Nominations European Short Film – Prix Vimeo 2026
The EUROPEAN SHORT FILM 2026 – Prix Vimeo is presented in co-operation with Vimeo and 30 European film festivals.
Between 1 October 2024 and 30 September 2025, a jury appointed by the festivals selected a single film from the respective festival competitions. Based on the complete list of films, the participating festivals nominated five short films.
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BEING JOHN SMITH
United Kingdom
Documentary
After enduring many decades of embarrassment and discomfort, the filmmaker finally admits that possessing the most common name in the English-speaking world has had a profound impact on his psyche. Peppered with disparate fragments of autobiography, BEING JOHN SMITH t...
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CITY OF POETS
Netherlands
Documentary
Through a collage of personal archive footage and photographs, the history emerges of a small, metaphorical city where all the streets are named after poets. The town’s psychogeography defines the mental and emotional state of its inhabitants, who live in a utopian illus...
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L'AVANCE
France
Fiction
Aliou, a rising student at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, sells a painting of his deceased mother for 3,000 euros to a renowned collector. The delivery of the painting then becomes a long journey during which he will realise the weight of the money he earned.
Directed by: Djiby Kebe
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MAN NUMBER 4
United Kingdom
Documentary/experimental
Gaza, December 2023. A confrontation with a disturbing photograph on social media triggers questions about what it means to be an onlooker.
Written & directed by: Miranda Pennell
Produced by: Miranda Pennell
Editing: Miranda Pennell
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THE FLOWERS STAND SILENTLY, WITNESSING
United Kingdom
Documentary
When a Palestinian filmmaker based in Scotland unearths a rarely seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wildflowers, he decides to reclaim the footage. This tender essay film questions the role of image-making as a tool of both testimony and violence when connected...
