Discover the nine short films touring around Europe, which aim to win the title of 2024/2025 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 2024. 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.
Beş
Ayla Çekin Satijn, 2021
The Netherlands, FIC, 6′
Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen – Audience Award 2022
Synopsis
When a young woman returns to her native village to attend a childhood friend’s traditional Turkish wedding, she is afraid she will not be accepted. But when, in this short drama, she reunites with her four friends from bygone years, she discovers she is not free of prejudice either.
Blue Note
Pavel Andonov, 2022
Finland/United Kingdom, FIC, 21′
Tampere Film Festival – Audience Award 2023
Synopsis
Leena is faced with a heartbreaking commitment after spending a beautiful day with her terminally ill husband Boris in their summer cottage.
Awards and Selections
03.2023 – Tampere Film Festival (Best Student Film, Youth Jury Price, Audience Award)
11.2023 – Leeds International Film Festival (Special Mention)
Ma Gueule
(Rag Head)
Grégory Carnoli, Thibaut Wohlfahrt, 2021
Belgium, FIC, 22′
Brussels Short Film Festival – Audience Award 2022
Synopsis
Stéphane returns to his hometown, La Louvière, to watch a football match with his childhood friends. At the end of the match, they manage to persuade Stéphane to go with them on a trip to a Flemish nightclub. But Stéphane is refused entry.
Dzielenie się
(Sharing)
Natalia Sara Skorupa, 2021
Poland, DOC, 14′
Short Waves Festival – Audience Award 2022
Synopsis
We are awarding a film about family and differences between each of its members, in which the author, despite not being present on the screen, exposes her everyday life – for sharing her inspiring courage and perpetuating the universal experience associated with the struggle to maintain one’s own identity.
Arquitectura Emocional 1959
Elias León Siminiani, 2022
Spain, FIC, 30′
ALCINE – Alcalá de Henares Film Festival in the Community of Madrid – Audience Award 2022
Synopsis
Here is the love story of Sebas and Andrea, first-time university students, in the 1958-1959 academic year. Here is how social class and ideology become insurmountable obstacles?… Here is architecture marking, inadvertently, the dotted line that ends up dictating its emotion.
Awards and Selections
2023 – Premios Goya – Academia de Cine (Best Fictional Short Film)
2022 – SEMINCI – Valladolid International Film Week (GGrand Jury Prize for Best Short Film)
Sven nicht jetzt, wann dann?
(If not now, then when…?)
Jens Rosemann, 2021
Germany, ANI, 4′
Interfilm Berlin – International Short Film Festival – Audience Award 2022
Synopsis
On a beautiful summer day, Sven is finally going to take the plunge: to jump from the ten-metre board. But first a shower. Now he’s ready, but … perhaps better tomorrow?
