European Film Academy Articles

Maria de Medeiros (top); Belén Rueda (middle); Kim Rossi Stuart (bottom) The European Film Academy (EFA) has enlisted a group of Ambassadors of European Film to cooperate in the promotion of European cinema and the European Film Awards. From the European Film Academy’s press release, the EFA Ambassadors are: Moritz Bleibtreu, actor, Germany One of the best-known German faces in international cinema, Moritz Bleibtreu first [...]

Maria Heiskanen in Everlasting Moments European Film Awards 2009 – Nominations: Part I Among the eligible films and performers that failed to nab a mention were Giovanna Mezzogiorno for Vincere, Audrey Tautou for Coco Before Chanel, Maren Ade’s Everyone Else, Ulrich Tukur for The White Ribbon, Martina Gedeck for The Baader Meinhof Complex, and Michael Fassbender for Fish Tank. Also, Christian Petzold’s Jerichow, Nina Hoss [...]

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s Daratt (top); Kevin Bishop, Siobhan Hewlett, Marianne Faithfull in Irina Palm (middle); Nadja Uhl, Thekla Reuten in Twin Sisters (bottom) The European Film Academy has announced that the winners of the 2009 Prix Eurimages, an award "acknowledging the decisive role of co-productions in the European film industry," will go to two producers "who have combined their efforts to develop and promote European cinema": [...]

The European Film Academy has announced the ten non-fiction features up for the 2009 Prix Arte for Best European Documentary. The nominated documentaries are: THE BEACHES OF AGNES (Les Plages d’Agnès) Agnès Varda, France BELOW SEA LEVEL, Gianfranco Rosi, Italy / USA BURMA VJ, Anders Østergaard, Denmark COOKING HISTORY (Ako Sa Varia Dejiny) Peter Kerekes, Slovakia / Austria / Czech Republic THE DAMNED OF THE [...]