The European Film Academy announced the nominees in the European Short Film Category for its 2022 European Film Awards on 21 October 2022.
Below are the five nominated short films:
- Granny’s Sexual Life (Babičino seksualno življenje) by Urška Djukič & Émilie Pigeard (Slovenia/France)
- Ice Merchants by João Gonzalez (Portugal, France, UK)
- Love, Dad (Milý tati) by Diana Cam Van Nguyen (Czech Republic/Slovakia)
- Techno, Mama by Saulius Baradinskas (Lithuania)
- Will My Parents Come to See Me by Mo Harawe (Austria/Germany/Somalia)
The category “European Short Film” is organized by the European Film Academy in co-operation with a series of film festivals across Europe. At each of these festivals, an independent jury presented one of the European short films in competition with a candidacy. Out of the complete list of 29 candidates, the participating festivals nominated five films for the European Film Awards.
The 4,400 members of the European Film Academy will vote for the overall winners which will be announced at the European Film Awards on 10 December 2022 in Reykjavik, Iceland.