Competition Shorts 4

75 minutes
Competition Shorts 4

For the international competition shorts 53 films have been selected, with no less than 25 non-narrative productions.

This program screened as part of Haff 2016

Showing in this program

All Rot

All Rot

  • Max Hattler
  • United Kingdom / Hong Kong / Germany, 2015
  • 4 min.

Responding to the compositional and aesthetic qualities of abstract expressionism and cameraless animation, All Rot uses photographic reanimation to render the mundane environment of a decaying crazy golf course into a rapturous split-screen experiment in synaesthetic cinema.

Before Love

Before Love

  • Igor Kovalyov
  • Russia, 2015
  • 19 min.

Melancholy and tender reflections on solitude and misunderstandings, with a profusion of graphic detail. Human shortcomings tie the dramatic knot of the story. Everybody finds his way to be unhappy. Everybody is looking for love. Grand Prix HAFF 2016 narrative short.

Bird Flu

Bird Flu

  • Hefang Wei / Priit Tender
  • Estonia, 2016
  • 9 min.

Story about a man and a snake, an alcoholized penguin and the disappearance of birds. Story about an apple tree and apples, about roots and rootlessness. Story about a paradise and about the expel from it.

Black

Black

  • Tomasz Popakul
  • Poland / Japan, 2016
  • 14 min.

Story of "Black" is about pair of astronauts trapped on orbital space station because of nuclear war that ran very fast on the earth below.

Followers

Followers

  • Gints Zilbalodis
  • Latvia, 2014
  • 7 min.

A man escapes from prison and meets a boy who has run away from school.
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If I Was God

If I Was God

  • Cordell Barker
  • Canada, 2015
  • 8 min.
Little Girl

Little Girl

  • Steven Subotnick
  • United States, 2016
  • 3 min.

a little girl rides her bike

Moving Elements

Moving Elements

  • Marko Tadić
  • Croatia, 2016
  • 6 min.

The film speaks about the creative processes which are leading to creation of works of art. We follow a car that goes through the stages of the artistic process, and it becames a part of works of art, but also a player in the abstract processes of creation.
The film was conceived as a tribute to authors and films of the golden age of the Zagreb School of Animation, and partly uses a visual langua

The Great Machine

The Great Machine

  • Luc Chamberland
  • Canada, 2015
  • 4 min.