The European Film Academy has revealed the 45 films selected for this year’s European Film Awards with France gaining 11 nods (8 of which are co-productions) followed by Germany and Spain.

EFA members will now vote for their selections and the nominations will be announced on November 5 at the Seville European Film Festival. The 24th European Film Awards will be presented in Berlin on December 3.

Out of the 32 countries represented, France leads the pack with 11 titles (8 co-productions) including The Artist, Tomboy and The Kid With A Bike. Germany follows with 7 (4 co-productions) and Spain with 4.

The UK has three films in contention, We Need To Talk About Kevin, Neds and The King’s Speech.

The list is made up by the 20 countries with the most EFA members, which have voted one national film directly onto the list, while further films were added by EFA board members and experts Pierre-Henri Deleau (France), Marit Kapla (Sweden), Stefan Kitanov (Bulgaria), Derek Malcolm (UK), and Elma Tataragic (Bosnia & Herzegovina).

The List:

Almanya, dir Yasemin Samdereli, (Germany/Turkey)
America, dir João Nuno Pinto (Portugal/Spain/Brazil/Russia)
The Artist, dir Michel Hazanavicius (France)
As If I am Not There, dir Juanita Wilson (Ireland, FYR Macedonia, Sweden)  
Attenberg, dir Athina Rachel Tsangari, (Greece)
Ave, dir Konstantin Bojanov (Bulgaria)
The Last Circus, dir Alex de la Iglesia (Spain)
White White World, dir Oleg Novkovic (Serbia, Germany, Sweden)
Cirkus Columbia, Danis Tanović (Bosnia & Herzegovina/France/UK/Germany/Slovenia/Belgium)
Silent Sonata, dir Janez Burger (Slovenia/Ireland)
Three, dir Tom Tykwer (Germany)
Volcano, dir Rúnar Rúnarsson (Iceland/Denmark)
Elena, dir Andrey Zvyagintsev (Russia)
Essential Killing, dir Jerzy Skolimowski (Poland/Norway/Ireland/Hungary)
The Kid With A Bike, dir Dardenne Brothers (Belgium/France/Italy)
Habeumus Papum, dir Nanni Moretti, (Italy/France)
In A Better World, dir Susanne Bier (Denmark)
Stopped On Track , dir Andreas Dresen (Germany)
Infiltration, dir Dover Kosashvili (Israel/France)
The King’s Speech, Tom Hooper, (UK)
Le Havre, dir Aki Kaurismäki (Finland/France/Germany)
Lidice, dir Petr Nikolaev (Czech Republic)
Loverboy, dir Cătălin Mitulescu (Romania)
Mothers, dir Milcho Manchevski (FYR Macedonia)
Melancholia Lars von Trier (Denmark/Sweden/France/Germany)
Neds, dir Peter Mullen (UK)
We Believed, Mario Martone (Italy/France)
Oslo, dir Joachim Trier (Norway)
Silent Souls, dir Alexey Fedorchenco (Russia)
Black Bread,  dir Agustí Villaronga (Spain)
The Little Room, dir Stéphanie Chuat & Véronique Reymond (Switzerland/Luxembourg)
Little Whilte Lies, dir Guillaume Canet (France)  
The Skin I Live In, dir Pedro Almodóvar (Spain)  
Play, dir Ruben Östlund (Sweden)
Surviving Life, dir Jan Švankmajer (Czech Republic/Slovakia)
Bullhead, dir Michaël R. Roskam (Belgium/the Netherlands)
Suicide Room, dir Jan Komasa (Poland)
Beyond, dir Pernilla August (Sweden/Denmark/Finland)
Even The Rain, dir Icíar Bollaín (Spain)
Tilva Ros, dir Nikola Ležaić (Serbia)
Tirza, dir Rudolf van den Berg (The Netherlands)
Tomboy, dir Céline Sciamma (France)
The Turin Horse , dir Bela Tarr (Hungary/France/Switzerland/Germany)
The Unintentional Kidnapping Of Elfriede Ott, dir Andreas Prochaska (Austria)
We Need To Talk About Kevin, dir Lynne Ramsay (UK)

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