The European Film Academy (EFA) and the International Film Festival Rotterdam congratulate:
Rotterdam Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2016
WE ALL LOVE THE SEA SHORE
TOUT LE MONDE AIME LA BORD DE LA MER
by Keina Espiñeira
Spain 2016, 18 min
A group of men are waiting at the fringes of a coastal woodland for the journey to Europe, in limbo between time and place. A film is shot there with the men playing themselves. Fiction and documentary constantly intertwine. Myths from the colonial past collide with dreams of a better future in the former oppressor’s country.
The jury for the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films was made up of British artist, filmmaker and double winner of this award, Ben Rivers; politically committed artist, writer and filmmaker Naeem Mohaiemen from Bangladesh and Mieke Bernink, professor on the Master’s degree course at the Netherlands Film Academy.
Their statement reads as follows: “A state of limbo surrounded by uncertainties of borders, legality, and time. A participatory, collaborative script travels between bleached sea and golden forest, merging mythical fragments, colonial memories, and migration realities.”
The film is now nominated for the award ‘European Film Academy Short Film 2016’.
The EFA 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.
The next nomination for 2016 will be presented in co-operation with the International Short Film Festival Clermont-Ferrand.
When the annual cycle is completed, the nominees will be presented to the over 3,000 members of the European Film Academy and it is they who will elect the overall winner: the European Film Academy Short Film 2016 which will be presented at the 29th European Film Awards Ceremony on 10 December in Wroclaw (Poland), European Capital of Culture 2016.
