European Film Academy
Founded in 1988, the European Film Academy now unites more than 2,500 European film professionals with the common aim of promoting Europe’s film culture.
La European Film Academy réunit 2500 professionnels du cinéma dans le but de promouvoir la culture cinématographique européenne.
Die European Film Academy vereint über 2.500 europäische Filmschaffende mit dem gemeinsamen Ziel, die Filmkultur Europas zu fördern.
European cinema has lost one of its most passionate and prolific filmmakers: Theo Angelopoulos. We mourn this sudden and unexpected loss of a great companion and EFA founding member.
(Picture: Andreas Böhmig/EFA)
The more than 2,500 members of the European Film Academy - filmmakers from across Europe - have voted for this year’s European Film Awards. At the awards ceremony in Berlin the following awards were presented:
EUROPEAN FILM 2011:
MELANCHOLIA, Denmark/Sweden/France/Germany
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Lars von Trier
PRODUCED BY: Meta Louise Foldager & Louise Vesth
EUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2011:
Susanne Bier for [...]
When actors, directors and producers, nominees and winners, presenters, Members of the European Film Academy and guests arrive in ŠKODA cars at the red carpet for the 24th European Film Awards, the Tempodrom’s tented roof will shine in red above the centre of Berlin.
While guests check in, enjoy a drink and watch the arrivals on [...]
Prix EURIMAGES goes to producer from Spain
The winner of the fifth edition of the EUROPEAN CO-PRODUCTION AWARD - Prix EURIMAGES, an award acknowledging the decisive role of co-productions in the European film industry, was announced this weekend in the framework of the Seville European Film Festival in Spain.
This year’s prize will go to an outstanding [...]
At the Seville European Film Festival the European Film Academy and EFA Productions announced the nominations for the European Film Awards 2011. The more than 2,500 EFA Members will now vote for the winners which will be presented during the awards ceremony on 3 December in Berlin.
Nominated are:
EUROPEAN FILM 2011
THE ARTIST, France
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: [...]
When the 24th European Film Awards return to Berlin on 3 December, there will be an impressive line-up of European filmmakers presenting the individual awards, among them EFA Ambassadors Maria de Medeiros (Portugal), Moritz Bleibtreu (Germany), and Maciej Stuhr (Poland). They will be joined by German actresses Karoline Herfurth, Nina Hoss, Sibel Kekilli, Alexandra Maria [...]
Danish actor accepts “with great humbleness and a big smile”
In recognition of a unique contribution to the world of film the European Film Academy takes great pleasure in presenting Mads Mikkelsen with the honorary award EUROPEAN ACHIEVEMENT IN WORLD CINEMA 2011.
Ever since his debut in Nicolas Winding Refn’s crime films PUSHER (1996) and PUSHER II [...]
The European Film Academy proudly announces the nominations in the category EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY DOCUMENTARY 2011 – PRIX ARTE. A committee consisting of Nik Powell, director of the NFTS and deputy chairman of the EFA Board, EFA Board Member Despina Mouzaki (Greece), EFA Member Francine Brücher (Switzerland), the documentary experts Claas Danielsen (International Leipzig Festival [...]
The European Film Academy has announced the nominations for the EUROPEAN DISCOVERY 2011 - Prix FIPRESCI, an award presented annually as part of the European Film Awards to a young and upcoming director for a first full-length feature film. This year’s nominations were determined by a committee comprised of observer Yves Marmion (EFA Chairman, France), [...]
A Sunday in the Country in Rozbitek (Poland), 23 - 26 September 2011
On what must have been one of the last warm weekends of the year, a group of young members of the European film community – filmmakers and composers – headed east towards the venue of this year’s SUNDAY IN THE COUNTRY: The nineteenth-century [...]
