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.

Exceptional creative documentaries from the second edition of project KineDok are screened in seven European countries already, and in the Czech Republic alone they can be seen at 42 alternative venues.

WROCŁAW: A Bulgarian majority coproduction and Estonian and Lithuanian minority coproductions are among the 15 titles nominated in the short film category of the European Film Awards.

BUCHAREST: Ionaș Dreams of Rain / Ionaș visează că plouă by Dragoș Hanciu won the Best Film Award at the 11th Aristoteles Workshop. This year's experts and tutors were Thierry Garrel, Nino Kirtadze, John Appel and Tania Rakhmanova.

WARSAW: A group of American location managers invited by Film Commission Poland visited Poland in September 2016. The aim of their visit was to familiarise American filmmakers with the potential of Polish locations and Polish film infrastructure.

WARSAW: Andrzej Wajda's Afterimage has been selected to be Poland's candidate for this year's Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

SKOPJE: Macedonian/Croatian/Finnish coproduction The Liberation of Skopje by Rade and Danilo Šerbedžija has been selected as Macedonia’s entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 89th Academy Awards.

SOFIA: Escobar, a Spanish/Bulgarian European coproduction starring Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, and directed by Fernando Leon de Aranoa, will start shooting in Columbia on 24 October 2016.

BRATISLAVA: Marko Škop’s debut feature Eva Nová is Slovakia's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 89th Academy Awards.