The European Film Academy takes great pleasure in congratulating 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 Jóhannsson 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.