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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; European Film Awards</title>
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		<title>European Film Academy Ambassadors</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/european-film-academy-ambassadors-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edwige Andersson</dc:creator>
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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&#8217;s press release, the EFA Ambassadors are:

Moritz Bleibtreu, actor, Germany
    One of the best-known German faces in international cinema, Moritz Bleibtreu first shot to international attention as Manni in Tom Tykwer’s RUN LOLA RUN (1998). He was nominated in 2001 for the EFA People’s Choice Award for THE EXPERIMENT by Oliver Hirschbiegel and is now nominated for European Actor for his role as Andreas Baader in THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX by Uli Edel.
Stephen Daldry, director, UK
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		<title>European Film Awards 2009: Rules &amp; Relevance</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/2009-european-film-awards-nominees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Maria Heiskanen in Everlasting Moments

European Film Awards 2009 &#8211; 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&#8217;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&#8217;s Jerichow, Nina Hoss for Jerichow, Jan Troell&#8217;s Everlasting Moments, Maria Heiskanen for Everlasting Moments, Corneliu Porumboiu&#8217;s Police, Adjective, Andrzej Wajda&#8217;s Sweet Rush, and Philippe Lioret&#8217;s Welcome.
Now, the curious thing about the European Film Awards  is that the awards&#8217; timing and eligibility rules (some of which have varied throughout the years) make many of the nominations seem like old news. Indeed, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Film Awards 2009: Nominations</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/2009-european-film-award-nominations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Tahar Rahim in A Prophet (top); Dev Patel, Freida Pinto in Slumdog Millionaire (middle); The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke (bottom)

Six films are vying for the top prize at the 2009 European Film Awards. They are:

Andrea Arnold&#8217;s Fish Tank, about a teenager (best actress nominee Katie Jarvis) upset that her mother has found herself a new boyfriend (Michael Fassbender)
Stephen Daldry&#8217;s The Reader, a melodrama starring Kate Winslet as a former Nazi guard who believes that being illiterate is worse than being an accomplice to mass murder
Jacques Audiard&#8217;s A Prophet, a prison drama about a toughie (best actor nominee Tahar Rahim) fighting his way to the top of the world behind bars
Danny Boyle&#8217;s Slumdog Millionaire, about a young man (best actor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Film Awards 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/european-film-awards-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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2009 European Film Awards
2009 European Film Award nominations: Nov. 7, 2009
2009 European Film Award winners: Bochum, Germany, on Dec. 12, 2009
(&#34;*&#34; denotes the winner in each category)
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Tahar Rahim in A Prophet (top); The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke (middle); Dev Patel in Slumdog Millionaire (bottom)
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BEST EUROPEAN  FILM
Fish Tank, UK
  written and directed by Andrea  Arnold
produced by Kees Kasander &#38; Nick Laws 
Låt den Rätte Komma In (Let the  Right One In), Sweden
  directed by Tomas Alfredson
  written by John Ajvide Lindqvist
  produced by John Nordling &#38; Carl Molinder
Un Prophète (A  Prophet), France
  directed by Jacques Audiard
  written by Jacques Audiard &#38; Thomas Bidegain based on an original  idea by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Film Awards 2009: Best Animated Feature Nominations</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/european-film-awards-2009-best-animated-feature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Mia and the Migoo (top); Niko &#38; the Way to the Stars (middle); The Secret of Kells (bottom)

The European Film Academy has announced the three nominees for  the new European Film Award category &#34;Best Animated Feature Film.&#34;
They are:

Mia and the Migoo (Mia et le Migou) (France 2008) 
    by Jacques-Rémy Girerd
A  young girl sets out looking for her father, a worker at the building site of a luxury hotel in the middle of a hidden forest. Deep in the woods, she comes face to face with the mysterious creature Migoo.
Niko &#38; the Way to the Stars (Niko – Lentäjän poika) (Finland / Germany / Denmark / Ireland 2008)
    by Kari Juusonen &#38; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Film Awards 2009: Prix Eurimages</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/prix-eurimages-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Mahamat-Saleh Haroun&#8217;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 &#34;acknowledging the decisive role of  co-productions in  the European film industry,&#34; will go to two   producers &#34;who have combined their efforts to develop and promote  European  cinema&#34;: Diana Elbaum and Jani Thiltges, heads of, respectively, Entre Chien et Loup in Belgium and Samsa  Film in Luxemburg. Additionally, they  have  joined  forces with Patrick Quinet, Sébastien Delloye and Claude Waringo to  create Liaison Cinématographique, a production company based in Paris. 
Under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Film Awards 2009: THE SOUND OF INSECTS Chosen Best Documentary</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-sound-of-insects-best-documentary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Peter Liechti&#8217;s Swiss documentary The Sound of Insects &#8211; Record of a Mummy was the winner of the Prix ARTE for best European documentary, the European Film Academy (EFA) has announced.
Inspired by  Shimada  Masahiko&#8217;s novella How I Became a Mummy, itself inspired by true events, The Sound of Insects tells the story of a forest hunter who discovers the  mummified body  of a man &#8212; the remains of someone who starved himself to death while recording the process along the way.
The jury, composed of Franco-Georgian documentary filmmaker  Nino Kirtadzé, Austrian producer Franz Grabner, and   Russian documentary filmmaker Viktor Kossakovsky, decided to give the award to The Sound of Insects &#34;for its   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Film Awards 2009: Best Documentary Nominations</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/european-film-awards-2009-best-documentary-nominations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 SEA (Les Damnés de la Mer)
  Jawad Rhalib, Belgium 

DEFAMATION, Yoav Shamir, Denmark / Austria / Israel / USA 

THE HEART OF JENIN (Das Herz von Jenin)
  Leon Geller &#38; Marcus Vetter, Germany 

PIANOMANIA, Lilian Franck &#38; Robert Cibis, Germany / Austria

THE SOUND OF INSECTS – RECORD OF A MUMMY 
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		<title>European Film Awards 2009: Isabelle Huppert to Receive European Achievement in World Cinema Award</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/isabelle-huppert-european-achievement-in-world-cinema/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Isabelle Huppert in La Cérémonie (top); Story of Women (middle); and 8 Women, with Catherine Deneuve

Isabelle Huppert, one of the greatest actresses of her generation, will be the next recipient of the European Film Academy&#8217;s European Achievement in World Cinema. She&#8217;s only the third woman to be so honored in this category&#8217;s 13-year history. (For the record: the other two were Victoria Abril and Liv Ullmann.)
The fifty-six-year-old Huppert began her career in the early 1970s, appearing in supporting roles in films such as Claude Sautet&#8217;s Cesar and Rosalie (1972) and Bertrand Blier&#8217;s Going Places (1974). By the end of the decade, she was playing leads in Claude Chabrol&#8217;s Violette Nozière (1978) and Jean-François Adam&#8217;s Retour à la bien-aimée (1979), and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Film Awards 2009: First Feature Nominees</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edwige Andersson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the 2009 Zurich Film Festival, the European Film Academy has announced this year’s nominations for the European Discovery Award for best first film. The nominees are:


AJAMI, Germany / Israel
Winner of the Israeli Film Academy&#8217;s best picture award, Ajami is set in the mean streets of the occupied  territories.
  written &#38; directed by Scandar Copti &#38; Yaron Shani
  produced by Mosh Danon, Thanassis Karathanos &#38; Talia Kleinhendler

GAGMA NAPIRI (The Other Bank), Georgia / Kazakhstan
After finding his mother with a lover, a pre-teen boy travels back home to Abkhazia in search of his father.
  directed by George Ovashvili
  written by Nugzar Shataidze
  produced by George Ohashvili &#38; Sain Gabdullin

KATALIN VARGA, Romania / UK / Hungary
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		<title>2009 David di Donatello Nominations</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/2009-david-di-donatello-nominations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo David</dc:creator>
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Paolo Sorrentino&#8217;s  Il Divo, a biopic of former Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti, and Matteo Garrone&#8217;s organized crime thriller Gomorrah, both starring Toni Servillo, were the top nominees for the Italian Academy&#8217;s 2009 David di Donatello awards.
Il Divo led the field with 16 nominations, followed by Gomorrah with 11. Both films, which are in the running in the best picture category, have already won several international awards: Il Divo received the Special Jury Award at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and a European Film Award for best actor Toni Servillo (also for Gomorrah);  Gomorrah won Cannes&#8217; Grand Prix and five European Film Awards, including  best film and Servillo&#8217;s shared best actor prize. Gomorrah was also Italy&#8217;s submission [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOMORRAH Wins 2008 European Film Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
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A chronicle of the workings of the Neapolitan underworld, Matteo Garrone&#8217;s Gomorrah &#8212; based on Roberto Saviano&#8217;s non-fiction book &#8212; was the big winner at the 2008 European Film Awards, receiving honors for best European film, best director, best actor (Toni Servillo, also for Il Divo), best screenplay (Garrone, Saviano, Maurizio Braucci, Ugo Chiti, Gianni di Gregorio, Massimo Gaudioso), and best cinematography (Marco Onorato). 
Gomorrah, which has been garnering widespread praise at film festivals worldwide (it won the Grand Prix at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival), is Italy&#8217;s submission for the best foreign-language film Academy Award.
Curiously, this year&#8217;s Palme d&#8217;Or winner, The Class, failed to win a single award at the European Film Award ceremony in Copenhagen. Last year&#8217;s big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Film Awards 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
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2008 European Film Awards
2008 European Film Award nominations: Nov 8, 2008
2008 European Film Award winners: Copenhagen on Dec. 6, 2008
Photos: Rune Evensen/ScanPix
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(&#34;*&#34; denotes the winner in each category)
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EUROPEAN FILM 2008
 IL DIVO, Italy
written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino
produced by Indigofilm, Lucky Red, Parco Film, Babe Films, StudioCanal,
Arte France Cinéma
ENTRE LES MURS (The Class), France
directed by Laurent Cantet
written by Laurent Cantet, François Begaudeau &#38; Robin Campillo after
the novel of François Begaudeau
produced by Haut et Court, France 2 Cinéma
* GOMORRA (Gomorrah), Italy
directed by Matteo Garrone
written by Maurizio Bracci, Ugo Chiti, Gianni di Gregorio, Matteo Garrone,
Massimo Gaudioso &#38; Roberto Saviano
produced by Fandango, RAI Cinema
HAPPY-GO-LUCKY, UK
written and directed by Mike Leigh
produced by Thin Man Films Ltd., Summit Entertainment, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Film Awards 2007: Jeanne Moreau, Liv Ullmann, Emmanuelle Béart</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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European Film Academy Awards 2007
Photos: Franziska Krug/ActionPress
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Jan Josef Liefers and Emmanuelle Béart

Sabine Azéma and André Dussollier

Yves Marmion and Wim Wenders

Henning Carlsen, Jörn Donner, Jeanne Moreau and Liv Ullmann

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		<title>European Film Awards 2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
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2007 European Film Awards
2007 European Film Award nominations: Nov. 3, 2007
2007 European Film Award winners: the Arena in Berlin on Dec. 1, 2007
Photos: Franziska Krug/ActionPress
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EUROPEAN FILM 2007
* 4 LUNI, 3 SAPTAMINI SI 2 ZILE (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days), Romania
directed by Cristian Mungiu
produced by Mobra Film SRL
AUF DER ANDEREN SEITE (The Edge of Heaven), Germany/Turkey
directed by Fatih Akin
produced by Corazón International GmbH &#38; Co KG/Anka Film/Dorje Film/NDR
THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND, UK
directed by Kevin Macdonald
produced by DNA Films
LA M&#212;ME (La Vie en Rose), France/Czech Republic/UK
directed by Olivier Dahan
produced by Légende/ TF1 International/TF1 Films Production/Okko
Production s.r.o./Songbird Pictures Ltd
PERSEPOLIS, France
directed by Marjane Satrapi &#38; Vincent Paronnaud
produced by 2.4.7. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Film Awards 2006</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Dec 2006 01:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
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2006 European Film Awards
2006 European Film Award nominations: Seville Film Festival on Nov. 4, 2006 
2006 European Film Award winners:  EXPO XXI in Warsaw on Dec. 2, 2006. Sophie Marceau and Maciej Stuhr hosted the awards ceremony.
&#8224; Eligible films had to be released in their countries of origin between July 2005 and April/May 2006. 
(&#34;*&#34; denotes the winner in each category)
Photos: JaczekTurczyk/PAP
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BEST EUROPEAN FILM 
 BREAKFAST ON PLUTO; Ireland/UK
  directed by Neil Jordan
  produced by Parallel Film Productions Ltd./Number 9 Films
GRBAVICA; Austria/Bosnia-Herzegovina/Germany/Croatia
directed by Jasmila Zbanic
produced by coop99 filmproduktion GmbH/Deblokada/Noirfilm/Jadran Film
* DAS LEBEN DER ANDEREN (The Lives of Others); Germany
directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
produced by Wiedemann &#38; Berg Filmproduktion/Bayerischer Rundfunk/ARTE/Creado Film
THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO; UK
directed by Michael [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2006 European Film Awards Winners</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Dec 2006 00:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
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The European Film Academy, whose awards ceremony was held this evening in Warsaw, has opted for conventionality by giving its best European film award to Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck&#8217;s Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others, a Cold War spy-thriller-cum-melodrama lacking both thrills and drama. 
Additionally, The Lives of Others star Ulrich Mühe (above, top photo), the one saving grace in the film, received the best European actor award for his role as a Stasi spy who, while eavesdropping on a playwright in the mid-1980s, begins to question both his personal ethics and his allegiance to the Communist Party. In real life, Mühe, a  renowned stage actor since the 1980s, was himself spied on by East Germany&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2005 European Film Award Winners</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2005 05:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
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Michael Haneke&#8217;s compelling  and quite disturbing Caché / Hidden was the big winner at the 2005 European Film Awards held this evening in Berlin. The psychological-political thriller was chosen best film, in addition to wins for director Haneke, actor  Daniel Auteuil (above, with Juliette Binoche), and a best editing award for  Michael Hudecek and Nadine Muse.
Berlin Film Festival winner Julia Jentsch won the best European actress award for her superb portrayal of one of the young leaders of the anti-Nazi German resistance in Sophie Scholl &#8211; Die Letzten Tage / Sophie Scholl &#8211; The Final Days. Jentsch also won the Jameson People&#8217;s Choice Award, and so did Sophie Scholl&#8217;s director, fellow Berlin Film Festival winner Marc
Rothemund. 
Orlando [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2005 01:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
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2005 European Film Awards
2005 European Film Award winners: Berlin on Dec. 3, 2005
(&#34;*&#34; denotes the winner in each category)
Photos: Axel Schmidt / Action Press
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Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche in Hidden
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EUROPEAN FILM 
BR&#216;DRE (Brothers), Denmark/UK/Sweden/Norway
Directed by Susanne Bier
Produced by Zentropa Entertainments14 ApS., Two Brothers Ltd., Sigma Films Ltd., Memfis Int. AB, Fjellape Films
* CACHÉ (Hidden), France/Austria/Germany/Italy 
Directed by Michael Haneke
Produced by Les Films du Losange, Wega Film, Bavaria Film, BIM Distribuzione 
DON&#8217;T COME KNOCKING, Germany 
Directed by Wim Wenders
Produced by Reverse Angle Production GmbH, Reverse Angle International GmbH, Arte France Cinéma
L&#8217;ENFANT (The Child), Belgium/France
Directed by Jean-Pierre &#38; Luc Dardenne
Produced by Les Films du Fleuve, Archipel 35, RTBF, Scope Invest, Arte France Cinéma
MY SUMMER OF LOVE, UK
Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski
Produced by Apocalypso Pictures
SOPHIE [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2004 European Film Awards Winners</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2004 10:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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 The German drama Gegen die Wand / Head-On was picked as the best European film at the 2004 European Film Awards ceremony in Barcelona. 
Directed by Fatih Akin, voted the year&#8217;s best European director, Head-On tells the story of a young Turkish-German woman (Sibel Kekilli) who marries an older Turkish man (Birol Ünel) in order to escape her strict Muslim family. Earlier this year, Head-On won both the Golden Bear and the International Critics&#8217; FIPRESCI prize at the Berlin Film Festival.
Additionally, the film has won five  German Film Academy awards: Best film, best actor, best actress, best director, and best cinematography (Rainer Klausmann).

Spaniard Javier Bardem (above, with Belén Rueda) was chosen  the year&#8217;s best actor for his [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2004 02:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
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2004 European Film Awards
2004 European Film Awards Winners: Forum Convention Center in Barcelona on Dec. 11, 2004
(&#34;*&#34; denotes the winner in each category)
Photos: Alberto Estevez / EFE
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EUROPEAN FILM 
ETT H&#197;L I MITT HJÄRTA (A Hole In My Heart), Sweden / Denmark
directed by Lukas Moodysson
produced by Memfis Film, Zentropa, Film I Väst, SVT, Nordic Film- &#38; TV Fund
* GEGEN DIE WAND (Head-On), Germany 
directed by Fatih Akin
produced by Wüste Filmproduktion / Corazon International / NDR / ARTE
La Mala educación / Bad Education, Spain
directed by Pedro Almodóvar
produced by El Deseo D.A., S.L.U.
Les Choristes / The Chorus, France / Switzerland
directed by Christophe Barratier
produced by Galatée Films / Pathé Renn Production / France 2 Cinéma / Novo Arturo [...]]]></description>
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