21/09/2015 - Goodnight Mommy, Limbo, Mustang, Slow West and Summer Downstairs are the nominees for the award

Mustang de Deniz Gamze Ergüven

The European Film Academy has announced this year’s nominations for the European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI, an award presented annually as part of the European Film Awards to a young and upcoming director for a first full-length feature film. These are the nominees: 

Goodnight Mommy [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Severin Fiala and Veronika …
film profile], Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala (Austria)
Limbo [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile], Anna Sofie Hartmann (Germany, Denmark)
Mustang [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Deniz Gamze Ergüven
film profile], Deniz Gamze Ergüven (France, Germany, Turkey)
Slow West [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: John Maclean
film profile], John Maclean (UK, New Zealand)
Summer Downstairs [+see also:
trailer
film profile], Tom Sommerlatte (Germany, France)

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This year’s nominations were determined by a committee comprised of EFA Board Member Dagmar Jacobsen (Germany), experts Mihai Chirilov (Cluj FF, Romania), Lynda Myles (Pandora Productions, UK) and Gerwin Tamsma (Rotterdam IFF, The Netherlands), as well as Krzysztof Kwiatkowski (Poland), Marco Spagnoli (Italy) and Neil Young (UK) as representatives of FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics. On invitation by the festival, the committee met in Oldenburg and decided on the following nominations. The rest of the nominations will then be announced on 7 November at the Seville European Film Festival, and the awards ceremony will take place in Berlin on 12 December.