European Film Academy

Press release # 2/2009

Supported by Shorts International, programme now includes 15 festivals

SHORT MATTERS! is the European Film Academy’s short film tour which brings the short films nominated for the European Film Awards to a series of film festivals across Europe and beyond. As a new partner, world-wide short film distribution company Shorts International supports this year’s SHORT MATTERS! programme giving these films an additional platform at 15 festivals which have already confirmed their participation and will screen the programme.

The programme brings the nominated short films to audiences in Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Finland, Germany, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, and Sweden, and this year’s cycle will be kicked off by screenings at the Tampere Film Festival (4 March) and the Sofia International Film Festival (14 & 18/19 March).

More info about Shorts International www.shortsinternational.com

More info about Short Matters!: www.europeanfilmacademy.org

Berlin, 26 February 2009

SHORT MATTERS! 2009

Tour Schedule

The SHORT MATTERS! programme includes the following films:
for more details go to Short Matters!

Prix UIP Ghent: RAAK (Contact)
by Hanro Smitsman, Netherlands 2007, 10 min, fiction

Prix UIP Cork: THE APOLOGY LINE
by James Lees, UK 2007, 10 min, documentary

Prix UIP Valladolid: UN BISOU POUR LE MONDE (A Kiss for the World)
by Cyril Paris, France 2007, 9 min, fiction

Prix UIP Angers: PROCRASTINATION
by Johnny Kelly, UK 2007, 4 min 5 sec, animation

Prix UIP Rotterdam: JOY
by Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy, UK 2008, 10 min, fiction

Prix UIP Berlin: FRANKIE
by Darren Thornton, Ireland 2007, 12 min, fiction

Prix UIP Tampere: THE PEARCE SISTERS
by Luis Cook, UK 2007, 10 min, animation

Prix UIP Cracow: TIME IS RUNNING OUT
by Marc Reisbig, UK 2007, 7 min, animation

Prix UIP Grimstad: UGUNS (Fire)
by Laila Pakalnina, Latvia 2007, 12 min, fiction

Prix UIP Edinburgh: SMÁFUGLAR (2 Birds)
by Rúnar Rúnarsson, Iceland 2008, 15 min, fiction

Prix UIP Vila do Conde: LOVE YOU MORE
by Sam Taylor-Wood, UK 2007, 15 min, fiction

Prix UIP Sarajevo: TOLERANTIA (Tolerance)
by Ivan Ramadan, Bosnia & Herzegovina 2008, 6 min, animation

Prix UIP Venice: DE ONBAATZUCHTIGEN (The Altruists)
by Koen Dejaegher, Belgium 2008, 14 min, fiction

Prix UIP Drama: TÜRELEM (With A Little Patience)
by Laszlo Nemes, Hungary 2007, 14 min, fiction

for more details go to Short Matters!