The European Film Awards are awarded by the European Film Academy every year. Amongst the prizes, there’s the category of Short Films.
To be eligible to candidate, a short film has to be screened in a participating festival; the directors must be born in Europe or have a European passport; the films (of the following genres: fiction, documentary, animation, experimental) must produced or co-produced in at least one European country; maximum running time is of 30 minutes.
Each festival chooses a single candidate for the European Film Awards. The EFAs will be in December 2022, on European Film Academy’s website you can find all the information about submitting and qualifying. Let’s see the list of qualifying festivals.
Festivals to be screened at to be considered for European Film Awards 2022 (2021-2022 dates):
2021
- Cyprus’ International Short Film Festival of Cyprus (October 9-15)
- Latvia’s Riga International Film Festival (October 14-24)
- Spain’s Seminci – Valladolid International Film Festival (October 23-30)
- Sweden’s Uppsala Short Film Festival (October 25-31)
- Ireland’s Cork International Film Festival (November 4-14)
- Switzerland’s Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (November 9-14)
- Spain’s ZINEBI – Int’l Festival of Doc. & Short Film of Bilbao (November 12-19)
- Estonia’s Black Nights Film Festival – PÖFF Shorts (November 16-24)
- Belgium’s Leuven International Short Film Festival (December 4-11)
2022
- Netherland’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (January 26-February 6)
- France’s Clermont-Ferrand Int’l Short Film Festival (January 28-February 5)
- Germany’s Berlin International Film Festival (February 10-16)
- Finland’s Tampere Film Festival (March 9-13)
- Netherland’s Go Short – Int’l Short Film Festival Nijmegen (April 1-10)
- Germany’s International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (May 1-9)
- France’s Festival de Cannes (May 17-28)
- Austria’s VIENNA SHORTS – Int’l Short Film Festival (May 25-30)
- Poland’s Krakow Film Festival (May 29-June 5)
- Germany’s Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg (May 31-June 6)
- Portugal’s Curtas Vila do Conde – Int’l Film Festival (July 15-24)
- Croatia’s Motovun Film Festival (July 26-30)
- Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival (August 3-13)
- Kosovo’s DokuFest (August 5-13)
- Bosnia & Herzegovina’s Sarajevo Film Festival (August 12-19)
- Denmark’s 29 OFF – Odense International Film Festival (August 29-September 4)
- Italy’s Venice Film Festival (August 31-September 10)
- Greece’s Drama International Short Film Festival (September 11-17)
- Albania’s Tirana International Film Festival (September 24-30)
- United Kingdom’s Encounters Film Festival (September 27-October 2)