European Short Film Audience Award
8 shorts on their way to conquer Europe!
Along with 10 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.
- Brussels Short Film Festival (Belgium) - 24 April to 3 Mai 2025
- Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz Art (Ukraine) - 27 to 31 August 2025
- Curtas Vila do Conde - International Film Festival (Portugal) - 12 to 20 July 2025
- Alciné - Festival de Cine Alcalá de Henares (Espagne) - November 2025
- Interfilm - International Short Film Festival Berlin (Allemagne) - 4 to 9 November 2025
- Short Waves Festival (Pologne)- November 2025
- Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival (France) - January 2026
- Tampere Film Festival (Finlande) - 4 to 8 March 2026
- Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen (Pays-Bas) - April 2026
- FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival - (Slovenia) - 18 to 23 August 2025
ESFAA 2025-2026:
Check out the European Short Film Audience Award (ESFAA) screening programme at the BSFF 2025 and vote for your favorite film!
★ ESFAA: The winners ★
2023-2024
Tondex 2000 by Jean-Baptiste Leonetti
France – 2023 – 28′ – Fiction
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
Sylvain, an Afghan veteran living off of petty crime, crosses paths with Nathalie, an upper-class CEO struggling to keep her lawnmower company afloat.
The winner received €3.500 offered by the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival.
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.
2020-2021
UNE SOEUR by Delphine Girard
Belgium – 2018 – 16'29'' – Fiction
Brussels Short Film Festival Audience Award
A night. A car. A woman in trouble. A call.
The winner received €3.500 offered by the Brussels Short Film Festival.
2019-2020
NEFTA FOOTBALL CLUB by Yves Piat
France – 2018 – 27′ – Fiction
Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival Audience Award
In Southern Tunisia, near the Algerian border, two young brothers come across a donkey with headphones on his ears.
The winner received €3.500 offered by the Representation of the European Commission in Belgium.