The European Film Academy has announced the nominees for the European Discovery 2021 – Prix FIPRESCI, an award presented annually as part of the European Film Awards to a director for a first full-length feature film. This year’s nominations were determined by a committee comprised of European Film Academy Board Members Anita Juka (Croatia) and Joanna Szymańska (Poland), producer-screenwriter Paula Alvarez Vaccaro (UK/Italy), producer Vladimer Katcharava (Georgia) as well as film critics Marta Bałaga (Finland/Poland), Janet Baris (Turkey), Andrei Plakhov (Russia), Frédéric Ponsard (France) and Britt Sørensen (Norway) as representatives of FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics).

The nominees are:

Beginning [+lire aussi :
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interview : Dea Kulumbegashvili
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Lamb [+lire aussi :
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interview : Valdimar Jóhannsson
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Playground [+lire aussi :
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interview : Laura Wandel
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Pleasure [+lire aussi :
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interview : Ninja Thyberg
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Promising Young Woman [+lire aussi :
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The Whaler Boy [+lire aussi :
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interview : Philipp Yuryev
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The nominated films will soon be made available on the European Film Academy’s VOD Platform to the more than 4,100 members who elect the winner. The European Discovery 2021 – Prix FIPRESCI will then be presented at the 34th European Film Awards ceremony on Saturday, 11 December.