Fifteen documentaries have been selected by a panel of European Film Academy board members for submission to EFA members who will vote on nominations within the Best European Documentary category, to be announced November 9 2021 during the Seville European Film Festival in Spain. Four of the five nominations are voted for by the EFA Members. The EFA Board adds the fifth nomination. Members will vote again for the eventual winner.
The European Film Awards ceremony will be held December 11 in Berlin.
The EFA Board Members presiding over the documentary selection were Graziella Bildesheim (institutional/Italy) and Ada Solomon (producer/Romania), Katja Gauriloff (director, screenwriter/Finland), Kathrin Kohlstedde (festival programmer/Germany), Veton Nurkollari (artistic director/Kosovo), Orwa Nyrabia (artistic director/The Netherlands, Syria), Rada Šešić (festival programmer and filmmaker/Bosnia & Herzegovina/The Netherlands), Rajesh Thind (writer, producer and director/UK) and Ana Vicente (sales agent/UK).
The European Film Academy is presenting a new VOD platform for all its members, which has been developed as part of a 18-month digital transformation programme in 2021-2022. The new VOD platform offers state-of the-art features and a better overview of all selected films, making sure the viewing process will become more user-friendly for all members.
In the coming weeks, the 4,000+ membership of the European Film Academy will be able to view the selected films and (after the announcement of all films, including fiction) vote for the nominations in the European Documentary category. Based on the votes of all members, the nominations will be made public on 9 November 2021 during the Seville European Film Festival in Spain.
For more information on the films and a complete list of the award categories: www.europeanfilmawards.eu
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS DOCUMENTARY FILM SELECTION 2021
A NEW SHIFT (NOVÁ ŠICHTA)
Czech Republic
Written and directed by Jindřich Andrš
Produced by Miloš Lochman, Augustina Micková & Karel Chvojka
A SONG CALLED HATE
Iceland
Written and directed by & roduced by Anna Hildur Hildibrandsdóttir
ALL-IN
Belgium, Netherlands, France
Written and directed by Volkan Üce
Produced by Emmy Oost, Magalie Dierick, Olivia Sophie van Leeuwen, Samuel Feller & Valérie Montmartin
BABI YAR. CONTEXT
Netherlands, Ukraine
Written and directed by Sergei Loznitsa
Produced by Maria Choustova & Ilya Khrzhanovskiy
FLEE (FLUGT)
Denmark, France, Sweden, Norway
Directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Written by Jonas Poher Rasmussen & Amin Nawabi
Produced by Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen, Charlotte De La Gournerie, Jean-François Le Corre, Mathieu Courtois, Charlotte Most & Maria Ekerhovd
GORBACHEV. HEAVEN (GORBAČOVS. PARADĪZE)
Latvia, Czech Republic
Directed by Vitaly Manskiy
Written by Alexander Gelman & Vitaly Manskiy
Produced by Natalia Manskaia, Filip Remunda & Vít Klusák
LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES
France, Turkey, Germany
Written and directed Ahmet Necdet Çupur
Produced by Delphine Morel, Nadir Öperli & Anke Petersen
MR BACHMANN AND HIS CLASS (HERR BACHMANN UND SEINE KLASSE)
Germany
Directed & produced by Maria Speth
TAMING THE GARDEN
Switzerland, Germany, Georgia
Written and directed by Salomé Jashi
Produced by Vadim Jendreyko, Erik Winker, Martin Roelly & Salomé Jashi
THE BANALITY OF GRIEF
Denmark
Written, directed & produced by Jon Bang Carlsen
THE FIRST 54 YEARS – AN ABBREVIATED MANUAL FOR MILITARY OCCUPATION
France, Germany, Finland, Israel
Written and directed by Avi Mograbi
Produced by Camille Laemlé, Serge Lalou, Avi Mograbi, Heino Deckert, Leila Lyytikäinen, Fabrice Puchault, Anne Grolleron & Annie Ohayon-Deckel
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOY IN THE WORLD
Sweden
Directed by Kristina Lindström & Kristian Petri
Produced by Stina Gardell
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER
Germany, Finland
Directed by Antonia Kilian
Written by Antonia Kilian, Guevara Namer & Arash Asadi
Produced by Frank Müller, Antonia Kilian & Guevara Namer
THIS RAIN WILL NEVER STOP
Ukraine, Latvia, Germany, Qatar
Directed by Alina Gorlova
Written by Alina Gorlova & Maksym Nakonechnyi
Produced by Maksym Nakonechnyi, Ilona Bicevska & Patrick Hamm
WE (NOUS)
France
Written and directed by Alice Diop
Produced by Sophie Salbot
