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51 Feature Films Selected for European Film Awards...Nominees & Winners...

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It is with great pleasure that the European Film Academy and EFA Productions announce the titles of the 51 films on this year’s EFA Feature Film Selection, the list of feature fiction films recommended for a nomination for the European Film Awards 2017! With 31 European countries represented, the list once again illustrates the great diversity in European cinema.

In the coming weeks, the over 3,000 members of the European Film Academy will vote for the nominations in the categories European Film, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenwriter. The nominations will then be announced on 4 November at the Seville European Film Festival in Spain. A seven-member jury will decide on the awards recipients in the categories European Cinematographer, Editor, Production Designer, Costume Designer, Hair & Make-up Artist, Composer and Sound Designer.

The 30th European Film Awards with the presentation of the winners will take place on 9 December in Berlin.

check out the selected films
including trailers, synopses and directors' biographies here!

EFA SELECTION 2017

 

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  A CIAMBRA
Italy, USA, France, Sweden
120 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Jonas Carpignano
PRODUCED BY Jon Coplon
     
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  A DATE FOR MAD MARY
Ireland
82 min
DIRECTED BY Darren Thornton
WRITTEN BY Darren Thornton & Colin Thornton
PRODUCED BY Ed Guiney & Juliette Bonass
     
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  A GENTLE CREATURE
КРОТКАЯ (KROTKAYA)
France, Germany, Lithuania, Netherlands
143 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Sergei Loznitsa
PRODUCED BY Marianne Slot
     
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  A JEW MUST DIE
UN JUIF POUR L'EXEMPLE
Switzerland
73 min
DIRECTED BY Jacob Berger
WRITTEN BY Jacob Berger, Aude Py & Michel Fessler
PRODUCED BY Ruth Waldburger
     
    A MONSTER CALLS
Spain
107 min
DIRECTED BY J.A. Bayona
WRITTEN BY Patrick Ness
PRODUCED BY Belén Atienza, Ghislain Barrois & Álvaro Augustín
     
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  AFTERIMAGE
POWIDOKI
Poland
100 min
DIRECTED BY Andrzej Wajda
WRITTEN BY Andrzej Mularczyk
PRODUCED BY Michał Kwieciński
     
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  ANA, MON AMOUR
Romania, Germany, France
125 min
DIRECTED BY Călin Peter Netzer
WRITTEN BY Călin Peter Netzer, Cezar Paul Bădescu & Iulia Lumânare
PRODUCED BY Călin Peter Netzer & Oana Iancu
     
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  BIG BIG WORLD
KOCA DÜNYA
Turkey
101 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Reha Erdem
PRODUCED BY Ömer Atay
     
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  BPM (BEATS PER MINUTE)
120 BATTEMENTS PAR MINUTE
France
145 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Robin Campillo
PRODUCED BY Marie-Ange Luciani & Hugues Charbonneau
     
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  BRIGHT SUNSHINE IN
UN BEAU SOLEIL INTÉRIEUR
France
94 min
DIRECTED BY Claire Denis
WRITTEN BY Claire Denis & Christine Angot
PRODUCED BY Olivier Delbosc
     
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  BRIMSTONE
Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France, Sweden, UK, Hungary
148 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Martin Koolhoven
PRODUCED BY Els Vandevorst & Uwe Schott
     
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  FORTUNATA
Italy
103 min
DIRECTED BY Sergio Castellitto
WRITTEN BY Margaret Mazzantini
PRODUCED BY Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima, Carlotta Calori & Viola Prestieri
     
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  FRANTZ
France, Germany
117 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY François Ozon
PRODUCED BY Eric Altmayer, Nicolas Altmayer, Stefan Arndt & Uwe Schott
     
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  FROST
Lithuania, France, Poland, Ukraine
120 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Sharunas Bartas
PRODUCED BY Janja Kralj
     
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  GODLESS
БЕЗБОГ (BEZBOG)
Bulgaria, Denmark, France
99 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Ralitza Petrova
PRODUCED BY Rossitsa Valkanova, Eva Jakobsen & Laurence Clerc
     
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  HAPPY END
France, Germany, Austria
107 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Michael Haneke
PRODUCED BY Margaret Menegoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka & Michael Katz
     
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  HEARTSTONE
HJARTASTEINN
Iceland, Denmark
129 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
PRODUCED BY Anton Máni Svansson, Lise Orheim Stender, Jesper Morthorst & Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
     
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  HOME
Belgium
103 min
DIRECTED BY Fien Troch
WRITTEN BY Fien Troch & Nico Leunen
PRODUCED BY Antonino Lombardo
     
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  ICE MOTHER
BÁBA Z LEDU
Czech Republic, Slovakia, France
106 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Bohdan Sláma
PRODUCED BY Pavel Strnad & Petr Oukropec
     
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  IN TIMES OF FADING LIGHT
IN ZEITEN DES ABNEHMENDEN LICHTS
Germany
101 min
DIRECTED BY Matti Geschonneck
WRITTEN BY Wolfgang Kohlhaase
PRODUCED BY Oliver Berben & Sarah Kirkegaard
     
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  INDIVISIBLE
INDIVISIBILI
Italy
104 min
DIRECTED BY Edoardo De Angelis
WRITTEN BY Nicola Guaglianone, Barbara Petronio, Edoardo De Angelis
PRODUCED BY Attilio De Razza & Pierpaolo Verga
     
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  INSYRIATED
Belgium, France
86 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Philippe Van Leeuw
PRODUCED BY Guillaume Malandrin
     
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  ISTANBUL RED
ISTANBUL KIRMIZISI
Turkey, Italy
110 min
DIRECTED BY Ferzan Ozpetek
WRITTEN BY Ferzan Ozpetek, Gianni Romoli & Valia Santella
PRODUCED BY Tilde Corsi, Gianni Romoli & Necati Akpinar
     
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  JUPITER'S MOON
JUPITER HOLDJA
Hungary, Germany
123 min
DIRECTED BY Kornél Mundruczó
WRITTEN BY Kata Wéber
PRODUCED BY Viktória Petrányi, Michael Weber, Viola Fügen & Michel Merkt
     
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  LADY MACBETH
UK
89 min
DIRECTED BY William Oldroyd
WRITTEN BY Alice Birch
PRODUCED BY Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly
     
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  LAYLA M.
Netherlands, Jordan, Belgium, Germany
98 min.
DIRECTED BY Mijke de Jong
WRITTEN BY Jan Eilander & Mijke de Jong
PRODUCED BY Frans van Gestel, Arnold Heslenfeld & Laurette Schillings
     
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  LOVELESS
НЕЛЮБОВЬ (NELYUBOV)
Russia, Belgium, Germany, France
127 min
DIRECTED BY Andrey Zvyagintsev
WRITTEN BY Oleg Negin & Andrey Zvyagintsev
PRODUCED BY Alexander Rodnyansky, Sergey Melkumov & Gleb Fetisov
     
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  MY GRANDMOTHER FANNY KAPLAN
МОЯ БАБУСЯ ФАНІ КАПЛАН (MOYA BABUSYA FANI KAPLAN)
Ukraine
110 min
DIRECTED & PRODUCED BY Olena Demyanenko
WRITTEN BY Dmytro Tomashpolskiy & Olena Demyanenko
     
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  ON BODY AND SOUL
TESTRŐL ÉS LÉLEKRŐL
Hungary
116 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Ildikó Enyedi
PRODUCED BY Mónika Mécs, András Muhi & Ernö Mesterházy
     
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  PARADISE
РАЙ (RAI)
Russia, Germany
131 min
DIRECTED BY Andrei Konchalovsky
WRITTEN BY Andrei Konchalovsky & Elena Kiseleva
PRODUCED BY Andrei Konchalovsky & Florian Deyle
     
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  REQUIEM FOR MRS. J.
REKVIJEM ZA GOSPOĐU J.
Serbia, Bulgaria, FYR Macedonia, Russia, France
94 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Bojan Vuletić
PRODUCED BY Nenad Dukić
     
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  RETURN TO MONTAUK
Germany, France, Ireland
105 min
DIRECTED BY Volker Schlöndorff
WRITTEN BY Volker Schlöndorff & Colm Tóibìn
PRODUCED BY Regina Ziegler, Volker Schlöndorff, Francis Boespflug, Sidonie Dumas, Hartmut Köhler, Stéphane Parthenay, Conor Barry, Til Schweiger, Tom Zickler, Marc Gabizon, Christoph Liedke, John Keville, Mike Downey, Sam Taylor & Rainer Kölmel
     
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  SAMI BLOOD
SAMEBLOD
Sweden, Denmark, Norway
110 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Amanda Kernell
PRODUCED BY Lars G Lindström
     
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  SON OF SOFIA
O GIOS TIS SOFIAS
Greece, Bulgaria, France
111 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Elina Psykou
PRODUCED BY Giorgos Karnavas & Konstantinos Kontovrakis
     
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  SPOOR
POKOT
Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, Sweden, Slovakia
128 min
DIRECTED BY Agnieszka Holland & Katarzyna Adamik
WRITTEN BY Olga Tokarczuk & Agnieszka Holland
PRODUCED BY Krzysztof Zanussi, Janusz Wąchała, Johannes Rexin, Pavla Janoušková Kubečková, Tomáš Hrubý, Fredrik Zander & Jakub Viktorín
     
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  STEFAN ZWEIG - FAREWELL TO EUROPE
VOR DER MORGENRÖTE
Germany, Austria, France
106 min
DIRECTED BY Maria Schrader
WRITTEN BY Maria Schrader & Jan Schomburg
PRODUCED BY Stefan Arndt, Uwe Schott, Pierre-Olivier Bardet, Denis Poncet, Danny Krausz & Kurt Stocker
     
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  SUMMER 1993
ESTIU 1993
Spain
96 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Carla Simón
PRODUCED BY Valérie Delpierre
     
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  THE CONSTITUTION
USTAV REPUBLIKE HRVATSKE
Croatia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, FYR Macedonia
93 min
DIRECTED BY Rajko Grlić
WRITTEN BY Ante Tomić & Rajko Grlić
PRODUCED BY Ivan Maloča, Mike Downey, Rudolf Biermann, Maja Vukić, Dejan Miloševski, Jani Sever & Sam Taylor
     
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  THE FURY OF A PATIENT MAN
TARDE PARA LA IRA
Spain
88 min
DIRECTED BY Raúl Arévalo
WRITTEN BY Raúl Arévalo & David Pulido
PRODUCED BY Beatriz Bodegas
     
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  THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER
Ireland, UK
121 min.
DIRECTED BY Yorgos Lanthimos
WRITTEN BY Yorgos Lanthimos & Efthimis Filippou
PRODUCED BY Ed Guiney & Yorgos Lanthimos
     
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  THE KING'S CHOICE
KONGENS NEI
Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Ireland
130 min
DIRECTED BY Erik Poppe
WRITTEN BY Jan Trygve Røyneland & Harald Rosenløw Eeg
PRODUCED BY Finn Gjerdrum & Stein B. Kvae
     
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  THE LAST FAMILY
OSTATNIA RODZINA
Poland
123 min
DIRECTED BY Jan P. Matuszyński
WRITTEN BY Robert Bolesto
PRODUCED BY Leszek Bodzak & Aneta Hickinbotham
     
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  THE NOTHING FACTORY
A FÁBRICA DE NADA
Portugal
177 min
DIRECTED BY Pedro Pinho
WRITTEN BY Pedro Pinho, João Matos, Luisa Homem, Leonor Noivo & Tiago Hespanha
PRODUCED BY João Matos
     
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  THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE
TOIVON TUOLLA PUOLEN
Finland, Germany
100 min
WRITTEN, DIRECTED & PRODUCED BY Aki Kaurismäki
     
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  THE PARTY
UK
71 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Sally Potter
PRODUCED BY Christopher Sheppard
     
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  THE SQUARE
Sweden, Germany, France, Denmark
145 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Ruben Östlund
PRODUCED BY Erik Hemmendorff & Philippe Bober
     
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  THE TEACHER
UČITEĽKA
Slovakia, Czech Republic
103 min
DIRECTED BY Jan Hřebejk
WRITTEN BY Petr Jarchovský
PRODUCED BY Zuzana Mistríková, Ľubica Orechovská, Ondřej Zima & Jan Prušinovský
     
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  TOM OF FINLAND
Finland, Germany, Sweden, Denmark
116 min
DIRECTED BY Dome Karukoski
WRITTEN BY Aleksi Bardy
PRODUCED BY Aleksi Bardy, Annika Sucksdorff & Miia Haavisto
     
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  WESTERN
Germany, Bulgaria, Austria
119 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Valeska Grisebach
PRODUCED BY Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Maren Ade, Valeska Grisebach & Michel Merkt
     
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  WILD MOUSE
WILDE MAUS
Austria
103 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Josef Hader
PRODUCED BY Michael Katz & Veit Heiduschka
     
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  YOU DISAPPEAR
DU FORSVINDER
Denmark, Sweden
117 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Peter Schønau Fog
PRODUCED BY Louise Vesth

The winners are...

EUROPEAN FILM
The Square, dir: Ruben Ostlund

EUROPEAN DISCOVERY – PRIX FIPRESCI
Lady Macbeth, dir: William Oldroyd

EUROPEAN COMEDY
The Square, dir: Ruben Ostlund

EUROPEAN ACTRESS
Alexandra Borbely, On Body And Soul

EUROPEAN ACTOR
Claes Bang, The Square

EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY
Communion, dir: Anna Zamecka

EUROPEAN DIRECTOR
Ruben Ostlund, The Square

EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER
Ruben Ostlund, The Square

EUROPEAN ANIMATED FEATURE
Loving Vincent, dirs: Dorota Kobiela & Hugh Welchman

EUROPEAN SHORT FILM
Timecode, dir: Juanjo Gimenez

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED
EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER
Michail Krichman, Loveless

EUROPEAN COMPOSER
Evgueni & Sacha Galperine, Loveless

EUROPEAN EDITOR
Robin Campillo, BPM

EUROPEAN PRODUCTION DESIGNER
Josefin Åsberg, The Square

EUROPEAN COSTUME DESIGNER
Katarzyna Lewińska, Spoor

EUROPEAN HAIR & MAKE-UP ARTIST
Leendert van Nimwegen, Brimstone

EUROPEAN SOUND DESIGNER
Oriol Tarragó, A Monster Calls

EUROPEAN CO-PRODUCTION AWARD
Cedomir Kolar

EUROPEAN ACHIEVEMENT IN WORLD CINEMA
Julie Delpy

EFA LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Aleksandr Sokurov

EFA PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD
Stefan Zweig – Farewell To Europe, dir: Maria Schrader