From February 5 to 19, Talking Shorts and the European Network for Film Discourse (The END) present the second edition of the New Critics & New Audiences Award in which six European short films vie for the audience vote.
The award, supported by the Creative Europe MEDIA programme, aims to connect emerging film critics with new audiences for European short films. The six films in contention were nominated by participants of the 2024 European Workshops for Film Criticism and are now made available for free, globally*, on Talking Shorts.
Audiences worldwide are invited to vote for their favourite film out of the six. Anyone who casts a vote can win a year-long subscription to This Is Short, the official streaming platform of the European Short Film Network (ESFN).
The winning film will be announced on February 21st, receiving a cash prize of €1000,-. Last year’s winner was Paradise Europe (Du bist so wunderbar) by Leandro Goddinho and Paulo Menezes.
The New Critics & New Audiences Award is a project by the European Network for Film Discourse (The END), hosted on Talking Shorts and funded by the Creative Europe MEDIA Programme—with the support of This Is Short.
The European Network for Film Discourse is a collective of European festivals that now includes eight distinct and diverse European film festivals: Filmfest Dresden (DE), Vienna Shorts (AT), Lago Film Fest (IT), Kortfilmfestival Leuven (BE), FeKK Ljubljana Short Film Festival (SI), Vilnius Short Film Festival (LT), and the newly announced Curtas Vila do Conde (PT) and Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival (RO).
