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VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE EUROPEAN FILM AND WIN A
TRIP TO THE 26th EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS IN BERLIN!
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY OPENS VOTE FOR PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD 2013
Every year, the EFA People’s Choice Award allows film fans across Europe to elect their
favourite film. When the European Film Academy invites its members, Europe’s greatest
film stars, directors, actors and actresses, to attend the European Film Awards, the
People’s Choice Award sheds a spotlight on the people films are made for: the audience.
This year’s vote has started – vote now and win the chance to join winners and
nominees for the awards ceremony in Berlin!
Winners in the past have included films like Pedro Almodóvar’s VOLVER, Roberto
Benigni’s LA VITA E BELLA, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s AMÉLIE, Fatih Akin’s HEAD-ON, and
Danny Boyle’s SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE. In 2012, the EFA People's Choice Award went to
HASTA LA VISTA by Geoffrey Enthoven from Belgium.
Film fans can cast their vote on the official website
www.europeanfilmawards.eu
and win a trip to the 26th European Film Awards on Saturday, 7 December 2013, in
Berlin!
NOMINATED ARE:
ANNA KARENINA UK, 124 min
DIRECTED BY: Joe Wright
WRITTEN BY: Tom Stoppard
WITH: Keira Knightley, Aaron Johnson, Jude Law, Matthew Macfadyen, Domhnall
Gleeson, Alicia Vikander
THE BEST OFFER Italy, 130 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Giuseppe Tornatore
WITH: Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Sylvia Hoeks, Donald Sutherland
THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN Belgium, 100 min
DIRECTED BY: Felix van Groeningen
WRITTEN BY: Carl Joos & Felix van Groeningen
WITH: Veerle Baetens, Johan Heldenbergh, Nell Cattrysse, Geert van Rampelberg, Nils de
Caster
THE DEEP (DJÚPIÐ) Iceland/Norway, 92 min
DIRECTED BY: Baltasar Kormákur
WRITTEN BY: Jón Atli Jónasson & Baltasar Kormákur
WITH: Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Jóhann G. Jóhannsson, Stefán Hallur Stefánsson, Björn
Thors, Thorbjorg H. Thorgilsdótir
EFA Patrons 2013
as of August
★
CATALAN INSTITUTE FOR
CULTURAL COMPANIES FROM
THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE OF
CATALONIA
★
CENTRE DU CINEMA OF THE
FEDERATION WALLONIA
BRUSSELS
★
DANISH FILM INSTITUTE
★
EURIMAGES
★
EUROPEAN FILM BONDS (EFB)
★
FILM FINANCES SCANDINAVIA
AB
★
FILM FUND LUXEMBOURG
★
FLANDERS AUDIOVISUAL FUND
(VAF)
★
HUNGARIAN NATIONAL FILM
FUND
★
ICELANDIC FILM CENTRE
★
IRISH FILM BOARD
★
ISTITUTO LUCE / CINECITTÀ
s.r.l.
★
KOSOVA CINEMATOGRAPHY
CENTER
★
MACEDONIAN FILM FUND
★
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND
CULTURE OF CYPRUS
(CULTURAL SERVICES)
★
NETHERLANDS FILM FUND
★
POLISH FILM INSTITUTE
★
SWEDISH FILM INSTITUTE
★
SWISS FILMS
★
TELEWIZJA POLSKA S.A. (TVP)
★
THE
26th EUROPEAN FILM
AWARDS
Berlin
7 December 2013
supported by the MEDIA
Programme of the EU
THE GILDED CAGE (LA CAGE DORÉE) Portugal/France, 90 min
DIRECTED BY: Ruben Alves
WRITTEN: Ruben Alves, Jean-André Yerlès, Hugo Gélin
WITH: Rita Blanco, Joaquim de Almeida, Roland Giraud, Chantal Lauby, Barbara Cabrita, Lannick
Gautry
I’M SO EXCITED (LOS AMANTES PASAJEROS) Spain, 90 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Pedro Almodóvar
WITH: Javier Cámara, Carlos Areces, Raúl Arévalo, Lola Dueñas, Cecilia Roth
THE IMPOSSIBLE (LO IMPOSIBLE) Spain, 114 min
DIRECTED BY: J.A. Bayona
WRITTEN BY: Sergio G. Sánchez & María Belón
WITH: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland, Samuel Joslin, Oaklee Pendergast
KON-TIKI Norway, Denmark, UK, Germany, Sweden, 113 min
DIRECTED BY: Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg
WRITTEN BY: Petter Skavlan
WITH: Pål Sverre Hagen, Anders Bassmo Christiansen, Tobias Santelmann, Gustaf Skarsgaard, OddMagnus Williamson, Jakob Oftebro, Agnes Kittelsen
LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED (DEN SKALDEDE FRISØR) Denmark, 111 min
DIRECTED BY: Susanne Bier
WRITTEN BY: Anders Thomas Jensen & Susanne Bier
WITH: Pierce Brosnan, Trine Dyrholm, Paprika Steen, Kim Bodnia
OH BOY! Germany, 83 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Jan Ole Gerster
WITH: Tom Schilling, Marc Hosemann, Friederike Kempter, Michael Gwisdek
SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN UK/Sweden, 83 min
DIRECTED BY: Malik Bendjelloul
The winner of the EFA People’s Choice Award 2013 will be announced on stage during the European
Film Awards Ceremony on 7 December in Berlin.
Ernst & Young, one of the leading global professional services firms, continues to act as Official
Tabulator, endorsing the voting procedures and confirming the winner.
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY e.V., Kurfürstendamm 225, 10719 Berlin, GERMANY
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The European Film Awards 2013 are presented by the European Film Academy e.V. and EFA
Productions gGmbH with the support of the FFA German Federal Film Board, the German State
Lottery Berlin, the German State Minister for Culture and the Media, the MEDIA Programme of the
EU, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, GLS, Hôtel Concorde Berlin and ŠKODA AUTO Deutschland
GmbH.
Pascal Edelmann
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY e.V.
Head of Press & PR
Kurfürstendamm 225
10719 Berlin
Tel. +49 30 887 16 70
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY e.V., Kurfürstendamm 225, 10719 Berlin, GERMANY