Apodemy
A trolley bus-cage moved by birds traverses an abandoned city: a portrait of Athens while Europe is imploding.
Competition Shorts 1
70 minutes
A royal collection of 57 films from all parts of the world and a great range of narrative and non-narrative films. A notable lot of brand new films by renowned filmmakers but also exciting new talents.
This program screened as part of HAFF 2013
Showing in this program
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Big Hands Oh Big Hands, Let It Be Bigger and Bigger
This story takes place in a city, in which all of the citizens have very big hands. One child, however, is special. He has tiny hands, and his head full of peculiar thoughts. The boy constantly talks to people about these thoughts, but they dislike his long-windedness and eventually ignore him. He is very lonely. The only he does is talking to the walls.(The film is project of “Think+ 2012, Shanghai”)
Freedom for Jafar Panahi: Free Speech
When all the voices have been silenced, only one will remain. And when this last voice is no longer heard...
Freedom for Jafar Panahi, and all imprisoned Iranian filmmakers.
Junkyard
A man is being robbed and stabbed by a junkie. In that final second before he dies, a youth friendship flashes before his eyes.
Marcel, King of Tervuren
Greek tragedy as enacted by Belgian roosters.
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Maze
This film was made in the Kyoto Art Center Gallery with audience participation. The tracing paper in a grid pattern was inspired by the landscape of Kyoto. Using simple lines and animated symbols represents how people get lost in the rigid world.
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My Little Underground
To find light, we must first journey through the darkness. So begins Elise Simard’s My Little Underground, a sombre and beautiful autobiographical story that follows a young girl’s journey home. Drifting between real and imagined events, the girl seeks self-discovery and rebirth. Using time-lapse photography with ink and pastels, Simard creates a haunting, compassionate exploration of addiction and existence.
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The Banker
Mister Christie joins the Mayan End of the World Society
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The Triangle Affair
There is no triangle without corners. There is no direction without atriangle. There is no movement without a direction.
Thugs with no Legend
In the countryside near Rimini, two pitiful thugs try racketeering a couple of farmers.But the farmers who have gotten tired of always being tricked decide to take their revenge and they scheme a diabolical plot which eventually sends the thugs to jail.
