The European Film Academy congratulates the nominees for the EUROPEAN DISCOVERY 2018 – Prix FIPRESCI, an award presented annually as part of the European Film Awards to a young and upcoming director for a first full-length feature film.

This year’s nominations were determined by a committee comprised of EFA Board Member Katriel Schory (Israel), festival programmers Mihai Chirilov (Romania) andAzize Tan (Turkey) as well as film critics Isabelle Danel (France), Robbie Eksiel (Greece) and Michael Pattison (UK) as representatives of FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics.

NOMINATED ARE:

		GIRL Belgium, Netherlands DIRECTED BY Lukas Dhont WRITTEN BY Lukas Dhont & Angelo Tijssens PRODUCED BY Dirk Impens
		ONE DAY         EGY NAP         Hungary WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Zsófia Szilágyi PRODUCED BY Ágnes Pataki & Edina Kenesei
		SCARY MOTHER SASHISHI DEDA Georgia, Estonia WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Ana Urushadze PRODUCED BY Lasha Khalvashi & Tinatin Kajrishvili
		THE GUILTY DEN SKYLDIGE Denmark DIRECTED BY Gustav Möller WRITTEN BY Gustav Möller & Emil Nygaard Albertsen PRODUCED BY Lina Flint
		THOSE WHO ARE FINE DENE WOS GUET GEIT Switzerland WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Cyril Schäublin PRODUCED BY Silvan Hillmann, Lara Hacisalhzade, Ralph Rutishauser & Cyril Schäublin
		TOUCH ME NOT Romania, Germany, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, France WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Adina Pintilie PRODUCED BY Bianca Oana, Philippe Avril & Adina Pintilie

The nominated films will soon be submitted to the more than 3,500 EFA Members to elect the winner. The European Discovery 2018 – Prix FIPRESCI will then be presented at the 31^st European Film Awards Ceremony on Saturday, 15 December, in Seville.

Berlin, 9 October 2018