The Award

Six Editions

Since 2019, ESFAA has honoured six films, each receiving a prize of €3,500, which is presented to the respective directors by various organisations, such as: Creative Europe Media, Brussels Short Film Festival and the Representation of the European Commission in Belgium.

The Winners

2024/2025

The Mysterious Adventures Of Claude Conseil

Marie-Lola Terver, Paul Jousselin

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.

2023/2024

Tondex 200

Jean-Baptiste Leonetti

Sylvain, an Afghan veteran living off of petty crime, crosses paths with Nathalie, an upper-class CEO struggling to keep her lawnmower company afloat.

2022/2023

Sprötch

Xavier Seron

FLO has to go to Marrakech for work. So, it’s TOM who takes care of SAM, their 5-year-old son. Flo left him a list of tasks to complete during his absence. Despite this, Tom forgot Sam’s guitar course. From his ryad, Flo calls to blame him. Tom hates being caught. He picks up Sam. The car comes out of the garage at full speed. SPROTCH. Tom just crushed something…

2021/2022

Confinés Dehors

Julien Goudichaud

March 2020, a global pandemic hits humanity. In an empty and silent Paris, there remain urban ghosts, Sarah, Nelson and Katia, who have no other choice but to be locked out. These people forgotten by the health crisis ask us: how to continue to survive in a world at a standstill?

2020/2021

Une Sœur

Delphine Girard

A night. A car. A woman in trouble. A call.

2019/2020

Nefta Football Club

Yves Piat

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.