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.

Improvisation in real time, day in and day out, inspired by 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

Grid Corrections was made mining the Thomas Jefferson's Grid in Google Earth.

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. 

My Mum’s Bonkers

My Mum’s Bonkers

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

Melancholy music film in black and white, with sand and silhouettes. About the loss of a mother, with her unexpected exuberance, but who also cries Puccini melodies. 

Progress

Progress

  • Otto Alder
  • Switzerland, 2016
  • 4 min.

What’s left are images, ordered by memory. A home, the cat, friends.

The Absence of Eddy Table

The Absence of Eddy Table

  • Rune Spaans
  • Norway, 2016
  • 12 min.

Lost in a dark forest, Eddy Table stumbles upon a mysterious girl and dangerous parasites.

The Adventure of Liangliang

The Adventure of Liangliang

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

Cartoony black-and-white images and exuberant symbolism based on drawings by the filmmaker’s 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.