The Slovak Film and Television Academy (SFTA) nominated two Slovak films for the European Film Awards – the Tiger Award winning film from this year´s Rotterdam IFF My Dog Killer by Mira Fornay and the documentary Normalization by Robert Kirchhoff, which has gained considerable audiences after opening in Slovak cinemas on May 16, 2013.
The selection was made by 58 members (out of 137), accepted and confirmed by the Board of the Academy, from among the following eligible titles:
Fiction Films
Made in Ash (dir. Iveta Grófová), Love Me or Leave Me (dir. Mariana Čengel Solčanská), Fine, Thanks (dir. Mátyás Prikler), Attonitas (dir. Jaroslav Mottl), My Dog Killer (dir. Mira Fornay), Intrigues (dir. Juraj Kilián).
Documentary Films
The Gypsy Vote (dir. Jaro Vojtek), The Grasp of the State (dir. Zuzana Piussi), Fragile Identity (dir. Zuzana Piussi), New Life of Family Album (dir. Adam Oľha), Exhibits or Pictures from the Castle (dir. Palo Korec), Graduates/Freedom Is Not for Free (dr. Tomáš Krupa) and Normalization (dir. Robert Kirchhoff).
In 2012, the European Film Academy Animated Feature Film Award went to the Czech-German-Slovak co-production title Alois Nebel (dir. Tomáš Luňák).
The 26th European Film Award Gala Ceremony will be held December 7, 2013 in Berlin, Germany.
Participation of Slovak films and SFTA at the European Film Awards is supported by the Slovak Audiovisual Fund.
More information at:
www.europeanfilmacademy.org.
www.sfta.sk
