The European Short Film Festival (ESFF) celebrates the art of cinematic storytelling in its most concise form. Held annually, ESFF showcases a curated selection of short films from emerging and established filmmakers across the worlds. These films, span various genres and styles and are aimed at fostering collaboration and championing the unique voice of short films. Join us at ESFF.
ESFF will returned to Eventive, running online and internationally, June 20th-24th 2024.
Please find the schedule below, and follow us on Twitter for updates.
Award Winners 2024
Best Short Film
Sarah by Piet Meersschaut
Best Short Documentary
Aquanauts Under The Volcano by Javier Lario
Best Horror Short Film
Zombie House by Jack Thompson
Best Thriller Short Film
Krampuss by Guðni Líndal Benediktsson
Best Comedy Short
Punkow Nights by Mattea Cavic
Best Experimental Short Film
Cobalt by Julia Rijssenbeek
Best Student Short Film
The World Is Unjust, So I’m Stealing Expensive Pesto by Karim Allaoui
Best Animated Short Film
Anansi The Spider by Jared Hall
Best Short Short Film
Mom Is Just Beetlepoo! by Tor Arne Bjerke
Best Music Video
Blood On My Hands by Martin Kober
Audience Awards
Zombie House by Jack Thompson
Warmfront by Luis Nicolas Jachmann
A Bullet With Your Name On by Benjamin Reinhard Munz
Girls In The Back Of The Club by Charlotte Geissler
Sad by Hedvig H-S
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Full Schedule 2024
ESFF 2024
Shorts 1
Punkow Nights by Mattea Cavic
The Pub by Rosie Wilcox
EarthLove by Felicia Konrad, Johan Haugen
Fiego And The Magic Fish by Joe David Murray
Sarah by Piet Meersschaut
Shorts 2
Breath Of Life by Mo Nanxi
Six Roasted Chickens by Jeremias Nussbaum
Anansi The Spider by Jared Hall
Cobalt by Julia Rijssenbeek
A Bullet With Your Name On by Benjamin Reinhard Munz
Short Documentaries
The Luthier by Nick Wolff
Gorilla Guardians by Garth Kingwill
The Steps I Stole by Filip Felix
Aquanauts Under The Volcano by Javier Lario
Warmfront by Luis Nicolas Jachmann
Shorts 3
Sad by Hedvig H-S
A Crow’s Lullaby by Sanjana Unni
The Mountains We Made by Chris Hardwick
Girls In The Back Of The Club by Charlotte Geissler
SF and Horror Shorts
Krampuss by Guðni Líndal Benediktsson
Zombie House by Jack Thompson
Shorts 4
Blood On My Hands by Martin Kober
Mom Is Just Beetlepoo! by Tor Arne Bjerke
The World Is Unjust, So I’m Stealing Expensive Pesto by Karim Allaoui
Straight Out Of Compton by Mark Hammett
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ESFF 2023
The European Short Film Festival returned to Eventive to run internationally, June 21st-25th.
2023 Award Winners
Best Short Film
Eina by Michael Vella, Tommy Vella
Best Short Documentary
Competence and Mastery in Practice by Grethe Nina Hestholm
Best Animated Short
The Fell We Climb by Lou Kneath, Jeffrey Wallin
Best Experimental Short
Mermaids by Pierre Bessette
Best Horror / Sci-Fi Short
Water! by Jacob Kressner
Best Music Video
See by Johan Oudshoorn
Best Comedy Short
Common Ground by Victoria Dela Amedume
Audience Awards
Gardez by Julian Isfort
Eina by Michael Vella, Tommy Vella
The Last Paper by Romain Gierenz
Traqnarök by Colin Gautier
So What Did We Learn Today, Georgina? by Franco Volpi
Shorts 1
Vespa (by Pesto) by Pawel Stokajlo, Piotr Smolenski
Balanced: Guardians of Weather and Earth by Carolina Buchholz
The Fell We Climb by Lou Kneath, Jeffrey Wallin
Common Ground by Victoria Dela Amedume
The Way of the Kimchi by Jurij Tschabanow
Eina by Michael Vella, Tommy Vella
Documentaries
The Embroideresses by Bo Sjökvist
Maxi-Pad by Julia de Roo
Home Fronts by Maria Sapouna
Competence and Mastery in Practice by Grethe Nina Hestholm
Refugees and Social Integration: A Seed For Democracy by Juan Manuel Cuéllar Bermejo
Shorts 2
Traqnarök by Colin Gautier
A Carousel in the Rain by Jaro Jääskeläinen
To Do by Saul Pankhurst
So What Did We Learn Today, Georgina? by Franco Volpi
Plant Psychic by Sinem Saridalgi
Aching Hearts by Renee Van Zadelhoff
Gardez by Julian Isfort
The Last Paper by Romain Gierenz
Experimental Shorts
A Day Longer Than A Day by Alexander Maß
Floating Flies by Victoria Halper
Where Is She by Laragh McCann
We Dance for Life by Ian Sciacaluga
It All Started With A Lie by Olivia Barratier
Mermaids by Pierre Bessette
Shorts 3
Sonic Boomers by Nicola Wyatt, Silvie Koanda
Eva by Jonny Wildey
See by Johan Oudshoorn
Ich Flitze, Also Bin Ich by Manuel Molinari
O by Fabien Legeron
The True Man by Artur Barseghyan
A Canterbury Tale for Christmas by Matthew Izenstain, Flavia Lloyd
Horror and Sci-Fi Shorts
Road Kill by Steve Ramsden
unKillable by Peregrine Wade
La Cabane by Magali Derrien
Water! by Jacob Kressner