07-10-2014

Short Films form CEE Nominated for the European Film Awards 2014

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    Short films from Georgia, Bulgaria, Finland, Poland, Croatia and Hungary are competing for the European Short Film Award 2014. The EFA awards ceremony will be held in Riga on 13 December.

    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.

    The nominated CEE films are:

    Dinola (Georgia)
    Directed by Mariam Khatchvani
    Grimstad Short Film Nominee

    Emergency Calls (Finland)
    Directed by Hannes Vartiainen and Pekka Veikkolainen
    Sarajevo Short Film Nominee

    Pride (Bulgaria/Germany)
    Directed by Pavel Vesnakov
    Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Nominee

    Summer 2014 (Poland)
    Directed by Wojciech Sobczyk
    Krakow Short Film Nominee

    The Chicken (Germany/Croatia)
    Directed by Una Gunjak
    Bristol Short Film Nominee

    Wall (Hungary)
    Directed b y Simon Szabó
    Tampere Short Film Nominee

    The European Film Awards 2014 are presented by the European Film Academy and EFA Productions with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia, the Riga City Council, Foundation Riga 2014, Creative Europe MEDIA Sub-Programme, FFA German Federal Film Board, German State Lottery Berlin, German State Minister for Culture and the Media, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg in co-operation with LTV and ZDF/ARTE.