The 69 films in the competition for student films show craftsmanship and fireworks in a whole range of techniques and daring stories.
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Birdcage-girl goes to the forest to pick up some berries. Then she meet with the beasty cat... It is allegoric poetry, based on a true story, to show the bitter fairness between feminine purity and masculine eagerness.
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When all life is drained and vacuumed, all that’s left is sand. For a very long time, I was sand and I was drowned.
An exhausted girl travels across an endless desert to look for new hope, while trying to deal with her erratic tempered anteater.
After an alcohol fuelled night, Lou and his friend Herbals accidentally boil two pet terrapins in a bathtub, Lou is then driven to help the wounded terrapin and take it to a vet. Yet finding a vet becomes harder than imagined.
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A young man walks through the city streets to visit his sick grandfather. On his way, everything around him seems meaningless. Sitting next to his grandfather’s bed, he reflects on fragments of memories they shared, in a last attempt to hold on to his image.
Don’t Think of a Pink Elephant enters the world of a teenage girl fighting daily against compulsive thoughts and urges. Layla is terrified by her potential to do harm. Left at home to look after her little brother one day, things spiral out of control, and Layla is forced to confront her darkest fears.
A person tries to enjoy his euphoric coffee moment, but the progression of time makes it impossible for him to remain resided in bliss.
A foreign body lives its own life. You're not able to get rid of it, it's always with you, you need it. Caress that odd part of yours, don't try to shave its long tousled fur. This is a story about something that's considered to be strange at first but turns out to be the dearest thing to us. About the transformation of inside and outside.
Near the land is a small island connected by a long and narrow lane. There is a light keeper living alone in a tall light house. However, something changes when the festival comes…
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An abstract exploration of the meat industry.
An animated visual audio book, consisting out of three parts. The film’s different parts focus on an imaginary city, with its own rhythm and structure. It examines, from three different points of view, the impact the surroundings and the community have on its residents.
The story is an allegory to current social matters such as immigration, expatriatism, and the hectic pace of modern big cities. It raises questions on integration and how places influence us. It emphasizes the feelings involved in adapting to a new place.
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The Dutch word for ‘renovation’ sounds suspiciously similar to the Dutch word for ‘destruction’. A small, tranquil city is suddenly invaded by these ‘renovators’. Some eggs (and buildings) have to be dropped, but it’s all for a good cause. (we hope.)
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