09/10/2018 - Girl, One Day, Scary Mother, The Guilty, Those Who Are Fine and Touch Me Not vie for the European Discovery award

The European Film Academy has announced the nominees for the European Discovery 2018 - 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.

This year's nominations were determined by a committee comprised of EFA Board Member Katriel Schory (Israel), festival programmers Mihai Chirilov (Romania) and Azize Tan (Turkey) as well as film critics Isabelle Danel (France), Robbie Eksiel (Greece) and Michael Pattison (UK) as representatives of FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics.

The nominees are:

European Discovery - Prix FIPRESCI
Girl [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Lukas Dhont
film profile] - Lukas Dhont (Belgium/Netherlands)
One Day [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Zsófia Szilágyi
film profile] - Zsófia Szilágyi (Hungary)
Scary Mother [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Ana Urushadze
film profile] - Ana Urushadze (Georgia/Estonia)
The Guilty [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Gustav Möller
film profile] - Gustav Möller (Denmark)
Those Who Are Fine [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Cyril Schäublin (Switzerland)
Touch Me Not [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Adina Pintilie
film profile] - Adina Pintilie (Romania/Germany/Czech Republic/Bulgaria/France)

The nominated films will soon be submitted to the more than 3,500 EFA Members to elect the winner. The European Discovery 2018 - Prix FIPRESCI will then be presented at the 31st European Film Awards Ceremony on Saturday, 15 December, in Seville.