European Film Academy announce full short nominees list for 2015 EFAs

The European Film Academy and EFA Productions have announced the full line up for this year's short film nominations at the European Film Awards.

At 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. The final list of 15 films is an intriguing snapshot of the current state of European short filmmaking with a diverse range of films and styles. They include the tense and powerful Listen (Dirs. Hamy Ramezan & Rungano Nyon, Finland), a story of clashing cultures and and inability to communciate, and the brillinatly evocative and surreal Washingtonia (Dir. Konstantina Kotzamani, Greece). 

The full list of nominees is:

Dissonance (Dir. Till Nowak, Germany, Berlin Short Film Nominee)
E.T.E.R.N.I.T. (Dir. Giovanni Aloi, France, Venice Short Film Nominee)
Field Study (Dir. Eva Weber, UK, Cork Short Film Nominee)
Kung Fury  (Dir. David Sandberg, Sweden, Vila do Conde Short Film Nominee)
Listen (Dirs. Hamy Ramezan & Rungano Nyoni, Denmark, Finland, Tampere Short Film Nominee)
Our Body – Dane Komljen (Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Rotterdam Short Film Nominee)
Over (Dir. Jörn Threlfall, UK, Bristol Short Film Nominee)
Picnic (Dir. Jure Pavlovic, Croatia, Drama Short Film Nominee)
Smile, and the World Will Smile Back (Dirs. Yoay Gross, Ehab Tarabieh & Al-Haddad family, Israel/Palestine, Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Nominee)
Son of the Wolf (Dir, Lola Quivoron, France, Locarno Short Film Nominee)
Symbolic Threats (Dirs. Mischa Leinkauf, Lutz Henke & Matthias Wermke, Germany, Grimstad Short Film Nominee)
The Runner (Dir. José Luis Montesinos, Spain, Valladolid Short Film Nominee)
The Translator (Dir. Emre Kayis, UK/Turkey, Sarajevo Short Film Nominee)
This Place We Call Our Home (Dir. Thora Lorentzen & Sybilla Tuxen, Denmark, Krakow Short Film Nominee)
Washingtonia (Dir. Konstantina Kotzamani, Greece, Ghent Short Film Nominee)

The nominated films will soon be submitted to the more than 3,000 EFA Members to elect the winner. The European Short Film 2015 will then be presented at the European Film Awards Ceremony in Berlin on Saturday, 12 December - streamed live on the awards’ website.