Voting online starts today.

The European Film Academy has opened the voting for the People’s Choice Award 2011. From today, audiences can cast their votes at www.europeanfilmawards.eu.

Past winners include Amelie, Head-On, Slumdog Millionaire and Volver.

Voters can also win the chance to attend the EFAs on Dec 3 in Berlin.

The shortlisted films are:

ANIMALS UNITED (Konferenz der Tiere), dirs. Reinhard Klooss & Holger Tappe

EVEN THE RAIN (También la lluvia), dir. Icíar Bollaín

IN A BETTER WORLD (Hævnen), dir. Susanne Bier

THE KING’S SPEECH, dir. Tom Hooper

LITTLE WHITE LIES (Les Petits Mouchoirs), dir. Guillaume Canet

POTICHE, dir. François Ozon

UNKNOWN, dir. Jaume Collet-Serra

WELCOME TO THE SOUTH (Benvenuti al Sud), dir. Luca Miniero