On Saturday night the awards for the best short films in Europe were handed out at the busy Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen. As much as 324 short films were screened during Go Short, of which 14 had there premiere. A special winner is Wednesdays by Aaron Rookus. During the last edition of Go Short Rookus presented his idea during the very first CineCrowd audiencemarket. Wednesdays premiered this year, and won the Dutch Competition Award. It also became clear that Swe...
The fourth edition of Go Short will start this Wednesday and we already have our first prizewinner! Gary Nadeau's Pizza Verdi received the most audience votes on the festival's website and wins the Biosagenda.nl Online Award of 1.500 euro. From the start of September until 10 March everyone could watch and vote for the shorts in the Online Competition on goshort.nl. From 14 March Nijmegen will be the center of short film for 5 days. This year, Go Short expands with a Festival Pavili...
Go Short-ambassador Isolda Hallensleben was the host of the Award Show and she did it in a funny and vigorous way. A video showed a nice overview of the past days of the festival. The members of the jury were presented and then it was time to start handing over the Awards.
An international festival, with English as official language, with some switches to Dutch. For instance, when Joost van Ginkel received his Award for Best Dutch Short Film. After his word of thanks, the screen showed a...
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."
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After last year's success, the new edition of Go Short film festival is almost here. The second edition of this annual film festival will take place from 17 till 21 March 2010 in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. With over more than 900 films send in from all over Europe Go Short is tying the knots to finalize the competition program. The films for the out of competition program are set and special guests have been invited.
Short Focus
Short Focus takes a closer look at the British filmmaker Sim...
Go Short is an annual new, refreshing film festival for European short films. It is a unique event in The Netherlands at which the audience is treated to short films. The festival's main location is the local multifunctional arthouse LUX.
Go Short is the Dutch festival for short film. For five days, around 300
short films are screened in Nijmegen. Besides screenings there are
exhibitions, workshops, performances, parties and more!
Established in 2008 Go Short shows a wide variation of short films, most
of them made by young, talented filmmakers from all over Europe. The
festival's main program contains national, international, student and
online competitions (containing fiction, animation, documentary and art
film). The student competition, Breaking Shorts, is selected by the
student film platform Breaking Ground. Competitions are judged by
multiple professional juries. Go Short also presents multiple out-of-competition-programs.
