Returns from the Shortest Day

This international event, which will take place on December 21 (the shortest day of the year), aims to promote the short film.

The Shortest Day [ED+C], An annual event that is already celebrated successfully in other European countries, will return on December 21, the day of the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year.

The main objective is to make the short film known to the majority public through an action with great media and social impact: free film screenings in all types of spaces: streets, squares, schools, museums, hospitals, shops, etc. An open event that can be joined by cultural management agents, any public or private entity, and citizens at an individual level.

Last year it was held for the first time in Spain, facilitating participation with a really simple operating scheme: A web platform houses a short film container with which anyone can organize a free film screening in their area. The platform has search tools to find the nearest event and also offers the possibility of enjoying online viewing of the short films, although only that day.

In total, more than 5,000 short films were viewed and 82 public screenings were held throughout all the provinces of Spain, in addition to twenty central screenings. Results that are expected to be multiplied in the second edition thanks to the determined support of the Ministry of Culture and Industry through RED.es, in addition to the Instituto Cervantes, RTVE and Canal+ Yomvi, among others.

The Spanish Short Film Coordinator undertakes the challenge of organizing this festival that aspires to become the reference and institutional interlocutor that represents Spanish short filmmaking in front of public and private organizations and society in general, helping to place short films in their rightful place within the film and cultural industry.

The Shortest Day is an idea that was launched by the French Short Film Agency in 2011 and in which 2 and a half million people around the world participated. In 2012, other countries joined in, such as Germany, which organized 175 screenings in 35 cities, in places as diverse as daycare centers, libraries, prisons, etc. In 2013 it became a truly international event with the incorporation of Switzerland, Finland, Austria, Portugal, Canada. In total 15 countries.