Short Film News (SFN) - The European Film Academy (EFA) announced the nominations for European Film Academy Documentary 2008 - Prix Arte.

Ten films will compete in this category and jury will now convene in Berlin to screen the nominated films and decide on the winner.

Appointed by the European Film Academy and ARTE, the members of the documentary jury are Karoline Leth from SF Film Production (Denmark), Kirsi Tykkylainen from Moscow Film Festival (Finland), and Alan Hayling from Renegade Pictures Ltd (UK).

The winner will be presented at the 21st European Film Awards Ceremony on Saturday 6 December, in Copenhagen.

The nominated documentaries are:

Durakovo - Village of Fools by Nino Kirtadze, France

Fados by Carlos Saura, Portugal/Spain

Children. As Time Flies by Thomas Heise, Germany

The Mother by Antoine Cattin & Pavel Kostomarov, Switzerland

Man on Wire by James Marsh, UK

Stranded: I’ve Come from a Plane that Crashed on the Mountains by Gonzalo Arijon, France

Citizen Havel by Pavel Koutecky & Miroslav Janek, Czech Republic

Shadow of the Holy Book by Arto Halonen, Finland

Rene by Helena Trestikova, Czech Republic

The Dictator Hunter by Klaartje Quirijns, the Netherlands