29-09-2009

THE SHORT FILM NOMINEES FOR THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2009

    The final nominee has just been announced at the International Short Film Festival in Drama (Greece):

    Drama Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2009

    BONNE NUIT (Good Night)

    by Valéry Rosier

    Belgium/France, 18', fiction


    In BONNE NUIT, 40-year-old Philippe, who works in a demolition company, visits his two children. He picks them up from his ex-wife's house. But Philippe is hiding something from his children, he is not reacting as usual - tonight, his children will not go to sleep at home.

    The film was selected by the festival's international jury consisting of Manuela Cernat (writer/author/film critic, Romania), Nancy Bishop (casting director, USA), Jacques Mitch (producer/director, France), Gerald Weber (publicist for film and music, Austria), and Vassilis Mazomenos (director/writer/producer, Greece).

    The list of nominated short films is now complete. The 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 2,000 members of the European Film Academy will now vote for the winner.

    The overall winner will be presented during the Awards Ceremony on 12 December in Germany's Ruhr Metropolis.

    The European Film Awards 2009 are presented by the European Film Academy e.V. and EFA Productions gGmbH with the support of the Minister President and the Minister for Federal and European Affairs and the Media of North Rhine-Westphalia, Filmstiftung NRW, RUHR.2010, the German State Minister for Culture and the Media, the MEDIA Programme of the EU, FFA German Federal Film Board, and TNT Express.

    Berlin, 28 September 2009

    See page 2 for full list of short film nominations -

    EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY SHORT FILM 2009
    - The Nominations -

    EFA Short Film Nominee Ghent

    ZWEMLES

    SWIMMING LESSON

    by Danny de Vent (Belgium, 10', animation)

    EFA Short Film Nominee Cork

    14

    by Asitha Ameresekere (UK, 9', fiction)

    EFA Short Film Nominee Valladolid

    LÄGG M FÖR MORD

    TILE M FOR MURDER

    by Magnus Holmgren (Sweden, 8', fiction)

    EFA Short Film Nominee Angers

    WAS BLEIBT

    by David Nawrath (Germany, 17', fiction)

    EFA Short Film Nominee Berlin

    DIE LEIDEN DES HERRN KARPF. DER GEBURTSTAG

    by Lola Randl (Germany, 10', fiction)

    EFA Short Film Nominee Tampere

    SZKLANA PULAPKA

    THE GLASS TRAP

    by Pawel Ferdek (Poland, 15', documentary)

    EFA Short Film Nominee Krakow

    POSTE RESTANTE

    by Marcel Łoziński (Poland, 14', documentary)

    EFA Short Film Nominee Grimstad

    BETWEEN DREAMS

    by Iris Olsson (France/Russia/Finland, 11', documentary)

    EFA Short Film Nominee Edinburgh

    PETER IN RADIOLAND

    by Johanna Wagner (UK, 10', documentary)

    EFA Short Film Nominee Vila do Conde

    RENOVARE

    by Paul Negoescu (Germany/Romania, 24', fiction)

    EFA Short Film Nominee Sarajevo

    THE HERD

    by Ken Wardrop (Ireland, 4', documentary)

    EFA Short Film Nominee Venice

    SINNER

    by Meni Philip (Israel, 28', fiction)

    EFA Short Film Nominee Drama

    BONNE NUIT

    GOOD NIGHT

    by Valéry Rosier (Belgium/France, 18', fiction)

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