European Discovery 2020, Nominations

Six Debut Films Nominated for the European Film Awards 2020

Here are the nominees for the “European Discovery 2020 – Prix FIPRESCI”, an award presented annually as part of the European Film Awards to a director for a first full-length feature film.

This year’s nominations were determined by a committee comprised of EFA Board Members Valérie Delpierre (Spain) and Anita Juka (Croatia), curator Giona A. Nazzaro (Italy) as well as film critics Marta Balaga (Finland/Poland), Andrei Plakhov (Russia) and Frédéric Ponsard (France), all three as representatives of FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics.

Nominated are:

“Full Moon” (Pun mjesec) by Nermin Hamzagic
Bosnia & Herzegovina

“Gagarine” by Fanny Liatard & Jérémy Trouilh
France

“Instinct” by Halina Reijn
The Netherlands

“Isaac” (Izaokas) by Jurgis Matulevičius
Lithuania

“Jumbo” by Zoé Wittock
France, Belgium, Luxembourg

“Sole” by Carlo Sironi
Italy, Poland

The nominated films will soon be made available on the EFA VOD Platform to the more than 3,800 EFA Members who elect the winner. The European Discovery 2020 – Prix FIPRESCI will then be presented at the 33rd European Film Awards Ceremony on Saturday, 12 December.

Berlin, 8 October 2020

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