My Europe Film Festival will take place on Wednesday and Thursday at Europe House, 254 St Paul Street, Valletta, from 7 p.m.
Organised by European Parliament Office in Malta and the Euro Media Forum, the festival is billed as “an opportunity for exchange, sharing and inspiring but also a challenge for defending identities and cultures”.
It will attempt to explore what the terms ‘Europe’ and ‘European’ mean to different people in different countries. My Europe Film Festival is also a film contest that seeks to raise awareness of short films on a Europe-wide level.
“Through the promotion of short films, far beyond their country of origin, contacts can be initialised between professionals in the film promotion/festival and art house cinema sector while providing a platform to encourage short film distribution from eastern and south-eastern Europe,” organisers said.
On Wednesday, the theme is ‘Politics and Policies’. Short films to be shown on this night tackle “borders, conflicts and diplomacy, decisions, consequences, confrontations and compromises”. On Thursday, the theme is ‘Living in Europe’.
The audience will be given the opportunity to vote on the winning film that will receive the Audience Award at the award ceremony held in June in Berlin.
Entrance is free on both festival nights. For festival enquiries and bookings text 9960 8361.
Local Maltese film-makers are encouraged to submit their own short films for the next edition of My Europe Film Festival. For more information call 7905 1529, 9905 2482, or e-mail euromediaforum@gmail.com.