY Annika Rogell
		ATLANTICS ATLANTIQUE France, Senegal, Belgium DIRECTED BY Mati Diop WRITTEN BY Mati Diop & Olivier Demangel PRODUCED BY Judith Levy
		BLIND SPOT BLINDSONE Norway, Denmark WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Tuva Novotny PRODUCED BY Elisabeth Kvithyll
		IRINA Bulgaria DIRECTED BY Nadejda Koseva WRITTEN BY Nadejda Koseva, Svetoslav Ovcharov &  Bojan Vuletic PRODUCED BY Stefan Kitanov
		LES MISÉRABLES France DIRECTED BY Ladj Ly WRITTEN BY Ladj Ly, Giordano Gederlini & Alexis Manenti PRODUCED BY Christophe Barral & Toufik Ayadi
		RAY & LIZ UK WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Richard Billingham PRODUCED BY Jacqui Davies

The nominated films will soon be submitted to the more than 3,600 EFA Members to elect the winner. The European Discovery 2019 – Prix FIPRESCI will then be presented at the 32^nd European Film Awards Ceremony on Saturday, 7 December, in Berlin.

full list of nominations