Competition Shorts 4

75 minutes
Competition Shorts 4

The shorts competition distinguishes between narrative and non-narrative films. From 930 entries, 38 were selected (27 narrative and 11 non-narrative). The winners in both categories receive the Dioraphte Grand Prix HAFF and a cash prize of € 2,500, made available by the Dioraphte Foundation. The winners of this competition will be invited as guest curators to compile a carte blanche programme for the next festival. The jury members of the shorts competition are Alexey Alexeev (filmmaker, Hungary), Isabelle Favez (filmmaker, Switzerland), Osbert Parker (United Kingdom, filmmaker), Fons Schiedon (filmmaker, Netherlands), Han Schuil (visual artist, Netherlands).

This program screened as part of HAFF 2009

Showing in this program

I Am So Proud of You

I Am So Proud of You

  • Don Hertzfeldt
  • United States, 2008
  • 22 min.

Dark family secrets cast a shadow over Bill's recovery, in this second chapter to "Everything will be OK."

Red-end and the Seemingly Symbiotic Society

Red-end and the Seemingly Symbiotic Society

  • Robin Noorda / Bethany de Forest
  • The Netherlands, 2009
  • 15 min.

Ants gather sugar cubes in an icy marl cave in order to build a big palace. This turns out to be a nursery to cultivate larvae, bizarre, marching gluttons. 

Skhizein

Skhizein

  • Jérémy Clapin
  • France, 2008
  • 13 min.

Having been struck by a 150-ton meteorite, Henry has to adapt to living precisely ninety-one centimeters from himself.

Sunday Drive

Sunday Drive

  • José Miguel Ribeiro
  • Belgium / Portugal / The Netherlands, 2009
  • 20 min.

Can you keep a secret?... This Sunday will be different. We will not get into the car. Mom and dad will not argue and we will play on a garden of gigantic cabbages.

Wings and Oars

Wings and Oars

  • Vladimir Leschiov
  • Latvia, 2009
  • 5 min.

A former pilot looks back over his life - The Earth, the Sky, the Woman - everything that took place on the journey from an air strip to an abandoned boat house.