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The shortlist comprises 45 feature films, 15 documentary films and eight animated features representing 40 countries. There are 25 films directed or co-directed by women.
Among the names on the shortlist are films that have been already celebrated by festival's, including Cannes' Palme d'Or winner Fjord, directed by Cristian Mungiu, the Berlinale Golden Bear winner Yellow Letters, directed by İlker Çatak, La Bola Negra, by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, which won audience awards in Toronto and San Sebastian, plus May el-Toukhy's Woman Unknown, which took the Golden Lion in Venice.
British entries, include Mike Leigh's Tender Loving Care, which won the Golden Shell in San Sebastian, plus Clio Barnard's I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning, along with Simon Stone's Elsinore, which recently opened London Film Festival.
UK documentaries are also making a strong showing with NAZA, Everybody To Kenmure Street and Queer Edward II all in contention.
Other shortlisted festival favourites include Pawel Pawlikowski's Cannes' director winner Fatherland, Andrey Zvyagintsev's Minotaur and Lukas Dhont's Coward.
The nominations for key categories will be announced on November 14 during the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
The full list shortlist is below:
Animation
• Decorado (Sp-Port) Dir. Alberto Vázquez
• In Waves (Fr-Bel) Dir. Phuong May Nguyen
• Iron Boy (Fr-Bel) Dir. Louis Clichy
• Jim Queen (Fr-Bel) Dir. Marco Nguyen & Nicolas Athané
• Julián (Ire-Lux-Can-Den) Dir. Louise Bagnall
• Lucy Lost (Fr) Dir. Olivier Clert
• Monster Mia (Aus-Ger-Sp) Dir. Verena Fels
• Viva Carmen (Fr) Dir. Sébastien Laudenbach
Documentary
• A Fox Under A Pink Moon (Fr-Den-Iran-US) Dir. Mehrdad Oskouei & Soraya Akhlaghi
• Amazomania (Swe-Den-Fr) Dir. Nathan Grossman
• Bugboy (Gr-Den-Fr) Dir. Lucas Paleocrassas
• Citizen Osama (Fr-Palestine) Dir. Ahmed Hassouna
• Closure (Pol-Fr) Dir. Michaƚ Marczak
• Everybody to Kenmure Street (UK-Qatar) Dir. Felipe Bustos Sierra
• La Belle Année (Swe-Nor) Dir. Angelica Ruffier
• Letters From the Silenced Country (Pol-Lith-Ger) Dir. Andrei Kutsila
• NAZA (UK) Dir. Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor
• Queer Edward II (UK) Dir. Theo Rollason
• Rehearsals For A Revolution (Cz-Sp) Dir. Pegah Ahangarani
• Rescue (Den-It-Swe-Iceland-Ger) Dir. Sine Plambech
• To Hold A Mountain (Serbia-Fr-Montenegro-Slovenia-Croatia) Dir. Biljana Tutorov & Petar Glomazić
• Traces (Ukr-Pol) Dir. Alisa Kovalenko & Marysia Nikitiuk
• Whispers In The Woods (Fr) Dir. Vincent Munier
Fiction
• A Day In The Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra (Gr-Ger-Fr) Dir. Jacqueline Lentzou
• A Man Of His Time (Fr-Bel) Dir. Emmanuel Marre
• Bitter Christmas (Sp) Dir. Pedro Almodóvar
• Black Money For White Nights (Bul-Gr) Dir. Kristina Grozeva & Petar Valchanov
• Brace Your Heart (Swe-Den-Nor-Bul-Iceland) Dir. Amanda Kernell
• Bucking Fastard (Ire-US-Slovenia) Dir. Werner Herzog
• Bunker (Fr-Sp) Dir. Florian Zeller
• Conversation With the Sea (Palestine-Neth-Saudi Arabia-Qatar) Dir. Muayad Alayan
• Coward (Bel-Fr-Neth) Dir. Lukas Dhont
• Dau (Ger-Fr-Swe) Dir. Ilya Khrzhanovsky
• De Gaulle: Liberté / De Gaulle: Resistance (Fr-Bel) Dir. Antonin Baudry
• Diane in the Loop (Bel-Fr) Dir. Ann Sirot & Raphaël Balboni
• Dua (Kosovo-Swi-Fr) Dir. Blerta Basholli
• Elsinore (UK-Fr-It-US) Dir. Simon Stone
• Everytime (Ger-Aus) Dir. Sandra Wollner
• Fatherland (Pol-Ger-It-Fr) Dir. Paweł Pawlikowski
• Fjord (Rom-Fr-Nor-Den-Swe-Fin) Dir. Cristian Mungiu
• Gentle Monster (Aus-Ger-Fr-Swe) Dir. Marie Kreutzer
• Growth Of The Soil (Nor-Den) Dir. Hans Petter Moland
• Hold Onto Me (Cyprus-Gr-Den) Dir. Myrsini Aristidou
• How to Divorce During the War (Lith-Lux-Ire-Cz) Dir. Andrius Blaževičius
• I Matter (Rom-Ger-Bel) Dir. Alina Șerban
• I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning (UK) Dir. Clio Barnard
• Ivan & Hadoum (Sp-Ger-Bel) Dir. Ian de la Rosa
• La Bola Negra (Sp-Fr) Dir. Javier Calvo & Javier Ambrossi
• La Gradiva (Fr-It) Dir. Marine Atlan
• Minotaur (Fr-Ger-Lat) Dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev
• Only Beautiful Things to Look At (Slovakia-Cz-Hun) Dir. Ivan Ostrochovský
• Red Rocks (Port-Fr-It-Sp) Dir. Bruno Dumont
• Rose (Aus-Ger) Dir. Markus Schleinzer
• Salvation (Tur-Fr-Neth-Gr-Saudi Arabia) Dir. Emin Alper
• Shame And Money (Ger-Kosovo-Albania-North Macedonia-Bel-Slovenia) Dir. Visar Morina
• Supporting Role (Geo-Est-Tur-Swi-US) Dir. Ana Urushadze
• Tender Loving Care (UK) Dir. Mike Leigh
• The Beloved (Sp-Fr) Dir. Rodrigo Sorogoyen
• The Diary Of A Chambermaid (Fr-Rom) Dir. Radu Jude
• The Dreamed Adventure (Ger-Fr-Bul-Aus) Dir. Valeska Grisebach
• The Guest (Den) Dir. Mads Mengel
• The Soundman (Bel-Neth) Dir. Frank Van Passel
• The Spiral (It-Fr-Bel) Dir. Paolo Strippoli
• To the Victory! (Ukr-Lith) Dir. Valentyn Vasyanovych
• Truly Naked (Neth-Fr-Bel) Dir. Muriel d’Ansembourg
• Woman Unknown (Den-Lat-Swe) Dir. May el-Toukhy
• Yellow Letters (Ger-Fr-Tur) Dir. İlker Çatak
• You Don’t Belong Here (Rom) Dir. Florin Şerban
