Short matters | Awarded European Short Films

The Ministry of Education and Culture, the ARTos Foundation and the European Film Academy, with the support of the Cyprus University of Technology invite all short film lovers to the Festival of Awarded European Short films Short Matters!. Short Matters!, the screening of the best films from short film festivals across Europe, is continuing with great success for the fifth consecutive year in Cyprus. The screenings will take place on the 15th, 16th and 17th of September at the open space of the ARTos Foundation in Nicosia, and on the 26th and 27th of September at C.U.T. in Limassol.

Animation, documentary and fiction, with a total of fourteen countries represented (Norway, Germany, France, Holland, Denmark, Belgium, Finland, Sweden, Poland, England, Spain, Austria, Italy and Hungary). The winning film, and therefore “European Film Academy Short film 2010” is HANOI – WARSZAWA, by Katarzyna Klimkiewicz from Poland.

The European Film Academy (EFA), based in Berlin, intends not only to honour the outstanding achievements of established filmmakers, but also to support and promote talented newcomers. To draw the attention to a new generation of European directors means to build up the future of European cinema. This is why, in 1998, EFA established the presentation of the European Short Film Award as part of the annual European Film Awards, in cooperation with several partner festivals across Europe. Each of these festivals presents a short film award which includes an automatic nomination in the European Film Awards’ short film category. In 2010 the initiative included the following festivals:
• Ghent International Film Festival, Belgium (October 2009)
• Valladolid International Film Festival, Spain (October 2009)
• Corona Cork Film Festival, Ireland (November 2009)
• Premiers Plans – Festival d’ Angers, France (January 2010)
• International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Netherlands (January / February 2010)
• Berlin International Film Festival, Germany (February 2010)
• Tampere Film Festival, Finland (March 2010)
• Krakow Film Festival, Poland (May / June 2010)
• Norwegian Short Film Festival Grimstad, Norway (June 2010)
• Edinburgh International Film Festival, UK (June 2010)
• Curtas Vila do Conde – International Film Festival, Portugal (July 2010)
• Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnia & Herzegovina (July 2010)
• Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland (August 2010)
• Venice International Film Festival, Italy (September 2010)
• International Short Film Festival in Drama, Greece (September 2010)

For the Schedule of the films click here (PDF 5M)