European Short Film 2021
Short films allow for creative experiments and provocation and invite artists to play with cinematic styles – for many filmmakers the starting point of their career, others stay and explore the format's possibilities. It is important for the European Film Academy to support and promote young and talented newcomers and to celebrate this variety in European film culture.
The short film selection and nomination procedure is organised by the European Film Academy and EFA Productions 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 candidacy in the short film category of the European Film Awards. Once the list of candidates is complete in September 2021, the participating festivals will nominate five short films from this list.
Afterwards, the more than 3,800 EFA Members – film professionals from all over Europe – will vote for the overall winner that will be presented at the 34th European Film Awards Ceremony in Berlin.
How to submit …
To be considered for a candidacy for the award EUROPEAN SHORT FILM 2021, a short film has to screen in competition at any of the participating festivals (see list). Eligible are directors born in Europe or with a European* passport whose films (eligible are fiction, documentary, animation and experimental films) were produced or co-produced in at least one European* country in 2020 or 2021, do not exceed a running time of 30 min. and match the general regulations of the respective festival. At each of these, a jury selects a single candidate.
* European, in the sense of the European Film Academy, means both EU and non-EU, and shall include Israeli and Palestinian.
European Short Film Candidates 2021
– as of 20 July – further candidates to follow – | ||
| Candidate of Vienna Shorts – International Short Film Festival | |
| Candidate of Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival | |
| Candidate of Cork International Film Festival | |
| Candidate of Festival de Cannes | |
| Candidate of Winterthur Internationale Kurzfilmtage | |
| Candidate of Berlin International Film Festival | |
| Candidate of International Film Festival Rotterdam | |
| Candidate of Krakow Film Festival | |
| Candidate of Uppsala Short Film Festival | |
| Candidate of Leuven International Short Film Festival | |
| Candidate of Hamburg Short Film Festival | |
| Candidate of Tampere Film Festival | |
| Candidate of Black Nights Film Festival – PÖFF Shorts | |
| Candidate of Riga International Film Festival | |
| Candidate of Valladolid International Film Festival | |
| Candidate of Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen | |
| Candidate of International Short Film Festival of Cyprus | |
