On the second day of the Art Forum, the visitors will have the opportunity to watch the best short films of 2017 that have been nominated for the European Film Academy Award in 3 sessions.

European Film Academy’s short film tour brings the nominated short films to audiences across Europe – and beyond. The programme featuring the European Short Film Nominees 2017 is a manifold panorama of young contemporary European filmmaking. This year’s programme is composed of productions/co-productions from Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Turkey & UK.

Film sessions:

WANNABE

WANNABE (2017)

Coco is 17 and feels a desperate need to become famous even though she seems to lack the necessary talent. She is willing to do anything for recognition and avoid becoming an everyday ‚loser‘. She skips school to attend castings, music videos shoots, and to film YouTube clips but faces one humiliation after another and is quickly pushed to her limits. With her „Coco Channel“, she tries to expand her notoriety on the internet and create the successful, loved, and confident character she wishes she really could be. As a crossmedia pro- ject, connecting film with the online video scene, WANNABE tells the story of a young YouTuber, who builds herself a fictitious world on the Internet.

Production Countrie: Austria, Germany

Original languages: German

Length: 30 min

Category: documentary / fiction

Age: 14+

Director: Jannis Lenz

Festival Nomination: Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (France)

YOUNG MEN AT THEIR WINDOW

JEUNES HOMMES A LA FENETRE (2017)

Two graphic designers at work, by mistake, start playing with an empty scanner's possibilities. They venture into assumptions, eventually open up to each other, and let go of the strange images, until they let go of themselves.

Production Countrie: France

Original languages: French

Length: 18 min

Category: fiction

Age: U

Director: Loukianos Moshonas

Festival Nomination: Locarno Festival (Switzerland)

THE DISINHERITED

LOS DESHEREDADOS (2017)

Los Desheredados is a portrait of the director's father facing the end of his family business. Pere Ferrés is 53 years old and owns a small bus company. Lack of money forces him to drive clients who destroy his vehicle to bachelor parties, but he is not prepared to lose his dignity.

Production Countrie: Spain

Original languages: Catalan, Spanish

Length: 19 min

Category: documentary / fiction

Age: 14+

Director: Laura Ferrés

Festival Nomination: Curtas Vila do Conde – International Film Festival (Portugal)

COPA-LOCA

COPA-LOCA (2017)

This is the story of Copa-Loca, an abandoned Greek summer resort. Paulina is the girl at the heart of Copa-Loca. Everyone cares for her and she cares about everyone – in every possible way.

Production Countrie: Greece

Original languages: Greek

Length: 14 min

Category: fiction

Age: 18+

Director: Christos Massalas

Festival Nomination: Sarajevo Film Festival (Bosnia & Herzegovina)

YOU WILL BE FINE

GROS CHAGRIN (2017)

Give it time. You'll get over it. Jean celebrates his birthday, gets drunk and recalls the dreadful weekend that led to his break-up with Mathilde.

Production Countrie: France

Original languages: French

Length: 15 min

Category: animation / fiction

Age: 14+

Director: Céline Devaux

Festival Nomination: Venice Film Festival (Italy)

Film subtitles in English.

Tickets: 2.00 EUR (No discounts for the event tickets)

Venue: Experimental stage 

Organised by: Great Amber, in cooperation with Riga International Film Festival and European Film Academy

General tickets to the event are available for purchase. These will grant a person the possibility to visit all the events of the forum for a more favourable price. When entering the venue, the general ticket will be swapped for a general entrance pass for all the events. No discounts are applicable.