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.

«Before Love» questions solitude, misunderstanding and disunity in our life. The title suggests that everything happening to the characters is not a true love yet. Human shortcomings tie the dramatic knot of the story. Everybody finds his way to be unhappy. Everybody is looking for love.

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.