THREE Irish films area among the nominees for this year's European Film Awards. Neil Jordan's Michael Collins is on the shortlist for European Film of the Year, along with Kolya, Trainspotting, Breaking The Waves, Secrets & Lies, Cold Fever, Prisoner Of The Mountains, Richard III, A Summer's Tale and Ponette.

Gerry Stembridge's Guiltrip and Terry George's Some Mother's Son are both nominated for Young European Film of the Year, as are Full Speed, Beautiful Thing, Little Sister, Brothers In Trouble, La Seconda Volta, Another Mother and Mefie. The awards will be presented in Berlin on December 8th.

ELEVEN Irish short films shave been selected for Kinofilm 96, the second Manchester Short Film and Video Festival, which runs for the second half of this month and will present the UK premiere of Enda Hughes's inventive feature, The Eliminator. The Irish shorts showcase includes Fortune, Pips, He Shoots He Scores, The Ballad of Frank Pop, Shades, Two Face Luke The Thief Life of Reilly, Bent Out of Shape, Everybody's Gone and Puddy Cat. The Eliminator is also lined up for the Welsh International Film Festival which runs in Aberystwyth from November 8th to 17th, as are Some Mother's Son, Trojan Eddie, The Last of the High Kings and The Boy From Mercury. The programme also includes an Irish gay section featuring Change, Summertime and Bent Out of Shape. Kevin Moriarty, managing director of Ardmore Studios, will participate in a discussion on the present state of the Irish film industry.

THREE projects have receive awards of £6,000 each in the latest round of the Arts Council's film and video awards. They are Michael West and Joy Giovanelli's comedy, Alaska, the single character drama. Still Life directed by Michael Hewitt for the Belfast based Double Band Films, and a community arts video, The Tribal Project, by Wet Paint Arts.