European Short Film Audience Award
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.
- Brussels Short Film Festival (Belgium) - 26 April to 5 Mai 2023
- Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz Art (Ukraine)
- Curtas Vila do Conde - International Film Festival (Portugal) - 8 to 16 July 2023
- Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival Bristol (Royaume-Uni) - 26 September to 1 October 2023
- Alciné - Festival de Cine Alcalá de Henares (Espagne) - 2 to 12 November 2023
- Interfilm - International Short Film Festival Berlin (Allemagne) - 14 to 19 November 2023
- Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival (France) - 27 January to 4 February 2023
- Tampere Film Festival (Finlande) - 8 to 12 March 2023
- Short Waves Festival (Pologne)
- Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen (Pays-Bas) - 31 March to 1o April 2023
ESFAA 2022-2023 :
Check out the European Short Film Audience Award (ESFAA) screening programme at the BSFF 2022 and vote for your favorite film!
★ ESFAA: The winners ★

2021-2022
CONFINES DEHORS by Julien Goudichaud
Belgium – 2018 – 16'29'' – Documentary
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 €3500 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 €3500 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 €3500 offered by the Representation of the European Commission in Belgium.