{"id":51600,"date":"2024-05-14T16:30:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T13:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/?p=51600"},"modified":"2025-08-14T16:57:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T13:57:35","slug":"the-european-short-film-audience-award-goes-to-the-french-film-tondex-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/en\/the-european-short-film-audience-award-goes-to-the-french-film-tondex-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"The European Short Film Audience Award Goes to the French Film Tondex 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The European audience has voted for the winner of <a href=\"https:\/\/esfaa.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the European Short Film Audience Award<\/a> for the year 2023\u20132024. The winner of the award is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tondex 2000<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (France, 2023) by <\/span><b>Jean-Baptiste Leonetti<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. After a year on tour, the award was announced at <a href=\"https:\/\/bsff.be\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Brussels Short Film Festival<\/a> on 27 April.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The winner of the ESFAA award is chosen annually from among the national audience award winners of the film festivals organising the competition. The French <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tondex 2000<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> achieved its national popularity at <a href=\"https:\/\/clermont-filmfest.org\/en\/global\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival<\/a>. The fictional short film tells the story of an Afghan veteran living on petty crime who crosses paths with an upper-class CEO struggling with her company.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48715\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48715\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-48715 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Tondex2000.png\" alt=\"Kalju mies nojaa k\u00e4siins\u00e4.\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Tondex2000.png 600w, https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Tondex2000-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48715\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tondex 2000 (France, 2023)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Tampere Film Festival&#8217;s nominee for the 2023\u20132024 ESFAA award was <\/span><b>Pavel Andonov&#8217;s<\/b> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blue Note<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Finland, 2022). In the 2024\u20132025 ESFAA tour, the national short film that collected the most audience votes at the Tampere Film Festival 2024, <\/span><b>Heta J\u00e4\u00e4linoja&#8217;s <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nun or Never! <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Finland, 2023), will be aiming for the award.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 2024\u20132025 award will be presented once again at the Brussels Short Film Festival in the spring of 2025. Read more about the nominees on <a href=\"https:\/\/esfaa.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the ESFAA website<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48873\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48873\" style=\"width: 601px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-48873 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/NunOrNever.png\" alt=\"Piirretty nunnakuoro laulaa lukuunottamatta keskell\u00e4 seisovaa nunnaa, joka katselee ymp\u00e4rilleen posket punaisina.\" width=\"601\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/NunOrNever.png 601w, https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/NunOrNever-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48873\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nun or Never! (Finland, 2023)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since 2019, ten European film festivals, including the Tampere Film Festival, have organised the European Short Film Audience Award competition. In 2023\u20132024, there were nine films on tour instead of ten, as the Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz Art in Ukraine could not take place due to the war impacting the country.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European audience has voted for the winner of the European Short Film Audience Award for the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":48715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,39],"tags":[201,303],"class_list":["post-51600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","category-competitions","tag-awards","tag-esfaa-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51602,"href":"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51600\/revisions\/51602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}