Pedro Almodóvar, Luca Guadagnino, Mike Leigh Join Contest for European Film Awards

The European Film Academy has added a further 16 feature films to the longlist – known as the Feature Film Selection – for the European Film Awards. With the already announced 29 films the list comprises 45 titles.

These films will now be considered for the nomination stage of the European Film Awards. The nominees will be revealed on Nov. 5.

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Among the titles are several Venice award-winners: Pedro Almodóvar’s Golden Lion winner “The Room Next Door,” Grand Jury Prize winner “Vermiglio,” Special Jury Prize winner “April,” and Horizon winner “The New Year That Never Came.” Other titles include Edward Berger’s “Conclave,” Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths” and Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer.”

The films were selected by the European Film Academy Board, who consulted with a team of invited experts.

The European Film Awards take place on Dec. 7 in Lucerne, Switzerland.

These are the additional titles in the Feature Film Selection:
“April,” directed by Dea Kulumbegashvili (Georgia, France, Italy)
“Conclave,” directed by Edward Berger (U.K., U.S.)
“The End,” directed by Joshua Oppenheimer (Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, U.K., Sweden)
“Hard Truths,” directed by Mike Leigh (U.K., Spain)
“Harvest,” directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari (U.K., Germany, Greece, France, U.S.)
“Misericordia,” directed by Emma Dante (Italy)
“Moon,” directed by Kurdwin Ayub (Austria)
“Mr. K,” directed by Tallulah Hazekamp Schwab (Netherlands, Belgium)
“My Fathers’ Daughter,” directed by Egil Pedersen (Norway, Sweden, Finland)
“Queer,” directed by Luca Guadagnino (Italy, U.S.)
“The New Year That Never Came,” directed by Bogdan Mureşanu (Romania, Serbia)
“The Room Next Door,” directed by Pedro Almodóvar (Spain)
“The Sparrow in the Chimney,” directed by Ramon Zürcher (Switzerland)
“Toxic Directed,” by Saulė Bliuvaitė (Lithuania)
“Vermiglio,” directed by Maura Delpero (Italy, France, Belgium)
“Windless,” directed by Pavel G. Vesnakov (Bulgaria, Italy)

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