EFA 2010: Selection Announced

46 films, 32 countries

As announced by the European Film Academy and EFA Productions and already published on the European Film Awards website, there are 46 films in this year’s EFA Selection, the list of films recommended for a nomination for the European Film Awards 2010. With 32 countries represented, the list once again illustrates the great diversity of European cinema. The selected films also cover a wide range of genres and themes from comedies about families, restaurants or burials to dramas about childhood, prison life or prostitution, from political thrillers, film essays, and historical epics to a 5½-hour terrorist biopic.

The 20 countries with the most EFA members have voted one national film directly into the selection list. To complete the list, a Selection Committee, consisting of EFA board members and invited experts Gunnar Bergdahl (Sweden), Pierre-Henri Deleau (France), Stefan Kitanov (Bulgaria), Derek Malcolm (UK) and Nikolaj Nikitin (Germany), has included further films.

The EFA Selection 2010


3 SEASONS IN HELL/3 SEZÓNY V PEKLE
by Tomáš Mašin
Czech Republic, 110 mins.

4 BLACK SUITS/TESSERA MAVRA KOUSTOUMIA
by Renos Haralambidis
Greece, 90 mins.

ADRIENN PÁL/PÁL ADRIENN
Ágnes Kocsis
Hungary, 136 mins.

ANOTHER YEAR
by Mike Leigh
UK, 129 min.

THE AVIATRIX OF KAZBEK/DE VLIEGENIERSTER VAN KAZBEK
by Ineke Smits
the Netherlands/Georgia, 104 min.

BAD FAMILY/PAHA PERHE
by Aleksi Salmenperä
Finland, 95 mins.

CARLOS
by Olivier Assayas
France/Germany, 318 mins.

CELL 211/CELDA 211
by Daniel Monzón
Spain/France, 114 mins.

THE CONCERT/LE CONCERT
by Radu Mihaileanu
France, 122 mins.

DONKEY/KENJAC
by Antonio Nuić
Croatia, 94 mins.

FILM SOCIALISM/FILM SOCIALISME
by Jean-Luc Godard
Switzerland, 102 mins.

THE FIRST BEAUTIFUL THING/LA PRIMA COSA BELLA
by Paolo Virzi
Italy, 116 mins.

THE GHOST WRITER
by Roman Polanski
France/Germany/UK, 128 mins.

HONEY/BAL
by Semih Kaplanoğlu
Turkey/Germany, 103 mins.

HONEYMOONS
by Goran Paskaljevic
Serbia/Albania, 95 mins.

HOW I ENDED THIS SUMMER/Как я провел этим летом (KAK YA PROVEL ETIM LETOM)
by Alexei Popogrebsky
Russia, 124 mins.

I, DON GIOVANNI/I0, DON GIOVANNI
by Carlos Saura
Austria/Italy/Spain, 120 mins.

IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE/EU CAND VREAU SA FLUIER, FLUIER
by Florin Serban
Romania, 94 mins.

JULIA’S DISAPPEARANCE/GIULIAS VERSCHWINDEN
by Christoph Schaub
Switzerland, 87 mins.

KAWASAKI’S ROSE/KAWASAKIHO RŮŽE
by Jan Hřebejk
Czech Republic, 95 mins.

LEBANON
by Samuel Maoz
Israel, 94 mins.

LOOSE CANNONS/MINE VAGANTI
by Ferzan Ozpetek
Italy, 116 mins.

LOURDES
by Jessica Hausner
Austria/France/Germany, 99 mins.

MAMMA GÓGÓ
by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
Iceland, 88 mins.

THE MAN WHO WILL COME/L’UOMO CHE VERRÀ
by Giorgio Diritti
Italy, 117 mins.

MY JOY/Cчастье моё (SCHASTYE MOYE)
by Sergei Loznitsa
Germany/Ukraine/the Netherlands, 127 mins.

MY QUEEN KARO
by Dorothée van den Berghe
Belgium/the Netherlands, 101 mins.

NOTHING PERSONAL
by Urszula Antoniak
the Netherlands, Ireland, 85 mins.

NOWHERE BOY
by Sam Taylor-Wood
UK, 98 mins.

OF GODS AND MEN/DES HOMMES ET DES DIEUX
by Xavier Beauvois
France, 120 mins.

ON THE PATH/NA PUTU
by Jasmila Žbanić
Bosnia & Herzegovina/Austria/Germany/Croatia, 100 mins.

ON TOUR/TOURNÉE
by Mathieu Amalric
France, 111 mins.

ONDINE
by Neil Jordan
Ireland, 111 mins.

OUR LIFE/LA NOSTRA VITA
by Daniele Luchetti
Italy, 98 min.

THE ROBBER/DER RÄUBER
by Benjamin Heisenberg
Austria/Germany, 96 mins.

THE REVERSE/REWERS
by Borys Lankosz
Poland, 101 mins.

SEBBE
by Babak Najafi
Sweden, 80 mins.

THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES/EL SECRETO DE SUS OJOS
by Juan José Campanella
Spain/Argentina, 129 mins.

SLOVENIAN GIRL/SLOVENKA
by Damjan Kozole
Slovenia, 90 mins.

SOUL KITCHEN
by Fatih Akin
Germany, 99 mins.

SUBMARINO
by Thomas Vinterberg
Denmark, 110 mins.

TAMARA DREWE
by Stephen Frears
UK, 111 mins.

THE TEMPTATION OF ST.TONY/PÜHA TÕNU KIUSAMINE
by Veiko Õunpuu
Estonia, 114 mins.

UPPERDOG
by Sara Johnsen
Norway, 95 mins.

VOICE OVER/ZAD KADAR
by Svetoslav Ovcharov
Bulgaria, 107 mins.

WHEN WE LEAVE/DIE FREMDE
by Feo Aladag
Germany, 119 mins.

In the coming weeks, the 2,300 members of the European Film Academy will vote for the nominations in the different award categories. The nominations will then be announced on 6 November at the Sevilla European Film Festival in Spain. The 23rd European Film Awards honouring the winners will then take place in Tallinn, Estonia on 4 December. For full details of this year's European Film Awards selection, please click here.