The European Film Academy handed off its top prize to Roman Polanski’s “The Ghost Writer,” just one of the six honors the movie took home on Saturday night. The European Film Awards took place in Tallinn and was hosted once again by German comedian Anke Engelke along with young Estonian actor Märt Avandi.

„This beautiful city has merged history and modernity in a very unique way,” said Wim Wenders, president of the European Film Academy, in his introductory remarks at Saturday’s ceremony. Wenders went on to praise the city’s hospitality, which included inviting EFA’s guests to join locals in their own homes for lunch - a first in the Academy’s history. “Incredibly charming and as I understand, very Estonian,” he said.

Kaleem Aftab writes in the UK based Independent: „One of the quirky events on offer was to have lunch with ‘an Estonian family.’ I signed up imagining that I would be whisked off to a house where a grandmother would be surrounded by her ice hockey team of grandchildren dancing around the Chistmas tree. Imagine my disappointment when I discovered that I would be hosted by two hip young blondes in their twenties.” Read more in ….
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/12/05/european-film-awards-polanski-wins-top-prize/

More about the awards ceremony:

http://www.indiewire.com/article/2010/12/05/polanskis_ghost_triumphs_at_european_film_awards