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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).

Eric Lavallée

Published on October 11, 2010

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

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).