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Antoniak, Maoz, Aladag, Serban and Capotondi Vying for EFA Discovery Award
Completing the five noms, there’s Florin Serban’s Berlin Film Festival-winning If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle (Film Movement) along with Germany’s Feo Aladag’s When We Leave (Olive Films) and overwhelming 2009 Locarno winning favorite in Urszula Antoniak’s Nothing Personal (Olive Films).
The European Film Academy have announced this year’s nominations for the EUROPEAN DISCOVERY – Prix FIPRESCI, an award presented annually as part of the European Film Awards (23rd edition) to a young and upcoming director for a first full-length feature film, and leading the pack we have the front-runner and more known Venice winning title of 2009 in Samuel Maoz’s Lebanon (an Israel/Germany/France co-production) and also from Venice of the same year, Giuseppe Capotondi’s La doppia ora (The Double Hour). Completing the five noms, there’s Florin Serban’s Berlin Film Festival-winning If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle (Film Movement) along with Germany’s Feo Aladag’s When We Leave (Olive Films) and overwhelming 2009 Locarno winning favorite in Urszula Antoniak’s Nothing Personal (Olive Films) – see pic above.
Here are the trailers for the five nominated films – the winner will be announced on 4 December in Tallinn/Estonia.
La doppia ora (The Double Hour) – Giuseppe Capotondi
If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle – Florin Serban
Die Fremde (When We Leave) – Feo Aladag
Lebanon – Samuel Maoz
Nothing Personal – Urszula Antoniak