Due to Covid-19 and the related restrictions, the European Film Academy is announcing the EFA Feature Film Selection 2020 in two steps. Today, EFA revealed the titles of the 32 films in the first part, the second part will be announced in September. This will allow the inclusion of films that would have premiered by May 31, 2020 – be it at a festival or at a regular cinema – but could not due to the pandemic, provided they will premiere theatrically or online before the end of November 2020. Together, the films from part 1 and 2 form the EFA Feature Film Selection, the list of feature-length fiction films recommended for a nomination for the European Film Awards 2020. The films have been selected by a committee consisting of the EFA Board and invited experts.
The nominations will then be announced on November 7 at the Seville European Film Festival in Spain. An 8-member jury will decide on the award recipients in the categories European Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Costume Design, Make-up & Hair, Original Score, Sound and Visual Effects.
The 33rd European Film Awards with the presentation of the winners will take place on December 12 in Reykjavik.
EFA FEATURE FILM SELECTION 2020 – PART 1
ADULTS IN THE ROOM
France, Greece
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Costa-Gavras
PRODUCED BY Michèle Ray-Gavras & Alexandre Gavras
ATLANTIS
АТЛАНТИДА
Ukraine
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Valentyn Vasyanovich
PRODUCED BY Vladimir Yatsenko, Valentyn Vasyanovich & Iya Myslitskaya
BAD TALES
FAVOLACCE
Italy, Switzerland
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Damiano & Fabio D’Innocenzo
PRODUCED BY Giuseppe Saccà, Paolo Del Brocco, Nicola Maccanico & Michela Pini
BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ
Germany, Netherlands
DIRECTED BY Burhan Qurbani
WRITTEN BY Martin Behnke & Burhan Qurbani
PRODUCED BY Jochen Laube, Fabian Maubach & Leif Alexis
BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH
Palestine, Luxembourg, Iceland
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Najwa Najjar
PRODUCED BY Hani Kort, Adrien Chef, Paul Thiltges, Fahad Jabali & Eggert Ketilsson
CAT IN THE WALL
Bulgaria, UK, France
WRITTEN, DIRECTED & PRODUCED BY Mina Mileva & Vesela Kazakova
CHARLATAN
Czech Republic, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia
DIRECTED BY Agnieszka Holland
WRITTEN BY Marek Epstein
PRODUCED BY Šárka Cimbalová & Kevan Van Thompson
CHARTER
Sweden, Denmark, Norway
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Amanda Kernell
PRODUCED BY Lars G Lindström & Eva Åkergren
CORPUS CHRISTI
BOŻE CIAŁO
Poland, France
DIRECTED BY Jan Komasa
WRITTEN BY Mateusz Pacewicz
PRODUCED BY Leszek Bodzak & Aneta Hickinbotham
DAU. NATASHA
ДАУ. НАТАША
Germany, Ukraine, UK, Russia
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Ilya Khrzhanovskiy & Jekaterina Oertel
PRODUCED BY Sergey Adoniev, Susanne Marian & Philippe Bober
DELETE HISTORY
EFFACER L’HISTORIQUE
France, Belgium
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Benoît Delépine & Gustave Kervern
PRODUCED BY Sylvie Pialat, Benoît Quainon, Benoît Delépine & Gustave Kervern
ECHO
Iceland, France
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Rúnar Rúnarsson
PRODUCED BY Live Hide, Lilja Ósk Snorradóttir & Rúnar Rúnarsson
FALLING
UK, Canada, Denmark
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Viggo Mortensen
PRODUCED BY Viggo Mortensen, Daniel Bekerman & Chris Curling
FATHER
OTAC
Serbia, Germany, France, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
DIRECTED BY Srdan Golubović
WRITTEN BY Srdan Golubović & Ognjen Sviličić
PRODUCED BY Jelena Mitrović, Čedomir Kolar, Alexander Ris, Marc Baschet, Danis Tanović, Danijel Hočevar, Boris T. Matić, Lana Matić, Amra Bakšić Čamo & Adis Djapo
FINAL REPORT
ZÁRÓJELENTÉS
Hungary
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY István Szabó
PRODUCED BY Pál Sándor & Attila Tőzsér
HIDDEN AWAY
VOLEVO NASCONDERMI
Italy
DIRECTED BY Giorgio Diritti
WRITTEN BY Giorgio Diritti, Tania Pedroni & Fredo Valla
PRODUCED BY Carlo Degli Esposti & Nicola Serra
HOPE
HÅP
Norway, Sweden
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Maria Sødahl
PRODUCED BY Thomas Robsahm, Lizette Jonjic & Peter Possne
LET THERE BE LIGHT
NECH JE SVETLO
Slovakia, Czech Republic
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Marko Škop
PRODUCED BY Marko Škop, Ján Meliš, Petr Oukropec & Pavel Strnad
MARTIN EDEN
Italy, France
DIRECTED BY Pietro Marcello
WRITTEN BY Pietro Marcello & Maurizio Braucci
PRODUCED BY Pietro Marcello, Beppe Caschetto, Thomas Ordenneau, Michael Weber & Viola Fügen
MOTHER
MADRE
Spain, France
DIRECTED BY Rodrigo Sorogoyen
WRITTEN BY Isabel Peña & Rodrigo Sorogoyen
PRODUCED BY María del Puy Alvarado Landa, Ibon Cormenzana, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Ignasi Estapé, Jérôme Vidal & Jean Labadie
MOTHERLAND
GIMTINE
Lithuania, Latvia, Greece, Germany
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Tomas Vengris
PRODUCED BY Uljana Kim
MY LITTLE SISTER
SCHWESTERLEIN
Switzerland
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Stéphanie Chuat & Véronique Reymond
PRODUCED BY Ruth Waldburger
PERSIAN LESSONS
УРОКИ ФАРСИ
Russia, Germany, Belarus
DIRECTED BY Vadim Perelman
WRITTEN BY Ilya Zofin
PRODUCED BY Ilya Stewart, Murad Osmann, Pavel Buria, Ilya Zofin, Vadim Perelman, Timur Bekmambetov & Rauf Atamalibekov
SERVANTS
SLUŽOBNÍCI
Slovakia, Romania, Czech Republic, Ireland
DIRECTED BY Ivan Ostrochovský
WRITTEN BY Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Marek Leščák & Ivan Ostrochovský
PRODUCED BY Ivan Ostrochovský, Albert Malinovský & Katarína Tomková
THE ENDLESS TRENCH
LA TRINCHERA INFINITA
Spain, France
DIRECTED BY Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño & Jose Mari Goenaga
WRITTEN BY José Maro Goenaga & Luiso Berdejo
PRODUCED BY Xabier Berzosa, Olmo Figuerego González-Quevedo, Jose Mari Goenaga & Birgit Kemner
THE PAINTED BIRD
NABARVENÉ PTÁČE
Czech Republic, Ukraine, Slovakia
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Václav Marhoul
PRODUCED BY Václav Marhoul, Igor Savychenko, Zuzana Mistríková, Eduard Kučera & Richard Kaucký
THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD
UK, USA
DIRECTED BY Armando Iannucci
WRITTEN BY Simon Blackwell & Armando Iannucci
PRODUCED BY Kevin Loader & Armando Iannucci
THE PLATFORM
EL HOYO
Spain
DIRECTED BY Galder Gaztelu- Urrutia
WRITTEN BY David Desola & Pedro Rivero
PRODUCED BY Carlos Juarez, David Matamoros, Angeles Hernandez & Raquel Perea
UNDINE
Germany, France
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Christian Petzold
PRODUCED BY Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber & Margaret Menegoz
UPPERCASE PRINT
TIPOGRAFIC MAJUSCUL
Romania
DIRECTED BY Radu Jude
WRITTEN BY Radu Jude & Gianina Cărbunariu
PRODUCED BY Ada Solomon & Claudia Duca
VITALINA VARELA
Portugal
DIRECTED BY Pedro Costa
WRITTEN BY Vitalina Varela & Pedro Costa
PRODUCED BY Abel Ribeiro Chaves
WILDLAND
KØD & BLOD
Denmark
DIRECTED BY Jeanette Nordahl
WRITTEN BY Ingeborg Topsøe
PRODUCED BY Eva Jakobsen, Katrin Pors & Mikkel Jersin