The 24th European Film Awards are scheduled to be presented on 3 December 2011 in Berlin, Germany. The winners will be selected by the over 2,500 members of the European Film Academy

European Film Academy

The European Film Academy is an initiative of a group of European filmmakers who came together in Berlin on the occasion of the first presentation of the European Film Awards in November 1988.- European Film Academy :...

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Best Film

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
The Artist The Artist (film) The Artist is a 2011 French romance film directed by Michel Hazanavicius, starring Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo. The story takes place in Hollywood between 1927 and 1932 and focuses on a declining male film star and a rising actress, as silent cinema grows out of fashion and is replaced by the...	The Artist	Michel Hazanavicius	France
The Kid with a Bike The Kid with a Bike The Kid with a Bike is a 2011 drama film written and directed by the Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, starring Cécile de France and Thomas Doret. Set in Seraing, it tells the story of an 11-year-old boy who turns to a woman after his father has abandoned him. The film was produced...	Le Gamin au vélo	Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne	Belgium,  France,  Italy
In a Better World In a Better World In a Better World is a 2010 Danish-Swedish drama thriller film written by Anders Thomas Jensen and directed by Susanne Bier. The film stars Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, and Ulrich Thomsen in a story which takes place in small-town Denmark and a refugee camp in Africa.A Danish majority...	Hævnen	Susanne Bier Susanne Bier Susanne Bier is a Danish film director best known for her feature films Brothers, After the Wedding and the Academy-Award-winning In a Better World.-Life and work:Susanne Bier was born to Jewish parents in Copenhagen, Denmark...	Denmark,  Sweden
The King's Speech	The King's Speech	Tom Hooper Tom Hooper Tom Hooper is a Canadian songwriter and musician.He was a founding member of the Kelowna punk band Gentlemen of Horror, and also of The Grapes of Wrath, one of the most popular Canadian rock bands of the late 1980s and early 1990s. When singer/guitarist Kevin Kane was ejected from The Grapes of...	United Kingdom
Le Havre Le Havre (film) Le Havre is a 2011 comedy-drama film written and directed by Aki Kaurismäki, starring André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Blondin Miguel. It tells the story of a shoeshiner who tries to save an immigrant child in the French port city Le Havre. The film was produced by Kaurismäki's...	Le Havre	Aki Kaurismäki Aki Kaurismäki -Career:After studying Media Studies at the University of Tampere, Aki Kaurismäki started his career as a co-director in the films of his elder brother Mika Kaurismäki. His debut as an independent director was Crime and Punishment , Dostoyevsky's famous crime story set in modern-day Helsinki...	Finland,  France,  Germany
Melancholia	Melancholia	Lars von Trier Lars von Trier Lars von Trier is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He is closely associated with the Dogme 95 collective, although his own films have taken a variety of different approaches, and have frequently received strongly divided critical opinion....	Denmark,  Sweden,  France,  Germany

Best Director

Director(s)	Nationality	English title	Original title
Susanne Bier Susanne Bier Susanne Bier is a Danish film director best known for her feature films Brothers, After the Wedding and the Academy-Award-winning In a Better World.-Life and work:Susanne Bier was born to Jewish parents in Copenhagen, Denmark...	Denmark	In a Better World In a Better World In a Better World is a 2010 Danish-Swedish drama thriller film written by Anders Thomas Jensen and directed by Susanne Bier. The film stars Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, and Ulrich Thomsen in a story which takes place in small-town Denmark and a refugee camp in Africa.A Danish majority...	Hævnen
Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne	Belgium	The Kid with a Bike The Kid with a Bike The Kid with a Bike is a 2011 drama film written and directed by the Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, starring Cécile de France and Thomas Doret. Set in Seraing, it tells the story of an 11-year-old boy who turns to a woman after his father has abandoned him. The film was produced...	Le Gamin au vélo
Aki Kaurismäki Aki Kaurismäki -Career:After studying Media Studies at the University of Tampere, Aki Kaurismäki started his career as a co-director in the films of his elder brother Mika Kaurismäki. His debut as an independent director was Crime and Punishment , Dostoyevsky's famous crime story set in modern-day Helsinki...	Finland	Le Havre Le Havre (film) Le Havre is a 2011 comedy-drama film written and directed by Aki Kaurismäki, starring André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Blondin Miguel. It tells the story of a shoeshiner who tries to save an immigrant child in the French port city Le Havre. The film was produced by Kaurismäki's...	Le Havre
Béla Tarr Béla Tarr -Life:Tarr was born in Pécs, but grew up in Budapest. Both of his parents were close to theatre and film: his father was a scenery designer, while his mother has been working as a prompter at a theater for more than 50 years now...	Hungary	The Turin Horse The Turin Horse The Turin Horse is a 2011 Hungarian drama film directed by Béla Tarr, starring János Derzsi, Erika Bók and Mihály Kormos. It was co-written by Tarr and his frequent collaborator László Krasznahorkai. It recalls the whipping of a horse in the Italian city Turin which is rumoured to have caused the...	A torinói ló
Lars von Trier Lars von Trier Lars von Trier is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He is closely associated with the Dogme 95 collective, although his own films have taken a variety of different approaches, and have frequently received strongly divided critical opinion....	Denmark	Melancholia	Melancholia

Best Actress

Actress	Nationality	English title	Original title
Kirsten Dunst Kirsten Dunst Kirsten Caroline Dunst is an American actress, singer and model. She made her film debut in Oedipus Wrecks, a short film directed by Woody Allen for the anthology New York Stories...	Germany and  United States	Melancholia	Melancholia
Cécile de France Cécile de France Cécile de France is a Belgian actress. After achieving success in French cinema hits such as L'Art de la séduction and Irène , she gained international attention for her lead role in Haute Tension and Hereafter .- Career :Born in Namur, she left Belgium at the age of 17 to go to Paris where she...	Belgium	The Kid with a Bike The Kid with a Bike The Kid with a Bike is a 2011 drama film written and directed by the Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, starring Cécile de France and Thomas Doret. Set in Seraing, it tells the story of an 11-year-old boy who turns to a woman after his father has abandoned him. The film was produced...	Le Gamin au vélo
Charlotte Gainsbourg Charlotte Gainsbourg Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg is an Anglo-French actress and singer. After releasing an album with her father at the age of fifteen, more than twenty years passed before she released two albums as an adult to commercial and critical success...	France and  United Kingdom	Melancholia	Melancholia
Nadezhda Markina Nadezhda Markina Nadezhda Markina is a Russian film actress. She was nominated for the Best Performance by an Actress at the European Film Awards and the Asia Pacific Screen Awards for the film Elena.-Selected filmography:* The Wedding...	Russia	Elena Elena (2011 film) Elena is a 2011 Russian drama film directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev. It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Prize.-Cast:* Yelena Lyadova as Katerina* Nadezhda Markina as Elena...	Elena
Tilda Swinton Tilda Swinton Katherine Mathilda "Tilda" Swinton is a British actress known for both arthouse and mainstream films. She has appeared in a number of films including The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Burn After Reading, The Beach, We Need to Talk About Kevin and was nominated for a Golden Globe for her...	United Kingdom	We Need to Talk about Kevin We Need to Talk About Kevin (film) We Need to Talk about Kevin is a 2011 British-American drama thriller film adapted and directed by Lynne Ramsay from American author Lionel Shriver's 2003 novel of the same name. A long process of development and financing began in 2005 and filming eventually commenced in April 2010, with Tilda...	We Need to Talk about Kevin

Best Actor

Actor	Nationality	English title	Original title
Jean Dujardin Jean Dujardin -Life and career:Dujardin was born in Rueil-Malmaison. Dujardin first became famous on the French talent show Graines de star in 1996 as part of the comedy group Nous C Nous, formed by members of the Carré blanc theater. From 1999 to 2003 he starred in the French version of the comedy television...	France	The Artist The Artist (film) The Artist is a 2011 French romance film directed by Michel Hazanavicius, starring Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo. The story takes place in Hollywood between 1927 and 1932 and focuses on a declining male film star and a rising actress, as silent cinema grows out of fashion and is replaced by the...	The Artist
Colin Firth Colin Firth SirColin Andrew Firth, CBE is a British film, television, and theatre actor. Firth gained wide public attention in the 1990s for his portrayal of Mr. Darcy in the 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice...	United Kingdom	The King's Speech	The King's Speech
Mikael Persbrandt Mikael Persbrandt Mikael Åke Persbrandt is a Swedish actor. In Swedish films he usually has lead roles and “tough guy” parts. He is perhaps most famous for his recurring role as the no-nonsense police officer Gunvald Larsson in the latest installment of the Martin Beck movies...	Sweden	In a Better World In a Better World In a Better World is a 2010 Danish-Swedish drama thriller film written by Anders Thomas Jensen and directed by Susanne Bier. The film stars Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, and Ulrich Thomsen in a story which takes place in small-town Denmark and a refugee camp in Africa.A Danish majority...	Hævnen
Michel Piccoli	France	We Have a Pope We Have a Pope (film) We Have a Pope is a 2011 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Nanni Moretti. Its original title is Habemus Papam, the Latin phrase used upon the announcement of a new pope. The film stars Michel Piccoli as a cardinal who against his wish is elected as the new pope. Moretti co-stars as a...	Habemus Papam
André Wilms André Wilms André Wilms is a French film and television actor who has also appeared in German and Finnish films. Wilms was the winner of the Best Supporting European Actor award at the 1992 European Film Awards for his work in Aki Kaurismäki's La Vie de Bohème.-Partial filmography:* Le tartuffe * Field of...	France	Le Havre Le Havre (film) Le Havre is a 2011 comedy-drama film written and directed by Aki Kaurismäki, starring André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Blondin Miguel. It tells the story of a shoeshiner who tries to save an immigrant child in the French port city Le Havre. The film was produced by Kaurismäki's...	Le Havre

Best Screenwriter

Writer(s)	Nationality	English title	Original title
Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne	Belgium	The Kid with a Bike The Kid with a Bike The Kid with a Bike is a 2011 drama film written and directed by the Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, starring Cécile de France and Thomas Doret. Set in Seraing, it tells the story of an 11-year-old boy who turns to a woman after his father has abandoned him. The film was produced...	Le Gamin au vélo
Anders Thomas Jensen Anders Thomas Jensen Anders Thomas Jensen is a Danish screenwriter and film director.Jensen won the Oscar for his 1998 film Election Night...	Denmark	In a Better World In a Better World In a Better World is a 2010 Danish-Swedish drama thriller film written by Anders Thomas Jensen and directed by Susanne Bier. The film stars Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, and Ulrich Thomsen in a story which takes place in small-town Denmark and a refugee camp in Africa.A Danish majority...	Hævnen
Aki Kaurismäki Aki Kaurismäki -Career:After studying Media Studies at the University of Tampere, Aki Kaurismäki started his career as a co-director in the films of his elder brother Mika Kaurismäki. His debut as an independent director was Crime and Punishment , Dostoyevsky's famous crime story set in modern-day Helsinki...	Finland	Le Havre Le Havre (film) Le Havre is a 2011 comedy-drama film written and directed by Aki Kaurismäki, starring André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Blondin Miguel. It tells the story of a shoeshiner who tries to save an immigrant child in the French port city Le Havre. The film was produced by Kaurismäki's...	Le Havre
Lars von Trier Lars von Trier Lars von Trier is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He is closely associated with the Dogme 95 collective, although his own films have taken a variety of different approaches, and have frequently received strongly divided critical opinion....	Denmark	Melancholia	Melancholia

Best Cinematographer

Cinematographer	Nationality	English title	Original title
Manuel Alberto Claro Manuel Alberto Claro Manuel Alberto Claro is a Danish cinematographer. He was born in Santiago, Chile in 1970. In 1974 he moved to Denmark and since that time lives in Copenhagen....	Denmark	Melancholia	Melancholia
Fred Kelemen Fred Kelemen Fred Kelemen is a European film director, cinematographer and writer. The late Susan Sontag helped to promote Kelemen's work in the mid-1990s, comparing it to the likes of Alexander Sokurov, Béla Tarr and Sharunas Bartas...	Germany and  Hungary	The Turin Horse The Turin Horse The Turin Horse is a 2011 Hungarian drama film directed by Béla Tarr, starring János Derzsi, Erika Bók and Mihály Kormos. It was co-written by Tarr and his frequent collaborator László Krasznahorkai. It recalls the whipping of a horse in the Italian city Turin which is rumoured to have caused the...	A torinói ló
Guillaume Schiffman	France	The Artist The Artist (film) The Artist is a 2011 French romance film directed by Michel Hazanavicius, starring Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo. The story takes place in Hollywood between 1927 and 1932 and focuses on a declining male film star and a rising actress, as silent cinema grows out of fashion and is replaced by the...	The Artist
Adam Sikora	Poland	Essential Killing Essential Killing Essential Killing is a 2010 Polish political thriller film directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, starring Vincent Gallo and Emmanuelle Seigner.- Plot :...	Essential Killing

Best Editor

Editor	Nationality	English title	Original title
Tariq Anwar	India and  United Kingdom	The King's Speech	The King's Speech
Mathilde Bonnefoy Mathilde Bonnefoy Mathilde Bonnefoy is a film editor and director who was nominated for an ACE Eddie Award for the editing of the film Run Lola Run ....	France	Three Three (2010 film) Three is a 2010 German comedy film directed by Tom Tykwer. The film was nominated for the Golden Lion at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.-Plot:...	Drei
Molly Malene Stensgaard	Denmark	Melancholia	Melancholia

Best Production Designer

Production Designer	Nationality	English title	Original title
Paola Bizzarri	Italy	We Have a Pope We Have a Pope (film) We Have a Pope is a 2011 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Nanni Moretti. Its original title is Habemus Papam, the Latin phrase used upon the announcement of a new pope. The film stars Michel Piccoli as a cardinal who against his wish is elected as the new pope. Moretti co-stars as a...	Habemus Papam
Antxón Gómez	Spain	The Skin I Live In The Skin I Live In The Skin I Live In is a 2011 Spanish film directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Jan Cornet, Roberto Álamo and Blanca Suárez, and is loosely based on Thierry Jonquet's novel Tarantula. The film was the first collaboration in 21 years between Almodóvar...	La piel que habito
Jette Lehmann	Denmark	Melancholia	Melancholia

Best Composer

Composer	Nationality	English title	Original title
Ludovic Bource	France	The Artist The Artist (film) The Artist is a 2011 French romance film directed by Michel Hazanavicius, starring Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo. The story takes place in Hollywood between 1927 and 1932 and focuses on a declining male film star and a rising actress, as silent cinema grows out of fashion and is replaced by the...	The Artist
Alexandre Desplat Alexandre Desplat Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat is a French film composer. He has received four Academy Award nominations, five BAFTA nominations, five Golden Globe nominations, winning a Golden Globe for his work on The Painted Veil in 2006, and two Grammy nominations. In 2011, Desplat won his first British...	France	The King's Speech	The King's Speech
Alberto Iglesias Alberto Iglesias Alberto Iglesias Fernández-Berridi is a Spanish composer. He wrote the music for several Spanish films, mostly from Pedro Almodóvar...	Spain	The Skin I Live In The Skin I Live In The Skin I Live In is a 2011 Spanish film directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Jan Cornet, Roberto Álamo and Blanca Suárez, and is loosely based on Thierry Jonquet's novel Tarantula. The film was the first collaboration in 21 years between Almodóvar...	La piel que habitoi
Mihály Vig Mihály Víg Mihály Víg is a Hungarian composer, poet, songwriter, guitarist and singer; co-founder of bands Trabant and Balaton , also known for collaborations with film director Béla Tarr on films including Damnation, Sátántangó , Werckmeister Harmonies and The Man from London.-Discography:*...	Hungary	The Turin Horse The Turin Horse The Turin Horse is a 2011 Hungarian drama film directed by Béla Tarr, starring János Derzsi, Erika Bók and Mihály Kormos. It was co-written by Tarr and his frequent collaborator László Krasznahorkai. It recalls the whipping of a horse in the Italian city Turin which is rumoured to have caused the...	A torinói ló

Best Documentary

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Pina Pina (film) Pina is a 2011 German 3D dance film directed by Wim Wenders. The film premiered Out of Competition at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival. The trailer features the song "Lilies in the Valley" by Jun Miyake...	Pina	Wim Wenders Wim Wenders Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer.-Early life:Wenders was born in Düsseldorf. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine and philosophy in Freiburg and Düsseldorf...	Germany
Position Among the Stars Position Among the Stars Position Among the Stars is a 2010 documentary directed by Leonard Retel Helmrich. The documentary released on 17 November 2010 as opening film of IDFA ....	Stand van de Sterren	Leonard Retel Helmrich Leonard Retel Helmrich Leonard Retel Helmrich is a Dutch cinematographer and film director of Indo descent. He was born the 16th of August 1959 in Tilburg, Netherlands and has lived in Amsterdam since 1982...	Netherlands
¡Vivan las Antipodas!	¡Vivan las Antipodas!	Victor Kossakovsky Victor Kossakovsky Victor Kossakovsky is a Russian filmmaker. He began his career in motion pictures at the Leningrad studio of Documentaries as assistant cameraman, assistant director and editor in 1978. In many of his films, Kossakovsky plays all of the roles of editor, cinematographer, writer, and director...	Germany,  Netherlands,  Argentina,  Chile

Best Animated Feature Film

The nominees for Best Animated Feature Film were selected by a committee consisting of EFA Board Members and representatives from the European Association of Animation Film.

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
The Rabbi's Cat The Rabbi's Cat The Rabbi's Cat is a 2011 French animated film directed by Joann Sfar and Antoine Delesvaux, based on volume one, two and five of Sfar's comics series with the same title. It tells the story of a cat which obtains the ability to speak after swallowing a parrot, and its owner who is a rabbi in...	Le Chat du rabbin	Antoine Delesvaux and Joann Sfar Joann Sfar Joann Sfar is a French comics artist, comic book creator and film director.-Life and career:Sfar was born in Nice. He is considered one of the most important artists of the new wave of Franco-Belgian comics. Many of his comics were published by L'Association which was founded in 1990 by...	France
Chico and Rita Chico and Rita Chico and Rita is an animated feature-length film directed by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal. The story of Chico and Rita is set against backdrops of Havana, New York City, Las Vegas, Hollywood and Paris in the late 1940s and early 1950s.-Synopsis:...	Chico & Rita	Tono Errando, Javier Mariscal Javier Mariscal Javier Mariscal is a Valencian Spanish artist and designer whose work has spanned a wide range of mediums, ranging from painting and sculpture to interior design and landscaping. He was born in February 1950 in the city of Valencia, Spain, into a family of eleven brothers and sisters...  and Fernando Trueba Fernando Trueba Fernando Trueba is a Spanish book editor, screenwriter, film director and producer.Between 1974 and 1979 worked as a film critic for Spain's leading daily newspaper EL PAIS. In 1980, founded the monthly film magazine CASABLANCA, which he edited and directed during its first two years...	Spain and Isle of Man
A Cat in Paris	Une vie de chat	Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol	France,  Belgium

Discovery - Prix FIPRESCI

The nominees for best feature-film debut were selected by a committee consisting of representatives from EFA and the International Federation of Film Critics.

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Oxygen	Adem	Hans Van Nuffel	Belgium and the  Netherlands
Breathing Breathing (film) Breathing is a 2011 Austrian art house drama film directed and written by Karl Markovics. The film, about a 19-year-old ex-convict who attempts to build a new life amidst his guilt, stars Thomas Schubert, Karin Lischka and Gerhard Liebmann. It was screened at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival...	Atmen	Karl Markovics Karl Markovics Karl Markovics is an Austrian actor and film director.He starred as Salomon Sorowitsch in Stefan Ruzowitzky's 2007 film The Counterfeiters, which was awarded the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for that year...	Austria
Michael Michael (2011 film) Michael is a 2011 Austrian drama film directed by Markus Schleinzer which resembles the famous Natascha Kampusch case from the offenders viewpoint...	Michael	Markus Schleinzer	Austria
Nothing's All Bad	Smukke menesker	Mikkel Munch-Fals	Denmark
Tilva Roš Tilva Roš Tilva Roš is a 2010 Serbian coming of age drama following a group of skaters from Bor, a small mining town in eastern part of Serbia, during their first summer after finishing high school.-Plot:...	Tilva Roš	Nikola Ležaić	Serbia

Best Short Film

The nominees for Best Short Film were selected by independent juries at a series of film festivals throughout Europe.

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Berik	Berik	Daniel Joseph Borgman	Denmark
Little Children, Big Words	Små barn, stora ord	Lisa James-Larsson	Sweden
Incident by a Bank	Händelse vid bank	Ruben Östlund Ruben Östlund Ruben Östlund is a Swedish film director. Originally a director of skiing film, he has directed three feature-length fiction films: The Guitar Mongoloid from 2004, Involuntary from 2008 and Play, scheduled to be released in 2011.-Career:Ruben Östlund started as a director of skiing films in the...	Sweden
Derby	Derby	Paul Negoescu	Romania
Jessi	Jessi	Mariejosephin Schneider	Germany
The Wolves	I lupi	Alberto de Michele	Italy and  Netherlands
The Unliving	Återfödelsen	Hugo Lilja	Sweden
Silent River	Apele tac	Anca Miruna Lăzărescu	Germany and  Romania
Paparazzi	Paparazzi	Piotr Bernas	Poland
The Great Race	La gran carrera	Kote Camacho	Spain
Dimanches	Dimanches	Valéry Rosier	Belgium
Out	Tse	Roee Rosen	Israel
Frozen Stories	Opowiesci z chlodni	Grzegorz Jaroszuk	Poland
Hypercrisis	Hypercrisis	Josef Dabernig	Austria
The Wholly Family	The Wholly Family	Terry Gilliam Terry Gilliam Terrence Vance "Terry" Gilliam is an American-born British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam is also known for directing several films, including Brazil , The Adventures of Baron Munchausen , The Fisher King , and 12 Monkeys...	Italy

People's Choice Award

The winner of the People's Choice Award will be selected by online votes.

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Animals United Animals United Animals United is a 2010 German animated film directed by Reinhard Klooss and Holger Tappe, starring Ralf Schmitz and Thomas Fritsch as a meerkat called Billy and a lion called Socrates in the African Okavango Delta who go on a quest to discover why their river has unexpectedly dried up. It is...	Konferenz der Tiere	Reinhard Klooss and Holger Tappe	Germany
Even the Rain Even the Rain Even the Rain is a 2010 Spanish drama film directed by Icíar Bollaín about Spanish director Sebastián and executive producer Costa who travel to Bolivia to shoot a film depicting Christopher Columbus’s conquest...	También la lluvia	Icíar Bollaín Icíar Bollaín Icíar Bollaín Pérez-Mínguez is a Spanish actress, director and writer.Her father was an aeronautical engineer and her mother was a music teacher. She made her début when she was 15 years old. She is a member of the Academia Española de Cinematografía.She began her work in cinema at the age of...	Spain
In a Better World In a Better World In a Better World is a 2010 Danish-Swedish drama thriller film written by Anders Thomas Jensen and directed by Susanne Bier. The film stars Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, and Ulrich Thomsen in a story which takes place in small-town Denmark and a refugee camp in Africa.A Danish majority...	Hævnen	Susanne Bier Susanne Bier Susanne Bier is a Danish film director best known for her feature films Brothers, After the Wedding and the Academy-Award-winning In a Better World.-Life and work:Susanne Bier was born to Jewish parents in Copenhagen, Denmark...	Denmark and  Sweden
The King's Speech	The King's Speech	Tom Hooper Tom Hooper Tom Hooper is a Canadian songwriter and musician.He was a founding member of the Kelowna punk band Gentlemen of Horror, and also of The Grapes of Wrath, one of the most popular Canadian rock bands of the late 1980s and early 1990s. When singer/guitarist Kevin Kane was ejected from The Grapes of...	United Kingdom
Little White Lies	Les Petits Mouchoirs	Guillaume Canet Guillaume Canet Guillaume Canet is a French actor and film director.Canet began his career in theatre and television before moving to film. He starred in several films like Joyeux Noël, Love Me If You Dare and The Beach...	France
Potiche Potiche Potiche is a 2010 French-Belgian comedy film directed by François Ozon, based on the play of the same name by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Grédy. It stars Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Fabrice Luchini, Karin Viard, Judith Godrèche and Jérémie Renier...	Potiche	François Ozon François Ozon François Ozon is a French film director and screenwriter and whose films are usually characterized by sharp satirical wit and a freewheeling view on human sexuality....	France and  Belgium
Unknown	Unknown	Jaume Collet-Serra Jaume Collet-Serra Jaume Collet-Serra is a Spanish film director and producer.Collet-Serra is most famous for the 2005 remake House of Wax, and 2009's Orphan...	Germany,  United States,  United Kingdom and  France
Welcome to the South Benvenuti al Sud Benvenuti al Sud is an Italian adaption of French comedy film Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis directed by Luca Miniero. The plot is similar to the original version: the manager of a postal service in northern Italy, near Milan, is banished for two years in southern Italy, in Castellabate, a town near...	Benvenuti al Sud	Luca Miniero	Italy

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