EFA Shorts Nominations 2015

The European Film Academy and EFA Productions are proud to present this year’s short film nominations. At each of the 15 participating film festivals, an independent jury presented one European short film in competition with a nomination in the short film category of the European Film Awards.

Nominated are:

Berlin Short Film Nominee
DISSONANCE
by Till Nowak
Germany 2015, animation, 17′
Venice Short Film Nominee
E.T.E.R.N.I.T.
by Giovanni Aloi
France 2015, fiction, 14′
Cork Short Film Nominee
FIELD STUDY by Eva Weber
UK 2014, fiction , 20′
Vila do Conde Short Film Nominee
KUNG FURY by David Sandberg
Sweden 2015, fiction, 30′
Tampere Short Film Nominee
LISTEN
KUUNTELE
by Hamy Ramezan & Rungano Nyoni
Denmark / Finland 2014, fiction, 13′
Rotterdam Short Film Nominee
OUR BODY
NAŠE TELO 

by Dane Komljen
Serbia / Bosnia & Herzegovina 2015,
experimental, 14′
Bristol Short Film Nominee
OVER 
by Jörn Threlfall
UK 2015, fiction, 13’
Drama Short Film Nominee
PICNIC
PIKNIK

by Jure Pavlović
Croatia 2015, fiction, 13’
Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Nominee
SMILE, AND THE WORLD WILL SMILE BACK
by Yoav Gross, Ehab Tarabieh & the al-Haddad family
Israel / Palestine 2014, documentary, 20′
Locarno Short Film Nominee
SON OF THE WOLF
FILS DU LOUP
by Lola Quivoron
France 2015, fiction, 23′
Grimstad Short Film Nominee
SYMBOLIC THREATS
by Mischa Leinkauf, Lutz Henke &
Matthias Wermke
Germany 2015, documentary, 15′
Valladolid Short Film Nominee
THE RUNNER 
EL CORREDOR 
by José Luis Montesinos
Spain 2014, fiction, 12′
Sarajevo Short Film Nominee
THE TRANSLATOR
ÇEVIRMEN

by Emre Kayiş
UK / Turkey 2014, fiction, 23′
Krakow Short Film Nominee
THIS PLACE WE CALL OUR HOME
by Thora Lorentzen & Sybilla Tuxen
Denmark 2014, documentary, 30′
Ghent Short Film Nominee 
WASHINGTONIA 
by Konstantina Kotzamani
Greece 2014, fiction, 24′

The European Film Academy congratulates the nominees. The nominated films will soon be submitted to the more than 3,000 EFA Members to elect the winner. The European Short Film 2015 will then be presented at the European Film Awards Ceremony in Berlin on Saturday, 12 December – streamed live on this website.

Since its successful pan-European launch in November 2022 Europe’s own film and award season, the Month of European Film has been growing continuously: Starting with 35 partners from 35 countries in 2022, the Month of European Film collaborated in 2024 with 108 partners from 42 countries. The number of screenings of European films within the initiative rocketed from 1,553 in 2022 to 9,310 in 2023 to 16,140 screenings in the 2024 edition. Admissions increased from 61,199 in 2022 to 164,206 in 2023 to almost half a million admissions (467,697) in the last year. The participating partners reported that their activities during the Month of European Film increased audience interest in European films and it also makes them want to programme more European films in the future. This is the result of an evaluation with the participating partners of this unique initiative.

“The European Film Academy senses growing interest in Europe for an ‘award season’ celebrating the best European cinema has to offer,” says Mattthijs Wouter Knol, Academy CEO and Director. “With the Month of European Film we build a network and a window for the simultaneous celebration of European cinema and to bring the diversity of European film closer to home for many people: first of all to their local cinema. Only three years into the initiative we are proud and happy that the Month of European Film is becoming more and more visible across Europe and is attracting a significantly growing number of visitors from Norway to Malta, from Portugal to Georgia. In the upcoming years until the European Film Academy’s 40th anniversary in 2028, we will further build a European ‘award season’ with our partners. It is time to deepen the awareness of European film culture. It is time to bring us as Europeans closer together through the culture and values we share: cinema has that power.”

Feedback from the audience regarding the Month of European Film was also very positive: The partners reported that in an audience survey cinema visitors from across Europe saw the Month of European Film as an important celebration of European culture. They said the Month of European Film has raised their interest in European films significantly and that they would like to see more European films. It also made them feel more united with fellow Europeans.

This year, the Month of European Film will start with the nominations announcement on Tuesday 18 November 2025, with cinemas all over Europe offering a tailor-made programme for their local audience. The Month of European Film will have its grand finale on Saturday 17 January 2026 with the celebration of the European Film Awards in Berlin.

The Month of European Film is an initiative of the European Film Academy supported by the Creative Europe MEDIA Programme of the European Union, in co-operation with Europa Cinemas, CICAE, MUBI, DAFilms, Festival Scope, as well as numerous other European and local partners.

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