MUMBAI: Five debut films have been nominated to be presented at the 24 European Film Awards on 3 December.
The film films are: ‘Adem‘ (Oxygen), Belgium/The Netherlands (director Hans Van Nuffel); ‘Atmen‘ (Breathing), Austria (writer and director Karl Markovics), ‘Michael‘ Austria (writer and director Markus Schleinzer); ‘Smukke Menesker‘ (Nothing‘s All Bad), Denmark (writer-director Mikkel Munch-Fals) and ‘Tilva Ros‘ Serbia (writer-director Nikola Ležaic).
The Europen Discovery 2011 – Prix are presented by FIPRESCI
(International Federation of Film Critics) 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 consisting of observer Yves Marmion (EFA Chairman, France), Board Members Els Vandevorst (the Netherlands) and Cedomir Kolar (France), EFA Members Pierre-Henri Deleau (France) and Jacob Neiiendam (Denmark), as well as Alin Tasciyan (Turkey), Paulo Portugal (Portugal), and László Kriston (Hungary), all of them members of FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics.
The nominated films will now be made available to all 2,500 members of the European Film Academy. They will vote for the winner who will be announced at the 24th European Film Awards on 3 December in Berlin.
