SHORT MATTERS! 2015

SHORT MATTERS!

Awarded European Short Film Festival 

16 - 18 September 2015 at 21:00

at ARTos Foundation, Nicosia

and

23 & 24 September 2015 at 20:00

at NeMe, Limassol

The Ministry of Education and Culture, the European Film Academy and ARTos Foundation with the support of NeMe Arts Centre invite for the ninth consecutive year, short film lovers to the Festival of Awarded European Short Films, Short Matters! The screenings will take place at ARTos Foundation in Nicosia on the 16th, 17th and 18th September and on the 23rd & 24th September in NeMe Arts Centre in Limassol.

The program of SHORT MATTERS! presents short films by the European Film Academy, which have been nominated for the Academy awards, by the fourteen most important short film festivals in Europe.

In each of these selected festivals listed below, the Jury that selects the awarded films also selects one of the European short films which is then automatically nominated for the European Film Academy Prize.

Berlin International Film Festival/Germany

Cork Film Festival/Ireland

Curtas Vila do Conde - International Film Festival/Portugal

Encounters Short Film and Animation Film Festival Bristol

Festival del film Locarno/Switzerland

Film Festival Ghent/Belgium

International Film Festival Rotterdam/the Netherlands

International Short Film Festival Clermont-Ferrand/France

International Short Film Festival in Drama/Greece

Krakow Film Festival/Poland

Norwegian Short Film Festival Grimstad/Norway

Sarajevo Film Festival/Bosnia & Herzegovina

Tampere Film Festival/Finland

Valladolid International Film Festival/Spain

Venice Film Festival/Italy

Then, the program with the nominated short films tours various European cities, two of which Nicosia and Limassol. Originating from various European countries - Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Ireland, Palestine, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Netherlands, United Kingdom and Ukraine – the nominated short films for 2014 are a multidimensional panorama of young contemporary European filmmaking.

The 2,900 members of the European Film Academy selected “The Chicken” by Belgian filmmaker Una Gunjak, as the overall winner, which was presented at the 27th European Film Awards Ceremony in Berlin, in December 2014.

Venue:

ARTos Foundation, Nicosia 

Ay. Omoloyites Ave. 64, Nicosia

Tel.: 22 445 455

info@artosfoundation.org 

www.artosfoundation.org

NeMe Arts Centre, Limassol

Corner of Ellados and Enoseos Streets, Limassol

Tel: 25 372 675

www.neme.org

www.neme-imca.org 

http://www.neme.org/contact/

All screenings in Nicosia start at 21:00 
All screenings in Limassol start at 20:00
Greek & English subtitles 
Free admission