Competition Shorts 3

70 minutes
Competition Shorts 3

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

Casino

Casino

  • Steven Woloshen
  • Canada, 2016
  • 3 min.

A film dedicated to my Father, who gambled with love

Cloacinae

Cloacinae

  • Serge Onnen / Sverre Fredriksen
  • The Netherlands / China, 2016
  • 24 min.
Life Before Life

Life Before Life

  • Rao Heidmets
  • Estonia, 2017
  • 7 min.

The newborn butterfly Bruno flies into the wide world to look for something better, not realizing that he was born at the best place ever. A vicious bush is drawing Bruno like a magnet. And just before landing on a leaf, Bruno is eaten up. Only the wings remain fall from the leaves. Through a mist, they are taken to another world.
Bruno’s adventures in the other world end up with a lecture abou

Nighthawk

Nighthawk

  • Spela Cadez
  • Slovenia / Croatia, 2016
  • 8 min.

A badger lies motionless on a local road. A police patrol approaches the body in the dark. They soon realise that the animal is not dead; the badger is dead drunk! When the police attempt to drag the creature off the road, he wakes up and things take a strange turn.

Our Wonderful Nature – The Common Chameleon

Our Wonderful Nature – The Common Chameleon

  • Tomer Eshed
  • Germany, 2016
  • 3 min.

„The feeding habits of the common cameleon as never seen before“

Panda

Panda

  • Jie Shen
  • China, 2016
  • 3 min.

The soldier wants to make love to the statue of Venus. But first he has to break her leg.

Pearl

Pearl

  • Patrick Osborne
  • United States, 2016
  • 5 min.

Set inside their home, a beloved hatchback, Pearl follows a girl and her dad as they crisscross the country chasing their dreams. It’s a story about the gifts we hand down and their power to carry love. And finding grace in the unlikeliest of places.

The Gap

The Gap

  • Patrick Vandebroeck
  • Belgium / The Netherlands, 2016
  • 14 min.

Man is a cubical shaped figure who rectifies all bumps and humps in order to keep his desolate world flat. His confrontation with a little red ball, that loves to create gigantic holes, messes up his ideal of a perfect straight world.