European Film Academy

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 [...]

The European Film Academy (EFA) and the Asia Pacific Screen Academy (APSA) have today announced an alliance between the two organisations.
The first expression of the alliance will be participation on the 2011 APSA International Jury by Israeli director Samuel Maoz, member of the European Film Academy and the Asia Pacific Screen Academy.
EFA Director Marion Döring [...]

“It’s very nice to be complimented by Europe,” the British director says
Stephen Frears, director of films like DANGEROUS LIAISONS, THE HI-LO COUNTRY and THE QUEEN will receive this year’s EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD for his outstanding and dedicated body of work.
“I don’t know what to say,” Frears said over the telephone. Having already [...]

With this year’s final nomination having just been announced at the International Short Film Festival in Drama (Greece), the list of the nominated short films is now complete. The short film initiative is organised by the European Film Academy in co-operation with a series of film festivals throughout Europe. At each of these festivals, an [...]

The European Film Academy (EFA) and the International Short Film Festival in Drama congratulate the
Drama Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2011
THE WHOLLY FAMILY
by Terry Gilliam
Italy, 20 min., fiction
The film is now nominated for the award European Film Academy Short Film 2011. It was selected by the festival’s international jury, chaired [...]

The European Film Academy proudly announces the three nominations in the category EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY ANIMATED FEATURE FILM 2011.
A committee consisting of EFA Board Members Per Holst (producer, Denmark) and Antonio Saura (producer, Spain) as well as representatives of CARTOON, the European Association of Animation Film, Patrick Caradec (France), Heikki Jokinen (Finland), and Thilo Rothkirch [...]

It is with great pleasure that the European Film Academy and EFA Productions announce the titles of the 45 films on this year’s selection list, the list of films recommended for a nomination for the European Film Awards 2011! With 32 countries represented, the list once again illustrates the great diversity in European cinema.
In the [...]

The European Film Academy (EFA) and the Venice International Film Festival congratulate the
Venice Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2011
HYPERCRISIS
by Josef Dabernig
Austria, 17 min., fiction
The film is now nominated for the award European Film Academy Short Film 2011. It was selected by the Orizzonti Jury of the 68th Venice Film Festival, chaired [...]

VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE EUROPEAN FILM AND WIN A TRIP TO THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS IN BERLIN!
Every year, the EFA People’s Choice Award allows film fans across Europe to elect their favourite film. When the European Film Academy invites its members, Europe’s greatest film stars, directors, actors and actresses, to attend the European Film Awards, [...]

The European Film Academy (EFA) and the Festival del film Locarno congratulate the
Locarno Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2011
OPOWIESCI Z CHLODNI (Frozen Stories)
by Grzegorz Jaroszuk
Poland 2011, 26 min., fiction
In a grotesque way, the film shows the deep loneliness of two outsiders and their attempt to escape from their previous lives. [...]

The European Film Academy (EFA) and the Sarajevo Film Festival congratulate the
Sarajevo Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2011
OUT (Tse)
by Roee Rosen
Israel 2010, 35 min.
A dominance & submission trashing scene. But in this session, the painful blows cause the sub to spew out sentences - all of which are quotes from Israel’s minister [...]