The European Film Academy has announced the nominees for the main categories of the upcoming 38th European Film Awards, which will take place on 17 January in Berlin. The frontrunners are the most highly acclaimed and rewarded European films from this year’s Cannes competition: Joachim Trier’s Grand Prize winner Sentimental Value [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Joachim Trier
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intervista: Óliver Laxe
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intervista: Jafar Panahi
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intervista: Mascha Schilinski
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Sentimental Value is vying for prizes in five categories, including European Film, European Director and European Screenwriter, as well as European Actress for Renate Reinsve’s work and European Actor for Stellan Skarsgård’s. Following hot on its heels is Sirāt, competing in four categories (European Film, European Director, European Screenwriter and European Actor for Sergi López’s turn), and close behind it are It Was Just an Accident and Sound of Falling, both present in three categories (European Film, European Director and European Screenwriter).

Other movies managed to get slots in the main categories, such as Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grazia [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Nicola Giuliano
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intervista: Domenico Procacci
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A list of well-known and well-loved actors has been assembled in the acting categories, besides the aforementioned ones, including Mads Mikkelsen for The Last Viking [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Pietro Marcello
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intervista: Anna Cazenave Cambet
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intervista: Dominik Moll
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intervista: Petra Volpe
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intervista: Agnieszka Holland
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The European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI category once again highlights an array of interesting and acclaimed first features, including Akinola Davies Jr’s My Father’s Shadow [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Akinola Davies Jr.
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intervista: Laura Carreira
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intervista: Urška Djukić
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intervista: Mathias Broe
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intervista: Mara Tamkovich
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Lastly, the European Documentary and European Animated Feature Film categories, whose selection of films is also vying for the European Film award for the second year, boast titles such as Albert Serra's San Sebastián Golden Shell winner Afternoons of Solitude [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Albert Serra
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intervista: Ugo Bienvenu
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Here is the full list of nominees:

European Film
Dog of God [+leggi anche:
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With Hasan In Gaza [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Kamal Aljafari
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The Voice of Hind Rajab [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Kaouther Ben Hania
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Fiume o morte! [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Igor Bezinović (Croatia/Slovenia/Italy)
Arco [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Ugo Bienvenu
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Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake [+leggi anche:
intervista: Irene Iborra
scheda film] - Irene Iborra Rizo (Spain/France/Belgium/Switzerland/Chile)
Sirāt [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Óliver Laxe
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It Was Just an Accident [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Jafar Panahi
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Sound of Falling [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Mascha Schilinski
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Afternoons of Solitude [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Albert Serra
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Tales from the Magic Garden [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - David Súkup, Patrik Pašš, Leon Vidmar & Jean-Claude Rozec (Czech Republic/Slovakia/Slovenia/France)
Sentimental Value [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Joachim Trier
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Songs of Slow Burning Earth [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Olha Zhurba
scheda film] - Olha Zhurba (Ukraine/France/Denmark/Sweden)
Little Amelie [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho …
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Riefenstahl [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Andres Veiel
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European Documentary
With Hasan in Gaza - Kamal Aljafari
Fiume o morte! - Igor Bezinović
Afternoons of Solitude - Albert Serra
Riefenstahl - Andres Veiel
Songs Of Slow Burning Earth - Olha Zhurba

European Animated Feature Film
Dog of God - Raitis Ābele & Lauris Ābele
Arco - Ugo Bienvenu
Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake - Irene Iborra Rizo
Tales from the Magic Garden - David Súkup, Patrik Pašš, Leon Vidmar & Jean-Claude Rozec
Little Amelie - Maïlys Vallade & Liane-Cho Han

European Director
Yorgos Lanthimos - Bugonia [+leggi anche:
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Oliver Laxe - Sirāt
Jafar Panahi - It Was Just An Accident
Mascha Schilinski - Sound of Falling
Joachim Trier - Sentimental Value

European Actress
Leonie Benesch - Late Shift [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Petra Volpe
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Valeria Bruni Tedeschi - Duse [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Pietro Marcello
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Léa Drucker - Case 137 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Dominik Moll
scheda film] (France)
Vicky Krieps - Love Me Tender [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Anna Cazenave Cambet
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Renate Reinsve - Sentimental Value

European Actor
Sergi López - Sirāt
Mads Mikkelsen - The Last Viking [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Anders Thomas Jensen
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Toni Servillo - La Grazia [+leggi anche:
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Stellan Skarsgård - Sentimental Value
Idan Weiss - Franz [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Agnieszka Holland
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European Screenwriter
Santiago Fillol & Oliver Laxe - Sirāt
Jafar Panahi - It Was Just an Accident
Mascha Schilinski & Louise Peter - Sound of Falling
Paolo Sorrentino - La Grazia
Eskil Vogt & Joachim Trier - Sentimental Value

European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI
Sauna [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Mathias Broe
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On Falling [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Laura Carreira
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My Father’s Shadow [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Akinola Davies Jr.
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Little Trouble Girls [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Urška Djukić
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One of Those Days When Hemme Dies [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Murat Fıratoğlu (Turkey/Germany)
Under the Grey Sky [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Mara Tamkovich
scheda film] - Mara Tamkovich (Poland)

European Young Audience Award
Arco - Ugo Bienvenu
I Accidentally Wrote a Book [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Nóra Lakos (Hungary/Netherlands)
Siblings [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Greta Scarano (Italy)