The European Film Academy has announced the 49 European films on the selectionlist for the 2006 European Film Awards.

EFA members in 20countries have voted one national film into the selection list, and then theEFA board and experts add further films to the list.

The Academy's 1700members will select films in various categories, and the nominations will beannounced on Nov 4 at Spain's Seville Film Festival. Awards will bepresented at a ceremony in Warsaw on Dec 2.

The selections are:

9th Company (9-Ya Rota), Russia/Ukraine/Finland, dir Fyodor Bondarchuk

12:08 EastOf Bucharest (AFost Sau N-A Fost), Romania, dir Corneliu Porumboiu

Mother Of Mine (Aideista Parhain), Finland, dir Klaus Haro

The Family Friend (L'AmicoDi Famiglia), Italy/France, dir Paolo Sorrentino

Along The Ridge (AncheLibero VaBene), Italy, dir Kim Rossi Stuart

Someone Else's Happiness (Een Ander ZijnGeluk), Belgium/Netherlands, dir Fien Troch

Thicker Than Water (Blodbond),Iceland/Denmark/Germany,dir Arni Olafur Asgeirsson

Breakfast On Pluto, Ireland/UK, dir Neil Jordan

The Bothersome Man (Den BrysommeMannen), Norway/Iceland, dir Jens Lien

The Caiman (Il Caimano),Italy/France, dir Nanni Moretti

Manslaughter (Drabet), Denmark/Norway/Sweden/UK, dir Per Fly

After The Wedding (EfterBrylluppet), Denmark/UK, dir Susanne Bier

White Palms (FeherTenyer), Hungary, Szabolcs Hajdu

Flanders (Flandres), France, dir Bruno Dumont

Free Jimmy, Norway/UK, dir Christopher Nielsen

Garpastum, Russia, dir Alexei German, Jr

Grbavica, Austria/Bosnia-Herzegovina/Germany/Croatia,dir Jasmila Zbanic

Climates (Iklimler),Turkey/France, dir Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Days Of Glory(Indigenes), France/Maroc/Algeria/Belgium, dir RachidBouchareb

Not Here To Be Loved (JeNe Suis Pas La Pour Etre Aime), France, dir Stephane Brize

Colossal Youth (JuventudeEm Marcha), Portugal/France/Switzerland, dir PedroCosta

Border Post (Karaula),Bosnia-Herzegovina/Croatia/Slovenia/Macedonia/UK/Serbia,dir Rajko Grlic

Close To Home (KarovLabayit), Israel, dir Dalia Hager AndVidi Bilu

The Collector (Komornik), Poland, dir Feliks Falk

Lights In The Dusk(Laitakaupungin Valot), Finland/Germany/France, dir Aki Kaurismaki

Northern Light (Langer Licht),The Netherlands, dir David Lammers

The Lives Of Others(Das Leben Der Anderen), Germany, dir Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck

Lady Zee (Leidi Zi), Bulgaria, dir Georgi Djulgerov

Liubi, Greece, dir Layia Yiourgou

Persona Non Grata,Poland/Russia/Italy, dir KrzysztofZanussi

Le Petit Lieutenant, France, dir Xavier Beauvois

Pride & Prejudice, UK, dir Joe Wright

Princesas, Spain, dir Fernando Leon De Aranoa

Princess, Denmark/Germany, dir Anders Morgenthaler

Requiem, Germany, dir Hans-Christian Schmid

The Road To Guantanamo, UK, dir Michael Winterbottomwith Mat Whitecross

Crime Novel (RomanzoCriminale), Italy, Michele Placido

Salvador (Puig Antich), Spain/UK, dir Manuel Huerga

The Science Of Sleep, France, dir Michel Gondry

Summer '04 (Sommer'04), Germany, dir Stefan Krohmer

Summer In Berlin (Sommer Vorm Balkon), Germany, dir Andreas Dresen

You Bet Your Life (SpieleLeben), Austria/Switzerland, dir Antonin Svoboda

Something Like Happiness (Stesti), CzechRepublic/Germany, dir Bohdan Sláma

Taxidermia, Hungary/Austria/France, dir Gyorgy Palfi

The Secret Life OfWords (La Vida Secreta de lasPalabras), Spain, dir Isabel Coixet

Vitus, Switzerland, dir Fredi M. Murer

Volver, Spain, dir Pedro Almodovar

The Wind That Shakes The Barley, UK/Ireland/Germany/Italy/Spain, dir KenLoach

Zozo, Sweden/Denmark/UK, dir Josef Fares