SHORT MATTERS! 2016

SHORT MATTERS!

Awarded European Short Films 

13 - 15 September 2016 at 21:00
at ARTos Foundation, Nicosia

and

6 & 7 October 2016 at 20:00

at Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol

The Ministry of Education and Culture, the European Film Academy and ARTos Foundation, with the support of the Department of Fine Arts of the Cyprus University of Technology and the Goethe-Institut, for the tenth consecutive year, invite short film lovers to the programme of Awarded European Short Films, Short Matters! The screenings will take place at ARTos Foundation in Nicosia on the 13^th, 14^th and 15^th September and on the 6 & 7 October 2016 at CUT in Limassol.

The program of SHORT MATTERS! presents short films by the European Film Academy, which have been nominated for the ‘European Short Film 2015’ award, by the fifteen most important 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 Short Film’ Prize.

International Short Film Festival in Drama/Greece

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

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 – Germany, Spain, Bosnia & Herzegovina, France, Denmark, United Kingdom, Turkey, Finland, Sweden, Croatia, Israel, Palestine, and Greece – the nominated short films for 2015 are a multidimensional panorama of young contemporary European filmmaking.

The more than 3.000 members of the European Film Academy selected PICNIC by Croatian filmmaker Jure Pavlovic as the overall winner, a nomination by the Jury of the International Short Film Festival in Drama, President of which was Mrs. Elena Christodoulidou, Senior Cultural Officer of the Cinema Department of the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture in Cyprus. The film was presented at the 28th European Film Awards Ceremony in Berlin, in December 2015.

Venue:

ARTos Foundation, Nicosia
Ay. Omoloyites Ave. 64, Nicosia
Tel.: 22 445 455

info@artosfoundation.org 
www.artosfoundation.org

CUT, Limassol
www.cut.ac.cy/far

www.cut.ac.cy/events

All screenings in Nicosia start at 21:00

All screenings in Limassol start at 20:00

Greek & English subtitles

Free admission