The European Film Academy and EFA Productions gathered to proclaim the 46 films for official selection in this year’s Feature Film section. A diverse bunch for sure, with 31 European nations being represented by these films.
From here, the chosen committee will vote for the nominations – to be announced on 9th November 2019. That committee is not just made up of the 3,600 on the EFA Board, but also further expert invitees, including festival programmers from Italy, Germany, Spain, Russia, Lithuania and France.
The 32nd European Film Awards winners will be announced in Berlin on 7 December. In the meantime, have a look at the 46 feature films in consideration here:
“I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS” / “IMI ESTE INDIFERENT DACA IN ISTORIE VOM INTRA CA BARBARI”
Romania, Czech Republic (Radu Jude)
A TALE OF THREE SISTERS / KIZ KARDESLER
Turkey, Germany, The Netherlands, Greece (Emin Alper)
A TWELVE-YEAR NIGHT / LA NOCHE DE 12 AÑOS
Spain, France (Alvaro Brechner)
A WHITE, WHITE DAY / HVÍTUR, HVÍTUR DAGUR
Iceland, Denmark (Hlynur Pálmason)
ALL GOOD / ALLES IST GUT
Germany (Eva Trobisch)
AND THEN WE DANCED / DA CHVEN VITSEKVET
Sweden, Georgia, France (Levan Akin)
BY THE GRACE OF GOD / GRÂCE À DIEU
France (François Ozon)
BAD POEMS / ROSSZ VERSEK
Hungary, France (Gábor Reisz)
BEANPOLE / ДЫЛДА
Russia (Kantemir Balagov)
CHAINED / EYNAYIM SHELI
Israel, Germany (Yaron Shani)
CLERGY / KLER
Poland (Wojtek Smarzowski)
DAFNE
Italy (Federico Bondi)
DIRTY GOD
The Netherlands, UK, Belgium, Ireland (Sacha Polak)
FIRE WILL COME / O QUE ARDE
Spain, France, Luxembourg (Oliver Laxe)
GOD EXISTS, HER NAME IS PETRUNIJA / GOSPOD POSTOI, IMETO I’ E PETRUNIJA
North Macedonia, Belgium, Slovenia, France, Croatia (Teona Stugar Mitevska)
GUNDERMANN / GUNDERMANN
Germany (Andreas Dresen)
HOMEWARD
Ukraine (Nariman Aliev)
HIGH LIFE
Germany, Poland, UK, France, USA (Claire Denis)
I WAS AT HOME, BUT / ICH WAR ZUHAUSE, ABER
Germany, Serbia (Angela Schanelec)
IT MUST BE HEAVEN
France (Elia Suleiman)
JUMPMAN / PODBROSY
Russia, Ireland, France, Lithuania (Ivan Tverdovsky)
JOY
Austria (Sudabeh Mortezai)
LES MISERABLES
France (Ladj Ly)
LITTLE JOE
Austria, UK, Germany (Jessica Hausner)
MR. JONES
Poland, UK, Ukraine (Agnieszka Holland)
NON FICTION / DOUBLES VIES
France (Olivier Assayas)
OLEG / OLEGS
Latvia, Lithuania, Belgium, France (Juris Kursietis)
PAIN AND GLORY / DOLOR Y GLORIA
Spain (Pedro Almodóvar)
PIRANHAS / LA PARANZA DEI BAMBINI
Italy (Claudio Giovannesi)
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE / PORTRAIT DE LA JEUNE FILLE EN FEU
France (Céline Sciamma)
QUEEN OF HEARTS / DRONNINGEN
Denmark, Sweden (May el-Touhky)
SIBEL
Turkey, France, Germany, Luxembourg (Çagla Zencirci, Guillaume Giovanetti)
SONS OF DENMARK / DANMARKS SØNNER
Denmark (Ulaa Salim)
SORRY WE MISSED YOU
UK, France (Ken Loach)
STITCHES / ŠAVOVI
Serbia (Miroslav Terzic)
SYNONYMS / SYNONYMES
France, Germany, Israel (Nadav Lapid)
SYSTEM CRASHER / SYSTEMSPRENGER
Germany (Nora Fingscheidt)
TEL AVIV ON FIRE
Luxembourg, France, Israel, Belgium (Sameh Zoabi)
THE FAVOURITE
UK, Ireland (Yorgos Lanthimos)
THE REALM / EL REINO
Spain, France (Rodrigo Sorogoyen)
THE TRAITOR / IL TRADITORE
Italy, Germany, France, Brazil (Marco Bellocchio)
THE WHISTLERS / LA GOMERA
Romania, France (Corneliu Porumboiu)
TWIN FLOWER / FIORE GEMELLO
Italy (Laura Luchetti)
WEREWOLF / WILKOŁAK
Poland, Germany, The Netherlands (Adrian Panek)
YESTERDAY / YESTERDAY
UK (Danny Boyle)
YOUNG AHMED / LE JEUNE AHMED
Belgium, France (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)