European Short Film Audience Award - Brussels Short Film Festival

ESFAA 2023-2024

10 shorts on their way to conquer Europe!

Along with 9 other emblematic European festivals, the Brussels Short Film Festival launches the European Short Film Audience Award (ESFAA): a selection of the very best European short films of last year awarded with a national audience award.

After winnning the favour of their national audience, 9 short films are on a quest to win the hearts of 511 million Europeans, who are invited to vote in favour of their favourite short film!

Brussels Short Film Festival (Belgium) - 24 April to 4 Mai 2024
Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz Art (Ukraine)
Curtas Vila do Conde - International Film Festival (Portugal) - 13 to 20 July 2024
Alciné - Festival de Cine Alcalá de Henares (Espagne) - 7 to 17 November 2024
Interfilm - International Short Film Festival Berlin (Allemagne)
Short Waves Festival (Pologne)
Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival (France) - 2 to 10 february 2024
Tampere Film Festival (Finlande) - 6 to 10 march 2024
Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen (Pays-Bas)

For more information visit : www.esfaa.eu

ESFAA 2024-2025:

Check out the European Short Film Audience Award (ESFAA) screening programme at the BSFF 2024 and vote for your favorite film!

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ESFAA 1 - 27.04.2024 – 7.30pm – Flagey Studio 4

ESFAA 2 - 28.04.2024 – 7.00pm – Vendôme

★ ESFAA: The winners ★

2022-2023

Sprötch by Xavier Seron

Belgium – Fiction – 2020 – 19'

Brussels Short Film Festival Audience Award

Flo has to go to Marrakech for work. So, it’s Tom who takes care of Sam, their 5-year-old son. Flo left him a list of tasks to complete during her absence. Despite this, Tom forgot Sam’s guitar course. From his ryad, Flo calls to blame him. Tom hates being caught. He picks up Sam. The car comes out of the garage at full speed. SQUISH. Tom just crushed something...

The winner received €3.500 offered by the Brussels Short Film Festival.

2021-2022

CONFINES DEHORS by Julien Goudichaud
France – Documentary – 2020 – 24'05"

Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival Audience Award

March 2020, a global pandemic hits humanity. In an empty and silent Paris, there remain urban ghosts, Sarah, Nelson and Katia, who have no other choice but to be locked out. These people forgotten by the health crisis ask us: how to continue to survive in a world at a standstill?

The winner received €3.500 offered by the Brussels Short Film Festival.