The European Film Awards 2008 Credit: Rune Evensen/ScanPix

The European Film Academy and EFA Productions gGmbH have announced the 48 titles on the shortlist for this year’s European Film Awards 2009. British nods include Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank, Ken Loach’s Looking For Eric and Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire.

25 European countries are represented in the nominations, which will be voted for by the 2,000 European Film Academy members in the next few weeks. The nominations will be announced on 7th November at the Sevilla European Film Festival in Spain.

The 22nd European Film Awards will take place on 22nd December at Germany’s Ruhr Metropolis.

The full shortlist is as follows:

33 Scenes From Life (MaÅ‚goÅ›ka Szumowska, Poland/Germany), Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain), Everyone Else (Maren Ade, Germany), Antichrist (Lars von Trier, Denmark), Father’s Acre (Viktor Oszkár Nagy, Hungary), The Baader Meinhof Complex (Uli Edel, Germany), Brothers (Igaal Niddam, Switzerland), Paper Soldier (Alexey German Jr., Russia), Camino (Javier Fesser, Spain), Coco Before Chanel (Anne Fontaine, France), Eastern Plays (Kamen Kalev, Bulgaria), Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold, UK), Terribly Happy (Henrik Ruben Genz, Denmark), It All Begins At Sea (Eitan Green, Israel), Jerichow (Christian Petzold, Germany), Jaffa (Keren Yedaya, France/Israel/Germany), Tears of April (Aku Louhimies, Finland), Kisses (Lance Daly, Ireland), The Bone Man (Wolfgang Murnberger, Austria), Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos, Greece), Let The Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, Sweden), Little Soldier (Annette K.Olesen, Denmark), Loft (Erik Van Looy, Belgium), Looking For Eric (Ken Loach, UK), The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Niels Arden Oplev, Sweden), Everlasting Moments (Jan Troell, Denmark/Sweden), Max Manus (Espen Sandberg & Joachim Rønning, Norway), No-One’s Son (Arsen Anton Ostojic, Croatia), North (Rune Denstad Langlo, Norway), Winter in Wartime (Martin Koolhoven, Netherlands), Pandora’s Box (YeÅŸim UstaoÄŸlu, Turkey/France/Germany/Belgium), Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania), Mid-August Lunch (Gianna di Gregorio, Italy), A Prophet (Jacques Audiard, France), A Matter Of Heart (Francesca Archibugi, Italy), The Reader (Stephen Daldry, Germany), Return to Hansala (Chus Gutierrez, Spain), Seraphine (Martin Provost, France), Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle, UK), A Woman’s Way – Strella (Panos H.Koutras, Greece), Sweet Rush (Andrzej Wajda, Poland), A Time That Remains (Elia Suleiman, France), Tobruk (Václav Marhoul, Czech Republic), The Tour (Goran Marković, Serbia/Bosnia & Herzegovina/Croatia/Slovenia), Wrong Rosary (Mahmut Fazıl CoÅŸkun, Turkey), Vincere (Marco Bellocchio, Italy), The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, Germany / Austria / France), Welcome (Philippe Lioret, France).