Next to the Go Short Campus, Breaking Ground and Go Short present Breaking Shorts. After screening for days in the dark winter period, we selected the best 20 films of Europe's student cinema. 

Check here our selection!
Only one film will be the winner of the Breaking Short Award.

The Breaking Shorts Jury will nominate films of the student competition Breaking Shorts on Friday 19 March. The winner of the Breaking Short Award will be announced on Saturday 20 March, during the Award Ceremony.


Bram Schouw (the Netherlands)
Bram Schouw is director at Hazazah Film Amsterdam and directed the award winning commercials Together We Can and Sensoor. His short filmImpasse (2008) won the NFTVM Vers! Award for young Dutch filmmakers and is still shown worldwide as part of the feature film Stories on Human Rights.

Chris Mouw (the Netherlands)
Chris Mouw studied Film and Television Studies at the University of Utrecht. During her time there she was introduced to il Luster Productions,  the largest producer for independent animation in the Netherlands. In 2
007, she started working as their festival coordinator. Currently, she is also producer, focusing on the production for animation shorts. 

Paul Negoescu (Romania)
Paul Negoescu directed several shorts that have been selected and awarded at many international film festivals (Berlinale, Rotterdam, London BFI, Slamdance). His film Renovation (2009) was nominated at the European Film Academy Awards in 2009. He is also the artistic director of the Timishort Film Festival. Two of his short films are featured in the Romanian focus program Wide Awake.