Krakow Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2014
LATO 2014 (Summer 2014)
by Wojciech Sobczyk
Poland 2014, 12 min, animation


Harsh but poetic, the film is a treaty about the desire of domination and violence as the driving force of history, shown in the spectrum of grey. After a great battle, the surrounding landscape, devoured by great fire, looks apocalyptic. Meaningless flags flutter in a dead field. Sobczyk’s film presents history as a sequence of recurring plagues and misfortunes where man, trying to find his own place, gets lost even more and falls even lower.

The film was chosen by the festival's international short film competition jury consisting of Wojciech Marczewski (Poland), Giannalberto Bendazzi (Italy), Illia Gladshtein (Ukraine), Katrine Kiilgaard (Denmark) and Cinzia Spironello (Italy).

SUMMER 2014 is now nominated for the award 'European Film Academy Short Film 2014'.

The EFA short film initiative is organised by the European Film Academy in co-operation with a series of film festivals throughout Europe. At each of these festivals, an independent jury presents one of the European short films in competition with a nomination in the short film category of the European Film Awards.

The next nomination for 2014 will be presented in co-operation with the Norwegian Short Film Festival Grimstad.

When the annual cycle is completed, the nominees will be presented to the over 3,000 members of the European Film Academy and it is they who will elect the overall winner: the European Film Academy Short Film 2014 which will be presented at the 27th European Film Awards Ceremony on 13 December in Riga.