Best Film Entries for the European Film Awards 2006
September 14th, 2006 by Andre Soares
Among the 49 entries vying for the 2006 Best European Film nominations are:
Berlin Film Festival winner Grbavica, Jasmila Zbanic’s Bosnian War tale about a girl who discovers that her mother has been less than honest about the identity of her long-lost father; Il Caimano / The Cayman, Nanni Moretti’s cinematic attack on right-wing Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and the winner of the 2005 David di Donatello Award; Christopher Nielsen’s animated tale Slipp Jimmy fri / Free Jimmy, winner of Norway’s Amanda Film Awards; and Rachid Bouchareb’s Indigènes / Days of Glory, the tale of North Africans fighting for France during World War II, and the winner of an ensemble Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival.
Also, Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross’s anti-human rights abuses docudrama The Road to Guantanamo; Josef Fares’s Zozo, the story of a young Lebanese immigrant living in Sweden; Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s German blockbuster and German Film Academy winner Das Leben der anderen / The Lives of Others, which personalizes the deeds of East Germany’s feared Stasi police; and Pedro Almodóvar’s Volver, about two young women and the ghost of their mother coming to terms with their mutual past.
Note: The European Film Academy (along with numerous tourism agencies) considers Israel as part of Europe. That’s why Dalia Hager and Vidi Bilu’s Karov Labayit / Close to Home, the story of two very different teenage girls doing military service, is one of the Best European Film entries.
Press Release
THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2006
- THE SELECTION -
There are forty-nine European films on the selection list for the European Film Awards 2006! In the coming weeks, the 1,700 members of the European Film Academy will select the nominations in the different award categories*.
In the 20 countries with the most EFA members, these 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) has included further films.
The nominations will be announced on November 4 at the Seville Film Festival in Spain.
The Award Ceremony with the presentation of the winners will take place in Warsaw on December 2.
* European Film Award Categories
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2006
- The Selection List -
in alphabetical order (please note that articles (a, the/le, la/el, il, etc) are ignored)
9-YA ROTA (9th Company), Russia/ Ukraine/ Finland
directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk
produced by Slovo/Art Pictures/STS TV Channel/Ukraine Media Group/1 + 1
TV Channel/Matila Röhr Productions Oy
A FOST SAU N-A FOST (12:08 East Of Bucharest), Romania
directed by Corneliu Porumboiu
produced by 42 Km Film
ÄIDEISTÄ PARHAIN (Mother of Mine), Finland
directed by Klaus Härö
produced by MRP Matila Röhr Productions Oy/OmegaFilm Ab/Lennart Dunér
and Peter Kropenin Film I Skåne AB/Ralf Ivarsson
L’AMICO DI FAMIGLIA (The Family Friend), Italy/France
directed by Paolo Sorrentino
produced by Fandango/Indigo Film with Medusa Film/Babe Films/Studio
Canal in collaboration with Canal +
ANCHE LIBERO VA BENE (Along the Ridge), Italy
directed by Kim Rossi Stuart
produced by Palomar/RAI Cinema
EEN ANDER ZIJN GELUK (Someone Else’s Happiness), Belgium/ Netherlands
directed by Fien Troch
produced by Prime Time/Motel Films
BLÓObÖND (Thicker Than Water), Iceland/ Denmark/ Germany
directed by Arni Olafur Asgeirsson
produced by Pegasus Pictures/Zentropa Entertainment/Thalamus Films
BREAKFAST ON PLUTO, Ireland/ UK
directed by Neil Jordan
produced by Parallel Film Productions Ltd./Number 9 Films
DEN BRYSOMME MANNEN (The Bothersome Man), Norway/ Iceland
directed by Jens Lien
produced by Tordenfilm/The Icelandic Film Company
IL CAIMANO (The Caiman), Italy/ France
directed by Nanni Moretti
produced by Sacher Film SRL/BAC Films/Stephan Films/France 3 Cinéma
DRABET (Manslaughter), Denmark/ Norway/ Sweden/ UK
directed by Per Fly
produced by Zentropa Productions/Spillekompagniet 41/2/Memfis Film
International AB/Manslaughter Ltd./Sigma FilmsIII Ltd.
EFTER BRYLLUPPET (After the Wedding), Denmark/ UK
directed by Susanne Bier
produced by Zentropa Productions2/After the Wedding Ltd./Sigma Films Ltd.
FEHÉR TENYÉR (White Palms), Hungary
directed by Szabolcs Hajdu
produced by Katapult Film KFT./Filmpartners Ltd./TV2
FLANDRES (Flanders), France
directed by Bruno Dumont
produced by 3B Productions/ARTE France Cinéma/CRRAV/Le Fresnoy
FREE JIMMY, Norway/UK
directed by Christopher Nielsen
produced by Storm Studio AS/Sarah Radclyffe Productions Ltd.
GARPASTUM, Russia
directed by Alexei German, jr
produced by V.K. — Kampaniya with the support of The Federal Agency for
Culture and Cinematography
GRBAVICA, Austria/ Bosnia-Herzegovina/ Germany/ Croatia
directed by Jasmila Zbanic
produced by coop99 filmproduktion GmbH/Deblokada/Noirfilm/Jadran Film
IKLIMLER (Climates), Turkey/ France
directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
produced by CO Production Ltd./Pyramide Productions/NBC Film/Imaj
INDIGÈNES (Days of Glory), France/ Maroc/ Algeria/ Belgium
directed by Rachid Bouchareb
produced by Tessalit Productions/Kissfilms/France 3 Cinéma/France 2
Cinéma/Studiocanal/Taza Productions/Tassili Films/Versus Productionsand
Scope Invest
JE NE SUIS PAS LÀ POUR ÊTRE AIMÉ (Not Here To Be Loved), France
directed by Stéphane Brizé
produced by TS Productions
JUVENTUDE EM MARCHA (Colossal Youth), Portugal/ France/ Switzerland
directed by Pedro Costa
produced by Contracosta Produções, LDA/Les Films de L’Etranger
/Unlimited/Ventura Film
KARAULA (Border Post), Bosnia-Herzegovina/ Croatia/ Slovenia/ Macedonia/ UK/
Serbia
directed by Rajko Grlic
produced by Refresh Production/Sektor Film Skopje/Propeler Film/Yodi
Movie Craftsman/Film and Music Entertainment Ltd./Novotny & Novotny
Filmproduktion GmbH/Vertigo
KAROV LABAYIT (Close To Home), Israel
directed by Dalia Hager and Vidi Bilu
produced by Transfax Film Production
KOMORNIK (The Collector), Poland
directed by Feliks Falk
produced by Perspektywa Film Studio/TVP SA- Film Agency/Canal +/WFDIF/APF
LAITAKAUPUNGIN VALOT (Lights in the Dusk), Finland/ Germany/ France
directed by Aki Kaurismäki
produced by Sputnik Oy /Pandora Film/ Pyramide
LANGER LICHT (Northern Light), The Netherlands
directed by David Lammers
produced by Motel Films
DAS
LEBEN DER ANDEREN (The Lives of Others), Germany
directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
produced by Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion/Bayerischer
Rundfunk/ARTE/Creado Film
LEIDI ZI (Lady Zee), Bulgaria
directed by Georgi Djulgerov
produced by Borough Film Ltd./Boyana Film Studios/Bulgarian National TV
LIUBI, Greece
directed by Layia Yiourgou
produced by Highway Productions/Greek Film Center/VA Films/Nova/Max
Productions
PERSONA NON GRATA, Poland/Russia/Italy
directed by Krzysztof Zanussi
produced by Tor Film Production/Three T Production/Sintra Srl
LE PETIT LIEUTENANT, France
directed by Xavier Beauvois
produced by Why Not Productions/Studiocanal/France 2 Cinéma
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, UK
directed by Joe Wright
produced by Working Title Films
PRINCESAS, Spain
directed by Fernando León De Aranoa
produced by Reposado Producciones Cinematográficas/Mediapro
PRINCESS, Denmark/Germany
directed by Anders Morgenthaler
produced by Zentropa GRRR ApS/Shotgun Pictures GmbH
REQUIEM, Germany
directed by Hans-Christian Schmid
produced by 23/5 Filmproduktion GmbH/SWR/ARTE/WDR/BR
THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO, UK
directed by Michael Winterbottom [and Mat Whitecross]
produced by Revolution Films Ltd.
ROMANZO CRIMINALE (Crime Novel), Italy
directed by Michele Placido
produced by Cattleya/Aquarius Films/Babe Films/ in collaboration with
Warner Bros. Pictures
SALVADOR (PUIG ANTICH), Spain/UK
directed by Manuel Huerga
produced by Mediapro/Future Films
THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP, France
directed by Michel Gondry
produced by Partizan!/Gaumont
SOMMER ‘04 (Summer ‘04), Germany
directed by Stefan Krohmer
produced by Filmproduktion Frank Löprich und Katrin Schlösser
GmbH/SWR/BR/WDR/ARTE
SOMMER VORM BALKON (Summer In Berlin), Germany
directed by Andreas Dresen
produced by Rommel Film e.K./X Filme Creative Pool GmbH
SPIELE LEBEN (You Bet Your Life), Austria/Switzerland
directed by Antonin Svoboda
produced by coop99 Filmproduktion GmbH/Triluna Film AG
STESTÍ (Something Like Happiness), Czech Republic/Germany
directed by Bohdan Sláma
produced by Negativ s.r.o./Pallas Film GmbH/Ceská Televize
TAXIDERMIA, Hungary/ Austria/ France
directed by György Pálfi
produced by Eurofilm Studio KFT/Amour Fou Filmproduktion GmbH/Memento
Films Production/La Cinefacture
LA VIDA SECRETA DE LAS PALABRAS (The Secret Life Of Words), Spain
directed by Isabel Coixet
produced by El Deseo D.A., S.L.U./Mediaproducción S.L.
VITUS, Switzerland
directed by Fredi M. Murer
produced by Vitusfilm GmbH/SRG/SSR Idée Suisse/Schweizer
Fernsehen/ARTE/Teleclub
VOLVER, Spain
directed by Pedro Almodóvar
produced by El Deseo D.A., S.L.U.
THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY, UK/ Ireland/ Germany/ Italy/ Spain
directed by Ken Loach
produced by Sixteen Films/Matador Pictures/Regent Capital/UK Film
Council/ Bord Scannán Na Héireann/The Irish Film Board/ Filmstiftung
Nordrhein-Westfalen/ Element Films/Bim Distribuzione/ EMC
Produktion/ Tornasol Films/ Diaphana Distribution/ Pathé
Distribution/ Cinéart/ TV3 Ireland/ Film Coopi
ZOZO, Sweden/ Denmark/ UK
directed by Josef Fares
produced by Memfis Film Rights V AB/Zentropa Entertainments5,
ZozoLtd/SigmaIII Films Ltd/Film I Väst/Sveriges Television/Nordic Film &
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I can hardly wait to see if my favorite movie "A FOST SAU N-A FOST" directed by Corneliu Porumboiu will achieve one of the European movie awards. I hope that it will get the award because it is an impressive movie.