European Film Award for Best Short Film

European Film Award for Best Short Film has been awarded annually since 1998 by the European Film Academy.

European Film Award for Best Short Film
Country	Europe
Presented by	European Film Academy
First award	1998
Currently held by	My Uncle Tudor (2021)
Website	europeanfilmawards.eu

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
1998 (11th)
	Un Jour		Marie Paccou	France
1999 (12th)
	Welcome to San Salvario	Ben Venuto in San Salvario	Enrico Verra	Italy
	The Difference	La Différence	Rita Küng	Switzerland
	Senhoer Jeronimo		Inès de Medeiros	Portugal
	Vacancy		Matthias Müller	Germany
	Wanted		Milla Moilanen	Finland

2000s

Year	English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
2000 (13th) [1]
	Our stork	A mi gólyánk	Lívia Gyarmathy	Hungary
	The Zone	De Zone	Ben van Lieshout	Netherlands
	And I Will Not Leave You Until I Die	I Nie Opuszczę Cię aż do śmierci	Maciej Adamek	Poland
	A Stone Left Unturned	Kovat miehet	Maarit Lalli	Finland
	Ferment		Tim MacMillan	United Kingdom
2001 (14th) [2]
	Je t'aime John Wayne		Toby MacDonald	United Kingdom
	Sweden 200	Svitjod 200	Mårten Nilsson, David Flamholc	Sweden
	The Heist	Kuppet	Frederik Meldal, Dennis Petersen	Denmark
	The Basics	Lo Básico	José García Hérnandez	Spain
	Peau de Vache		Gérald Hustache-Mathieu	France
	I See A Boat in Sail	Å se en båt med seil	Anja Breien	Norway
	Better or Worse?		Jocelyn Cammack	United Kingdom
	Copy Shop		Virgil Widrich	Austria
	A Man Thing	Męska sprawa	Sławomir Fabicki	Poland
	The Whiz Kids	Freunde	Jan Krüger	Germany
	In Between	Corpo e meio	Sandro Aguilar	Portugal
2002 (15th) [3]
	10 Minutes	10 Minuta	Ahmed Imamović	Bosnia and Herzegovina
	Muno		Bouli Lanners	Belgium
	News from L Project	Nouvelle de la Tour L	Samuel Benchetrit	France
	Part-Times	Mi-Temps	Mathias Gokalp
	That Old Dream That Moves	Ce vieux rêve qui bouge	Alain Guiraudie
	Relativity		Virginia Heath	United Kingdom
	Wedding Night	Nuit de Noces	Olga Baillif	Belgium, France
	Brother of Mine	Bror Min	Jens Jonsson	Sweden
	The Reflector	Kuvastin	Tatu Pohjavirta	Finland
	Procter		Joachim Trier	Norway, United Kingdom
	Lover of Pirates	Kalózok Szeretője	Zsófia Péterffy	Hungary
2003 (16th) [4]
	(A Torsion)	(A) Torzija	Stefan Arsenijević	Serbia, Slovenia
	La Chanson-Chanson		Xavier Diskeuve	Belgium
	Mamaman		Iao Lethem
	At Dawning		Martin Jones	United Kingdom
	Save the Children	Redd Barna	Terje Rangnes	Norway
	An Embrace	Une Étreinte	Eskil Vogt
	Your Native Country	Kraj Urodzenia	Jacek Bławut	Poland
	We Are Living on the Edge	My Zhivem Na Krai	Victor Asliuk	Belarus
	The Wallet	Le Portefeuille	Vincent Bierrewaerts	France, Belgium
	Small Avalanches	Små Skred	Birgitte Staermose	Denmark
	The Trumouse Show		Julio Robledo	Spain
	The Giant	Velikan	Alexander Kott	Russia
2004 (17th) [5]
	I'll Wait for the Next One	J'attendrai le suivant	Philippe Orreindy	France
	"C" Block Story	Poveste La Scara "C"	Cristian Nemescu	Romania
	Cigarettes and Coffee	Un Cartus De Kent Si Un Pachet De Cafea	Cristi Puiu
	Other People's Kisses	Les Baisers des Autres	Carine Tardieu	France
	Fender Bender		Daniel Elliott	Estonia
	All in All	Alt I Alt	Torbjørn Skårild	Norway
	The Card Thieves	Panique Au Village: Les Voleurs Des Cartes	Vincent Patar, Stéphane Aubier	Belgium, France
	Love Me or Leave Me Alone		Duane Hopkins	United Kingdom
	Me, Myself and the Universe	Ich Und Das Universum	Hajo Schomerus	Germany
	Goodbye		Steve Hudson
	Cleopatra's Nose	La Nariz de Cleopatra	Richard Jordan	Spain
	At 7:35 in the Morning	7:35 de la Mañana	Nacho Vigalondo
2005 (18th) [6][7][8]
	Undressing My Mother		Ken Wardrop	Ireland
	Little Terrorist		Ashvin Kumar	United Kingdom
	Rendezvous	Rendevú	Ferenc Cakó	Hungary
	Rain is Falling		Holger Ernst	Germany
	Flatlife		Jonas Geirnaert	Belgium
	Hi Maya	Hoi Maya	Claudia Lorenz	Switzerland
	Dust	Toz	Halit Fatih Kizilgok	Turkey
	Bawke		Hisham Zaman	Norway
	The Serpent	A Serpente	Sandro Aguilar	Portugal
	Autobiography Scene Number 6882	Scen Nr. 6882 Ur Mitt Liv	Ruben Östlund	Sweden
	Paycheck	Prva Plata	Alen Drljević	Bosnia and Herzegovina
	Butterflies		Max Jacoby	Luxembourg
	Minotauromaquia, Pablo in the Labyrinth	Minotauromaquia, Pablo en el Laberinto	Juan Pablo Etcheverry	Spain
2006 (19th) [9][10][11]
	Before Dawn		Bálint Kenyeres	Hungary
	Delivery		Till Nowak	Germany
	Vincent		Giulio Ricciarelli	Italy
	Zakaria		Gianluca De Serio, Massimiliano De Serio
	Pistache		Valérie Pirson	France
	For Intérieur		Patrick Poubel
	By the Kiss		Yann Gonzalez
	It's in the Air...	Comme un Air...	Yohann Gloaguen
	Meander		Joke Liberge	Belgium
	The Fence	El Cerco	Ricardo Íscar, Nacho Martín	Spain
	Sniffer		Bobbie Peers	Norway
	Good Luck Nedim	Sretan Put Nedime	Marko Šantić	Slovenia
	The Making of the Parts		Daniel Elliott	United Kingdom
	Never Like the First Time	Aldrig Som Första Gången	Jonas Odell	Sweden
2007 (20th) [12][13]
	Alumbramiento	Lightborne	Eduardo Chapero-Jackson	Spain
	Adjustment		Ian Mackinnon	United Kingdom
	Dad		Daniel Mulloy
	Dreams and Desires - Family Ties		Joanna Quinn
	Rotten Apple		Ralitza Petrova
	Tokyo Jim		Simon Ellis
	Soft		Jamie Rafn
	Amin		David Dusa	France
	Le Dîner		Cécile Vernant
	Kwiz		Renaud Callebaut	Portugal
	Plot Point		Nicolas Provost	Belgium
	Salvador		Abdelatif Hwidar	Switzerland
	Tommy		Ole Giæver	Norway
2008 (21st) [14]
	Frankie		Darren Thornton	Ireland
	Contact	Raak	Hanro Smitsman	Netherlands
	The Apology Line		James Lees	United Kingdom
	Procrastination		Johnny Kelly
	Joy		Joe Lawlor, Christine Molloy
	The Pearce Sisters		Luis Cook
	Time is Running Out		Marc Reisbig
	A Kiss for the World	Un Bisou pour le Monde	Cyril Paris	France
	Fire	Uguns	Laila Pakalniņa	Latvia
	2 Birds	Smáfuglar	Rúnar Rúnarsson	Iceland
	Love You More		Sam Taylor-Johnson	United Kingdom, United States
	Tolerance	Tolerantia	Ivan Ramadan	Bosnia and Herzegovina
	The Altruists	De onbaatzuchtige	Koen Dejaegher	Belgium
	With a Little Patience	Türelem	László Nemes	Hungary
2009 (22nd) [15]
	Poste restante		Marcel Łoziński	Poland
	14		Asitha Ameresekere	United Kingdom
	Peter in Radioland		Johanna Wagner
	Between Dreams		Iris Olsson	France, Russia, Finland
	Good Night		Valéry Rosier	Belgium, France
	Renovare		Paul Negoescu	Germany, Romania
	Swimming Lesson	Zwemles	Danny de Vent	Belgium
	Tile M for Murder	Lägg M för mord	Magnus Holmgren	Sweden
	Was bleibt		David Nawrath	Germany
	Sinner		Meni Philip
	The Suffering of Mr. Karpf - The Birthday	Die Leiden des Herrn Karpf - Der Geburtstag	Lola Randl
	The Glass Trap		Pawel Ferdek	Poland

2010s

Year	English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
2010 (23rd) [16][17]
	Hanoi - Warsaw	Hanoi - Warszawa	Katarzyna Klimkiewicz	Poland
	Amor		Thomas Wangsmo	Norway
	Lights	Ampelmann	Giulio Ricciarelli	Germany
	The External World		David OReilly
	Joseph's Snails	Les escargots de Joseph	Sophie Roze	France
	Rendezvous in Stella-Plage	Rendez-vous à Stella-Plage	Shalimar Preuss
	Blijf bij me, weg	Stay, Away	Paloma Aguilera Valdebenito	Netherlands
	Out of Love	Ønskebørn	Birgitte Stærmose	Denmark
	Venus VS Me		Nathalie Teirlinck	Belgium
	The Little Snow Animal	Lumikko	Miia Tervo	Finland
	Tussilago		Jonas Odell	Sweden
	Maria's Way		Anne Milne	United Kingdom, Spain
	Talleres Clandestinos		Catalina Molina	Austria, Argentina
	Diarchy	Diarchia	Ferdinando Cito Filomarino	Italy, France
	Here I Am	Itt vagyok	Bálint Szimler	Hungary
2011 (24th) [18]
	The Wholly Family		Terry Gilliam	Italy
	Berik		Daniel Joseph Borgman	Denmark
	Little Children, Big Words	Små barn, stora ord	Lisa James-Larsson	Sweden
	Incident by a Bank	Händelse vid bank	Ruben Östlund
	The Unliving	Återfödelsen	Hugo Lilja
	Derby		Paul Negoescu	Romania
	Jessi		Mariejosephin Schneider	Germany
	The Wolves	I lupi	Alberto de Michele	Italy,  Netherlands
	Silent River	Apele tac	Anca Miruna Lăzărescu	Germany,  Romania
	Paparazzi		Piotr Bernaś	Poland
	Frozen Stories	Opowieści z chłodni	Grzegorz Jaroszuk
	The Great Race	La gran carrera	Kote Camacho	Spain
	Dimanches		Valéry Rosier	Belgium
	Out	Tse	Roee Rosen	Israel
	Hypercrisis		Josef Dabernig	Austria
2012 (25th) [19]
	Superman, Spiderman or Batman		Tudor Giurgiu	Romania
	The Back of Beyond		Michael Lennox	United Kingdom
	Beast	Csicska	Attila Till	Hungary
	How to Pick Berries	Miten Marjoja Poimitaan	Elina Talvensaari	Finland
	In the Open	Im Freien	Albert Sackl	Austria
	Morning of Saint Anthony's Day	Manhã de Santo António	João Pedro Rodrigues	Portugal
	Objection VI	Einspruch VI	Rolando Colla	Switzerland
	The Ambassador and Me	L'Ambassadeur et Moi	Jan Czarlewski
	Tomorrow Will Be Good	Demain, ça sera bien	Pauline Gay	France
	Two Ships	Vilaine fille mauvais garçon	Justine Triet
	Out of Frame	Titloi telous	Yorgos Zois	Greece
	Silent	Sessiz - Be Deng	L. Rezan Yeşilbaş	Turkey
	Two Hearts		Darren Thornton	Ireland
	Villa Antropoff		Kaspar Jancis, Vladimir Leschiov	Latvia
2013 (26th) [20]
	Death of a Shadow	Dood van een Schaduw	Tom Van Avermaet	Belgium, France
	A Story For The Modlins		Sergio Oksman	Spain
	Mystery	Misterio	Chema García Ibarra
	Butter Lamp	La Lampe au Beurre de Yak	Hu Wei	France, China
	Cut		Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller	Germany
	Sunday 3	Sonntag 3	Jochen Kuhn
	Houses with Small Windows		Bülent Öztürk	Belgium
	Jump	Skok	Petar Valchanov, Kristina Grozeva	Bulgaria
	Letter		Sergei Loznitsa	Russia
	Zima		Cristina Picchi
	Wasted		Sarah Woolner, Cathy Brady	Ireland, United Kingdom
	Nuclear Waste	Yaderni Wydhody	Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy	Ukraine
	Orbit Ever After		Jamie Stone	United Kingdom
	The Waves	As Ondas	Miguel Fonseca	Portugal
	Though I Know the River is Dry		Omar Robert Hamilton	Egypt, Palestine, United Kingdom
2014 (27th) [21][22]
	The Chicken		Una Gunjak	Germany, Croatia
	Emergency Calls	Hätäkutsu	Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen	Finland
	Shipwreck		Morgan Knibbe	Netherlands
	A Town Called Panic: The Christmas Log	Panique au Village: La Bûche de Noël	Vincent Patar, Stéphane Aubier	Belgium, France
	Dinola	დინოლა	Mariam Khatchvani	Georgia
	Summer 2014	Lato 2014	Wojciech Sobczyk	Poland
	Wall	Fal	Simon Szabó	Hungary
	Taprobana		Gabriel Abrantes	Portugal, Sri Lanka, Denmark
	Pride		Pavel Vesnakov	Bulgaria, Germany
	The Chimera of M.		Sebastian Buerkner	United Kingdom
	Little Block of Cement with Disheveled Hair Containing the Sea	Pequeño bloque de cemento con pelo alborotado conteniendo el mar	Jorge Lopez Navarette	Spain
	The Missing Scarf		Eoin Duffy	Ireland
	Whale Valley	Hvalfjörður	Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson	Denmark, Iceland
	Daily Bread	פת לחם	Idan Hubel	Israel
	Still Got Lives	Ich hab noch Auferstehung	Jan-Gerrit Seyler	Germany
2015 (28th) [23][24]
	Picnic	Piknik	Jure Pavlović	Croatia
	E.T.E.R.N.I.T.		Giovanni Aloi	France
	Son of the Wolf	Fils du loup	Lola Quivoron
	Field Study		Eva Weber	United Kingdom
	Over		Jörn Threlfall
	Kung Fury		David Sandberg	Sweden
	Dissonance		Till Nowak	Germany
	Symbolic Threats		Mischa Leinkauf, Lutz Henke & Matthias Wermke
	Listen	Kuuntele	Hamy Ramezan & Rungano Nyoni	Denmark, Finland
	Our Body	Naše telo	Dane Komljen	Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina
	Smile, and the World Will Smile Back	Im tekhayekh, ha'Olam yekhayekh elekha	Yoav Gross, Ehab Tarabieh & the al-Haddad family	Israel, Palestine
	The Runner	El corredor	José Luis Montesinos	Spain
	The Translator	Çevirmen	Emre Kayiş	United Kingdom, Turkey
	This Place We Call Our Home		Thora Lorentzen & Sybilla Tuxen	Denmark
	Washingtonia		Konstantina Kotzamani	Greece
2016 (29th) [25]
	9 days: From My Window in Aleppo		Thomas Vroege, Floor van der Meulen, Issa Touma	Netherlands, Syria
	The Wall	Le mur	Samuel Lampaert	Belgium
	Edmond		Nina Gantz	United Kingdom
	The Goodbye	El adiós	Clara Roquet	Spain, United States
	90 Degrees North	90 Grad Nord	Detsky Graffam	Germany
	In the Distance		Florian Grolig
	We All Love the Seashore	Tout le monde aime le bord de la mer	Keina Espiñeira	Spain
	A Man Returned		Mahdi Fleifel	United Kingdom, Denmark, Netherlands, Lebanon
	Small Talk		Even Hafnor, Lisa Brooke Hansen	Norway
	I'm Not From Here	Yo no soy de aquí	Maite Alberdi, Giedrė Žickytė	Chile, Denmark, Lithuania
	Home		Daniel Mulloy	Kosovo, United Kingdom, Albania
	The Fullness of Time (Romance)	L'immense retour	Manon Coubia	France, Belgium
	Limbo		Konstantina Kotzamani	Greece, France
	Amalimbo		Juan Pablo Libossart	Sweden, Estonia
	Shooting Star	Падаща звезда	Lyubo Yonchev	Bulgaria, Italy
2017 (30th) [26]
	Timecode		Juanjo Giménez	Spain
	Coca-Loca		Christos Massalas	Greece
	En la Boca		Matteo Gariglio	Switzerland, Argentina
	Fight in a Swedish Beach!!		Simon Vahlne	Sweden
	Information Skies		Daniel van der Velden, Vinca Kruk	Netherlands, South Korea
	LOVE		Réka Bucsi	Hungary, France
	The Artificial Humors	Os Humores Artificiais	Gabriel Abrantes	Portugal
	The Circle	Hevêrk	Rûken Tekes	Turkey
	The Disinherited	Los Desheredados	Laura Ferrés	Spain
	The Party		Andrea Harkin	Ireland
	Ugly		Nikita Diakur	Germany
	Wannabe		Jannis Lenz	Austria
	Written/Unwritter	Scris/Nescris	Adrian Silisteanu	Romania
	You Will Be Fine	Gros Chagrin	Céline Devaux	France
	Young Men at Their Window	Jeunes hommes à fenêtre	Loukianos Moshonas
2018 (31st) [27]
	The Years	Gli Anni	Sara Fgaier	Italy, France
	Aquaparque		Ana Moreira	Portugal
	Burkina Brandenberg Komplex		Ulu Braun	Germany
	Kontener		Sebastian Lang
	Graduation '97	ВИПУСК '97	Pavlo Ostrikov	Ukraine
	I Signed the Petition		Mahdi Fleifel	United Kingdom, Germany,  Switzerland
	Kapitalistis		Pablo Muñoz Gómez	Belgium, France
	Meryem		Reber Dosky	Netherlands
	Prisoner of Society	სოციუმის პატიმარი	Rati Tsiteladze	Georgia, Latvia
	Release the Dogs	Lâchez les chiens	Manue Fleytoux	France, Belgium
	Shame	Cpam	Petar Krumov	Bulgaria
	The Escape	L'Èchappèe	Laëtitia Martinoni	France
	Those Who Desire	Los que desean	Elena López Riera	Switzerland, Spain
	What's the Damage		Heather Phillipson	United Kingdom
	Wildebeest		Nicolas Keppens, Matthias Phlips	Belgium
2019 (32nd) [28]
	The Christmas Gift	Cadoul de Crăciun	Bogdan Mureşanu	Romania, Spain
	Dogs Barking at Trees	Cães que ladram aos pássaros	Leonor Teles	Portugal
	Reconstruction	Rekonstrukce	Jiří Havlíček, Ondřej Novák	Czech Republic
	The Marvelous Misadventures of the Stone Lady	Les Extraordinaires mésaventures de la jeune fille de pierre	Gabriel Abrantes	France, Portugal
	Watermelon Juice	Suc de Síndria	Irene Moray	Spain

2020s

Year	English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country	Ref
2020 (33rd)
	All Cats Are Grey in the Dark	Nachts sind alle Katzen grau	Lasse Linder	Switzerland	[29]
	Genius Loci		Adrien Mérigeau	France	[30]
	Past Perfect		Jorge Jácome	Portugal
	Sun Dog		Dorian Jespers	Belgium, Russia
	Uncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days	Tio Tomás, A Contabilidade dos dias	Regina Pessoa	Portugal, Canada, France
2021 (34th)
	My Uncle Tudor	Nanu Tudor	Olga Lucovnicova	Belgium / Portugal / Hungary / Moldova	[31]
	Bella		Thelyia Petraki	Greece
	Displaced	Pa vend	Samir Karahoda	Kosovo
	Easter Eggs		Nicolas Keppens	Belgium / France / the Netherlands
	In Flow of Words		Eliane Esther Bots	the Netherlands
2022 (35th)
	Granny's Sexual Life	Babičino Seksualno Življenje	Urška Djukič, Émilie Pigeard	Slovenia /  France	[32]
	Ice Merchants		João Gonzalez	Portugal /  France /  UK	[32]
	Love, Dad	Milý tati	Diana Cam Van Nguyen	Czechia /  Slovakia
	Techno, Mama		Saulius Baradinskas	Lithuania
	Will My Parents Come to See Me		Mo Harawe	Austria /  Germany /  Somalia
2023 (36th)
	Hardly Working		Susanna Flock, Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf	Austria	[33]
	27		Flóra Anna Buda	Hungary	[34]
	Aqueronte		Manuel Muñoz Rivas	Spain
	Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays	La herida luminosa	Christian Avilés	Spain
	Flores del otro patio		Jorge Cadena	Colombia /  Switzerland

Most wins for Best Short film by country

Country	Awards	Nominations	Awards (with co-productions)	Nominations (with co-productions)
France	2	21	3	28
Poland	2	8	2	8
Hungary	2	7	2	7
Italy	2	6	2	7
Ireland	2	3	2	3
United Kingdom	1	27	1	30
Germany	1	23	1	24
Belgium	1	17	1	18
Spain	1	14	2	15
Netherlands	1	5	1	6
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1	3	1	4
Serbia	1	2	1	2
Croatia	1	1	2	2
Portugal	0	14	1	15
Norway	0	10	0	10
Sweden	0	8	0	8
Denmark	0	7	0	10
Finland	0	5	0	7
Austria	0	3	0	3
Romania	0	3	0	5
Switzerland	0	3	0	3
Georgia	0	2	0	2
Bulgaria	0	2	0	2
Greece	0	2	0	2
Israel	0	2	0	2
Russia	0	2	0	3
Slovenia	0	1	1	2
Estonia	0	1	0	2
Iceland	0	1	0	2
Turkey	0	1	0	2
State of Palestine	0	1	0	2
Albania	0	1	0	1
Belarus	0	1	0	1
Chile	0	1	0	1
Luxemburg	0	1	0	1
Ukraine	0	1	0	1
Egypt	0	1	0	1
Lithuania	0	1	0	1
Kosovo	0	1	0	1
Latvia	0	1	0	1
Syria	0	0	1	1
Argentina	0	0	0	1
China	0	0	0	1
Sri Lanka	0	0	0	1
Lebanon	0	0	0	1
United States	0	0	0	1