27TH EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS EUROPEAN SHORT FILM 2014 THE NOMINATIONS 1 WELCOME Welcome to the This year’s short film nominations include every- thing from a refugee documentary to a black-and- white animal story and stereoscopic digital anima- 27th European Film Awards tion. A lot of them are sparked off by a moment of crisis, be it Christmas without presents, chocolate theft and emergency phone calls or shipwreck, battle and death. The way they depart from here CONTENTS: and where they lead the viewer, however, differs greatly. We meet old friends like Cowboy and In- Welcome ................................................................................... 1 dian (another episode having been nominated in 2004) and make new acquaintances like a squir- Films rel searching its scarf and two Icelandic brothers. A TOWN CALLED PANIC: THE CHRISTMAS LOG ................... 2 From the kitchen of a retired Bulgarian general, DAILY BREAD ........................................................................... 3 these films take us to the Georgian mountains and DINOLA ..................................................................................... 4 Lampedusa island, the Indic jungle and wartime EMERGENCY CALLS ................................................................ 5 Sarajevo. LITTLE BLOCK OF CEMENT WITH DISHEVELLED 6 HAIR CONTAINING THE SEA ................................................ Each of them opens a window into a different world PRIDE ........................................................................................ 7 and still altogether they can only offer a glimpse SHIPWRECK ............................................................................. 8 of the galaxy of human experience, perception and STILL GOT LIVES_ ................................................................... 9 emotion - and of the breath-taking creative diver- SUMMER 2014 ......................................................................... 10 sity of European cinema. It is with great pleasure TAPROBANA ............................................................................ 11 that we present this year’s nominated short films. THE CHICKEN ........................................................................... 12 Agnieszka Holland The EFA Short Film Initiative has long been an es- THE CHIMERA OF M. ................................................................ 13 Chairwoman tablished item on the annual international short THE MISSING SCARF .............................................................. 14 EFA Board film agenda. It is organised in co-operation with fif- WALL ........................................................................................ 15 teen partner festivals at each of which an indepen- WHALE VALLEY ....................................................................... 16 dent international jury presents one of the Euro- pean short films in competition with a nomination The EFA Short Film Initiative ................................................. 17 for the award European Short Film. The Short Matters! Tour ......................................................... 17 During the past thirteen years, the interest in the short film initiative and this collection of short films has constantly been increasing. The nomi- nated films go through a series of 50 screenings across the world. From Madrid to Macau, from Taiwan to Tallinn, we are proud to draw world-wide attention to these short films and their creators. And I invite you to leaf through this book- let and meet the nominees - creative people from all over Europe. This great short film initiative wouldn’t be pos- sible without our allies in the world of short films European Film Academy e.V. EFA Productions gGmbH and I wish to thank all our partner festivals for yet Kurfürstendamm 225 Kurfürstendamm 225 another fantastic year full of surprises and dis- 10719 Berlin 10719 Berlin coveries! I would also like to thank our friends at GERMANY GERMANY the Film Fest Gent and the Royal Academy of Fine tel. +(49)30 887 167-0 tel. +(49)30 887 167-0 Arts (KASK) for re-establishing the EFA Short Film fax +(49)30 887 167-77 fax +(49)30 887 167-77 IMPRINT Weekend - a great gathering of the nominated di- EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY e.V. rectors in Ghent for a first screening of the nomi- www.europeanfilmacademy.org www.efa-productions.com Editor: Pascal Edelmann nated shorts and a weekend of meeting and min- Graphic design: Andrés Castoldi gling. Thank you & bedankt! Director: Managing Directors: Unless otherwise indicated, all Marion Döring Marion Döring, Jürgen Biesinger pictures appear courtesy of the The members of the European Film Academy will Amtsgericht Charlottenburg Amtsgericht Charlottenburg respective production/distribution elect the overall winner who will be announced at 14236 Nz HRB 99369 companies the 27th European Film Awards Ceremony in Riga on 13 December. Vila do Conde Short Film Nominee 2 Belgium/France 00:26:30 Venice Short Film Nominee 3 Israel 00:18:00 Production: Production, World Sales & Production: World Sales: A TOWN CALLED PANIC: Panique SPRL Press: DAILY BREAD Shtuka sanook Shtuka sanook 109, rue du Fort Autour de Minuit Kobi Azran Katharina Wörner Matalon St Weichselplatz 3, HH 3.OG 77 פת לחם THE CHRISTMAS LOG 1060 Bruxelles 21, rue Henry Monnier BELGIUM 75009 Paris 6685714 Tel Aviv 12045 Berlin PANIQUE AU VILLAGE: +32 2 534 68 08 France WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: PRODUCTION DESIGN: ISRAEL GERMANY festivals@ autourdeminuit.com +33 1 4281 1728 Idan Hubel Estee Nemeth +972 5 2540 8911 +49 1577 182 3717 LA BÛCHE DE NOËL PRODUCED BY: Kobi Azran COSTUME DESIGN: Shai Friedman [email protected] [email protected] DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: SOUND DESIGN: Moshe Silver DIRECTED BY: Vincent Patar & Stéphane Aubier PRODUCTION DESIGN: Stéphane Aubier David Stagmeister MAIN CAST: Adam Shmidt WRITTEN BY: Vincent Patar, Stéphane Aubier & Vincent Tavier ORIGINAL SCORE: French Cowboy EDITOR: Idan Hubel (Jonathan) PRODUCED BY: Vincent Tavier & Nicolas Schmerkin ANIMATION: Vincent Patar, Stéphane Aubier, Ben Tesseur & DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Jan Vandenbussche Steven de Beul EDITOR: Anne-Laure Guégan MAIN CAST: Bruce Ellison, Benoit Poelvoorde The year’s end celebrations are coming. Christmas: the tree, the dinner, the presents. Indian and Cowboy are expecting their presents eagerly. Overexcited by the organisation of the celebration, they fight and destroy the Yule log on which Horse was putting the last touch. Horse is livid and cancels the gifts from Santa Claus. How will they win back the favours of Horse and The Old Bearded Man? How will they retrieve their gifts? For Indian and Cowboy a long, very long Christmas Eve begins … Jonathan loves chocolate. One day he steals the last remaining chocolate in the jar. When his stepmother caches him and his brothers ostracise him, he decides to run away. 2009 Cannes FF. Their feature ERNEST & CELESTINE was awarded internationally and received a nomina- How long did it take to make your short? Was it dif- tion for the 2014 Oscars. ficult to get financing? How long did it take to make your short? Was it dif- It took us eight months from the moment we got the ficult to get financing? financing. The film was funded by the Gesher Fund, It took one year for pre-production (script, financ- Mefal Hapais and the second authority for TV. ing) and seven months (preparation, shooting, post Which thoughts come to mind concerning a “Euro- production). Our films aren’t conventional projects pean cinema community”? and also make a stop motion movie in a significant Diversity, love for cinema and art. budget. If you owned a theatre for one night, which films Which thoughts come to mind concerning a “Euro- would you screen? pean cinema community? All the films by Robert Bresson. Stéphane Aubier& Vincent Patar It would be impossible to make our style of film with- What is your next project? Both Belgian writers and animation filmmakers, they out European co-productions. Idan Hubel My next project title is VERY BIG LIGHT, a detective studied and met at La Cambre, the Belgian School of If you owned a theatre for one night, which films Idan Hubel is an Israeli filmmaker. He graduated with film that explores the edges of grace. Visual Arts and have become inseparable ever since, would you screen? honours from the Sam Spiegel School of Film and continuously creating funny and outrageous worlds The Fleischer brothers best of films, THE CIRCUS Television in Jerusalem. He wrote and directed two by using a variety of animation techniques. Their by Charles Chaplin, CASINO by Martin Scorsese, student shorts, FATHER SON (2002) and PLEADING animated shorts include the PIC PIC ANDRE SHOOW GROUNDHOG DAY by Harold Ramis. (2004), which have screened at festivals all over the trilogy (1995–99), LES BALTUS AU CIRQUE (1998), What is your next project? world, and won several awards. His first feature, UFO BOVEN GEEL (1999), LA RUPTURE (2000) and We have just finished a script for a new adventure THE CUTOFF MAN, premiered in Venice’s 2012 Oriz- the award-winning series A TOWN CALLED PANIC with Cowboy and Indian and we’re actually writing a zonti section and got great reviews both in Israel and (2000–03), which inspired their 2009 feature debut traditional animation feature with Pic Pic and André, world-wide (the ‘rapporto confidenziale’ declared it of the same name, part of the official selection of the our old characters … one of the five best films of 2012). Grimstad Short Film Nominee 4 Georgia 00:14:38 Sarajevo Short Film