EFA Documentary Selection
15 documentaries made it to the brutto list of the best European documentaries according to this group of documentary connaisseurs, who got a list from festivals – based on their (the festival’s) recommendations and films individually submitted, the documentary committee, consisting of EFA Board Member Ira von Gienanth (Germany), festival programmers Marek Hovorka (Czech Republic) and Elena Subirà i Roca (Spain), producer Nik Powell (UK) and commissioning editor Sari Volanen (Finland) decided on the EFA Documentary Selection.
The films are:
A WOMAN CAPTURED Director: Bernadett Tuza-Ritter | Producers: Julianna Ugrin, Viki Réka | Hungary, Germany
http://www.filmkommentaren.dk/blog/blogpost/4093/
BERGMAN – A YEAR IN A LIFE Director: Jane Magnusson | Producers: Fredrik Heinig, Mattias Nohrborg | Sweden, Germany
http://www.filmkommentaren.dk/blog/blogpost/4294/
END OF LIFE Dir.: Paweł Wojtasik, John Bruce | Prod.: Athina Tsangari, John Bruce | Greece, USA
METEORS Director: Gürcan Keltek | Prod.: Arda Çiltepe, Marc Van Goethem, Burak Çevik | Netherlands, Turkey
OF FATHERS AND SONS Dir.: Talal Derki | Prod.: Tobias Siebert, Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme, Hans Robert Eisenhauer | Germany, Syria, Lebanon, Qatar
http://www.filmkommentaren.dk/blog/blogpost/4094/
SAMOUNI ROAD Director: Stefano Savona | Prod.: Marco Alessi, Penelope Bortoluzzi, Cécile Lestrade | Italy, France
SRBENKA Director: Nebojša Slijepčević | Producer: Vanja Jambrović | Croatia
http://www.filmkommentaren.dk/blog/blogpost/4308/
TARZAN’S TESTICLES Director: Alexandru Solomon | Prod.: Ada Solomon, Cedric Bonin, Pascaline Geoffroy | Romania, France
http://www.filmkommentaren.dk/blog/blogpost/4054/
THE DEAD NATION Director: Radu Jude | Producer: Ada Solomon | Romania
THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS Director: Simon Lereng Wilmont | Prod.: Monica Hellström, Tobias Janson, Sami Jahnukainen | Denmark, Finland, Sweden
http://www.filmkommentaren.dk/blog/blogpost/4099/
THE LUST FOR POWER Dir.: Tereza Nvotová | Prod.: Zuzana Mistríková, Ľubica Orechovská, Tereza Polachová, Kateřina Černá, Pavel Strnad | Slovakia, Czech Republic
http://www.filmkommentaren.dk/blog/blogpost/4078/
THE OTHER SIDE OF EVERYTHING Director: Mila Turajlic | Producer: Mila Turajlic, Carine Chichkowsky | Serbia, France
http://www.filmkommentaren.dk/blog/blogpost/4096/
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WALL Director: Pau Ortiz | Producer: María Nova López | Spain, Mexico
THE POETESS Dir.: Stefanie Brockhaus, Andreas Wolff | Producer: Andreas Wolff | Germany, United Arab Emirates
THE SILENCE OF OTHERS Dir.: Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar | Prod.: Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar | Spain, USA
The 15 will be reduced to 5 nominations by November 3, voters are members of EFA, and in December the winner will be announced.
You will notice from the links that 8 of the films have been reviewed or noted on this site.
Do I miss some films… well I think Marta Prus “Over the Limit” could have been there, Leonard Helmrich “The Long Season”, Arunas Matelis “Wonderful Losers”, Elvira Lind’s “Bobbi Jene” and “The Prince and the Dybbuk” by Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosolowski…
https://www.europeanfilmawards.eu/en_EN/selection-documentation-current