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

Composition

• Mitja Mancek
• Slovenia, 2015
• 3 min.

Lines are scratched directly on 35 mm film track in order to form both: sound & image.

Drawing

• Simon Gerbaud
• Mexico, 2015

As an archaeologist who digs to discover objects and sites, this animated short film reveals hidden shapes and silhouettes in an object. Its interior and exterior dialogue, separated by a floating and constantly changing line: cutting and drawing become the same.
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Future

• Stefan Venbroek
• The Netherlands, 2016
• 12 min.

Een hallucinerende reis op de muziek van Poolse componist Janusz Bieleczki.

Life with Herman H. Rott

• Chintis Lundgren
• Estonia / Croatia / Denmark, 2015
• 11 min.

Herman is a rat who enjoys heavy drinking, loud grind music and chess. He doesn't care much for cleaning and the disorder in his apartment only makes him feel more at home.
One day a very tidy cat who has a weakness for messy macho-men, decides to move in. She also brings a vacuum cleaner, a piano, and what's worse - a collection of classical music records.

Lucy

• Evert de Beijer
• The Netherlands, 2015
• 9 min.

4 Million year old Lucy comes alive in the imagination of a boy, when he visits a paleological exhibition with his parents. She takes him on a short excursion to the prehistory, populated by exotic prototypes in the early evolution.

Mirror

• Chris Ware
• United States, 2015
• 3 min.

An animation based on the December 7, 2015 cover of The New Yorker, co-produced by The New Yorker and “This American Life.” Created by Chris Ware and John Kuramoto, with interviews and narration by Ira Glass and music by Nico Muhly.
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Piano

• Kaspar Jancis
• Estonia, 2015
• 10 min.

A film without main characters where the lives of characters that have lost their head intertwine in a dramatic and less dramatic way in an ordinary concrete panel apartment building.

STO[NE]S

• Marcin Giżycki
• Poland, 2015
• 2 min.

The English word STONES contains two Polish words: STO = ONE HUNDRED and STOS = PILE. A pile of stones was used to create this abstract extravaganza of moving stripes and circles.
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Sugar Lump

• Ryo Okawara
• Japan, 2015
• 13 min.

This is a story of an adolescent boy living in a burning house with his parents. He can't drink black coffee yet he refuses his mother's offer of sugar lump. Rejecting his mother’s kindness and ignoring his father's concern, he struggles with his own internal conflicts and continues to perform the minor rebellions of youth.

The Poem

• Xi Chen / Jian Jiang
• China, 2015
• 6 min.

An ancient was looking for the plum blossom in the snow storm during the trip.
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