European Films

Two Italian films, Matteo Garrone's Gomorra (Gomorrah) and Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo, lead the pack at this year's European Film Award (EFA) nominations. Both film have five nominations each and premiered earlier this year at the Cannes Film Festival before their releases at home. The festival seems to be this year's official supplies of nominees; the Best Director category is solely made up of titles that premiered there. The fact that two Italian titles are in the lead is also somewhat misleading, as this is not the sign of some kind of renaissance in Italian film. The Venice and Rome Film Festivals, both packed with local titles, programmed not one film that scored an EFA nomination this year. The winners will be announced at a ceremony held in Copenhagen on December. 6 The full list of 2008 EFA nominees follows.