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:

FIGHT ON A SWEDISH BEACH!!

FIGHT ON A SWEDISH BEACH!! (2016)

EPIC BEACH FIGHT!! This is what happens when you yell sieg heil and call someone's wife a whore. He had it coming.

Production Countrie: Sweden

Original languages: Swedish

Length: 15 min

Category: fiction

Age: 12+

Director: Simon Vahlne

Festival Nomination: Valladolid International Film Festival (Spain)

THE PARTY

THE PARTY (2016)

Belfast 1972. Laurence welcomes his cousin and man-on-the-run Mickey to a party of drinking, dancing and young love. By morning, reality catches up with them.

Production Countrie: Ireland

Original languages: English

Length: 14 min

Category: fiction

Age: 14+

Director: Andrea Harkin

Festival Nomination: Cork Film Festival (Ireland)

WRITTEN / UNWRITTEN

SCRIS/NESCRIS (2016)

Outside a maternity ward, a Roma family is announced their underage daughter has just had a baby girl. Pardică (50) doesn’t seem to celebrate the moment; he is very displeased with this early pregnancy, for which he blames his wife. However, things become even tenser when a hospital employee asks them to sign some papers and discovers issues related to their IDs and their status as parents of the underage new mother. The imminent danger of state authorities separating them from their daughter determines Pardică to take action.

Production Countrie: Romania

Original languages: Romanian

Length: 20 min

Category: fiction

Age: U

Director: Adrian Silișteanu

Festival Nomination: Tampere Film Festival (Finland)

UGLY

UGLY (2017)

An ugly cat struggles to coexist in a fragmented and broken world, eventually finding a soulmate in a mystical chief. Inspired by the internet story ‘Ugly the Cat’.

Production Countrie: Germany

Original languages: no dialogue

Length: 12 min

Category: animation

Age: U

Director: Nikita Diakur

Festival Nomination: Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival Bristol (UK)

INFORMATION SKIES

INFORMATION SKIES (2017)

Information Skies is a post-truth essay in which live action and animation shape a new cinematic aesthetic. The film follows a young couple who believe to be living a perilous and heroic life. When the haunting of traumatic loss exposes their fantasy as fake, they immerse themselves further into their self-built world.

Production Countrie: South Korea, the Netherlands

Original languages: Hungarian

Length: 24 min

Category: experimental fiction

Age: U

Director: Daniel van der Velden & Vinca Kruk

Festival Nomination: International Film Festival Rotterdam (the Netherlands)

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.