A committee consisting of EFA Board Member ANTONIO SAURA, producer (Spain), EFA Member DESPINA MOUZAKI, producer (Greece), as well as documentary experts CLAAS DANIELSEN (Germany), ALLY DERKS (Netherlands) and JACQUES LAURENT (Belgium) decided on the following nominations:

THE ACT OF KILLING
Denmark/Norway/UK, 159 min
DIRECTED BY: Joshua Oppenheimer
PRODUCED BY: Signe Byrge Sørensen

_Anwar Congo and his friends are mass murderers dancing their way through musical numbers, twisting arms in film noir gangster scenes, and galloping across prairies as yodelling cowboys. _

L'ESCALE (STOP-OVER)
Switzerland/France, 100 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Kaveh Bakhtiari
PRODUCED BY: Elisabeth Garbar & Heinz Dill

_In Athens, Amir, an Iranian immigrant, has a modest flat which has become a place of transit for migrants who, like him, have chosen to
leave their country._

L'IMAGE MANQUANTE (THE MISSING PICTURE)
France/Cambodia, 90 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Rithy Panh
PRODUCED BY: Catherine Dussart

_For many years, I have been looking for the missing picture: a photograph taken between 1975 and 1979 by the Khmer Rouge when they
ruled over Cambodia... ___

The nominated films will now be submitted to the 2,900 EFA Members to elect the winner. The European Documentary 2013 will then be presented at THE 26TH EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS CEREMONY IN BERLIN ON SATURDAY, 7 DECEMBER – streamed live on www.europeanfilmawards.eu and broadcast on HBO.