Discover the eight short films touring around Europe, which aim to win the title of 2020/2021 European Short Film Audience Award.
After winning the favour of their national audience, these short films are on a quest to win the hearts of Europeans, who are invited to vote for their favourite short film. The final award of €3,500 will be presented at the Brussels Short Film Festival, in 2021. The national audience won’t be able to vote for the short film coming from its own country to ensure the fairness of the award.
Winner
NEFTA FOOTBALL CLUB
Yves Piat, 2018
France/Tunisie, FIC, 17′
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival – Audience Award 2021
Synopsis
In the south of Tunisia, two football fan brothers bump into a donkey lost in the middle of the desert on the border of Algeria. Strangely, the animal wears headphones over its ears.
Awards and Selections
2018 – Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival (Audience Award for Best Short Film)
2019 – Cleveland International Film Festival (Special Mention)
2019 – Curtas Vila do Conde – International Film Festival (Audience Award – My Generation Competition)
2019 – Sarlat Film Festival (Grand Prix – Short Film)
2020 – Academy Awards (Nominee – Best Live Action Short)
2020 – César Awards (Nominee – Best Short Film)
Entre Sombras
(Between The Shadows)
Alice Eça Guimarães, Mónica Santos, 2018
Portugal/France, ANI, 13′
Curtas Vila do Conde – International Film Festival – Audience Award 2018
Synopsis
Natália, trapped in a tedious job, engages in a search for a stolen heart. In a world where hearts can be deposited in a bank, the protagonist faces a dilemma: give her heart or keep it to herself.
Awards and Selections
2018 – Animafest – World Festival of Animated Films Zagreb (Audience Award)
2018 – Hiroshima International Animation Festival (Special Jury Prize)
2018 – Montpellier International Festival of Mediterranean Film (Young Jury Award)
2019 – Monstra Lisboa Animated Film Festival (Audience Award – Short Film Competition)
2020 – Palm Springs International ShortFest (Audience Award)
VIHTA
François Bierry, 2018
Belgium, DOC/FIC, 21′
Brussels Short Film Festival – Audience Award 2018
Synopsis
Serge and his four colleagues work in a small company that has just been brought out by a large corporation. As a welcoming gift, they are invited by their new employer to spend a day of relaxation at a spa.
Awards and Selections
2018 – Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival (World premiere)
2018 – International Short FIlm Festival Leuven (Audience Award)
2018 – Valencia Int. Film Festival (Best Short Film at Cinema Jove)
FUSY
(Dregs)
Kordian Kadziela, 2017
Poland, FIC, 28′
Short Waves Festival – Audience Award 2018
Synopsis
Beata’s life is not a bed of roses. She’s lonely, lives in a tiny, cluttered place in a block of flats, and on top of that, she’s addicted to gambling. All of this, however, doesn’t stop her from advising hundreds of other people on what to do. That’s because she’s a telephone fortune teller. Her life changes drastically, when one of her readings almost leads to a tragedy.
Awards and Selections
2017 – International Film Festival Etiuda & Anima (Grand Prix, Special Metion – International Federation of Movie Discussion Clubs)
2018 – Poitiers Film Festival (French Critics’ Discovery Prize)
untitled
(Burned Rubber on Asphalt, 2018)
Tinja Ruusuvuori, 2019
Finland, DOC, 20′
Tampere Film Festival – Audience Award 2019
Synopsis
In a remote Norwegian village the weaving roads have become the subject of controversy. The documentary investigates the bewildering phenomena of car skid marks and their mysterious appearance.
Awards and Selections
2019 – Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy (Uusi Aalto Award)
2019 – Indy Shorts International Film Festival (Grand Prize)
2019 – CINANIMA – International Animation Festival (Best Animated Short Award)
MIA DONNA
Pavlo Ostrikov, 2018
Ukraine, FIC, 16′
Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz Art – Audience Award 2018
Synopsis
The life of forty-six-year-old Oksana changes when her husband Tolik turns into a seven-year-old boy. Doctors are powerless and nobody can take him back. Oksana clings to her old life, but the problem turns out to be more serious than she thought.
Awards and Selections
2019 – Kyiv International Short Film Festival – KISFF (Best Film of the National Competition)
2019 – Kyiv Open Night Film Festival (Diploma for Best Screenplay)
Bad Lesbian
Irene Moray, 2018
Spain/Germany, FIC, 12′
ALCINE – Alcalá de Henares Film Festival in the Community of Madrid – Audience Award 2018
Synopsis
Rita masturbates thinking about her ex and then cries for half an hour. That is how the night starts for our heroin, a young woman in a cosmopolitan Berlin. With large doses of humour and sarcasm, we will see how difficult it can be for her to fit in a new place.
Awards and Selections
2018 – Fish Film Festival (Film of the Year, Sputnik Award)
2018 – 573 Film Festival (Best comedy)
