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Melancholia, The Artist, Le Havre and the other nominations for the 2011 European Film Awards have been announced. The 24th Annual European Film Awards are presented “by the European Film Academy to recognize excellence in European cinematic achievements. The awards are given in over ten categories of which the most important is the Film of the year. They are restricted to European cinema and European producers, directors, and actors.” This year’s European Film Awards “ceremony will be held on December 3, 2011 in Berlin’s Tempodrom near Potsdamer Platz.”

The full listing of the 2011 European Film Awards nominations is below.

European Film 2011

The Artist, France

Written and Directed by: Michel Hazanavicius; Produced by: Thomas Langmann & Emmanuel Montamat

Le Gamin au Velo (The Kid with a Bike), Belgium/France/Italy

Written and Directed by: Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne; Produced by: Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Denis Freyd & Andrea Occhipinti

Hævnen (In a Better World), Denmark...

From the Berlin Film Festival website: The Golden Bear for the best short film goes to Händelse Vid Bank [above] by Ruben Östlund (Sweden) “His film is a real reflection on our times and the role played by media. Filmed with a single camera without a single cut, we zoom in and out of the picture as if using a CCTV camera. The dialogues are perfect, humanity is explained with humour.” The Silver Bear goes to Hayerida by Shai Miedzinski (Israel) “The Israeli desert sets a dusty and intense background for a coherent road movie about loss. It’s hard to depict grief, a transition for a family, but the director listens to the wind blow and [...]...

The Golden Bear for the best short film was awarded to Händelse Vid Bank by Ruben Östlund from Sweden in the 60th edition of the Berlin International Film festival. The International Short Film Jury awarded the Golden Bear and the Jury-Prize Silver Bear, the Daad Short Film Award and the nomination for the European Film Academy Short Film 2010 on Wednesday.

Händelse Vid Bank is a story of 96 people who are reconstructing a failed bank robbery witnessed in 2006. The Jury explained: “His film is a real reflection on our times and the role played by media. Filmed with a single camera without a single cut, we zoom in and out of the picture as if using a CCTV camera. The dialogues are perfect, humanity is explained with humour.”

The Jury-Prize Silver Bear went to Israel, for Hayerida by Shai Miedzinski. A family is looking for a stone. A stone that...