32nd European Film Awards (EFA) nominations longlist: ‘Les Misérables,’ ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ and more

Erik Anderson August 25, 2019

The 2019 European Film Awards (EFA) have announced a longlist of 46 films that will be in consideration for a nomination this year. Among them are Cannes winner Pain and Glory, Les Misérables, Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Little Joe and Berlin Golden Bear winner Synonyms. Germany’s entry for the International Feature Film Oscar, System Crasher, is also on the list.

The films have been selected by a committee consisting of the EFA Board and invited experts Giorgio Gosetti (festival programmer/Italy), Kathrin Kohlstedde (festival programmer/Germany), Paz Lazaro (festival programmer/Spain), Mary Nazari (exhibitor/Russia), Edvinas Pukšta (festival programmer/ Lithuania) and Agathe Valentin (sales agent/France).

In the coming weeks, the over 3,600 members of the European Film Academy will vote for the nominations in the categories European Film, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenwriter. The nominations will then be announced on November 9th at the Seville European Film Festival in Spain. An 8-member jury will decide on the awards recipients in the categories European Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Costume Design, Hair & Make-up, Original Score, Sound and Visual Effects.

The 32nd European Film Awards with the presentation of the winners will take place on December 7th in Berlin.

”I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians” (Rom-Czech-Fr-Bul-Ger) – Dir. Radu Jude
A Tale Of Three Sisters (Turkey-Ger-Neth-Greece) – Dir. Emin Alper
A Twelve Year Night (Sp-Fr-Arg) – Dir. Alvaro Brechner
A White, White, Day (Ice-Den-Swe) – Dir. Hlynur Pálmason
All Good (Ger) – Dir. Eva Trobisch
And Then We Danced (Swe-Geo-Fr) – Dir. Levan Akin
Bad Poems (Hun-Fr) – Dir. Gábor Reisz
Beanpole (Rus) – Dir. Kantemir Balagov
By The Grace Of God (Fr) – Dir. François Ozon
Chained (Isr-Ger) – Dir. Yaron Shani
Clergy (Pol) – Dir. Wojciech Smarzowski
Dafne (It) – Dir. Federico Bondi
Dirty God (Neth-UK-Bel-Ire) – Dir. Sacha Polak
Fire Will Come (Sp-Fr-Lux) – Dir. Laxe Oliver
God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunja (Republic of Macedonia-Bel-Slovenia-Fr-Cro) – Dir. Teona Stugar Mitevska
Gundermann (Ger) – Dir. Andreas Dresen
High Life (Ger-Fr-US-Pol-UK) – Dir. Claire Denis
Homeward (Ukr) – Dir. Nariman Aliev
I Was At Home, But (Ger-Ser) – Dir. Angela Schanelec
It Must Be Heaven (Fr-Qat-Ger-Can-Turkey-Palestine) – Dir. Elia Suleiman
Joy (Austria) – Dir. Sudabeh Morteza
Jumpman (Rus-Ire-Fr-Lithuania) – Dir. Ivan I. Tverdovsky
Les Misérables (Fr) – Dir. Ladj Ly
Little Joe (Austria-UK-Ger) – Dir. Jessica Hausner
Mr. Jones (Pol-UK-Ukr) – Dir. Agnieszka Holland
Non Fiction (Fr) – Dir. Agnieszka Holland
Oleg (Latvia-Lithuania-Bel-Fr) – Dir. Juris Kursietis
Pain And Glory (Sp) – Dir. Pedro Almodóvar
Piranhas (It) – Dir. Claudio Giovannes
Portrait Of A Lady On Fire (Fr) – Dir. Céline Sciamma
Queen Of Hearts (Den-Swe) – Dir. May el-Touhky
Sibel (Turkey-Fr-Ger-Lux) – Dir. Çagla Zencirci & Guillaume Giovanetti
Sons Of Denmark (Den) – Dir. Ulaa Salim
Sorry We Missed You (UK-Fr-Bel) – Dir. Ken Loach
Stitches (Ser) – Dir. Miroslav Terzić
Synonyms (Fr-Ger-Isr) – Dir. Nadav Lapid
System Crasher (Ger) – Dir. Nora Fingscheidt
Tel Aviv On Fire (Lux-Fr-Isr-Bel) – Dir. Sameh Zoabi
The Favourite (UK-Ire) – Dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
The Realm (Sp-Fr) – Dir. Rodrigo Sorogoyen
The Traitor (It-Ger-Fr-Bra) – Dir. Marco Bellocchio
The Whistlers (Rom-Fr) – Dir. Corneliu Porumboiu
Twin Flower (It) – Dir. Laura Luchetti
Werewolf (Pol-Ger-Neth) – Dir. Adrian Panek
Yesterday (UK) – Dir. Danny Boyle
Young Ahmed (Bel-Fr) – Dirs. Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.