Competition European Student Films 1

70 minutes
Competition European Student Films 1

The 67 films in the competition for European student films show craftsmanship and fireworks in a whole range of techniques and daring stories.

This program screened as part of HAFF 2014

Showing in this program

Don’t Be Curly

Don’t Be Curly

  • Veronika Jelinkova
  • Czech Republic, 2012
  • 6 min.

Short movie about restless hair curls, troubles, dreams and the power of wish we make.

Greenfields

Greenfields

  • Luis Betancourt / Benjamin Vedrenne / Joseph Coury / Charly Nzekwu / Michel Durin
  • France, 2013
  • 7 min.
Hidden Track

Hidden Track

  • Elisabeth Zwimpfer
  • Germany, 2013
  • 6 min.

A lonely woman is looking for jobs. Her neighbor hears her singing at the heating.
While she´s on her way to the letterbox, he has some problems with his drinking friends. She follows him in a discotheque. After a unhappy dance they start a revolt. Getting into trouble is their chance to escape.
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High Wool

High Wool

  • Nikolai Maderthoner / Moritz Mugler
  • Germany, 2013
  • 2 min.

A duel in a town made of strings.
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Home Sweet Home

Home Sweet Home

  • Pierre Clenet / Alejandro Diaz / Romain Mazenet / Stephane Paccolat
  • France, 2013
  • 5 min.
Little Freak

Little Freak

  • Edwin Schaap
  • The Netherlands, 2013
  • 3 min.

A young deformed boy lives as a side-show freak. When his father asks him to make a birthday-wish he starts to imagine...

Rollin’ Safari

Rollin’ Safari

  • Ännie Habermehl / Kyra Buschor / Constantin Paeplow
  • Germany, 2012
  • 3 min.

Ordinary Life is hard for the balloon animals of the savannah.

The Age of Curious

The Age of Curious

  • Luca Tóth
  • United Kingdom, 2013
  • 7 min.

A surreal growing of age story about three young teenagers, who face with their inner wildness
through the dream-like path.

The Gravedigger’s Tale

The Gravedigger’s Tale

  • Min Young Oh
  • United Kingdom, 2013
  • 13 min.

The gravedigger leads a solitary existence, so far from the living, yet so close to the dead. Her loneliness is soothed every night by a haunting melody that floats in from the edge of the forest. It is death himself who serenades her. This is their story. A love story
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The Screenwriter

The Screenwriter

  • Fanny Brotot / Loïc Degenève / Nicolas Joly / Marion Walle / Émilie Zamiri
  • France, 2013
  • 7 min.
The Shirley Temple

The Shirley Temple

  • Daniela Sherer
  • United Kingdom, 2013
  • 9 min.

The boundaries between childhood and adulthood become blurry for a kid at his mother’s cocktail party. In this experimental-narrative short, characters, symbols and abstractions interchange to examine the relationships between children and adults, escapism and sexuality.
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