Room, Toni Erdmann, Julieta on 2016 European Film Awards Consideration List

Erik Anderson August 23, 2016

50 films have been selected for consideration at the 29th European Film Awards, including Oscar winner Room (representing Ireland and starring Best Actress Brie Larson) and 2016 Cannes Palme D’or winner I, Daniel Blake from Ken Loach and Graduation, from Best Director winner Cristian Mungiu. A handful of other Cannes entries made the list, including Sieranevada from Cristi Puiu, Toni Erdmann from Maren Ade (which is also on Germany’s shortlist for the Foreign Language Film Oscar), Julieta from Pedro Almodovar, Elle from Paul Verhoeven and The Unknown Girl from The Dardenne Brothers.

Many films listed are the official submissions and shortlists for the Foreign Language Film Oscar at next year’s Academy Awards. They include: The Commune and Land of Mine (on Denmark’s shortlist); Julieta and The Olive (on Spain’s shortlist) and Israel’s Beyond the Mountains and Hills. The previously mentioned Sieranevada is the official submission from Romania.

Florence Foster Jenkins, starring Meryl Streep and directed by Stephen Frears made the list, as did Suffragette, starring Carey Mulligan (and again, Meryl Streep – in a cameo). Isabelle Huppert sees double vision again as she has two films in consideration – her Cannes entry Elle and the Berlinale-winning Things to Come.

THE 29TH EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS will be held on December 10th, 2016 in Wroclaw/Poland. Here is the full list of films under consideration:

EFA FEATURE FILM SELECTION

24 WEEKS / 24 WOCHEN

Germany (102 min)

DIRECTED BY: Anne Zohra Berrached
WRITTEN BY: Carl Gerber, Anne Zohra Berrached
A MAN CALLED OVE / EN MAN SOM HETER OVE

Sweden, Norway (112 min)

DIRECTED BY: Hannes Holm
WRITTEN BY: Hannes Holm
A WAR / KRIGEN

Denmark (115 min)

DIRECTED BY: Adam Nielsen
WRITTEN BY: Tobias Lindholm
BEING 17 / QUAND ON A 17 ANS

France (114 min)

DIRECTED BY: André Téchiné
WRITTEN BY: André Téchiné, Céline Sciamma
BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS AND HILLS /
מעבר להרים ולגבעות (ME’EVER LAHARIM VEHAGVAOT)

Israel, Germany, Belgium (92 min)

DIRECTED BY: Eran Kolirin
WRITTEN BY: Eran Kolirin
CHEVALIER / CHEVALIER

Greece, Germany (99 min)

DIRECTED BY: Athina Rachel Tsangari
WRITTEN BY: Efthimis Filippou, Athina Rachel Tsangari
DAWN / AUSMA

Latvia, Poland, Estonia (92 min)

DIRECTED BY: Laila Pakalnina
WRITTEN BY: Laila Pakalnina
DEATH IN SARAJEVO / SMRT U SARAJEVU

France, Bosnia-Herzegovina (85 min)

DIRECTED BY: Danis Tanović
WRITTEN BY: Danis Tanović
DON’T BE BAD / NON ESSERE CATTIVO

Italy (102 min)

DIRECTED BY: Claudio Caligari
WRITTEN BY: Claudio Caligari, Francesca Serafini, Giordano Meacci
ELLE / ELLE

France, Germany (130 min)

DIRECTED BY: Paul Verhoeven
FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS / FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS

UK (110 min)

DIRECTED BY: Stephen Frears
WRITTEN BY: Nicholas Martin
FRENZY / ABLUKA

Turkey, Qatar, France (119 min)

DIRECTED BY: Emin Alper
WRITTEN BY: Emin Alper
GRADUATION / BACALAUREAT

Romania, France, Belgium (128 min)

DIRECTED BY: Cristian Mungiu
WRITTEN BY: Cristian Mungiu
I, DANIEL BLAKE / I, DANIEL BLAKE

UK, France (97 min)

DIRECTED BY: Ken Loach
WRITTEN BY: Paul Laverty
I, OLGA HEPNAROVA / JÁ, OLGA HEPNAROVÁ

Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, France (105 min)

DIRECTED BY: Tomáš Weinreb, Petr Kazda
WRITTEN BY: Tomáš Weinreb, Petr Kazda
JULIETA / JULIETA

Spain (96 min)

DIRECTED BY: Pedro Almodóvar
WRITTEN BY: Pedro Almodóvar
KILLS ON WHEELS / TISZTA SZÍVVEL

Hungary (105 min)

DIRECTED BY: Attila Till
WRITTEN BY: Attila Till
KÖPEK / KÖPEK

Switzerland (98 min)

DIRECTED BY: Esen Işık
WRITTEN BY: Esen Işık
LAND OF MINE / UNDER SANDET

Denmark, Germany (97 min)

DIRECTED BY: Martin Zandvliet
WRITTEN BY: Martin Zandvliet
LETTERS FROM WAR / CARTAS DA GUERRA

Portugal (105 min)

DIRECTED BY: Ivo M. Ferreira
WRITTEN BY: Edgar Medina, Ivo M. Ferreira
LIKE CRAZY / LA PAZZA GIOIA

Italy, France (118 min)

DIRECTED BY: Paolo Virzi
WRITTEN BY: Paolo Virzi, Francesca Archibugi
LOST IN MUNICH / ZTRACENI V MNICHOVĚ

Czech Republic (105 min)

DIRECTED BY: Petr Zelenka
WRITTEN BY: Petr Zelenka
MAMMAL / MAMMAL

Ireland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands (96 min)

DIRECTED BY: Rebecca Daly
WRITTEN BY: Rebecca Daly
MIMOSAS / MIMOSAS

Spain, Morocco, France, Qatar (96 min)

DIRECTED BY: Oliver Laxe
WRITTEN BY: Oliver Laxe, Santiago Fillol
ON THE OTHER SIDE / S ON STRANE

Croatia, Serbia (85 min)

DIRECTED BY: Zrinko Ogresta
WRITTEN BY: Mate Matišić, Zrinko Ogresta
ONE OF US / EINER VON UNS

Austria (86 min)

DIRECTED BY: Stephan Richter
WRITTEN BY: Stephan Richter
PERFECT STRANGERS / PERFETTI SCONOSCIUTI

Italy (90 min)

DIRECTED BY: Paolo Genovese
WRITTEN BY: Paolo Costella, Paolo Genovese, Paola Mammini, Rolando Ravello
PYROMANIAC / PYROMANEN

Norway, Sweden, Germany (96 min)

DIRECTED BY: Erik Skjoldbjærg
WRITTEN BY: Bjørn Olaf Johannessen
RAUF / RAUF

Turkey

DIRECTED BY: Bariş Kaya, Soner Caner
WRITTEN BY: Soner Caner
ROOM / ROOM

Ireland, Canada (118 min)

DIRECTED BY: Lenny Abrahamson
WRITTEN BY: Emma Donoghue
SIERANEVADA / SIERANEVADA

Romania, France (173 min)

DIRECTED BY: Cristi Puiu
WRITTEN BY: Cristi Puiu
SONG OF SONGS / PESN PESNEY

Ukraine (76 min)

DIRECTED BY: Eva Neymann
WRITTEN BY: Eva Neymann
SPARROWS / PRESTIR

Iceland, Denmark, Croatia (96 min)

DIRECTED BY: Rúnar Rúnarsson
WRITTEN BY: Rúnar Rúnarsson
STRANGE HEAVEN / OBCE NIEBO

(107 min)

DIRECTED BY: Dariusz Gajewski
WRITTEN BY: Dariusz Gajewski, Michal Godzic
SUFFRAGETTE / SUFFRAGETTE

UK (106 min)

DIRECTED BY: Sarah Gavron
SUNTAN / SUNTAN

Greece, Germany (104 min)

DIRECTED BY: Argyris Papadimitropoulos
WRITTEN BY: Syllas Tzoumerkas, Argyris Papadimitropoulos
THE ARDENNES / D’ARDENNEN

Belgium, The Netherlands (90 min)

DIRECTED BY: Robin Pront
WRITTEN BY: Jeroen Perceval
THE COMMUNE / KOLLEKTIVET

Denmark, Sweden, The Netherlands (111 min)

DIRECTED BY: Thomas Vinterberg
WRITTEN BY: Thomas Vinterberg, Tobias Lindholm
THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFE OF OLLI MAKI / HYMALIEVÄ MIES

Finland, Germany, Sweden (94 min)

DIRECTED BY: Juho Kuosmanen
WRITTEN BY: Juho Kuosmanen
THE LURE / CÓRKI DANCINGU

Poland (92 min)

DIRECTED BY: Agnieszka Smoczynska
WRITTEN BY: Robert Bolesto
THE OLIVE TREE / EL OLIVO

Spain, Germany (98 min)

DIRECTED BY: Iciar Bollain
WRITTEN BY: Paul Laverty
THE PARADISE SUITE / THE PARADISE SUITE

The Netherlands, Sweden, Bulgaria (123 min)

DIRECTED BY: Joost Van Ginkel
WRITTEN BY: Joost Van Ginkel
THE PEOPLE VS. FRITZ BAUER / DER STAAT GEGEN FRITZ BAUER

Germany (105 min)

DIRECTED BY: Lars Kraume
WRITTEN BY: Oliver Guez, Lars Kraume
THE STUDENT / УЧЕНИК (UCHENIK)

Russia (119 min)

DIRECTED BY: Kiril Serebrennikov
WRITTEN BY: Kiril Serebrennikov
THE UNKNOWN GIRL / LA FILLE INCONNUE

Belgium, France (113 min)

DIRECTED BY: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
WRITTEN BY: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
THINGS TO COME / L’AVENIR

France, Germany (100 min)

DIRECTED BY: Mia Hansen-Løve
WRITTEN BY: Mia Hansen-Løve
TIKKUN / TIKKUN

Israel (120 min)

DIRECTED BY: Avishai Sivan
WRITTEN BY: Avishai Sivan
TONI ERDMANN / TONI ERDMANN

Germany, Austria (162 min)

DIRECTED BY: Maren Ade
WRITTEN BY: Maren Ade
TRUMAN / TRUMAN

Spain, Argentina (108 min)

DIRECTED BY: Cesc Gay
WRITTEN BY: Cesc Gay, Tomás Aragay
UNITED STATES OF LOVE / ZJEDNOCZONE STANY MIŁOŚCI

Poland, Sweden (104 min)

DIRECTED BY: Tomasz Wasilewski
WRITTEN BY: Tomasz Wasilewski

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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.