The shorts are near: ClujShorts – Official selection
ClujShorts 2016: 4-10 April, Victoria Cinema, Cluj-Napoca
Firstly, we wish to thank everyone who has submitted their short films to be selected for ClujShorts. We are receiving more an more shorts of great quality every year and that makes it rather difficult for us to decide which to include in our official selection. It has been an honor to watch each and every short that has been sumbitted: we have learnt and discovered a great deal. Following heated discussions accompanied by what we would like to call true revelations, we are delighted to share our official selection here with you.
677 shorts have been submitted. After more than 175 hours of film-watching and several days of debate, we have reached a unanimous decision: we have selected 181 shorts. 181 films, or 36,92 hours filled with suspense, innovation and diversity will be screened at our 4th edition of ClujShorts, at Victoria Cinema.
Still, what does this selection actually mean?
Comedies of a fantastic humour, filled with subtilties and absurd.
Dramas with most complex characters and stories.
Animations that cover the range of visual delight from magical to grotesque.
Documentaries that engage the viewer to think critically and take stand.
Experimentals that bring you a truly synesthesic experience.
In short? Directors whom you probably have not heard of before, but whose names you will be sure to hear again.
However, our work is not done just yet. Out of 181 selected films, only a third will enter the official competition. We are currently viewing them again and debating. Therefore, you will hear from us again in two weeks with new information.
We would like to congratulate those who have been selected! Furthermore, we would like to thank you, not only for chosing ClujShorts, but also for helping us put together a truly remarkable edition. We look forward to seeing you all at ClujShorts!
Submissions Closed for ClujShorts 2016 - Let the Work Begin
ClujShorts 2016: 4-10 April, Victoria Cinema
30th of November, 23:59 submissions closed for the fourth edition of ClujShorts. We would like to thank the 677 directors and producers from around the world who have submitted their work and together with whom we are able to organize a fourth edition marked by diversity and full of surprises.
As in previous years, the participants originate from such a variety of countries from all continents, that it would be difficult to list them all here. According to our statistics, the countries with most submissions are Germany, France, Russia, Spain, The United Kingdom and India. 40% of all submitted films are made by students from Film Academies around the world. We also report a 75% increase of submitted Romanian films, as compared with the previous year.
December 2015: now that's what I call intense! The selection team members together with their
teamleader Rareș Stoica (ClujShorts' Artistic Director) are currently watching and scoring each submitted film. Four out of a total of seven team members are experts in the field of cinematography, whilst the remaining three are ardent film lovers from other areas of expertise; for confidentiality purposes their identity is kept anonymous. Each film is scored on a scale from 1 to 10 by every team member, who is required to write a short explanation for her/his choice.
January 2016: Though, the selection process is more complicated than it appears. Approximately 150 films have to be selected. However, listing films according to the sum of their allocated scores often proves insufficient because team members can have highly contradictory opinions. Ultimately, this accurately portrays the beauty of ClujShorts: all films are taken into account. They are extensively debated both before and after they are screened in the cinema: “Every year we argue. This is particularly true about films with borderline
scores. Usually, our decision is unanimous for half of the films. As for the other half, we each pick our favourites. To say nothing about deciding which films take part in the competition… It’s a nightmare (laughs). However, it is all worth it in the end”, says one of the selection team members in an interview due shortly for publication.
We will announce the films selected for ClujShorts 2016 in mid-January, when we will also be able to give you more details about what the fourth edition will bring. Until then we wish you Happy Holidays and we are looking forward to see you in 2016 with great new films!
Call for Entries ClujShorts - 2016
ClujShorts Now Accepting Submissions for 2016
ClujShorts International Short Film Festival is excited to announce itsCall for Entries in all categories starting 1st of October. Submit your Short by the 30th of November and be part of the only film festival in Cluj-Napoca dedicated exclusively to short films of all kinds. For moreinformation concerning rules and regulations please access http://clujshorts.ro/official-
This Spring ClujShorts is coming back for its 4th Edition and it's welcoming directors and film lovers from all around the world. With a full week of screenings and events, including Q&As,
workshops andnetworking receptions, ClujShorts will bring a more youthful and vibrant vibe to the city's well established cinematographic scene.
Our goal is to present the long story
of short films by offering both a wide range of films and a lively setting for all film enthusiasts to interact in.
For new and exciting news regarding the festival and surrounding events follow us on http://clujshorts.ro/ and https://www.facebook.com/
ClujShorts Awards 2015
Call her Lotte - ClujShorts Trophy
For telling an emotional storyabout friendship during difficult times, for allying in a perfect corelationthe sound track with the visual composition.
Citizen Torralba Redux - Best Screenplay
For having such a convincingscript, for making us believe a 100% that a story that is completely made up, canbe real.
Five Ways to Die - Best Director
For the coherent director’sview that insures a successfull movie, from a technical and also narattive pointof view, but also from a comedy point of view and its affect on the moviegoer.
Sailor’s Song - Best Image
For the exceptional quality ofthe image, for the special shotting of the night scenes, for the elegance ofthe composition and for the technique of the dark sumbre tones that underlinethe desperation and melancoly of the story.
Children of the River - Young Europe
For telling a heartfelt andcompasionate story about youth, the transformation from the childhood to the teenageyears; for syncronizing with the spirith of Cluj-the youth capital of Europe in2015.
Puzzle - Best Montage
For the way it erases theborders between reality and fantasy, possibility and impossibility, life anddeath, by using movie editing, cuts, linking, rithm and transitions betweendifferent realities.
Terra 2084 - Best Soundtrack
For the complex way thesoundtrack is orchestrated, with a subtle gradations of itensity, withinterlinking of diverse harmonics; for the way it makes the voice and thecommunication two parts of major importance in the technical-ideologicalconstruction of the whole.
Berlin Troika - Best Student Movie
For the bold, dynamic,original cosntruction of a story with a high political impact, where comedy,tragedy and grotesque are interlinked.
Raphael - Best Animation
For the way it creates a scaryatmospere using digital animation that makes the moviegoer shiver.
Picky Mouse - Best Kids Animation
For the precision and clarityof the animation, for the music quality and for the educational value of thefable.
Why I Write - Best Documentary
For being a dynamic and freshdocumentary, that brings to life a passed away writer, not only because of hiswritten texts and interviews of other writers, but also as a ghost that huntsrelentesly the present.
Sanguine Craving - Best Male Actor
For the bloddy and comic wayin which a young man feels the need to confirm his individuality even when itleads him on the criminal path his father before him had taken.
Registered - Best Female Actress
For using humor to tell adramatic story of an intelectual and moral growth; for the convincing way inwhich the lead acctress conveys the hardship and struggles that thecontemporary young adults are facing.
Side Effects - Persona Association Award
For the moral dilemma that itrepresents, reminding us how difficult are the decisions we need to make, howdifficult it is to see in „Black and white” withouth considering the „grey” andhow often we have to sacrifice our principle in the name of other „superior priciples”...
Boulevard's End - The Jury Award
Fortrying to innovate the usual formula of a documentary by including asubjective note and by playing smart with the aesthetic principle of asynchrony between picture and sound.
Still got lives... - The Local Press Award
There Ain't No Bad Directing When You Shoot Pretty Girls - The Audience Award