Competition European Student Films 3

70 minutes
Competition European Student Films 3

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

Every Stone Here

Every Stone Here

  • Maryam Mansouri
  • United Kingdom, 2013
  • 6 min.

An interrogator rapes and tortures a prisoner, punishing him for the crime he is assumed to have committed. He, himself then goes through a karmic payback for his brutal act.
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Facing the News

Facing the News

  • Wiep Teeuwisse
  • The Netherlands, 2013
  • 2 min.

A man gets shocked by the amount of bad news in the newspaper, then he takes control of the situation.

How to Catch a Bird

How to Catch a Bird

  • Vera van Wolferen
  • The Netherlands, 2013
  • 4 min.

How To Catch a Bird is a stop motion short based on a childhood memory.
When I was eight, my dad taught me how to fish. He told me to take the worm off the hook after fishing, but I had no idea why. After fishing I forgot about the worm and left it dangling on the hook. If I only knew then what the consequence of this action would be.

If We Were Together

If We Were Together

  • Rowena Crowe
  • The Netherlands, 2013
  • 5 min.

A mother struggles with loneliness while her husband is away in the army. She has got something to ask him and needs courage to say it.

MooN

MooN

  • Carl Schroeter
  • Germany, 2012
  • 4 min.

A little lonely boy makes a plan to fly to the moon. He builds his own space ship in order to explore the stars and beyond.

Nothing Beside Remains

Nothing Beside Remains

  • Bob Thissen
  • The Netherlands / Belgium, 2013
  • 5 min.

In a post-apocalyptic world we see how a survivor in an underground controlroom searches for life above...

One Small Step

One Small Step

  • Rudy Jilisen
  • The Netherlands, 2012

One Small Steps shows the 1969 moon landing from a new perspective and even though it's fiction it questions the events as they were presented to mankind.
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Rabbit and Deer

Rabbit and Deer

  • Péter Vácz
  • Hungary, 2013
  • 16 min.

The friendship of Rabbit and Deer is put to the test by Deer's new obsession to find the formula for the 3rd dimension...

Spectators

Spectators

  • Ross Hogg
  • United Kingdom, 2013
  • 4 min.

‘Spectators’ is an observational animation that inverts the expected focus of a football match, turning attention to those on the periphery. The film investigates social interaction and human behaviour, revealing the diversity of character found among football spectators, which can often become obscured by the mass.

The Kiosk

The Kiosk

  • Anete Melece
  • Switzerland, 2013
  • 6 min.

For years now, the kiosk has been Olga's little home simply because her sweet tooth and monotonous life has made her bigger than the exit.

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat

  • Ross Hogg
  • United Kingdom, 2013
  • 3 min.

Using only charcoal and three sheets of A1 paper, 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat' is an animated adaptation of Oliver Sacks' seminal work, describing a unique neurological oddity.
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I will post a DVD screener and a DATA disc with a digital file of the film.

Kind regards,
Ross Hogg
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The Sine Wave

The Sine Wave

  • Neely Goniodsky
  • United Kingdom, 2013
  • 4 min.

‘The Sine Wave’ is a short film about trying to understand the ups and downs of life through the mathematical function of the sine wave.

Uróboros. Eternal Return

Uróboros. Eternal Return

  • Iria Cabrera
  • Spain, 2014
  • 3 min.

A man in a room with an industrial look. Gears rotating endlessly symbol of a cyclic system. His eyes are sewn and his blindness doesn´t allow him to leave this place. Even when he is successful he invariably returns to the starting point. That is his conviction.