In Short, Europe: How to Build Success for Your Short Film in Europe

Short film experts from interfilm Berlin, Glasgow Short Film Festival & CenterFrame on getting your film seen in Europe.

Want your short film to reach audiences across Europe? At this In Short, Europe panel, festival programmers, distributors and platform founders give practical advice on festival runs, distribution and building an audience online.

Speakers:
Lola Lambert, Co-Head of Festival Distribution, interfilm International Short Film Festival Berlin; programmer, KUKI
Matt Lloyd, Director, Glasgow Short Film Festival
Nathan Haines, Filmmaker; co-founder, CenterFrame; runs the British Short Film Awards
Moderated by Sanne Jehoul, Founder, onzer films; commissioning editor, Talking Shorts

Programme
18:00 Doors
18:15 Panel discussion (60 min)
19:15 Audience Q&A (15 min)
19:30 Networking reception

Who it’s for: students, early-career filmmakers and anyone working in short film. It’s especially relevant to young Europeans in the UK and British filmmakers with European heritage.

In Short, Europe is EUNIC London’s short film programme. It has shown European short films to British audiences since 2020. This event is supported by the Delegation of the European Union to the UK and hosted by the Goethe-Institut London.

About the speakers:

Lola Lambert is a short film professional based in Berlin. Since 2024, she has been Co-Head of Festival Distribution at interfilm International Short Film Festival Berlin, where she coordinates the international circulation of short films and collaborates with festivals and programmers worldwide.Alongside her distribution work, she is a short film programmer and moderator for KUKI – International Short Film Festival for Children and Youth. Her work focuses on the international short film landscape, with an emphasis on festival distribution, programming, and the promotion of short films across different contexts. Through these roles, she contributes to the circulation and visibility of short films within the international festival landscape.

Matt Lloyd has worked in film exhibition in Scotland for over twenty five years. He was short film programmer of Edinburgh International Film Festival from 2004 to 2008. His critical history of EIFF, How the Movie Brats Took Over Edinburgh, was published by St Andrews Film Studies in 2011. He delivered pilots that led to the establishment of Regional Screen Scotland and HippFest, Scotland’s silent film festival. He directed Inverness Film Festival 2006-08, produced two high profile Highland film events for Mark Cousins and Tilda Swinton in 2008-09, and produced and co-curated the inaugural Dunoon Film Festival in 2013. Matt has directed Glasgow Short Film Festival since the 2010 edition, and currently leads the Scottish competition selection committee. He has guest-curated screenings at festivals across the UK and Europe, and in Brazil, South Korea and Indonesia. He’s also directed three short films, at least two of which were really really bad.

Nathan Haines is a London-based writer, director and producer. He co-founded the production company Iron Box Films and the film platform CenterFrame. He produced the feature Betsy & Leonard, then executive produced the horror comedy Ravers (2018), which played on 50 US screens. His writer-director debut, An Imperfect Cadence, screened at 14 festivals, including eight BIFA qualifiers. It was nominated for Best British Short at London Breeze 2025. He also runs the British Short Film Awards and oversees CenterFrame Curated, CenterFrame's YouTube showcase, which has more than 211,000 subscribers. In 2026 he was a festival judge at London Breeze and Earls Court International Film Festival.

Sanne Jehoul is a film worker with over a decade of experience in the field across festival programming, distribution, event production and editorial. In 2026 she started onzer films, through which she supports new moving image works on festival and alternative distribution paths. She is part of the extended selection team for Visions du Réel 2027, and the selection committee for Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur 2026. She is also a commissioning editor at Talking Shorts, a consultant at Documentary Association of Europe and regularly reads for international funds and labs. Previously she managed the short film slate at Square Eyes, was programme director at Glasgow Short Film Festival, and led the talent programme for the BFI Doc Society Fund. She has served on various panels and juries as well as facilitating conversations and events, including at Cannes Rendez-vous Industry, Marrakech IFF, Dokufest, Cork IFF, Clermont-Ferrand ISFF, Curtas Vila do Conde, and more.