European Film Academy

The European Film Academy (EFA) and the Locarno International Film Festival congratulate the

Locarno Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2010
DIARCHIA (Diarchy)
by Ferdinando Cito Filomarino
Italy 2009, 20 min., fiction

The film is now nominated for the award European Film Academy Short Film 2010. It was selected by the festival’s international jhort film jury which was made up of  directors Lisandro Alonso (Argentina), Miguel Gomes (Portugal) and Corneliu Porumboiu (Romania, producer Sylvie Pialat (France), and actress Nina Meurisse (France).

Synopsis: Giano and Luc hardly know each other. They are traveling through a wood when a sudden storm breaks, forcing them to take shelter in Luc’s spacious villa. With the ice broken, they start wrestling playfully, but suddenly, an accident happens. Panic-stricken, Giano doesn’t know whether Luc is knocked out or dead. Luc’s sister arrives home unexpectedly, Giano works up the courage to introduce himself but she virtually ignores him. Taking advantage of her absence somewhere in the recesses of the villa, Giano recovers Luc’s body, silently carries it out to the car and sets off again for the wood.

The short film initiative is organised by the European Film Academy in co-operation with fifteen film festivals throughout Europe. At each of these festivals, an independent jury presents one of the European short films in competition with a nomination in the short film category of the European Film Awards.

When the annual cycle is completed in September, the nominees will be presented to the over 2,000 members of the European Film Academy and it is they who will elect the overall winner: the European Film Academy Short Film 2010 which will be presented at the 23rd European Film Awards Ceremony on 4 December in Tallinn/Estonia.

The next nomination will be presented in co-operation with the Venice International Film Festival.

Berlin, 16 August 2010