Competition Shorts 3

75 minutes
Competition Shorts 3

A royal collection of 57 films from all parts of the world and a great range of narrative and non-narrative films. A notable lot of brand new films by renowned filmmakers but also exciting new talents.

This program screened as part of HAFF 2013

Showing in this program

A Wind Egg

A Wind Egg

  • Ryo Okawara
  • Japan, 2012
  • 10 min.

The film is about a family, which runs a chicken farm. The boy hankers after birds and his little sister keeps an eye on him. The father loves eggs. The mother loves somebody else. In the family fixture, each member stays there with bias or secrets.
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Chasing

Chasing

  • Chao Wu
  • China, 2011
  • 22 min.

This is a story about chasing and losing. The film is composed of the seemingly irrelevant roles: The curious children who keeping marching and searching, the crows who see through everything, the toys revolving by themselves, the animals wandering here and there, the shadow which is weak at night but strong in daytime, the idiot determined to build his own pleasure ground, the quiet bushes and the inviting city, and the wall you can clime over but never turn back…… They likely exist for the same game, but on their own tracks. Destiny brings them together accidentally.

Choir Tour

Choir Tour

  • Edmunds Jansons
  • Latvia, 2012
  • 5 min.

A world-famous boys' choir goes on a tour. In the hands of their severe conductor they are an obedient musical instrument. But left alone without supervision, they are just playful children. Once in Seoul the conductor is accidentally trapped in the elevator, and the boys are left alone.

Chopper

Chopper

  • Lars Damoiseaux
  • The Netherlands, 2012
  • 2 min.

A frog eats a grasshopper, a stork eats the frog, a crocodile eats the stork and the crocodile ends up as a pair of boots which a biker is wearing when a grasshopper flies into his face…

Freedom for Jafar Panahi: Cage

Freedom for Jafar Panahi: Cage

  • Pierre Hébert
  • Canada, 2012

When a filmmaker is imprisoned, how many others find themselves behind bars?

Freedom for Jafar Panahi, and all imprisoned Iranian filmmakers.

Ransom

Ransom

  • Dustin Rees
  • Switzerland, 2012

even bandits have demands that need to be met

Red Colored Bridge

Red Colored Bridge

  • Keiichi Tanaami
  • Japan, 2012
  • 5 min.

The bridge as the channel between worlds: between the living and the dead, between male and female, between sacred and profane.

The Conference or Shooting for the Moon

The Conference or Shooting for the Moon

  • Franz Winzentsen
  • Germany, 2012
  • 6 min.

Handbrushes, collected from the rubble in the ruins of a former ship`s Propeller factory, have grown beaks. In a conference they connect the built-in obsolescence and the belief in economic progress with the moon.

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The Decoy

The Decoy

  • Oswald Verhaak
  • The Netherlands, 2012
  • 3 min.

A decoy takes revenge on a duck-hunter.
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Tram

Tram

  • Michaela Pavlátová
  • France / Czech Republic, 2012
  • 8 min.

It’s the humdrum daily routine for Tram’s conductress. As every morning, men get on the tram to go to work, one after another, all similar, quiet, grey, apathetic. And yet, on that day, following the jolts and the road’s vibrations, to the rhythm of the tickets inserted in the ticket-stamping machine, the conductress gets turned on and the vehicle gets erotic. The tram conductress’ desire turns the reality into a surrealistic and phallic fantasy. She then takes a ride on the passengers’ giant and blushing penises. Music maestro !

Tunnel

Tunnel

  • Maryam Kashkoolinia
  • Iran, 2012
  • 7 min.

A man travels the strange way to bring a sheep…