Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen
02—06.04.2025
The Netherlands is a haven for international film festivals. In addition to Rotterdam and Amsterdam, Go Short in Nijmegen—a small town in the east of the country just five kilometers from the German border—has made a name for itself as a festival for short films. There are several good reasons for this success, but one major factor was a professional approach at a time when this was far from common for short film festivals as it is today. And then there’s the fact that it’s always great to visit the festival live and sit in the pavilion set up in front of the main cinema with numerous like-minded people and friends in the early spring sun.
Go Short has also made its mark programmatically: Focusing on short films from Europe—both in the competition and in the annual country focus—the festival always balances audience-friendly programming and edgy content. The success proves the festival team right: Go Bold. Go Loud. Go Short!
Text by Daniel Hadenius-Ebner
Reading List

waking up in silence by Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko

Man Number 4 by Miranda Pennell

The Oasis I Deserve by Inès Sieulle

Elahe Esmaili on A Move

looking she said I forget by Naomi Pacifique

Inès Sieulle on The Oasis I Deserve

Her Name is Ida by Oscar Bøe
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City of Poets by Sara Rajaei

Aunque es de noche by Guillermo García López

Basil Da Cunha on 2720

Using Home Videos in Documentary Filmmaking

Yann Gonzalez on Hideous

Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays by Christian Avilés

Postcards from the End of the World by Konstantinos Antonopoulos

Watch The Fire Or Burn Inside It by Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel

Handbook by Pavel Mozhar

27 by Flóra Anna Buda

Flores del otro Patio by Jorge Cadena

Zima by Tomek Popakul, Kasumi Ozeki

Hardly Working by Total Refusal

Neighbour Abdi by Douwe Dijkstra
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Reading List
Reading List

One Hundred Steps by Bárbara Wagner, Benjamin de Burca

Transitional Spaces in Go Short’s ‘In Focus: Germany’

The Criminals by Serhat Karaaslan

A Lack of Clarity by Stefan Kruse Jørgensen

The End of Suffering (A Proposal) by Jacqueline Lentzou

One Thousand And One Attempts To Be An Ocean by Wang Yuyan

Maalbeek by Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis

Vadim on a Walk by Sasha Svirsky

Naya – Der Wald hat tausend Augen by Sebastian Mulder
