European Film Academy announced the 45 films in this year’s EFA Selection, the list of films recommended for a nomination for the European Film Awards 2011. With 32 countries represented, from A(ustria) to U(nited Kingdom), the list also covers a wide range of genres and themes from comedies about love, friendship, immigration and kidnapping to dramas about childhood, dysfunctional families and national traumas, from portraits of flawed leaders, surrealist animation and historical epics to an almost silent film in black & white.
The EFA Selection 2011
ALMANYA – WILLKOMMEN IN DEUTSCHLAND / ALMANYA
by Yasemin Samdereli
Germany/Turkey, 101 min.
AMÉRICA / AMERICA
by João Nuno Pinto
Portugal/Spain/Brazil/Russia, 111 min
THE ARTIST
by Michel Hazanavicius
France, 100 min.
AS IF I AM NOT THERE
by Juanita Wilson
Ireland/FYR Macedonia/Sweden, 109 min.
ATTENBERG
by Athina Rachel Tsangari
Greece, 95 min.
AVE
by Konstantin Bojanov
Bulgaria, 86 min.
BALADA TRISTE DE TROMPETA / THE LAST CIRCUS
by Alex de la Iglesia
Spain, 107 min.
BELI BELI SVET / WHITE WHITE WORLD
by Oleg Novkovic
Serbia/Germany/Sweden, 121 min.
CIRKUS COLUMBIA
by Danis Tanovic
Bosnia & Herzegovina/France/UK/Germany/Slovenia/Belgium, 113 min.
CIRKUS FANTASTICUS / SILENT SONATA
by Janez Burger
Slovenia/Ireland, 75 min.
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by Tom Tykwer
Germany, 119 min.
ELDFJALL / VOLCANO
by Rúnar Rúnarsson
Iceland/Denmark, 95 min.
????? / ELENA
by Andrey Zvyagintsev
Russia, 109 min.
ESSENTIAL KILLING
by Jerzy Skolimowski
Poland/Norway/Ireland/Hungary, 84 min.
LE GAMIN AU VÉLO / THE KID WITH A BIKE
by Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
Belgium/France/Italy, 84 min.
HABEMUS PAPAM
by Nanni Moretti
Italy/France, 104 min.
HÆVNEN / IN A BETTER WORLD
by Susanne Bier
Denmark, 113 min.
HALT AUF FREIER STRECKE / STOPPED ON TRACK
by Andreas Dresen
Germany, 110 min.
HITGANVUT YEHIDIM / INFILTRATION
by Dover Kosashvili
Israel/France, 116 min.
THE KING’S SPEECH
by Tom Hooper
UK, 118 min.
LE HAVRE
by Aki Kaurismäki
Finland/France/Germany, 93 min.
LIDICE
by Petr Nikolaev
Czech Republic, 123 min.
LOVERBOY
by Catalin Mitulescu
Romania, 93 min.
MAJKI / MOTHERS
by Milcho Manchevski
FYR Macedonia, 123 min.
MELANCHOLIA
by Lars von Trier
Denmark/Sweden/France/Germany, 130 min.
NEDS
by Peter Mullan
UK, 124 min.
NOI CREDEVAMO / WE BELIEVED
by Mario Martone
Italy/France, 170 min.
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by Joachim Trier
Norway, 95 min.
??C???? (OVSYANKI) / SILENT SOULS
by Alexey Fedorchenco
Russia, 75 min.
PA NEGRE / BLACK BREAD
by Agustí Villaronga
Spain, 109 min.
LA PETITE CHAMBRE / THE LITTLE ROOM
by Stéphanie Chuat & Véronique Reymond
Switzerland/Luxembourg, 87 min.
LES PETITS MOUCHOIRS / LITTLE WHITE LIES
by Guillaume Canet
France, 154 min.
LA PIEL QUE HABITO / THE SKIN I LIVE IN
by Pedro Almodóvar
Spain, 118 min.
PLAY
by Ruben Östlund
Sweden, 113 min.
PREŽÍT SVUJ ŽIVOT / SURVIVING LIFE
by Jan Švankmajer
Czech Republic/Slovakia, 109 min.
RUNDSKOP / BULLHEAD
by Michaël R. Roskam
Belgium/the Netherlands, 123 min.
SALA SAMOBÓJCÓW / SUICIDE ROOM
by Jan Komasa
Poland, 110 min.
SVINALÄNGORNA / BEYOND
by Pernilla August
Sweden/Denmark/Finland, 96 min.
TAMBIEN LA LLUVIA / EVEN THE RAIN
by Icíar Bollaín
Spain, 99 min.
TILVA ROŠ
by Nikola Ležaic
Serbia, 95 min.
TIRZA
by Rudolf van den Berg
The Netherlands, 102 min.
TOMBOY
by Céline Sciamma
France, 84 min.
A TORINÓI LÓ / THE TURIN HORSE
by Béla Tarr
Hungary/France/Switzerland/Germany, 146 min.
DIE UNABSICHTLICHE ENTFÜHRUNG DER FRAU ELFRIEDE OTT / THE UNINTENTIONAL KIDNAPPING OF ELFRIEDE OTT
by Andreas Prochaska
Austria, 112 min.
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
by Lynne Ramsay
UK, 111 min.