Still: Mr. K (credits: Kris Dewitte)

The European Film Academy (EFA) has announced that Mr. K has been added to the list of feature films that are part of European Film Awards’ Feature Film Selection 2024. They have been selected by the EFA Board – consulted by a diverse range of European invited experts. The nominations of the European Film Awards will be revealed on 5 November.

This year the awards ceremony, presented jointly by the European Film Academy and European Film Academy Productions, takes place on 7 December in Lucerne/Switzerland. In a total of 22 categories the European Film Awards annually honour the greatest achievements in European cinema.

Starring Crispin Glover (Alice in Wonderland, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, Back to the Future), Mr. K is a surrealist drama about a traveling magician, who finds himself in a Kafkaesque nightmare when he can’t find the exit of the hotel he slept in. His attempts to get out only pull him deeper inside, entangling him further with the hotel and its curious inhabitants.

Mr. K world premiered in TIFF’s Platform competition. Tallulah’s debut feature Confetti Harvest* (2015), premiered at Berlinale’s Generation and screened at many children’s film festivals, including Kristiansand (Norway) and Zlin (Czech Republic).

Mr. K is produced by Lemming Film, A Private View and The Film Kitchen, in coproduction with Take 1 and the AVRO/TROS. 
This film was created with support from:
The Netherlands Film Fund, Netherlands Film Fund production incentive, CoBo-fund, The Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Screen Flanders, Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government and Inver Tax Shelter, Eurimages, Abraham Tuschinski fund, Norwegian Film Institute, Finnish Impact Film Fund, Creative Europe.

The Norwegian Dutch co-production Armand** by Halfdan Ullman Tøndel and minority co-produced by Amsterdam-based Kepler Film is also part of the European Film Awards Feature Film Selection. And the Dutch minority co-production Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat* by Johan Grimonprez and co-produced by BALDR Film is chosen for EFA’s Documentary Film Selection.

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*Film is supported by the Netherlands Film Fund
** Film is supported by the Production Incentive