Rotterdam Nominates Short THE WOLVES
The European Film Academy (EFA) and the International Film Festival Rotterdam congratulate the
Rotterdam Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2011
I LUPI (The Wolves)
by Alberto de Michele
Italy/the Netherlands 2010, 17 min., documentary
THE WOLVES
I LUPI (The Wolves) are a group of 40- to 70-year old thieves from the north of Italy. The only time they steal is when it’s very foggy.
The film is now nominated for the award European Film Academy Short Film 2011. It was selected by the festival’s international jury which was made up of Thom Andersen, film historian and director of the California Institute of the Arts (USA), Anocha Suwichakornpong, director and scriptwriter (Thailand), and Fiona Tan, filmmaker and photographer (the Netherlands).
In their jury statement, they said: “We were impressed with the editing, sound mix and the contrapuntal relationship of the voice-over to the images. I LUPI is a film that manages to show night and darkness in a new way. A film which is minimal and sparse, but nonetheless engaging and intriguing.”
The short film initiative is organised by the European Film Academy in co-operation with a series of 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.
THE WOLVES joins the following nominees: BERIK by Daniel Joseph Borgman (Denmark), selected at the Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent; SMÅ BARN, STORA ORD (Little Children, Big Words) by Lisa James-Larsson (Sweden), selected at the Valladolid International Film Festival, HÄNDELSE VID BANK (Incident by a Bank) by Ruben Östlund (Sweden), selected at the Corona Cork Film Festival; and JESSI by Mariejosephin Schneider (Germany), selected at the Premiers Plans - Festival d’Angers.
The next nomination will be presented in co-operation with the Berlin International Film Festival.
When the annual cycle is completed in September, the nominees will be presented to the over 2,300 members of the European Film Academy and it is they who will elect the overall winner: the European Film Academy Short Film 2011 which will be presented at the 24th European Film Awards Ceremony on 3 December in Berlin.
Berlin, 07 February 2011