Discover the 9 short films touring 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 Brussels Short Film Festival, in 2025.
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 ★
The Mysterious Adventures of Claude Conseil by Marie-Lola Terver, Paul Jousselin
France – 2023 – 24′ – Fiction
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival – Audience Award 2024
Claude Conseil lives with her husband in a house in the middle of the woods. She spends her time listening to birds. One day, mysterious phone calls break the calm of the forest.
Balkan, Baby by Boris Gavrilović
Germany – 2023 – 19′ – Fiction
Interfilm Berlin – Audience Award 2023
Martina is a good immigrant. At least, she has always done her best to be regarded as such in Germany. But then she meets young Dunja during a short vacation at Lake Starnberg. Dunja is self-confident, non-conformist and, above all, she stands by her Yugoslavian origins – unlike Martina. Suddenly, Martina is forced to confront a part of her identity that she has repressed all her life.
To Live In a Wild Sea by Guillermo F. Flórez
Spain – 2023 – 24′ – Documentary
Alcine International Film Festival – Audience Award 2023
Carmen was born in 1935. As a child, she watched how they took members of her family away. After 14 years as a cloistered nun, she managed to get expelled from it. She promised herself to own her life. Today, she is 86 years old, and she is going to take a decision: Carmen is going to commit suicide.
Thank You For Your Patience! by Simon van der Zande
Belgium, Netherlands – 2022 – 17′ – Fiction
Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen – Audience Award 2023
From a fixed point of view, we witness a tense bus ride in Brussels, when Samuel – a Congolese immigrant – gets on to voice his discontent with Europe.
Motherless Child by Sophie Maréchal
Belgium, France – 2023 – 14′ – Fiction
Brussels Short Film Festival – Audience Award 2022
Barbara, 30 years old single female, is the typical example of a modern woman, a “working girl”, living in a fast lane. Barbara is completely hooked on her smartphone, but her routine is about to change when a mysterious balloon, seemingly sent from the sky, floats into her life.
Human Nature by Mónica Lima
Portugal – 2023 – 26′ – Fiction
Curtas Vila do Conde – International Film Festival – Audience Award 2023
In an apartment in a city under curfew, a day expands from early Spring to late Summer. A couple’s longing to start a family is shaken by a pervasive feeling of uncertainty.
Storks Always Come Home by Halyna Koziutynska
Ukraine – 2023 – 28′ – Documentary
Lviv International Film Festival Wiz-Art- Audience Award 2023
Gala and Viktor search for their Heaven on Earth, even during the war. That’s why they bought an abandoned house in the Carpathian Mountains and started repairing it. It’s a place of peace and calmness where they can grow their food, be silent, be defenseless, and drink coffee overlooking the mountains and a stork’s nest. But winter comes, the apple tree in the yard freezes, and the War reaches Heaven.
Nun or Never! by Heta Jäälinoja
Finland – 2023 – 11′ – Animation
Tampere Film Festival – Audience Award 2024
The nuns live in the monastery in contentment and harmony, fused together. One of the nuns finds a man underground while digging potatoes. The nun begins to dream of the man, goes mad and loses a common rhythm with others
Edge by Edmund Aleksander Krempiński, Jakub Dylewski
Poland – 2023 – 18′ – Experimental
Short Waves Film Festival – Audience Award 2023
A stigmatized character struggles with all aspects of his own frustration on his way to be transformed into a Pearl.