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Published by European Film Awards
Aug 21, 2016
  The European Film Awards are presented in 15 categories and take place in Berlin every second year.Every year, the various activities of the European Film Academy culminate in the ceremony...

EFA Selects 15 Documentaries

 

 

 

 

 

15 Documentaries Selected

It is with great pleasure that the European Film Academy and EFA Productions announce the EFA Documentary Selection, a list of 15 European documentaries recommended for a nomination for this year's European Film Awards. 

Ten documentary festivals have recommended to the committee one film each which has had its world premiere at the respective festival’s latest edition. Chosen in co-operation with the European Documentary Network EDN, these festivals are:

•    IDFA (Netherlands)

•    CPH:DOX (Denmark)

•    Visions du Réel (Switzerland)

•    DokLeipzig (Germany)

•    Docslisboa (Portugal)

•    Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival (Greece)

•    Jihlava (Czech Republic)

•    Cinéma du Réel (France)

•    Krakow Film Festival (Poland)

•    Sheffield Doc/Fest (UK) 

Based on their recommendations and the films individually submitted, the documentary committee, consisting of EFA Board Members Vanessa Henneman (Netherlands), Roberto Cicutto (Italy), and Marek Rozenbaum (Israel), documentary filmmaker Alexander Nanau (Romania) and documentary expert Paul Pauwels (European Documentary Network, Belgium) decided on the EFA Documentary Selection.  

EFA Members will now vote for five documentary nominations. Based on these nominations, the EFA Members will then elect the ‘European Documentary 2016’ which will be announced during the awards ceremony on 10 December in Wroclaw, European Capital of Culture 2016. 

For more information on the films and a complete list of the award categories: www.europeanfilmawards.eu  

EFA DOCUMENTARY SELECTION 2016

21 X NEW YORK 

21 X NOWY JORK


Poland

71 min. 



WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Piotr Stasik

PRODUCED BY Agnieszka Wasiak

A FAMILY AFFAIR 

Netherlands / Belgium

115 min.



WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Tom Fassaert

PRODUCED BY Wout Conijn 

A GERMAN LIFE

EIN DEUTSCHES LEBEN


Austria

113 min.

 

DIRECTED BY Christian Krönes, Olaf S. Müller, Roland Schrotthofer & Florian Weigensamer

WRITTEN BY Florian Weigensamer

PRODUCED BY Roland Schrotthofer & Christian Krönes

BECOMING ZLATAN 

DEN UNGE ZLATAN


Sweden / Netherlands / Italy

95 min.

 

DIRECTED BY Fredrik & Magnus Gertten

WRITTEN BY Jesper Osmund, Fredrik Gertten & Magnus Gertten 

PRODUCED BY Margarete Jangård & Lennart Ström

DÉJÀ VU

Denmark

88 min.



WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Jon Bang Carlsen

PRODUCED BY Marianne Christensen & Jon Bang Carlsen

EUROPE, SHE LOVES 

Switzerland / Germany

99 min.

 

DIRECTED BY Jan Gassmann

PRODUCED BY Lisa Blatter, Jan Gassmann, Andreas Hörl, Florian Schneider & Maren Lüthje

FIRE AT SEA

FUOCOAMMARE


Italy / France

106 min.

 

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Gianfranco Rosi

PRODUCED BY Donatella Palermo, Gianfranco Rosi, Serge Lalou, Camille Laemle, Roberto Cicutto, Paolo Del Brocco, Martine Saada & Olivier Pere

HERR VON BOHLEN 

Germany

90 min.

 

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY André Schäfer

PRODUCED BY Jonas Niewianda

LOST AND BEAUTIFUL 

BELLA E PERDUTA


Italy

87 min.



DIRECTED BY Pietro Marcello

WRITTEN BY Maurizio Braucci & Pietro Marcello 

PRODUCED BY Sara Fgaier & Pietro Marcello

MALLORY 

Czech Republic

97 min.

 

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Helena Třeštíková

PRODUCED BY Kateřina Černá & Pavel Strnad

MR. GAGA 

Israel / Sweden / Germany / Netherlands

100 min.

 

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Tomer Heymann

PRODUCED BY Barak Heymann

THE EVENT 

СОБЫТИЕ
 (SOBYTIE)

Netherlands / Belgium

74 min.

 

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Sergei Loznitsa

PRODUCED BY Sergei Loznitsa, Maria Choustova & Nicola Mazzanti

THE LAND OF THE ENLIGHTENED 

Belgium / Ireland / Netherlands / Germany

87 min.



DIRECTED BY Pieter-Jan De Pue

WRITTEN BY Pieter-Jan De Pue & David Dusa

PRODUCED BY Bart Van Langendonck

THE LONGEST RUN 

Ο ΠΙΟ ΜΑΚΡΥΣ ΔΡΟΜΟΣ
 (O PIO MAKRIS DROMOS)

Greece

74 min.

 

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Marianna Economou

PRODUCED BY Marianna Economou & Spiros Mavrogenis

WE'LL BE ALRIGHT 

BREF MANUEL DE LIBERATION


France

78 min.

 

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Alexander Kuznetsov

PRODUCED BY Rebecca Houzel

 

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