Discover the eight short films touring around Europe, which aim to win the title of 2025/2026 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 2026. 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.
Percebes
Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves, 2024
Portugal/France, ANI/DOC, 12′
Curtas Vila do Conde IFF – Audience Award 2024
Synopsis
With the sea and the urban Algarve as a background, we follow a complete cycle of the life of a special shellfish called PERCEBES, goose barnacle. From their formation, to the dish, in this journey, we cross different contexts that allow us to better understand this region and those who live there.
Awards and Selections
06.2024 – Annecy Festival (Cristal du court métrage)
07.2024 – Curtas Vila do Conde IFF (Audience Award)
11.2024 – CINANIMA (Audience Award, Best Portuguese Short Film)
12.2024 – ÓSCARS® (Shortlisted – Animated Short Film)
Zarafet ve șiddet arasında
(Between Delicate and Violent)
Şirin Bahar Demirel, 2023
Netherlands/Turkey, DOC, 15′
Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen – Audience Award 2024
Synopsis
Can we see the violence of the painter’s hands in the brush strokes of his paintings? Could cross-stitch be an alphabet? “Between Delicate and Violent” imagines unearthing traumatic memories that have not been included in family albums.
Mereneläviä
(Fish River Anthology)
Veera Lamminpää, 2024
Finland, ANI, 10′
Tampere Film Festival – Audience Award 2025
Synopsis
The supermarket is nearing its closing time, and the last customers are queuing for their turn at the fish counter. The agonizing wait offers a chance for existential reflection and a little song.
Deux Personnes Échangeant de la Salive
(Two People Exchanging Saliva)
Natalie Musteata, Alexandre Singh, 2024
France/United States of America, FIC, 36′
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival – Audience Award 2025
Synopsis
An absurdist tragedy set in a society where kissing is punishable by death, and people pay for things by receiving slaps to the face. Angine, an unhappy woman, shops in a department store. There, she becomes fascinated by a salesgirl. The two become close, raising the suspicions of a colleague.
Awards and Selections
08.2024 – Telluride Film Festival (World Premiere)
06.2024 – AFI FEST (Grand Prix Du Jury)
02.2025 – Clermont-Ferrand ISFF (National Audience Prize)
05.2025 – San Francisco IFF (Golden Gate Award)
03.2026 – ÓSCARS® (Best Live Action Short Film)
Cura Sana
(Healthy Cure)
Lucia G. Romero, 2024
Spain, FIC, 18′
ALCINE – Alcalá de Henares Film Festival in the Community of Madrid – Audience Award 2024
Synopsis
Jessica and Alma, two sisters in a situation of domestic violence, will begin to treat each other with love instead of violence through one of their routine trips to the food stamp office on the night of San Juan, a spanish holiday.
ROSE
Annika Mayer, 2024
Germany, DOC, 19′
Interfilm Berlin – International Short Film Festival – Audience Award 2024
Synopsis
A family in the 1960s captured on Super8 film, juxtaposed with stories of a violent husband recounted fifty years later. A film about the invisibility of domestic violence.
Awards and Selections
08.2024 – Movies that Matter Festival (World Premiere)
11.2024 – Interfilm Berlin ISFF (Audience Award, FBW Award)
10.2024 – Kurzfilmsause Freiburg (Audience Award)
My Secret Cyberlove
Bartosz Stankiewicz, 2024
Poland, FIC, 30′
Short Waves Film Festival – Audience Award 2025
Synopsis
A thirty-something introvert from a Catholic home decides to marry a sex robot that was only meant to prepare him for the sacrament of marriage. In order not to jeopardise the family patisserie, he is forced to hide his relationship from the closest to him and the local church, the main buyer of the unparalleled baked goods. The discovery of the secret by his toxic father causes him to embark on a lonely battle for cyber love.
Awards and Selections
06.2024 – Koszalin Festival of Film Debuts (Journalists’ Award)
12.2024 – ŻUBROFFKA ISFF (Young Jury Award)
