The shorts competition distinguishes between narrative and non-narrative films. From 930 entries, 38 were selected (27 narrative and 11 non-narrative). The winners in both categories receive the Dioraphte Grand Prix HAFF and a cash prize of € 2,500, made available by the Dioraphte Foundation. The winners of this competition will be invited as guest curators to compile a carte blanche programme for the next festival. The jury members of the shorts competition are Alexey Alexeev (filmmaker, Hungary), Isabelle Favez (filmmaker, Switzerland), Osbert Parker (United Kingdom, filmmaker), Fons Schiedon (filmmaker, Netherlands), Han Schuil (visual artist, Netherlands).

This program screened as part of HAFF 2009

Showing in this program

Dust Kid

• Yumi Joung
• South Korea, 2009
• 10 min.

Eujin found a small dust kid on her bed and decided to cleaning her room for a long time.Cleaning every corner of her room, she keep finding other dust kids here and there and start putting each dust kid away.

I Was Crying Out At Life. Or For It.

• Vergine Keaton
• France, 2009
• 9 min.

In the forest, the stags turn against the pack of dogs that has been chasing them. From this unusual chase new landscapes surge from the ground.

Jazzed

• Anton Setola
• Belgium / The Netherlands, 2008
• 7 min.

"Jazzed" incites the audience on an introspective journey by pushing the main character, Jack, to release his most mysterious, profound and imperceptible emotions.

Postalolio

• Marv Newland
• Canada, 2008
• 5 min.

A journey in 2D animation, in which every drawing has been traced onto blank postcards then hand painted, stamped and mailed. Every frame has traveled through the international post prior to appearing in the film.

The Da Vinci Time Code

• Gil Alkabetz
• Germany, 2009
• 2 min.

In the film The Da Vinci Time Code one picture is taken apart in order to create an animated film from its fragments. Different parts of this one picture, based on similar forms, allow us to discover secret movements.The people in the picture eat, dance, discuss and argue, until finally all are silenced.

The Tale of Little Puppetboy

• Johannes Nyholm
• Sweden, 2008
• 19 min.

Puppetboy is sweating floods of clay, preparing for a lady’s visit. He becomes even more nervous when she arrives. A claymation drama in four episodes.

Variety

• Roelof van den Bergh
• The Netherlands, 2009
• 4 min.

In a hectic circus performance a young juggler tries to keep his Chinese Plates and the people on them spinning. But there are too much plates...