Competition Shorts 1

65 minutes
Competition Shorts 1

The two categories of the international competition for shorts are narrative and non-narrative. From over 800 entries, 49 productions were selected (33 narrative and 16 non-narrative).

This program screened as part of HAFF 2012

Showing in this program

Aalterate

Aalterate

  • Christobal de Oliveira
  • France / The Netherlands, 2011
  • 9 min.

A body experiences extreme inner tension. Its slowly mutating silhouette gradually invades an empty space to a point of complete saturation.

Body Memory

Body Memory

  • Ülo Pikkov
  • Estonia, 2011
  • 9 min.

Our body remembers more than we can expect and imagine. It remembers also the sorrow and pain of the predecessors, sustaining the stories of our parents and grandparents as well as their ancestors. But, how far back is it possible to go in the memory of the body?

Independent Mind

Independent Mind

  • Marta Monteiro
  • Portugal, 2011
  • 10 min.

Clélia is a woman who is comfortable with her solitude. With it, she fills her Lisbon house, patio and garden. She attends to her plants and one day, almost without noticing, she begins talking to them...

Nightingales in December

Nightingales in December

  • Théodore Ushev
  • Canada, 2011
  • 3 min.

This metaphorical surrealist tale is an allusion . Nightingales in December is a trip into the memories, and the fields of the current realities. Is the innocence the only saviour of birds songs? There are no Nightingales in December... What is left, is only the history of our beginning, and our end.
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One More Time!

One More Time!

  • Elena Petrova / Ekaterina Ovchinnikova / Alina Yakhyaeva / Tatiana Okruzhnova
  • Russia, 2010
  • 2 min.

One day from the childhood who want to remember again and again.

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The Monster of Nix

The Monster of Nix

  • Rosto
  • France / The Netherlands / Belgium, 2011
  • 30 min.

Life is good in the idyllic fairytale village of Nix... until an all-devouring monster appears.Young Willy has to fight it. Alone.

Two

Two

  • Steven Subotnick
  • United States, 2011
  • 2 min.

a visual dialog based on timing, gesture, mark-making, and sound
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