Another Round leads Nordic hopefuls at European Film Awards nominations

The nominations for the 33rd European Film Awards were presented on Tuesday by the European Film Academy, EFA Productions, and the Seville European Film Festival.

Mike Downey, Chairman of the EFA Board said: “In order to widen the platform to more European films in what is such a difficult time for European cinema and artists, the EFA Board has decided to exceptionally increase the nominations in the full-length feature film categories and in the documentary category from five to six.”

Denmark leads the EFA nominations with five accolades in total.

Thomas Vinterberg’s sensational hit Another Round (726,199 admissions in Denmark and still climbing) produced by Zentropa is vying for Best European Film, Director, Actor (Mads Mikkelsen), and Screenplay (Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm). In an earlier statement, the EFA announced that the film is also nominated for the European University Award.

Feras Fayyad’s The Cave produced by Danish Documentary is competing for Best European Documentary.

Norway has three nominations: Maria Sødahl’s Hope produced by Motlys is running for Best European Director and Best Actress (Andrea Bræin Hovig). The drama was just picked as Norway’s Oscars hopeful.

Victor Kossakovsky’s Gunda produced by Sant & Usant, is running for Best European Documentary.

Sweden and Finland have one nomination each: the Swedish Oscar contender Charter by Amanda Kernell is competing for Best Actress (Ane Dahl Torp). The film was produced by Motlys.

Finland’s biggest local hit Ladies of Steel by Pamela Tola, produced by Helsinki-filmi is vying for Best European Comedy.

Nordisk Film & TV Fond is associated to three EFA nominations for Hope and Charter. More than 3,800 EFA Members are set to cast their vote for the winners, to be presented in a series of virtual events from December 8 to 12, 2020.

For further information, check: www.europeanfilmacademy.org