Competition Shorts 1

75 minutes
Competition Shorts 1

For the international competition shorts 53 films have been selected, with no less than 25 non-narrative productions.

This program screened as part of Haff 2016

Showing in this program

Deep in Moss

Deep in Moss

  • Barbora Valecka / Filip Posivac
  • Czech Republic, 2015
  • 26 min.

In the midst of a deep forest live tiny elves resembling humans, Josephine and Bertie. Bertie’s job is to look after some very special jingly mushrooms – night lamps – which he lights up and puts out every day. The only one that can give him some really hard times with her nutty ideas is his sister Josephine. Josephine takes care of a group of fussy red mushrooms who grow near their house – she powders their cheeks, cleans their hats and makes sure they don´t argue too much. The little elves would live happily but one day a little water nymph Rusalka appears and Bertie´s mushrooms start disappearing...
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House Fire

House Fire

  • Micah H. Weber
  • United States, 2014
  • 4 min.

This project began out of a desire to express grief experienced from the loss of a parent. With every attempt to describe my grief through language - spoken or otherwise - it became evident that some events are indescribable without losing the very agency one has in having experienced the loss in the first place. This project attempts to suss out the perimeter of unknowability and the point where the inadequacy of language reveals itself.

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Supplemental imagery can be found here:

http://www.mh-wbr.com/Almost-Nothing-House-Fire
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Löss

Löss

  • Yi Zhao
  • The Netherlands, 2015
  • 27 min.
Red-end and the Factory Plant

Red-end and the Factory Plant

  • Robin Noorda / Bethany de Forest
  • The Netherlands / Belgium, 2015
  • 15 min.

Redback has to find red peppers in the wood and discovers a bio-industry of carnivorous plants, but gets captured. With the help of Gold fly Red-end sets Redback free by sabotaging the meat-factory.