From February 4 to 18, Talking Shorts and the European Network for Film Discourse (The END) host the 3rd edition of the New Critics & New Audiences Award in which 8 European short films vie for the online audience vote!
The New Critics & New Audiences Award, supported by the Creative Europe MEDIA programme, aims to connect emerging film critics and curators with new audiences for European short films. The eight European films in contention were nominated by participants of the 2025 European Workshops for Film Criticism and European Workshops for New Curators and are now available for two weeks for free, globally*, on Talking Shorts.
Audiences worldwide are invited to vote for their favourite film. 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 20th, receiving a cash prize of €1000. Previous winners include Paradise Europe (Du bist so wunderbar) by Leandro Goddinho and Paulo Menezes, and Boys by Anna Martí Domingo.
Vote now!
Genealogy of Violence
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), Curtas Vila do Conde (PT), Lago Film Fest (IT), Kortfilmfestival Leuven (BE), FeKK Ljubljana Short Film Festival (SI), Vilnius Short Film Festival (LT), and Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival (RO).
* Bright Summer Days is geo-blocked in France, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Greece, and Slovenia. happiness is geo-blocked in Portugal, Netherlands, Israel, and the USA. Those film pages are not available in the countries mentioned.
