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WISHING AND HOPING
Speech by Lord David Puttnam, Berlin, 30 November 2007

A KISS FOR THE WORLD Wins Prix UIP Valladolid

The Nominations for the 20th European Film Awards

EUROPE ON THE MOVE - Migration in Movies
EFA Conference provides platform for exchange about the (cultural) realities in multi-cultural societies

THE APOLOGY LINE Wins Prix UIP Cork 2008
Corona Cork Film Festival, October 2007

Meeting of the Short Film Nominees
Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent, October 2007

Norwegian TOMMY Wins in Norway
The Norwegian Short Film Festival, June 2007

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Prix UIP Cracow
Krakow Film Festival
May/June 2008

A Sunday in the Country
details tba, on invitation only

EFA Master Class 2008
AT THE CUTTING EDGE
the creative use of digital technology for editing
with Hervé Schneid
5 - 11 June 2008
Berlin / Germany

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A KISS FOR THE WORLD Wins Prix UIP Valladolid

At the Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid, Cyril Paris won the Prix UIP Valladolid for his short UN BISOU POUR LE MONDE (France, 2007). The film is now automatically nominated for the European Film Awards 2008.

EFA's Bettina Schwarz with the winner Cyril Paris

The Nominations for the 20th European Film Awards

At the Seville European Film Festival, the European Film Academy and EFA Productions announced the nominations for the 20th European Film Awards. [The full list if nominations]

Spanish actor/screenwriter/producer Juanjo Puigcorbé, Alfredo Sanchez Monteseirin (the mayor of Seville) and EFA Director Marion Döring
Picture: Colo Vasco

THE APOLOGY LINE Wins Prix UIP Cork 2008
Corona Cork Film Festival, October 2007

At the Corona Cork Film Festival, James Lees, here with EFA's Bettina Schwarz, the famous red envelope, and with Felicity Sparrow and Dieter Wieczorek, both members of the jury, won the Prix UIP for his film THE APOLOGY LINE. The film is now nominated for the European Film Awards 2008.

Meeting of the short film nominees
Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent, October 2007

On invitation by UIP, the European Film Academy and the Flanders International Film Festival, the short film nominees met in Ghent where their films were presented in a special screening in their presence and the directors had the opportunity to meet, watch each others' films and discuss. The EFA Members will now watch all nominated shorts and elect the overall winner.

Norwegian TOMMY Wins in Norway
The Norwegian Short Film Festival, June 2007

At the Norwegian Short Film Festival in Grimstad, another short film joined the nominees for the European Film Awards 2007: TOMMY by Ole Giæver. The international jury selected the “very Scandinavian film which works for its sarcastic and undercurrent sense of humour.”

TOMMY tells the story of Arild and Kjell who meet by chance up in the mountains. Kjell is the father of a former classmate of Arild. They haven’t seen each other for twenty years. Things become rather unpleasant when Kjell confronts Arild with controversial incidents form the past.

Prix UIP Cracow for DAD
Krakow Film Festival, June 2007

Daniel Mulloy won the Prix UIP Cracow 2007 for his film DAD, telling the story of an older couple having sex. Their adult son is listening to the sounds next door. Maybe he is jealous of his parents’ closeness. Himself, he is doomed to watch porno films. Hopelessly lonely, he tries to spoil their moments of happiness.

The winner was selected by the International Jury consisting of Andrzej Żuławski, Jean-Pierre Berckmans, Claas Danielsen, Sayoko Kinoshita and Sergei Loznitsa.

Short Waves
Short Film Panel at Berlinale Talent Campus, February 2007