Competition Student Films 1

75 minutes
Competition Student Films 1

The selection for the international competition student films counts 73 films.

This program screened as part of Haff 2016

Showing in this program

Chhaya

Chhaya

  • Debanjan Nandy
  • United Kingdom, 2015
  • 10 min.

An old man trapped in a mundane senior center living by the memory of his beloved wife as his own shadow. But as his past sets in threatening his present, Prakash finds himself before a difficult decision: a mesmerizing but, unreal dream or life itself?

Edmond

Edmond

  • Nina Gantz
  • United Kingdom, 2015
  • 9 min.

Edmond's impulse to love and be close to others is strong... Maybe too strong. As he stands alone by a lake contemplating his options, he goes on a journey backwards through his life, and revisits all his defining moments in search for the origin of his desires.

Frankfurter Str. 99a

Frankfurter Str. 99a

  • Evgenia Gostrer
  • Germany, 2016
  • 5 min.

A garbage man on his daily routine. A cat on her stray throught the streets. A meeting during the lunch break.

Gentlemen

Gentlemen

  • Fei Li
  • China, 2015
  • 5 min.

The film displayed a dream of my friend. I presented his dream as a 'narrator', but neither of us knew whose dream it was. When we came back to reality, the excrement of the dream was just like all the abandoned pictures, together thrown into the toilet with the food we grabbed in the dream. In fact, each person's heart is accompanied by the shadow of others, who are we? There may be an answer, and there may not.
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I Only Know What I Know Now

I Only Know What I Know Now

  • Joke van den Hof
  • Belgium, 2015
  • 4 min.

Ik weet dat de afwas nog steeds niet gedaan is en ik weet dat ik daar nu geen zin in heb.

I know the dishes aren't done yet and I know I don't feel like doing them right now.?
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I Wanna Be Your Friend

I Wanna Be Your Friend

  • Iku Ogawa
  • Japan, 2015
  • 4 min.

For friendship it is the most important to be cooperative.

I’m Good With Plants

I’m Good With Plants

  • Thomas Harnett O'Meara
  • United Kingdom, 2015
  • 8 min.

Tim lives in a greenhouse suspended by a crane above the city. He has two wishes in life; to steal the office plant next to the water cooler at work and meet Francesca, the hot line operator he calls each day from a phone box in the street.
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Ivan’s Need

Ivan’s Need

  • Veronica L. Montaño Lingg / Lukas Suter / Manuela Leuenberger
  • Switzerland, 2015
  • 6 min.

A baker has an obsession for kneeding dough.

Lineage

Lineage

  • Olga van den Brandt
  • The Netherlands, 2015
  • 3 min.

In a world where people are build out of wires everybody is connected to the ones they love. A young child gets stuck when his parents move in apart.

Trapped

Trapped

  • Theresa Grysczok / Florian Maubach
  • Germany, 2015
  • 5 min.

'Trapped' is a five minute long stop motion film ab
out the journey of a man traveling
through several different rooms. There, he meets th
e inhabitants of the rooms who,
due to their originalities and quirks, hinder him f
rom getting any further. Eventually
the protagonist finds his own way to continue on hi
s journey.
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What They Believe

What They Believe

  • Shoko Hara
  • Germany, 2016
  • 10 min.

The events portrayed in this movie are a collage of actual occurrences. Anecdotes of ambiguous love and truth. They assemble a world, where evangelical fanaticism has become an everyday insanity.

Wolf games

Wolf games

  • Jelena Oroz
  • Croatia, 2015
  • 4 min.

Three little wolves are spending late afternoon together. Story reveals how they ended up alone.