Screen International is once again to sponsor a major prize at the European Film Awards.

The Prix Screen International will be presented to the best non-European film at this year's Awards, which will be held in Berlin on Saturday Dec 6.

Nominations for all categories will be unveiled in the first week of November.

Other individual award sponsors are ARTE, the Fassbinder Foundation, Fipresci and UIP.

The major European Film Awards sponsors are Filmförderungsanstalt, Jameson Irish Whiskey, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures, TNT, TSX Inc and UIP.

The European Film Awards are produced by DDA Productions.