17/9/2014 - 2014 European Film Awards selection announced

The list of 50 titles that will be competing for the prize at this year's 27th edition of the European Film Awards was announced yesterday at a press conference in Riga. In the coming weeks, over 3,000 members of the European Film Academy will be voting the nominations on the categories for European Film, Director, Actress and Screenwriter. The nominations will be announced on the 8th of November at the Seville European Film Festival in Spain.

Last year, it was The Great Beauty that won best film, while its director Paolo Sorrentino and actor Toni Servillo won the best director and best actor award. The best actress award went to Veerle Baetens for her role in The Broken Circle Breakdown by Felix Van Groeningen.

Here is this year's selection list:

- ALIENATION by Milko Lazarov (Bulgaria)
- AMOUR FOU by Jessica Hausner (Austria/Germany/Luxembourg)
- BEAUTIFUL YOUTH by Jaime Rosales (France/Spain)
- BIRD PEOPLE by Pascal Ferran (France)
- BLIND by Eskil Vogt (Netherlands/Norway)
- BLIND DATES by Levan Koguashvili (Georgia)
- CALVARY by John Michael McDonagh (Ireland)
- CANNIBAL by Manuel Martín Murca (Russia/Romania/France/Spain)
- CLASS ENEMY by Rok Bicek (Slovenia)
- CONCRETE NIGHT by Pirjo Honkasalo (Denmark/Sweden/Finland)
- DREAMLAND by Petra Volpe (Switzerland)
- FAIR PLAY by Andrea Sedlackova (Czech Republic/Germany/Slovakia)
- FORCE MAJEURE by Ruben Ostlund (Sweden/Afghanistan/Denmark/France/Norway)
- FRANK by Lenny Abrahamson (UK/Ireland)
- GIRLHOOD by Céline Sciamma (France)
- GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE by Jean-Luc Godard (France)
- HOME FROM HOME - CHRONICLES OF A VISION by Edgar Reitz (Germany/France)
- HUMAN CAPITAL by Paolo Virzí (Italy)
- IDA by Pawel Pawlikowski (Poland/Denmark)
- IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE by Hans Petter Moland (Norway)
- KERTU. LOVE IS BLIND by Ilmas Raag (Estonia)
- LEVIATHAN by Andrey Zvyaginstev (Russia)
- LIFE IN A FISHBOWL by Baldvin Zophoníasson (Sweden/Finland/Iceland/Czech Republic)
- LIVING IS EASY WITH EYES CLOSED by David Trueba (Spain)
- LOCKE by Steve Knight (UK)
- MACONDO by Sudabeh Mortezai (Austria)
- MISS VIOLENCE by Alexandros Avranas (Greece)
- MR. TURNER by Mike Leigh (UK/Germany/France/WAN)
- NYMPHOMANIAC by Lars Von Trier (Denmark)
- OF HORSES AND MEN by Benedikt Erlingson (Iceland/Germany/Norway)
- PAPUSZA by Krzystof Krauze, Joanna Kos-Krauze (Poland)
- STARRED UP by David Mackenzie (UK)
- STILL LIFE by Uberto Pasolini (UK/Italy)
- STRATOS by Yannis Economides (Greece/Germany/Cyprus)
- THAT LOVELY GIRL by Karen Yedaya (Israel)
- THE DARK VALLEY by Andreas Prochaska (Austria/Germany)
- THE KINDERGARDEN TEACHER by Navad Lapid (Israel/France)
- THE LAMB by Kutlug Ataman (Germany/Turkey)
- THE TRIBE by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy (Ukraine)
- THE WONDERS by Alice Rohrwacher (Italy)
- TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT by Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne (Belgium/France/Italy)
- UNDER THE SKIN by Jonathan Glazer (UK)
- VIOLETTE by Martin Provost (Belgium/France)
- WALESA. MAN OF HOPE by Andrzej Wajda (Poland)
- WE ARE THE BEST! by Lukas Moodyson (Sweden, Denmark)
- WHEN EVENING FALLS ON BUCHAREST OR METABOLISM by Corneliu Porumboiu (Romania/France)
- WHITE GOD by Kornél Mundruczó (Sweden/Germany/Hungary)
- WINTER SLEEP by Nuri Bilge Ceylan (France/Germany/Turkey)
- WOLF by Jim Taihuttu (Netherlands)
- WOUNDED by Fernando Franco (Spain)