French Short TWO SHIPS Nominated
The European Film Academy (EFA) and the Berlin International Film Festival congratulate the
Berlin Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2012
VILAINE FILLE MAUVAIS GARÇON (Two Ships)
by Justine Triet
France, 30 min., fiction
Director Justine Triet (centre) with lead actors Thomas Levy-Lasne and Laetitia Dosch
Life in the big city.
Thomas is a young artist, broke and unattached. Laetitia is an attractive,
intelligent young woman in high heels. A party. A dance. An invitation.
The pair spend the night together – vacillating between hospital
and bed, between light-heartedness and high drama. They are the
bright stars that give paintings their depth.
The film is now nominated for the award European Film Academy Short Film 2012. It was selected by the festival’s international short film jury (Sandra Hüller, Emily Jacir and David OReilly) which stated: “An attempt to tell the story of two solitary figures trying to find a moment of lightness amidst the constantly interrupting weight of reality around them. Using documentary-like techniques the director brings us so close to the characters that we believe they are real.”
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.
TWO SHIPS joins the following nominees: DEMAIN, ÇA SERA BIEN by Pauline Gay (France), selected at the Flanders IFF - Ghent; SUPERMAN, SPIDERMAN SAU BATMAN (Superman, Spiderman or Batman) by Tudor Giurgiu (Romania), selected at the Valladolid IFF, TWO HEARTS by Darren Thornton (Ireland), selected at the Corona Cork FF; MITEN MARJOJA POIMITAAN (How To Pick Berries) by Elina Talvensaari (Finland), selected at the Encounters IFF Bristol, L’AMBASSADEUR ET MOI by Jan Czarlewski (Switzerland), selected at the Premiers Plans - Festival d’Angers, and IM FREIEN (In the Open) by Albert Sackl (Austria), selected at the Rotterdam IFF.
The next nomination will be presented in co-operation with the Tampere International Film Festival in March.
When the annual cycle is completed in September, the nominees will 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 2012 which will be presented at the 25th European Film Awards Ceremony on 1 December in Malta.
Berlin, 20 February 2012