Competition Shorts 2

70 minutes
Competition Shorts 2

A royal collection of 53 films from all parts of the world and a great range of narrative and as much as 20 non-narrative films.

This program screened as part of HAFF 2017

Showing in this program

An Ordinary Blue Monday

An Ordinary Blue Monday

  • Naomi van Niekerk
  • South Africa, 2014
  • 3 min.

This film is part of a series of short films of classic and contemporary Afrikaans poems.
On Monday morning a girl gets ready to go to school but in the ghetto neighbourhoord where she lives violence and tragedy are part of every day life…

Animated Daily

Animated Daily

  • Sansone Donato
  • France, 2016
  • 4 min.

An artistic improvisation in real time led day in and day out, inspired by international events as taken from the pages of the French daily newspaper Libération.

Artist and Hooligans

Artist and Hooligans

  • Anna Romanova / Ivan Maximov
  • Russia, 2016
  • 11 min.

Mischievous manipulations with the artist’s Voitsekhovsky paintings

Grid Corrections

Grid Corrections

  • Gerco de Ruijter
  • The Netherlands, 2016
Johnno’s Dead

Johnno’s Dead

  • Chris Sheperd
  • France / United Kingdom, 2016
  • 7 min.

Despite having time to reflect upon his twelve years behind bars, he can’t shake off the ghosts of the past. If he could catch up with Johnno, the guy who put in him in prison. Make him understand what it was like to have entire life wasted…
But the narrator’s obsession sets him on the path to his own destruction as he wreaks his revenge on Johnno.

My Mum’s Bonkers

My Mum’s Bonkers

  • Naomi van Niekerk
  • South Africa, 2017
  • 3 min.

My mum’s bonkers. Out of one eye she cries Puccini, out of the other she reprimands me.

Progress

Progress

  • Otto Alder
  • Switzerland, 2016
  • 4 min.

„FORTGANG is an experimental animation in which thousands of photographs of an old building from the archives of Otto Alder are brought to life in an animated document of impermanence and recommencement.“

The Absence of Eddy Table

The Absence of Eddy Table

  • Rune Spaans
  • Norway, 2016
  • 12 min.

What if your worst fear and your greatest love turn out to be the same thing? Lost in a dark forest, Eddy Table stumbles upon a mysterious girl and dangerous parasites. He should escape, but something keeps him from leaving. Rune Spaans’ romantic horror short is based on the works of Canadian artist Dave Cooper.

The Adventure of Liangliang

The Adventure of Liangliang

  • Xiaotao Zhang / Wuliang Zhang
  • China, 2016
  • 12 min.

The Adventure of Liang Liang is an animation project which has been completed by my team in 7 months. I used many original drawings of my son as the concepts and resources of the animation. This animation is not only the encounter of the worlds between the adult and the children, but also the dialogue between father and son.

The Empty

The Empty

  • Dahee Jeong
  • France / South Korea, 2016
  • 9 min.

In the woman’s room, memories constantly accumulate and disappear like dust. 
The man spends his time in this room creating futile little games with woman’s memories.