The European Film Academy announced the EFA Documentary Selection, a list of 12 European documentaries recommended for a nomination for this year’s European Film Awards. There are 12 European countries represented in this year’s EFA Documentary Selection.
EFA Members will now vote for five documentary nominations. Based on these nominations, the EFA Members will then elect the ‘European Documentary 2019’ which will be announced during the awards ceremony on December 7 in Berlin.
EFA DOCUMENTARY SELECTION 2019
ADVOCATE
LEA TSEMEL ORECHET DIN
Israel, Canada, Switzerland
DIRECTED BY Rachel Leah Jones & Philippe Bellaiche
PRODUCED BY Philippe Bellaiche, Rachel Leah Jones, Joelle Bertossa & Paul Cadieux
AQUARELA
Germany, United Kingdom, Denmark
DIRECTED BY Victor Kossakovsky
PRODUCED BY Heino Deckert, Aimara Reques & Sigrid Dyekjær
DELPHINE AND CAROLE
DELPHINE ET CAROLE, INSOUMUSES
France, Switzerland
DIRECTED BY Callisto Mc Nulty
PRODUCED BY Sophie De Hijes, Nicolas Lesoult & Britta Rindelaub
FOR SAMA
United Kingdom, United States
DIRECTED BY Waad al-Kateab & Edward Watts
PRODUCED BY Waad al-Kateab
HEIMAT IS A SPACE IN TIME
HEIMAT IST EIN RAUM AUS ZEIT
Germany, Austria
DIRECTED BY Thomas Heise
PRODUCED BY Heino Deckert
HONEYLAND
МЕДЕНА ЗЕМЈА
North Macedonia
DIRECTED BY Ljubomir Stefanov & Tamara Kotevska
PRODUCED BY Atanas Georgiev
M
France
DIRECTED BY Yolande Zauberman
PRODUCED BY Charles Gillibert
PUSH
Sweden, Canada
DIRECTED BY Fredrik Gertten
PRODUCED BY Margarete Jangård
PUTIN’S WITNESSES
СВИДЕТЕЛИ ПУТИНА
Latvia, Switzerland, Czech Republic
DIRECTED BY Vitaly Mansky
PRODUCED BY Natalia Manskaia, Gabriela Bussmann, Filip Remunda & Vit Klusak
SCHEME BIRDS
Sweden, United Kingdom
DIRECTED BY Ellen Fiske & Ellinor Hallin
PRODUCED BY Mario Adamson & Ruth Reid
SELFIE
France, Italy
DIRECTED BY Agostino Ferrente
PRODUCED BY Marc Berdugo & Barbara Conforti
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MY MOTHER
Italy, United States
DIRECTED BY Beniamino Barrese
PRODUCED BY Filippo Macelloni & Hayley Pappas