Six debut films nominated for the European Film Awards 2021

The European Film Academy has congratulated the nominees for the European Discovery 2021 – Prix FIPRESCI, an award presented annually as part of the European Film Awards to a director for a first full-length feature film.

This year’s nominations were determined by a committee comprised of European Film Academy Board Members Anita Juka (Croatia) and Joanna Szymańska (Poland), producer/screenwriter Paula Alvarez Vaccaro (UK, Italy), producer Vladimer Katcharava (Georgia) as well as film critics Marta Balaga (Finland, Poland), Janet Baris (Turkey), Andrei Plakhov (Russia), Frédéric Ponsard (France) and Britt Sørensen (Norway) as representatives of FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics.

EUROPEAN DISCOVERY 2021 – Prix FIPRESCI: THE NOMINATIONS:

BEGINNING
France, Georgia
DIRECTED BY Dea Kulumbegashvili
WRITTEN BY Dea Kulumbegashvili & Rati Oneli
PRODUCED BY Ilan Amouyal, David Zerat, Rati Oneli & Paul Rozenberg

LAMB (DÝRIÐ)
Iceland, Sweden, Poland
DIRECTED BY Valdimar Jóhansson
WRITTEN BY Sjón Sjón & Valdimar Jóhansson
PRODUCED BY Hrönn Kristinsdóttir, Sara Nassim, Piodor Gustafsson, Klaudia Smieja & Jan Naszewski

PLAYGROUND (UN MONDE)
Belgium
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Laura Wandel
PRODUCED BY Stéphane Lhoest & Jan De Clercq

PLEASURE
Sweden, Netherlands, France
DIRECTED BY Ninja Thyberg
WRITTEN BY Ninja Thyberg & Peter Modestij
PRODUCED BY Erik Hemmendorff, Eliza Jones, Markus Waltå, Leontine Petit, Erik Glijnis, Frédéric Fiore, Eric Tavitian, Peter Possne & Anna Croneman

PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
USA, UK
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Emerald Fennell
PRODUCED BY Emerald Fennell, Josey McNamara, Ben Browning & Ashley Fox

THE WHALER BOY (KITOBOY)
Russia, Poland, Belgium
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Philipp Yuryev
PRODUCED BY Aleksey Uchitel, Radoslawa Bardes & Marion Hänsel
The nominated films will soon be made available on the European Film Academy’s VOD Platform to the more than 4,100 Members who elect the winner. The European Discovery 2021 – Prix FIPRESCI will then be presented at the 34th European Film Awards Ceremony on Saturday, 11 December.