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February 2018

The EFA Newsletter informs you about the various activities and projects of the European Film Academy: Screenings, meetings, initiatives and new members!

EFA Activities during the Berlinale

A SUNDAY IN THE COUNTRY - REUNION
A Sunday in the Country is a special EFA initiative bringing together a group of young European filmmakers (and, since 2012, also journalists) and a few established EFA Members for the course of a weekend. The private atmosphere guarantees a platform for inspiration and for an open-minded encounter. It is an exchange between different generations of filmmakers from various cultural backgrounds. This special encounter unites all those who have been part of a Sunday in the Country over the years ...

Tuesday, 20 February, 14.30 - 16.30 contact us for details

HAPPY HOUR
in co-operation with Berlinale Talents
A meeting of talents from all over Europe to find out about EFA's activities.

Tuesday, 20 February, 18.45 - 19.45 upon invitation

EFA YOUNG AUDIENCE AWARD INFO MEETING
Meeting with new partners as well as our collaborators from the past editions to exchange experiences, discuss new ideas and improvements for the 2018 edition, and, of course, answer any questions you might have.

Wednesday, 21 February, 11.00 - 14.00 contact us for details

CROSSING BRIDGES: REINVENTING YOUR ART FORM
Mischa Leinkauf
moderated by Maike Mia Höhne
in co-operation with Berlinale Talents and Berlinale Shorts

Mischa Leinkauf, one half of EFA-nominated media and installation artist duo Wermke/Leinkauf, discusses how he keeps his unruly street art aesthetic fresh and his art world beneficiaries thirsting for more.

Wednesday, 21 February, 14.00 | HAU2 further details & ticket information

Let’s Not Forget: Kirill & Oleg

Kirill Serebrennikov

In late August 2017, the renowned theatre and film director Kirill Serebrennikov was arrested on the set of his new film SUMMER and taken from St. Petersburg to Moscow. He was sentenced to house arrest on embezzlement charges in connection with the so-called “Theater Case”. Despite international protests, the house arrest has been extended until the court hearing on 19 April.

https://medium.com/freekirill

Oleg Sentsov

The Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who was involved in supporting the Euro Maidan protests in Kiev and who has opposed the annexation of Crimea by Russia, was arrested by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) in his house in Simferopol in May 2014 and brought to Moscow. At the end of what Amnesty International described as “an unfair trial in a military court” he was sentenced to 20 years in jail. In late November 2015, the Russian Supreme Court in Moscow confirmed the 20-year sentence and Oleg was then moved to Yakutia.

https://www.europeanfilmacademy.org/Free-Oleg-Sentsov.465.0.html

Let’s not forget them!

First Nominations in 2018

Already nominated for the 31st EFAs are:

	Valladolid Short Film Nominee CAPITALIST KAPITALISTIS by Pablo Muñoz Gomez France/Belgium, fiction, 15 min
	Uppsala Short Film Nominee MERYEM by Reber Dosky The Netherlands, documentary, 16 min
	Cork Short Film Nominee CONTAINER KONTENER by Sebastian Lang Germany, fiction, 30 min
	Leuven Short Film Nominee GRADUATION `97 VYPUSK `97 by Pavlo Ostrikov Ukraine, fiction, 19 min
	Rotterdam Short Film Nominee WHAT'S THE DAMAGE by Heather Phillipson UK, experimental, 8 min
	Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Nominee SHAME SRAM by Petar Krumov Bulgaria, fiction, 24 min

The EFA Short Film Programme is a co-operation with 15 film festivals across Europe. At each of these festivals, one European short film wins a nomination for the award 'European Short Film 2018'.

The full list of participating festivals in chronological order is as follows:

21 - 28 Oct. 2017: Valladolid International Film Festival (Spain)
23 - 29 Oct. 2017: Uppsala International Short Film Festival (Sweden)
10 - 19 Nov. 2017: Cork Film Festival (Ireland)
2 - 9 Dec. 2017: Leuven International Short Film Festival (Belgium)
24 Jan. - 4 Feb. 2018: International Film Festival Rotterdam (the Netherlands)
2 - 10 Feb. 2018: Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (France)
15 - 25 Feb. 2018: Berlin International Film Festival (Germany)
7 - 11 Mar. 2018: Tampere Film Festival (Finland)
27 May - 3 Jun. 2018: Krakow Film Festival (Poland)
15 - 22 Jul. 2018: Curtas Vila do Conde - International Film Festival (Portugal)
1 - 11 Aug. 2018: Locarno Festival (Switzerland)
10 - 17 Aug. 2018: Sarajevo Film Festival (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
29 Aug. - 8 Sep. 2018: Venice Film Festival (Italy)
17 - 22 Sep. 2018: International Short Film Festival in Drama (Greece)
25 - 30 Sep. 2018: Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival Bristol (UK)

The overall winner, elected by the EFA Members, will be announced at the European Film Awards on 15 December in Seville, Spain.

Missed It?

You can still check out the first issue of EFA's new in-depth online magazine "Close-up" here. The debut edition focuses on the future of Europe and includes encounters with Agnieszka Holland, Lord Puttnam, Aleksandr Sokurov and Wim Wenders. It puts new Greek cinema in the spotlight and includes country snapshots of Hungary, Poland, Romania and Russia. The next edition, planned for May 2018, will focus on gender equality. Feel free to let us know your thoughts.

A Warm Welcome to the New EFA Members:

actors: Christopher Læssø DENMARK * Wiktor Zborowski POLAND * actresses: Ivana Baquero SPAIN * Nicole Beutler AUSTRIA * Dorka Gryllus HUNGARY * Mirjana Karanović SERBIA * Ia Langhammer SWEDEN * Marion Mitterhammer AUSTRIA * Valerie Pachner AUSTRIA * Angeliki Papoulia GREECE * Natalie Portman ISRAEL * Ludivine Sagnier FRANCE * Lilith Stangenberg GERMANY * Diljá Valsdóttir ICELAND * casting directors: Keren Elrom ISRAEL * Nina Haun GERMANY * cinematographers: Itay Gross ISRAEL * Jesse Mazuch GERMANY * René Richter GERMANY * Alexey Rodionov RUSSIA * Gabriel Sandru SWITZERLAND * composers: Ádám Balázs HUNGARY * Duke Bojadziev FYR MACEDONIA * Ilya Demutsky RUSSIA * Jonas Jurkūnas LITHUANIA * Benedikt Schiefer GERMANY * Giuliano Taviani ITALY * costume designers: Sarah Blenkinsop UK * Frauke Firl GERMANY * Vassilia Rozana GREECE * critic / journalist: Frank Johnsen NORWAY * directors: Mehmet Bahadır Er TURKEY * Faton Bajraktari KOSOVO * Victor Alonso Berbel SPAIN * Rok Biček SLOVENIA * Peter Brosens BELGIUM * Ilija Cvetkovski FYR MACEDONIA * Sergio da Costa SWITZERLAND * Andrei Dăscălescu ROMANIA * Yuval Delshad ISRAEL * Nikita Diakur GERMANY * Mark Dornford-May UK * Maryna Er Gorbach UKRAINE * Laura Ferrés Moreno SPAIN * Gonçalo Galvão Teles PORTUGAL * Matteo Gariglio SWITZERLAND * Jan-Ole Gerster GERMANY * Daniel Howald SWITZERLAND * Tonislav Hristov FINLAND * Nikolay Lebedev RUSSIA * Christos Massalas GREECE * Tonia Mishiali CYPRUS * Pablo Muñoz Gomez BELGIUM * Neasa Ní Chianáin IRELAND * Andrea Pallaoro ITALY * Ralitza Petrova BULGARIA * Izabela Plucinska GERMANY * Edon Rizvanolli KOSOVO * Esther Rots THE NETHERLANDS * Carla Simón SPAIN * Balázs Simonyi HUNGARY * Lucija Stojevic SPAIN * Marios Stylianou CYPRUS * Rûken Tekes TURKEY * Simon Vahlne SWEDEN * Simon Verhoeven GERMANY * Žiga Virc SLOVENIA * Christian Werner GERMANY * Martijn Winkler THE NETHERLANDS * Jessica Woodworth BELGIUM * distributors/exhibitors: Hanna Lajunen FINLAND * Hrvoje Laurenta CROATIA * Jonas Pedersen Hardebrant SWEDEN * editors: Cláudia Rita de Sousa Oliveira PORTUGAL * Miriam Märk GERMANY * Monika Schindler GERMANY * Dounia Sichov FRANCE * Andrija Zafranović SERBIA * festival: Giorgio Gosetti ITALY * hair & make-up artists: Anna Gorońska POLAND * Janusz Kaleja POLAND * institutional: Olga Domżała POLAND * Alessandra Pastore ITALY * int'l sales agents: Gudrun Burie BELGIUM * Gabor Greiner GERMANY * producers: Valon Bajgora KOSOVO * Pierre-Olivier Bardet FRANCE * Maria Blicharska FRANCE * Sabine Brian THE NETHERLANDS * Volia Chajkouskaya BELARUS * Per Damgaard Hansen DENMARK * Valérie Delpierre SPAIN * Milena Fessmann GERMANY * Erik Glijnis THE NETHERLANDS * Arnold Heslenfeld THE NETHERLANDS * Mardou Jacobs THE NETHERLANDS * Pavla Janoušková Kubečková CZECH REPUBLIC * Michael Katz AUSTRIA * Elwin Looije THE NETHERLANDS * Jesús Martínez Asencio SPAIN * Marian Matachana SPAIN * Claire McCaughley IRELAND * Dejan Miloshevski FYR MACEDONIA * Katrin Renz GERMANY * Martin Richter GERMANY * Cyril Schäublin SWITZERLAND * Laurette Schillings THE NETHERLANDS * Catharina Schreckenberg GERMANY * Ielizaveta Smith UKRAINE * Małgorzata Staroń POLAND * Lucan Toh IRELAND * Yll Uka KOSOVO * Jakub Viktorín SLOVAKIA * Francesco Virga ITALY * Agnieszka Wasiak POLAND * Nicklas Wikström Nicastro SWEDEN * Mikael Windelin DENMARK * Andriy Yermak UKRAINE * production designers: Harry Ammerlaan THE NETHERLANDS * Elsje de Bruijn THE NETHERLANDS * Babett Klimmeck GERMANY * screenwriters: Mark Burton UK * Ólafur Egilsson ICELAND * Kata Wéber HUNGARY * sound designers: Henric Andersson SWEDEN * Srdjan Kurpjel UK * Alexis Place BELGIUM * Björn Viktorsson ICELAND * talent agents: Gökçe Altan TURKEY * Anila Gajević BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA * Sophie Herr FRANCE * Anja Joos GERMANY * Iraida Meerzorg THE NETHERLANDS * Willemijn Tuip THE NETHERLANDS * Marijke Wouters BELGIUM ★

The 31st EFAs: 15 December 2018 in Seville, Spain

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