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On Saturday night 20 March, the winners of the Go Short awards were announced during an exciting presentation. In arthouse LUX in Nijmegen awards were handed out to seven filmmakers. The jury's were very pleased with the high quality of the selected short films.

Winner of the NPS/ Go Short Award for Best European Short Film: Fiction

Seeds Of The Fall (Patrik Eklund, Sweden, 2009)

"A surprisingly deadpan well structured comedy that deals with human shortcomings."

Winner of the NPS/ Go Short Award for Best European Short Film: Documentary

Unearthing the Pen (Carol Salter, United Kingdom, 2009)

"Through the eyes of a young man an unknown story is told that western hegemony is once again imposing it's own culture."

Winner of the NPS/ Go Short Award for Best European Short Film: Animation

Percorso #008 - 0209 (Igor Imhoff, Italy, 2009)

"A very rich vivid dreamscape."

Winner of the NPS/ Go Short Award for Best European Short Film: The Labo

Re-Constructions (Martijn Veldhoen, the Netherlands, 2009)

"A poetic loop with a certain sense of black humor."

Winner of the Go Short Award for Best Dutch Short Film:

Kiss (Joost van Ginkel, the Netherlands, 2009)

"A theme of war told in a stylized and highly intimate setting."

Winner of the Dioraphte Encouragement Award for Best European Short Student Film:

Albert's Winter (Andreas Koefoed, Denmark, 2009)

The nominees in the various categories and the jury reports are published on our website http://www.goshort.nl/.

The Best of Go Short 2010

Go Short - International short film festival Nijmegen lasts until Sunday evening 21 March. On the last day of the festival much is to be seen in arthouse LUX: best of programs, thematic blocks and films by special guest Simon Ellis. Together with Dutch public broadcaster NPS, Go Short also hosts an NPS afternoon.

The Go Short jury:

Katharina Liebert, Sol Bondy, Martijn Te Pas, Marina Blok, Martijn van Boven en Mihai Mitrica

The Breaking Shorts jury:

Bram Schouw, Chris Mouw en Paul Negoescu