Competition Student Films 2

60 minutes
Competition Student Films 2

The 69 films in the competition for student films show craftsmanship and fireworks in a whole range of techniques and daring stories.

This program screened as part of HAFF 2017

Showing in this program

69SECstudents

69SEC

  • Nicolas Laura
  • Belgium, 2016

This animated short is about a couple, intertwined in a puzzle like manner.

A Narrative Filmstudents

A Narrative Film

  • Michael Edwards
  • United States, 2016
  • 7 min.

Graphic black-and-white examination of stories. By its own account the most narrative narrative never narrated.

After a Whilestudents

After a While

  • Lise Custers
  • The Netherlands, 2016
  • 3 min.

The resourceful bear is trying to survive by adapting to its changing environment. He makes a journey in which he comes across elements in his environment that ask to change him. Life requires flexibility and the search for solutions. The elements that ask to change the bear are: temperature, color, material and shape.

Autostudents

Auto

  • Conner Griffith
  • United States, 2016
  • 6 min.

Cars dance on highways, crowds of people wash across sidewalk shores. 

Batfish Soupstudents

Batfish Soup

  • Amanda Bonaiuto
  • United States, 2016
  • 4 min.

Wacky relatives give way to mounting tensions with broken dolls, boiling stew and a bang. 

Home Sweet Homestudents

Home Sweet Home

  • Evelyne du Bois
  • The Netherlands, 2016

This short movie is about a cute lady who loves to bake the most delicious cakes, pies and sweets.

Hypochristmutreefuzz: Gums Smile Bloodstudents

Hypochristmutreefuzz: Gums Smile Blood

  • Rik Chaubet
  • Belgium, 2016
  • 3 min.

Kaleidoscopic trip through life by a disfigured performer, as an extension of the Zappa meets punk song.

Ink Meets Blankstudents

Ink Meets Blank

  • Tymon Albrzykowski
  • Poland, 2016
  • 5 min.

Black-and-white rhythmic metamorphosis of abstract geometric forms. Its dramaturgy is built by pure form and evocative music. It has been fully implemented cameraless, directly on a 35mm film tape.

Mooi Missistudents

Mooi Missi

  • Diego Nurse
  • Belgium / The Netherlands, 2016
  • 8 min.

A poetic portrait about how Petra, a 30-year-old transgender who was forced to suppress her true self growing up, gives in to her subconsciousness and starts her transformation to the beautiful woman she is today. This film was made as an apology to the director's nephew who was openly discriminated against by the family when he shared his sexual orientation.

Once Upon a Linestudents

Once Upon a Line

  • Alicja Jasina
  • United States, 2016
  • 7 min.

A man leads a boring life until he falls in love. Things get out of control, but at the end the protagonist discovers that there are other ways of living and that the world is full of color and hope.

Pigeonstudents

Pigeon

  • Julie Kim
  • United States, 2016
  • 2 min.

Exploration of the absurdity and frailty of life and death through a stereotypical pigeon in a stereotypical town. 

The Clientstudents

The Client

  • Clément Thoby / Augustin Guichot
  • France, 2016
  • 8 min.

One rainy night, a man arrives at a hotel where he will have a job interview the next day. Cheerful horror film.