European Film Academy

With this year’s final nomination having just been announced at the International Short Film Festival in Drama (Greece), the list of the nominated short films is now complete. 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 nominees will now be presented to the over 2,500 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.

The nominated short films are:

EFA Short Film Nominee Ghent
BERIK
by Daniel Joseph Borgman
Denmark, 16 min., fiction

EFA Short Film Nominee Valladolid
SMÅ BARN, STORA ORD (Little Children, Big Words)
by Lisa James-Larsson
Sweden, 12 min., fiction

EFA Short Film Nominee Cork
HÄNDELSE VID BANK (Incident by a Bank)
by Ruben Östlund
Sweden, 12 min., fiction

EFA Short Film Nominee Bristol
DERBY
by Paul Negoescu
Romania, 15 min., fiction

EFA Short Film Nominee Angers
JESSI
by Mariejosephin Schneider
Germany, 31 min., fiction

EFA Short Film Nominee Rotterdam
I LUPI (The Wolves)
by Alberto de Michele
Italy/the Netherlands, 17 min., documentary

EFA Short Film Nominee Berlin
ÅTERFÖDELSEN (The Unliving)
by Hugo Lilja
Sweden, 28 min., fiction

EFA Short Film Nominee Tampere
APELE TAC (Silent River)
by Anca Miruna Lăzărescu
Germany/Romania, 30 min., fiction

EFA Short Film Nominee Cracow
PAPARAZZI
by Piotr Bernas
Poland, 33 min., documentary

EFA Short Film Nominee Grimstad
LA GRAN CARRERA (The Great Race)
by Kote Camacho
Spain, 7 min., fiction,

EFA Short Film Nominee Vila do Conde
DIMANCHES
by Valéry Rosier
Belgium, 16 min., fiction

EFA Short Film Nominee Sarajevo
TSE (Out)
by Roee Rosen
Israel, 35 min., fiction

EFA Short Film Nominee Locarno
OPOWIESCI Z CHLODNI (Frozen Stories)
by Grzegorz Jaroszuk
Poland, 26 min., fiction

EFA Short Film Nominee Venice
HYPERCRISIS
by Josef Dabernig
Austria, 17 min., fiction

EFA Short Film Nominee Drama
THE WHOLLY FAMILY
by Terry Gilliam
Italy, 20 min., fiction

Berlin, 26 September 2011