25/08/2020 - The selection, from which five final nominations will be decided, features titles by Sébastien Lifshitz, Sergei Loznitsa and Alexander Nanau

The European Film Academy and EFA Productions have announced the EFA Documentary Selection, a list of 13 European documentaries recommended for a nomination for this year's European Film Awards. There are 14 European countries represented in this year’s EFA Documentary Selection.

The EFA Documentary Committee, consisting of EFA Board Members Graziella Bildesheim (Italy) and Henning Kamm (Germany) as well as documentary experts Veton Nurkollari (Kosovo), Rada Šešić (Bosnia and Herzegovina/The Netherlands/Croatia), Elena Subirà i Roca (Spain) and Alex Szalat (France) decided on the EFA Documentary Selection. EFA Members will now vote for five documentary nominations. Based on these nominations, the EFA Members will then elect the ‘European Documentary 2020’, which will be announced during the awards ceremony on 12 December in Reykjavik.

The selected documentaries:

Acasa - My Home [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Radu Ciorniciuc
film profile] - Radu Ciorniciuc (Romania/Germany/Finland)
Collective [+see also:
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trailer
film profile] - Alexander Nanau (Romania/Luxembourg)
I Am Not Alone [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Garin Hovannisian (Armenia)
Little Girl [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Sébastien Lifshitz
film profile] - Sébastien Lifshitz (France)
Once More Unto the Breach [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Federico Ferrone, Michele M…
film profile] - Federico Ferrone & Michele Manzolini (Italy)
Saudi Runaway [+see also:
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film profile] - Susanne Regina Meures (Switzerland)
Self Portrait [+see also:
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film profile] - Margreth Olin, Katja Hogset & Espen Wallin (Norway)
State Funeral [+see also:
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trailer
film profile] - Sergei Loznitsa (Netherlands/Lithuania)
The Cave [+see also:
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trailer
film profile] - Feras Fayyad (Syria/Denmark/Germany/USA/Qatar)
The Earth Is Blue as an Orange [+see also:
film review
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interview: Iryna Tsilyk
film profile] - Iryna Tsilyk (Ukraine/Lithuania)
The Euphoria of Being [+see also:
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trailer
film profile] - Réka Szabó (Hungary)
They Call Me Babu [+see also:
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film profile] - Sandra Beerends (Netherlands)
Walchensee Forever [+see also:
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trailer
film profile] - Janna Ji Wonders (Germany)