Germany leads the pack with 8 films, whilst the UK has 4 features on the list including Mike Leigh’s Another Year and Sam Taylor Wood’s Nowhere Boy.

The European Film Academy has revealed the 46 films selected for this year’s European Film Awards.

EFA members will now vote for their selections and the nominations will be announced on November 6 at the Seville European Film Festival. The 23rd European Film Awards will be presented in Tallinn, Estonia on 4 December.

The list is made up by the 20 countries with the most EFA members, which have voted one national film directly onto the list, while further films were added by EFA board members and experts Gunnar Bergdahl (Sweden), Pierre-Henri Deleau, Stefan Kitanov (Bulgaria), Derek Malcom (UK) and Nikolaj Nikitin (Germany).

Out of the 32 countries represented, Germany is leading the pack with 8 productions/co productions including Fatih Akin’s Soul Kitchen and Feo Aladag’s When We Leave. France has 7 nominations, whilst Italy has 5 and the UK and Netherlands are on 4. UK films in the list include Mike Leigh’s Another Year and Sam Taylor Wood’s Nowhere Boy.

The List:

3 Seasons In Hell, dir Tomas Masin (Czech Republic)

Another Year, dir Mike Leigh (UK)

Honey, dir Semih Kaplanoğlu (Turkey/Germany)

Carlos, dir Olivier Assayas (France)

Cell 211, dir Daniel Monzón (Spain/France)

The Concert, dir Radu Mihaileanu (France)

Of Gods And Men, dir Xavier Beauvois (France)

If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle, dir Florin Serban (Romania)

Film Socialism, dir Jean-Luc Godard (Switzerland)

When We Leave, dir Feo Aladag (Germany)

The Ghost Writer, dir Roman Polanski (France/Germany/UK)

Julia’s Disappearance, dir Christoph Schaub (Switzerland)

Honeymoons, dir Goran Paskaljevic (Serbia/Albania)

I, Don Giovanni, dir Carlos Saura (Australia/Italy/Spain)

How I Ended This Summer, dir Alexei Popogrebsky (Russia)

Kawasaki’s Rose, dir Jan Hřebejk (Czech Republic)

Donkey, dir Antonio Nuić (Croatia)

Lebanon, dir Samuel Maoz (Israel)

Lourdes, dir Jessica Hausner (Austria/France/Germany)

Mamma Gogo, dir Fridrik Thor Fridriksson (Iceland)

Loose Cannons, dir Ferzan Ozpetek (Italy)

My Queen Karo, dir Dorothée van den Berghe (Belgium/Netherlands)

On The Path, dir Jasmila Žbanić (Bosnia & Herzegovina/Austria/Germany/Croatia)

Our Life, dir Daniele Luchetti (Italy)

Nothing Personal, dir Urszula Antoniak (Netherlands)

Nowhere Boy, dir Sam Taylor-Wood (UK)

Ondine, dir Neil Jordan (Ireland)

Bad Family, dir Aleksi Salmenperä (Finland)

Adrienn Pal, dir Ágnes Kocsis (Hungary)

The First Beautiful Thing, dir Paolo Virzi (Italy)

The Temptation of St. Tony, dir Veiko Õunpuu (Estonia)

The Robber, dir Benjamin Heisenberg (Austria/Germany)

The Reverse, dir Borys Lankosz (Poland)

My Joy, dir Sergei Loznitsa (Germany/Ukraine/Netherlands)

Sebbe, dir Babak Najafi (Sweden)

The Secret In Their Eyes, dir Juan José Campanella (Spain/Argentina)

Slovenian Girl, dir Damjan Kozole (Slovenia)

Soul Kitchen, dir Fatih Akin (Germany)

Submarino, dir Thomas Vinterberg (Denmark)

Tamara Drewe, dir Stephen Frears (UK)

Four Black Suits, dir Renos Haralambidis (Greece)

On Tour, dir Mathieu Amalric (France)

The Man Who Will Come, dir Giorgio Diritti (Italy)

Upperdog, dir Sara Johnsen (Norway)

The Aviatrix Of Kazbek, dir Ineke Smits (Netherlands/Georgia)

Voice Over, dir Svetoslav Ovcharov (Bulgaria)

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