Den 4 december delar EFA ut European Film Award på en prisceremoni i Tallinn och som enda svenska film har Jonas Odells animerade kortfilm ”Tussilago” chans att få pris.

Babak Najafis ”Sebbe” var utvald tillsammans med 45 andra europeiska filmer som hade chansen att bli nominerade. Men tyvärr – här blev det ingen nominering.

Den film som kan ta hem flest priser är Roman Polanskis ”Ghostwriter”, som är nominerad till Bästa film, Bästa regi, Bästa manliga skådespelare, Bästa manus, Bästa klippning, Bästa scenografi och Bästa kompositör.

Nominerade till bästa film är:

“Bal” (Honey), Turkiet/Tyskland
Regi: Semih Kaplanoğlu

“Des hommes et des dieux” (Of Gods and Men), Frankrike
Regi:  Xavier Beauvois

“The Ghostwriter", Frankrike/Tyskland/UK
Regi: Roman Polanski

”Lebanon” Israel/Tyskland/Frankrike
Regi: Samuel Maoz

“El secreto de sus ojos” (The Secret in their Eyes), Spanien/Argentina
Regi: Juan José Campanella

“Soul Kitchen”, Tyskland
Regi: Fatih Akin

Alla nomineringar finns att läsa på EFA:s hemsida.

Det största priset -  Nordeutsche Rundfunk-priset för Best Feature Film - tilldelades Pernilla Augusts ”Svinalängorna”. Förutom en statyett i glas så innebär priset en pengasumma på 12 500 euro (drygt 116 000 kronor).
Juryns motivering: ”A film that moves us deeply on account of its topicality and its radical intensity. The consistent artistic realization combined with impressive acting performances and visual accomplishments is very convincing. We were deeply touched by the topic of a seemingly hopeless living environment that offers no perspective, but which is nevertheless overcome in the end. A film that is both socially relevant and of artistic quality as the cosmos of its story unfolds”.

Babak Najafis ”Sebbe” vann barn- och ungdomsfilmspriset. Här var prissumman 2 500 euro (cirka 22 000 kronor).
Juryns motivering: "Director Babak Najafi’s feature film debut “Sebbe” hurts. 15-year old Sebbe is alone. He desperately hopes for his mother’s love while being utterly at the mercy of her emotional unpredictability. Sebbe has no chance of escaping his everyday life, shaped by poverty, strokes of fate and a lack of perspectives. It is the quiet acting of the film’s stars Sebastian Hiort af Ornäs and Eva Melander that particularly gives the film a vehemence that captivated us from beginning to end. The film is delicately composed and meticulously directed. The harmonious teamwork of all the creative departments has created a provocative social drama of hopelessness with a lasting effect on its audience.

Kyrkans filmpris tilldelades Agnieszka Lukasiaks nya film, flyktingdramat "Between Two Fires".
Juryns motivering: "Marta, a young woman, flees Belorussia in search of protection from violence and abuse. In Sweden, where she hopes to find refuge, she encounters cold administrative structures and only rare moments of human warmth. Agnieszka Lukasiak, the director and her protagonist Magda Poplawska succeed in depicting the manifold aspects of the situation which asylum seekers encounter in an authentic way. Marta preserves her human dignity even though she is forced to make sacrifices in a bureaucratic and cold system".

Och slutligen vann ”Sound of Noise” av Ola Simonsson och Johannes Stjärne Nilsson det baltiska filmpriset.
Juryns motivering: "The Baltic Jury Prize goes to a film that succeeds in showing us familiar things from a new perspective. A film, that, against our better instincts, encourages us to step up against the dictate of routine. A film that surprises and inspires, without missing a beat.

Nordische Filmtage i Lübeck arrangerades för 52:a gången den 3-7 november.

Graffitikonstnären Banksys film "Exit through the gift shop" har vunnit det brittiska dokumentärfilmspriset Griersons award, rapporterar BBC. Filmen, som även visades utom tävlan på filmfestivalen i Berlin i våras, anses av juryn vara både originell och insiktsfull.

Ständigt hemlige Banksy tackade juryn i ett förinspelat tacktal och dedicerade priset till de graffitikonstnärer som "riskerar liv och lem varje natt".

Griesons award har delats ut årligen sedan 1972 och syftar till att hedra ny dokumentärfilm."

"Watch seven outstanding documentaries from British Documentary School and Free Cinema Movement, including films by John Grierson, Robert Flaherty or Karel Reisz. These films from 1930s to 1950s are newly available on DocAllianceFilms.com for FREE STREAMING."