Mungiu’s “Beyond the hills” nominated at the 25th European Film Awards

Romanian movie “Beyond the Hills” directed by Cristian Mungiu was nominated in the European Film Awards 2012, announced the European Film Academy and EFA Productions.

In the 20 countries with the most EFA Members, these members have voted one national film directly into the selection list. To complete the list, a Selection Committee consisting of EFA Board Members and invited experts Pierre-Henri Deleau (France), Marit Kapla (Sweden), Stefan Kitanov (Bulgaria), Paz Lázaro (Spain), Derek Malcolm (UK), and Elma Tataragic (Bosnia&Herzegovina) has included further films.

In the coming weeks, the 2,700 members of the European Film Academy will vote for the nominations in different award categories. The nominations will then be announced on November 3^rd at the Seville European Film Festival in Spain.

About “Beyond the Hills” movie

The Guardian’s review dubbed Mungiu’s film as “a brilliant, scary portrayal of irrationality and fear in Europe’s dark heart”, adding that Cristian Mungiu has given “a captivating tragi-comedy of sexual hysteria and material want. This long movie is played out in a kind of real time, a mysterious secular passion play; Mungiu apparently based the action on the reportage of the BBC World Service’s Bucharest bureau chief Tatiana Niculescu Bran who wrote about a case in 2005, where a novice died after being subjected to an exorcism in Romania’s Tanacu monastery: an irrational horror at the heart of 21st-century Europe.”

Production company: Mobra Films