After five days of festival, the seventh edition of Go Short was a great success. Just like last year, the festival has grown. On Saturday 11 April Go Short announced the award winners of the European Competition, the Dutch and the Breaking Short Student Competition, and the Youth Award. These prizes are handed out by two international jury’s and a youth jury. In the European competition, the prize winning fiction film is Aïssa, Hotel Straussberg won the award for best documentary, the reaction of Jan Soldat: “I was happy and surprised that my film was selected for the festival, I didn’t think of winning the award!” PLANET ∑ received the award for best art film and House of Unconsciousness is crowned as best European animated film. The youth jury gave If Mama Ain’t Happy, Nobody’s Happy the prize for the Youth Award. On Sunday 12 April the Audience Award was announced. We Can't Live Without Cosmos is chosen as the audience favorite.

Go Short Audience Award to the value of € 1.500,-

We Can't Live Without Cosmos

Konstantin Bronzit / animatie / Rusland / 2014 / 15’

Audiences favorites top 5: 1. We Can't Live Without Cosmos by Konstantin Bronzit 2. Meantime by Christian van Duuren 3. The Bigger Picture by Daisy Jacobs 4. Yes We Love by Hallvar Witzø 5. If Mama Ain’t Happy, Nobody’s Happy by Mea de Jong

NTR Go Short Award for Best European Short Fiction Film to the value of € 1.250,-

Aïssa Clément Tréhin-Lalanne / France / 2014 / 8’

Jury: “Refreshingly concise and socio-politically resonant with a very strong central performance, this film raised a lot of questions in a challenging way.”

NTR Go Short Award for Best European Short Documentary to the value of € 1.250,-

Hotel Straussberg Jan Soldat / Germany / 2014 / 7’

Jury: “A daring yet tender and humane observation that does not make easy spectacle of its subject matter.”

Special Mention documentary

Super Unit Teresa Czepiec / Poland / 2014 / 20’

Jury: “Thought-provoking parallels between cinema and architecture were drawn in this human and fluid portrait of an enclosed community.”

NTR Go Short Award for Best European Short Art Film to the value of € 1.250,-

PLANET ∑ Momoko Seto / France / 2014 / 12’

Jury: “A visually stunning creation of an alternate universe with an otherworldly soundscape. It merges micro and macro elements inventively.”

NTR Go Short Awards for Best European Short Animation Film to the value of € 1.250,-

House of Unconsciousness Priit Tender / Estonia / 2014 / 10’

Jury: “A feast of fantasy using rich animation language that constantly transforms in surreal ways.”

Special Mention animation film

We Can't Live Without Cosmos Konstantin Bronzit / Russia / 2014 / 15’

Jury: “A funny and nuanced twist on the heroism narrative that is also a genuinely warm tale about friendship.”

VEVAM Go Short Award for Best Dutch Short Film to the value of € 2.500,-

Among us Guido Hendrikx / The Netherlands / 2014 / 23’

Jury: “A film that puts us into the unconfortable situation between rejection of and empathy for its protagonists. The film is neither apologetic, nor is it judgemental. Through a convincing combination between form and content it showes the inner workings and twisted emotions of protagonists that we would normally instantly judge.”

Dioraphte Encouragement Award for Best Student Short Film to the value of € 5000,-

Mother Earth Piotr Zlotorowicz / Poland / 2014 / 30’

Jury: “It was impossible to ignore the power, raw emotion and impressive skill with which this film was made. We felt that the film touched on a classical theme, yet the filmmaker managed to surprise and move us within every aspect of this great piece of work.”

Special Mention student film

The Bigger Picture Daisy Jacobs / United Kingdom / 2014 / 7’

Jury: “The convincing, fluent storytelling and original animation technique of this film left no doubts about a special mention. “

Go Short Youth Award to the value of € 750,-

If Mama Ain’t Happy, Nobody’s Happy  Mea de Jong / The Netherlands / 2014 / 25’ / doc

Jury: “The winning film is very special and different from all the others we have seen. The characters are spontaneous and the long conversations very interesting to watch, even with only talking heads. Time flew when watching this film. This film is the best short doc we have ever seen and we recommend it to everyone!”

Format Court Award

Among us Guido Hendrikx / The Netherlands / 2014 / 23’ / doc

Solar World Cinema Green Award

Timber Nils Hedinger / Switzerland / 2014 / 6’ / ani