European Film Awards Reveals First Wave Of Feature & Documentary Hopefuls For 2021

Ammonite, Apples, Promising Young Woman, Supernova, The Dig, The Father and The Mauritanian are among the first wave of movies recommended by a European Film Awards committee for nomination at this year’s event.

A record number of movies have been suggested by the committee this year in light of the pandemic disruption. More than 40 films have been revealed today — features and docs — with more set to be revealed in September.

The feature films have been selected by a committee of the Academy Board and a range of European industry professionals. The documentary films have been selected by EFA Board Members Graziella Bildesheim (institutional/Italy) and Ada Solomon (producer/Romania), Katja Gauriloff (director, screenwriter/Finland), Kathrin Kohlstedde (festival programmer/Germany), Veton Nurkollari (artistic director/Kosovo), Orwa Nyrabia (artistic director/The Netherlands, Syria), Rada Šešić (festival programmer and filmmaker/Bosnia & Herzegovina/The Netherlands), Rajesh Thind (writer, producer and director/UK) and Ana Vicente (sales agent/UK).

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Today the European Film Academy has also launched a new VOD platform for its members.

Nominations will be made public on 9 November 2021 during the Seville European Film Festival in Spain and the 34th European Film Awards will take place in Berlin on 11 December 2021.

EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS FEATURE FILM SELECTION 2021 – PART 1

200 METERS
Israel, Italy, Sweden
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Ameen Nayfeh
PRODUCED BY Francesco Melzi d’Eril & May Odeh

AMMONITE
United Kingdom
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Francis Lee
PRODUCED BY Iain Canning, Emile Sherman & Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly

AND TOMORROW THE ENTIRE WORLD
UND MORGEN DIE GANZE WELT

Germany
DIRECTED BY Julia von Heinz
WRITTEN BY Julia von Heinz & John Quester
PRODUCED BY Fabian Gasmia & Julia von Heinz

APPLES
MILA

Greece, Poland, Slovenia
DIRECTED BY Christos Nikou
WRITTEN BY Christos Nikou & Stavros Raptis
PRODUCED BY Iraklis Mavroedis, Nikos Smpiliris, Angelos Venetis, Aris Dagios, Christos Nikou, Mariusz Włodarski, Ales Pavlin & Andrej Stritof

ASSANDIRA
Italy
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Salvatore Mereu
PRODUCED BY Elisabetta Soddu & Salvatore Mereu

BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN
BABARDEALĂ CU BUCLUC SAU PORNO BALAMUC

Romania, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, Croatia
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Radu Jude
PRODUCED BY Ada Solomon, Paul Thiltges, Adrien Chef, Jiří Konečný & Ankica Jurić Tilić

BEGINNING
France, Georgia
DIRECTED BY Dea Kulumbegashvili
WRITTEN BY Dea Kulumbegashvili & Rati Oneli
PRODUCED BY Ilan Amouyal, David Zerat, Rati Oneli & Paul Rozenberg

BROTHER’S KEEPER
OKUL TIRAŞI

Turkey, Romania
DIRECTED BY Ferit Karahan
WRITTEN BY Ferit Karahan & Gulistan Acet
PRODUCED BY Kanat Dogramaci & Alexander Craciun

CONFERENCE
KONFERENTSIYA

Russia, Estonia, United Kingdom, Italy
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Ivan Tverdovskiy
PRODUCED BY Katerina Mikhaylova, Konstantin Fam & Egor Odintsov

DEAR COMRADES!
DOROGIE TOVARISHCHI!

Russia
DIRECTED BY Andrei Konchalovsky
WRITTEN BY Andrei Konchalovsky & Elena Kiseleva
PRODUCED BY Andrei Konchalovsky & Alisher Usmanov

FABIAN – GOING TO THE DOGS
FABIAN ODER DER GANG VOR DIE HUNDE

Germany
DIRECTED BY Dominik Graf
WRITTEN BY Constantin Lieb & Dominik Graf
PRODUCED BY Felix von Boehm, Marc Schmidheiny, Christoph Daniel & Wiebke Andresen

FOREST – I SEE YOU EVERYWHERE
RENGETEG – MINDENHOL LÁTLAK

Hungary
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Bence Fliegauf
PRODUCED BY Monika Mécs, Ernő Mesterházy & Bence Fliegauf

GAZA MON AMOUR
France, Germany, Portugal, Palestine
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Arab Nasser & Tarzan Nasser
PRODUCED BY Rani Massalha & Marie Legrand

HAMMAMET
Italy
DIRECTED BY Gianni Amelio
WRITTEN BY Gianni Amelio & Alberto Taraglio
PRODUCED BY Agostino Saccà & Maria Grazia Saccà

HERE WE ARE
HINE ANACHNU

Israel, Italy
DIRECTED BY Nir Bergman
WRITTEN BY Dana Idisis
PRODUCED BY Eitan Mansuri, Jonathan Doweck & Marica Stocchi

HIVE
ZGJOI

Kosovo, Switzerland, North Macedonia, Albania
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Blerta Basholli
PRODUCED BY Yll Uka, Valon Bajgora & Agon Uka

I’M YOUR MAN
ICH BIN DEIN MENSCH

Germany
DIRECTED BY Maria Schrader
WRITTEN BY Jan Schomburg & Maria Schrader
PRODUCED BY Lisa Blumenberg

LUZZU
Malta
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Alex Camilleri
PRODUCED BY Rebecca Anastasi & Ramin Bahrani

NATURAL LIGHT
TERMÉSZETES FÉNY

Hungary, Germany, Latvia, France
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Dénes Nagy
PRODUCED BY Sára László & Marcell Gerő

NEVER GONNA SNOW AGAIN
ŚNIEGU JUŻ NIGDY NIE BĘDZIE

Poland, Germany
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Małgorzata Szumowska & Michał Englert
PRODUCED BY Mariusz Włodarski, Agnieszka Wasiak, Viola Fügen, Michael Weber, Małgorzata Szumowska & Michał Englert

NIGHT OF THE KINGS
LA NUIT DES ROIS

France, Ivory Coast, Canada, Senegal
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Philippe Lacôte
PRODUCED BY Delphine Jaquet, Yanick Létourneau, Ernest Kona & Yoro Mbaye

NOWHERE SPECIAL
Italy, Romania, United Kingdom
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Uberto Pasolini
PRODUCED BY Uberto Pasolini, Roberto Sessa & Cristian Nicolescu

OASIS
OAZA

Serbia, Slovenia, Netherlands, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Ivan Ikić
PRODUCED BY Milan Stojanović & Marija Stojanović

PETITE MAMAN
France
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Céline Sciamma
PRODUCED BY Bénédicte Couvreur

PLEASURE
Sweden, Netherlands, France
DIRECTED BY Ninja Thyberg
WRITTEN BY Ninja Thyberg & Peter Modestij
PRODUCED BY Erik Hemmendorff, Eliza Jones, Markus Waltå, Leontine Petit, Erik Glijnis, Frédéric Fiore, Eric Tavitian, Peter Possne & Anna Croneman

PREPARATIONS TO BE TOGETHER FOR AN UNKNOWN PERIOD OF TIME
FELKÉSZÜLÉS MEGHATÁROZATLAN IDEIG TARTÓ EGYÜTTLÉTRE

Hungary
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Lili Horvát
PRODUCED BY Péter Miskolczi, Dóra Csernátony & Lili Horvát

PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
United States
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Emerald Fennell
PRODUCED BY Emerald Fennell, Josey McNamara, Ben Browning & Ashley Fox

QUO VADIS, AIDA?
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Netherlands, France, Poland, Norway, Germany, Romania, Turkey
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Jasmila Žbanić
PRODUCED BY Damir Ibrahimović & Clément Chautant

RIDERS OF JUSTICE
RETFÆRDIGHEDENS RYTTERE

Denmark, Sweden
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Anders Thomas Jensen
PRODUCED BY Sisse Graum Jørgensen & Sidsel Hybschmann

SUPERNOVA
United Kingdom
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Harry Macqueen
PRODUCED BY Tristan Goligher & Emily Morgan

THE BELLY OF THE SEA
EL VENTRE DEL MAR

Spain
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Agustí Villaronga
PRODUCED BY Javier Perez Santana & Cesc Mulet

THE DIG
United Kingdom
DIRECTED BY Simon Stone
WRITTEN BY Moira Buffini
PRODUCED BY Gaby Tana

THE FAM
LA MIF

Switzerland
WRITTEN, DIRECTED & PRODUCED BY Fred Baillif

THE FATHER
United Kingdom, France
DIRECTED BY Florian Zeller
WRITTEN BY Florian Zeller & Christopher Hampon
PRODUCED BY Philippe Carcassonne, Jean-Louis Livi & David Parfitt

THE GIRL AND THE SPIDER
DAS MÄDCHEN UND DIE SPINNE

Switzerland
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Ramon Zürcher & Silvan Zürcher
PRODUCED BY Aline Schmid & Adrian Blaser

THE MACALUSO SISTERS
LA SORELLE MACALUSO

Italy
DIRECTED BY Emma Dante
WRITTEN BY Emma Dante, Elena Stancanelli & Giorgio Vasta
PRODUCED BY Marica Stocchi

THE MAURITANIAN
United Kingdom, United States, South Africa
DIRECTED BY Kevin Macdonald
WRITTEN BY M. B. Traven, Rory Haines & Sohrab Noshirvani
PRODUCED BY Adam Ackland, Leah Clarke, Lloyd Levin & Beatriz Levin

THE WHALER BOY
KITOBOY

Russia, Poland, Belgium
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Philipp Yuryev
PRODUCED BY Aleksey Uchitel, Radoslawa Bardes & Marion Hänsel

TOVE
Finland, Sweden
DIRECTED BY Zaida Bergroth
WRITTEN BY Eeva Putko
PRODUCED BY Andrea Reuter & Aleksi Bardy

WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY?
RAS VKHEDAVT, RODESAC CAS VUKUREBT?

Germany, Georgia
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Alexandre Koberidze
PRODUCED BY Mariam Shatberashvili, Ketevan Kipiani, Anna Dziapshipa & Luise Hauschild

EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS DOCUMENTARY FILM SELECTION 2021

A NEW SHIFT
NOVÁ ŠICHTA
Czech Republic
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Jindřich Andrš
PRODUCED BY Miloš Lochman, Augustina Micková & Karel Chvojka

A SONG CALLED HATE
Iceland
WRITTEN, DIRECTED & PRODUCED BY Anna Hildur Hildibrandsdóttir

ALL-IN
Belgium, Netherlands, France
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Volkan Üce
PRODUCED BY Emmy Oost, Magalie Dierick, Olivia Sophie van Leeuwen, Samuel Feller & Valérie Montmartin

BABI YAR. CONTEXT
Netherlands, Ukraine
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Sergei Loznitsa
PRODUCED BY Maria Choustova & Ilya Khrzhanovskiy

FLEE
FLUGT
Denmark, France, Sweden, Norway
DIRECTED BY Jonas Poher Rasmussen
WRITTEN BY Jonas Poher Rasmussen & Amin Nawabi
PRODUCED BY Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen, Charlotte De La Gournerie, Jean-François Le Corre, Mathieu Courtois, Charlotte Most & Maria Ekerhovd

GORBACHEV. HEAVEN
GORBAČOVS. PARADĪZE
Latvia, Czech Republic
DIRECTED BY Vitaly Manskiy
WRITTEN BY Alexander Gelman & Vitaly Manskiy
PRODUCED BY Natalia Manskaia, Filip Remunda & Vít Klusák

LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES
France, Turkey, Germany
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Ahmet Necdet Çupur
PRODUCED BY Delphine Morel, Nadir Öperli & Anke Petersen

MR BACHMANN AND HIS CLASS
HERR BACHMANN UND SEINE KLASSE
Germany
DIRECTED & PRODUCED BY Maria Speth

TAMING THE GARDEN
Switzerland, Germany, Georgia
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Salomé Jashi
PRODUCED BY Vadim Jendreyko, Erik Winker, Martin Roelly & Salomé Jashi

THE BANALITY OF GRIEF
Denmark
WRITTEN, DIRECTED & PRODUCED BY Jon Bang Carlsen

THE FIRST 54 YEARS – AN ABBREVIATED MANUAL FOR MILITARY OCCUPATION
France, Germany, Finland, Israel
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Avi Mograbi
PRODUCED BY Camille Laemlé, Serge Lalou, Avi Mograbi, Heino Deckert, Leila Lyytikäinen, Fabrice Puchault, Anne Grolleron & Annie Ohayon-Deckel

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOY IN THE WORLD
Sweden
DIRECTED BY Kristina Lindström & Kristian Petri
PRODUCED BY Stina Gardell

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER
Germany, Finland
DIRECTED BY Antonia Kilian
WRITTEN BY Antonia Kilian, Guevara Namer & Arash Asadi
PRODUCED BY Frank Müller, Antonia Kilian & Guevara Namer

THIS RAIN WILL NEVER STOP
Ukraine, Latvia, Germany, Qatar
DIRECTED BY Alina Gorlova
WRITTEN BY Alina Gorlova & Maksym Nakonechnyi
PRODUCED BY Maksym Nakonechnyi, Ilona Bicevska & Patrick Hamm

WE
NOUS

France
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Alice Diop
PRODUCED BY Sophie Salbot

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