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European Short Film Audience Award

10 shorts on their way to conquer Europe!

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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, 10 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!

For more information visit : www.esfaa.eu

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

confinés dehors

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.

Une Soeur - Delphine Girard

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.

Nefta Football Club - Yves Piat

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.