Short Matters 2015

The Ministry of Education and Culture, the European Film Academy and ARTos Foundation with the support of NeMe Arts Centre invite short film lovers to the festival of awarded European short films Short Matters! They have the pleasure to present for the ninth consecutive year the best European short films of the European Film Academy. The screenings will take place at ARTos Foundation in Nicosia on the 16th, 17th and 18th of September and at NeMe Arts Centre in Limassol on the 23rd & 24th September.

SHORT MATTERS is the European Film Academy’s short film tour which brings the short films nominated for the European Film Awards to a series of film festivals and institutions across Europe and beyond. Coming from various regions of Europe – Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Ireland, Palestine, Portugal, Russia, Spain, The Netherlands, UK and Ukraine – the 2014 SHORT MATTERS Programme featuring the short films nominated for the European Film Awards 2014 is a manifold panorama of young contemporary European filmmaking.

The 2,900 members of the European Film Academy selected “The Chicken” by Belgian filmmaker Una Gunjak, as the overall winner, which was presented at the 27th European Film Awards Ceremony in Berlin, in December 2014.

The short film initiative is organized by the European Film Academy in co-operation with a series of film festivals throughout the continent. 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. In order to be considered for the short film initiative, short films have to be selected for the competition section of any of these partner festivals:

Berlin International Film Festival/Germany
Cork Film Festival/Ireland
Curtas Vila do Conde - International Film Festival/Portugal
Encounters Short Film and Animation Film Festival Bristol
Festival del film Locarno/Switzerland
Film Festival Ghent/Belgium
International Film Festival Rotterdam/the Netherlands
International Short Film Festival Clermont-Ferrand/France
International Short Film Festival in Drama/Greece
Krakow Film Festival/Poland
Norwegian Short Film Festival Grimstad/Norway
Sarajevo Film Festival/Bosnia & Herzegovina
Tampere Film Festival/Finland
Valladolid International Film Festival/Spain
Venice Film Festival/Italy

All screenings in Nicosia start at 21:00
All screenings in Limassol start at 20:00
Greek & English subtitles
Free admission

For film summaries and more information: short-matters.blogspot.com