The Producers launch first promo today, Tom Green joins the cast as a cult leader on the Moon.

The 18th Black Nights film festival presents a record breaking ten International and nine European premieres. Most premieres are part of competition programmes but also the closing film of the festival “La Famille Bélier“ by the French director Eric Lartigau has its international premiere in Tallinn.

At the Seville European Film Festival the European Film Academy and EFA Productions proudly announced the nominations for the 27th European Film Awards.

The more than 3,000 EFA Members will now vote for the winners who will be presented during the awards ceremony on 13 December in Riga, European Capital of Culture 2014.

Nominated are:

EUROPEAN FILM 2014

FORCE MAJEURE
TURIST
Sweden/Denmark/France/Norway
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Ruben Östlund
PRODUCED BY: Erik Hemmendorff, Marie Kjellson & Philippe Bober

IDA
Poland/Denmark
DIRECTED BY: Pawel Pawlikowski
WRITTEN BY: Paweł Pawlikowski & Rebecca Lenkiewicz
PRODUCED BY: Eric Abraham, Piotr Dzięcioł, Ewa Puszczyńska & Christian Husum

LEVIATHAN
LEVIAFAN
Russia
DIRECTED BY: Andrey Zvyagintsev
WRITTEN BY: Oleg Negin & Andrey Zvyagintsev
PRODUCED BY: Alexander Rodnyansky & Sergey Melkumov

NYMPHOMANIAC DIRECTOR'S CUT – VOLUME I & II
Denmark/Germany/France/Belgium
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Lars von Trier
PRODUCED BY: Louise Vesth

WINTER SLEEP
KIŞ UYKUSU
Turkey/France/Germany
DIRECTED BY: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
WRITTEN BY: Ebru Ceylan & Nuri Bilge Ceylan
PRODUCED BY: Zeynep Özbatur Atakan


EUROPEAN COMEDY 2014

CARMINA & AMEN
CARMINA Y AMÉN
Spain
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Paco León
PRODUCED BY: Paco León, Ghislain Barrois & Álvaro Augustin

LE WEEK-END
UK
DIRECTED BY: Roger Michel
WRITTEN BY: Hanif Kureishi
PRODUCED BY: Kevin Loader

THE MAFIA ONLY KILLS IN THE SUMMER
LA MAFIA UCCIDE SOLO D’ESTATE
Italy
DIRECTED BY: Pierfrancesco Diliberto
WRITTEN BY: Michele Astori, Pierfrancesco Diliberto & Marco Martani
PRODUCED BY: Mario Gianani & Lorenzo Mieli

EUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2014
Nuri Bilge Ceylan for WINTER SLEEP (KIŞ UYKUSU)
Steven Knight for LOCKE
Ruben Östlund for FORCE MAJEURE (TURIST)
Paweł Pawlikowski for IDA
Paolo Virzì for HUMAN CAPITAL (IL CAPITALE UMANO)
Andrey Zvyagintsev for LEVIATHAN (LEVIAFAN)

EUROPEAN ACTRESS 2014
Marian Alvarez in WOUNDED (LA HERIDA)
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi in HUMAN CAPITAL (IL CAPITALE UMANO)
Marion Cotillard in TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (DEUX JOURS, UNE NUIT)
Charlotte Gainsbourg in NYMPHOMANIAC DIRECTOR'S CUT – VOLUME I & II
Agata Kulesza in IDA
Agata Trzebuchowska in IDA

EUROPEAN ACTOR 2014
Brendan Gleeson in CALVARY
Tom Hardy in LOCKE
Alexey Serebryakov in LEVIATHAN (LEVIAFAN)
Stellan Skarsgård in NYMPHOMANIAC DIRECTOR'S CUT – VOLUME I & II
Timothy Spall in MR. TURNER

EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER 2014
Ebru Ceylan & Nuri Bilge Ceylan for WINTER SLEEP (KIŞ UYKUSU)
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne for TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (DEUX JOURS, UNE NUIT)
Steven Knight for LOCKE
Oleg Negin & Andrey Zvyagintsev for LEVIATHAN (LEVIAFAN)
Paweł Pawlikowski & Rebecca Lenkiewicz for IDA

EFA JURY AWARDS 2014

A special seven-member jury convened in Berlin and, based on the EFA Selection list, decided on the following awards recipients:

EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER – Prix CARLO DI PALMA 2014
Łukasz Żal & Ryszard Lenczewski for IDA

EUROPEAN EDITOR 2014
Justine Wright for LOCKE

EUROPEAN PRODUCTION DESIGNER 2014
Claus-Rudolf Amler for THE DARK VALLEY (DAS FINSTERE TAL)

EUROPEAN COSTUME DESIGNER 2014
Natascha Curtius-Noss for THE DARK VALLEY (DAS FINSTERE TAL)

EUROPEAN COMPOSER 2014
Mica Levi for UNDER THE SKIN

EUROPEAN SOUND DESIGNER 2014
Joakim Sundström for STARRED UP

Berlin & Seville, 8 November 2014

PLEASE NOTE: You will find a full list of all nominations at www.europeanfilmawards.eu and hi-res pictures at www.europeanfilmacademy.org/Pictures.212.0.html

THE 27th EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS: Riga, 13 December 2014
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An end full of new starts

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The European Film Academy proudly announces the six nominations in the category EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY 2014.

On the occasion of its forthcoming 5th edition, When East Meets West launches First Cut Lab (FCL), a programme designed for long feature films in the editing phase from Eastern Europe and Italy. Selected producer/director teams will work together with top festival programmers, sales agents, creative producers and editors, and will go through an intense process centred on their films embracing a variety of issues such as storytelling and rhythm in editing, festival strategy, marketing plans and audience focus.

PRAGUE: The Polish/Danish film Ida will take home one award and is nominated in another four categories of the European Film Academy awards which will be held in Riga on 13 December 2014.

Selected films from the Silver Eye market are available for online viewing.

WARSAW: The Japanese historical drama Persona Non Grata is completing production in Poland. The film was shot entirely in Poland with Polish cities standing in for Berlin, Kaunas, Moscow, Tokyo, New York, Klaipeda and Bucharest.