European Film Academy

directed by:Stephen Daldry
written by:David Hare
produced by: Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti & Redmond Morris
Director of photography: Chris Menges & Roger Deakins
Main cast:
Kate Winslet (Hanna Schmitz)
Ralph Fiennes (Michael Berg)
David Kross (young Berg)
Lena Olin (Rose Mather/Ilana Mather)
Bruno Ganz (Professor Rohl)
THE READER opens in post-WWII Germany when teenager Michael Berg becomes ill and is helped home by [...]

directed by: Yorgos Lanthimos
written by: Yorgos Lanthimos & Efthimis Filippou
produced by: Yorgos Tsourgiannis
Director of photography: Thimios Bakatakis
Main cast:
Christos Stergioglou (Father)
Michele Vallley (Mother)
Aggeliki Papoulia (Older Daughter)
Mary Tsoni (Younger Daughter)
Christos Passalis (Son)
Anna Kalaitzidou (Christina)
The father, the mother and their three kids live at the outskirts of a city. There is a tall fence surrounding the house. The [...]

directed by: Wolfgang Murnberger
written by: Wolf Haas, Josef Hader & Wolfgang Murnberger
produced by: Danny Krausz & Kurt Stocker
Director of photography: Peter von Haller
Main cast:
Josef Hader (Brenner)
Birgit Minichmayr (Birgit)
Josef Bierbichler (Löschenkohl)
Simon Schwarz (Berti)
Christoph Luser (Pauli)

Once again, something has happened. A man by the name of Horvath has vanished, and the only clue leads to the [...]

written & directed by: Michael Haneke
produced by: Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, Michael Katz, Margaret Menegoz & Andrea Occhipinti
Director of photography: Christian Berger
Main cast:
Christian Friedel (The Schoolteacher)
Leonie Benesch (Eva)
Ulrich Tukur (The Baron)
Ursina Lardi (Marie-Louise, The Baroness)
Burghart Klaußner (The Pastor)
Steffi Kühnert (Anna, his wife)
Josef Bierbichler (The Steward)
Gabriela Maria Schmeide (Emma, his wife)
Rainer Bock (The Doctor)
Susanne Lothar (Midwife)
A village in [...]

directed by:Arsen Anton Ostojic
written by:Mate Matisic
produced by: Jozo Patljak
Director of photography: Geir Branko Linta & Slobodan Trninic
Main cast:
Alen Liveric (Ivan)
Mustafa Nadarevic (Izidor)
Biserka Ipsa (Ana)
Zdenko Jelcic (Simo)
Goran Grgic (Inspector)
Ivan is a 36-year old ex-rock singer and a disillusioned war veteran who lost both legs in the recent Croatian Homeland War. His father, Izidor, was a well-known [...]

directed by Danny Boyle
written by Simon Beaufoy
produced by Christian Colson
Director of photography: Anthony Dod Mantle
Main cast:
Dev Patel (Jamal)
Frieda Pinto (Latika)
Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India’s ‘‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?’ Arrested on suspicion of cheating, [...]

written & directed by: Christian Petzold
produced by: Florian Koerner von Gustorf & Michael Weber
Director of photography: Hans Fromm
Main cast:
Benno Fürmann (Thomas)
Nina Hoss (Laura)
Hilmi Sözer (Ali)
JERICHOW tells the story of Thomas (Benno Fürmann) returning home and starting a dangerous love affair with Laura (Nina Hoss). When Laura’s husband Ali (Hilmi Sözer) figures out the truth, a [...]

written & directed by:Francesca Archibugi
produced by: Riccardo Tozzi, Giovanni Stabilini & Marco Chimenz
Director of photography: Fabio Zamarion
Main cast:
Antonio Albanese (Alberto)
Kim Rossi Stuart (Angelo)
Micaela Ramazzotti (Rossana)
Francesca Inaudi (Carla)
Alberto’s and Angelo’s “engines seized” on the same night.
Angelo is a young body shop owner from a very poor background who has done a bit of everything and finally [...]

written & directed by:Gianni di Gregorio
produced by: Matteo Garrone
Director of photography: Gian Enrico Bianchi
Main cast:
Gianni Di Gregorio (Gianni)
Valeria De Franciscis (Valeria)
Marina Cacciotti (Marina)
Maria Calì (Maria)
Grazia Cesarini Sforza (Grazia)
Luigi Marchetti (Vikingo)
Gianni is a middle-aged man, the only son of his widowed mother, with whom he lives in an old house in central Rome. Living under the tyranny [...]

directed by: Aku Louhimies
written by: Jari Olavi Rantala (screenplay), Leena Lander (novel)
produced by: Aleksi Bardy, Christoph Thoke, George Charalambides, Christine Ioannou & Nicholas Moutselos
Director of photography: Rane Ronkanen
Main cast:
Pihla Viitala (Miina Malin)
Samuli Vauramo (Aaro Harjula)
Eero Aho (Emil Hallenberg)
1918 - the Finnish Civil War has just ended. The victorious Whites hunt down the remainig socialist Reds.
One [...]

directed by: Alexey German Jr.
written by: Alexey German Jr., with the participation of Vladimir Arkusha & Julia Glezarova
produced by: Artem Vasiliev & Sergey Shumakov
Director of photography: Maxim Drozdov & Alisher Khamidkhodzhaev
Main cast:
Merab Ninidze (Dr. Daniel Pokrovsky)
Chulpan Khamatova (Nina)
Anastasia Sheveleva (Vera)
Kazakhstan, early 1961. Daniel Pokrovsky, a medical officer, currently works for the first Soviet cosmonauts’ troop. [...]

directed by: Mahmut Fazıl Coşkun
written by: Tarık Tufan, Görkem Yeltan & Bektaş Topaloğlu
produced by: Ismail Kılıçarslan, Tulin Çetinkol Soyarslan, Tarık Tufan & Mahmut Fazıl Coşkun
Director of photography: Refik Çakar
Main cast:
Nadir Saribacak (Musa)
Görkem Yeltan (Clara)
Ersan Uysal (Yakup)
The young muezzin Musa visits Istanbul for the first time in his life when he is assigned to a mosque in [...]

directed by:Martin Koolhoven
written by:Paul Jan Nelissen, Mieke de Jong & Martin Koolhoven
produced by: Els Vandevorst & San Fu Maltha
Director of photography: Guido van Gennep
Main cast:
Martijn Lakemeier (Michiel van Beusekom)
January 1945. The last winter of WW II. In Holland, the earth is frozen. In the western part there’s a shortage of fuel and food. In the [...]

directed by:Espen Sandberg & Joachim Rønning
written by:Thomas Nordseth-Tiller
produced by: John M. Jacobsen & Sveinung Golimo
Director of photography: Geir Hartly Andreassen
Main cast:
Aksel Hennie (Max Manus)
Nicolai Cleve Broch (Gregers Gram)
Agnes Kittelsen (Tikken Lindebraekke)
Christian Rubeck (Kolbein Lauring)
Knut Joner (Gunnar Soensteby)
Ken Duken (Kriminalrat Siegfried Fehmer)
The film starts at the Sala front in Finland in 1940. The 25-year-old Norwegian Max [...]

written & directed by: Andrea Arnold
produced by: Kees Kasander & Nick Laws
Director of photography: Robbie Ryan
Main cast:
Katie Jarvis (Mia)
Michael Fassbender (Connor)
Kristen Wareing (Joanne)
Rebecca Griffith (Tyler)
Harry Treadaway (Billy)
In FISH TANK, 15-year old Mia’s life is turned on its head when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.

written & directed by: Maren Ade
produced by: Janine Jackowski, Dirk Engelhardt & Maren Ade
Director of photography: Bernhard Keller
Main cast:
Birgit Minichmayr (Gitti)
Lars Eidinger (Chris)
On the surface, Chris and Gitti are lost in perfect amorous bliss during their getaway in Sardinia. But amidst their playful romps, secret rituals and silly habits belies an underlying tension. Full of [...]

written & directed by Goran Marković
produced by: Svetozar Cvetković & Tihomir Stanić
Director of photography: Radoslav Vladić
Main cast:
Tihomir Stanić (Stanislav)
Jelenda Djokić (Jadranka)
Dragan Nikolić (Miško)
Mira Furlan (Sonja)
Josif Tatić (Žaki)
Gordan Kičić (Lale)
Slavko Štimac (Djuro)
Sergej Trifunović (Panter’s leader)
1993, the bleakest time of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A group of actors from Belgrade, utterly unaware of what they’re setting [...]

directed by:Rune Denstad Langlo
written by:Erlend Loe
produced by: Sigve Endresen & Brede Hovland
Director of photography: Philip 0gaard
Main cast:
Anders Bas Mo (Jomar)
Kyrre Hellum (Lasse)
Marte Aunemo (Lotte)
Mads Sjogärd Pettersen (Ulrik )
Following a nervous breakdown, ski athlete Jomar has isolated himself in a lonely existence as the guard of a ski park. When he leams that he might be the [...]

directed by: Tomas Alfredson
written by: John Ajvide Lindqvist
produced by: John Nordling & Carl Molinder
Director of photography: Hoyte van Hoytema
Main cast:
Kåre Hedebrant (Oskar)
Lina Leandersson (Eli)
Per Ragnar (Håkan)
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN is a story both violent and highly romantic, set in the Stockholm suburb of Blackeberg in 1981. Oskar is 12 and being bullied. His sadistic [...]

written & directed by: Lance Daly
produced by: Macdara Kelleher
Director of photography: Jake Francis Grennan
Main cast:
Shane Curry (Dylan)
Kelly O Neill (Kylie)
Stephen Rea (Down Under Dylan)
Paul Roe (Da Dunne)
Neilí Conroy (Beatrice Dunne)
After a violent altercation with his father, Dylan runs away from home and Kylie decides to run away with him. Together they make their way to [...]