Competition Shorts 5

75 minutes
Competition Shorts 5

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

Fibonacci Bread

Fibonacci Bread

  • Danijel Žeželj
  • Croatia, 2012
  • 7 min.

Fibo the baker makes bread and rolls every night, and in the morning, he rides his bicycle through the labyrinth of the city to take them to his customers. During an afternoon nap, a dream reveals to him the geometrical golden rule behind the pattern of his daily routine. This discovery leads to the encounter with the city's secret and most unusual visitor...
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Freedom for Jafar Panahi: Free Women

Freedom for Jafar Panahi: Free Women

  • Francis Desharnais
  • Canada, 2012

A look at depictions of women in Jafar Panahi’s films.

Freedom for Jafar Panahi, and all imprisoned Iranian filmmakers.

Futon

Futon

  • Yoriko Mizushiri
  • Japan, 2012
  • 6 min.

Wrapped in the futon... Memories are coming up to the mind, the future is imagined, senses are recaptured, physical feelings as a woman are deeply ingrained...Everything melts pleasantly all together. In the futon, the body wonders seeking for these sense...

Lay Bare

Lay Bare

  • Paul Bush
  • United Kingdom, 2012
  • 6 min.

A composite portrait of the human body assembled from details captured by close-up photography of over five hundred men and women of all ages and from all over the world. The surface of the human body is revealed as it is rarely seen except in the most intimate relationships we have with our family or our lovers; a portrait of the body that is both sexy and tender, elegant and witty.

Lonely Bones

Lonely Bones

  • Rosto
  • France / The Netherlands, 2013
  • 10 min.

A short hallucinative film about making dreams and making sacrifice. "Hail! To all the souls-OHiding on rotting floors. Little did they know that they would make today."

Mud Crab

Mud Crab

  • Sheldon Lieberman / Igor Coric
  • Australia, 2012
  • 4 min.

Spike has just caught his first mud crab. Now he and Dadda have to remove it from the crab pot without losing a finger.

Paula

Paula

  • Dominic-Étienne Simard
  • Canada, 2012
  • 10 min.

A child and a prostitute share the same stretch of sidewalk in a working-class neighbourhood. The child is busy playing when he witnesses an act of violence and finds himself plunged into the reality of the prostitute's world. Inspired by a news item, filmmaker Dominic Etienne Simard has created Paula , a short animation at the intersection of love and money, games and violence, prejudice and lack of understanding.
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Phobias of Guardrail

Phobias of Guardrail

  • Marco Capellacci
  • Italy, 2012
  • 5 min.

The story deals with the mimesis without filters of one child's mental escapes. The characters, cryptic and absorbed, lean out over the guardrail, metaphoric representation of the interior universe of the child.The images reveal his secret, his hidden kingdom of darkness made of screams and sounds.

The Event

The Event

  • Julia Pott
  • United Kingdom, 2012
  • 3 min.

Love and a severed foot at the end of the world

Villa Antropoff

Villa Antropoff

  • Vladimir Leschiov / Kaspar Jancis
  • Latvia / Estonia, 2012
  • 13 min.

A man has nothing to lose except his dream. To make his dream come true the man embarks on a dangerous journey. But his destination is not what it seems.

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  • Juan Camilo González
  • Colombia / United States, 2011
  • 5 min.

The never-ceasing repetition of polite gestures. A micro-universe is created in 4 sets of 11 pieces of paper with hand drawn animated cycles.
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