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

69SEC

69SEC

  • Nicolas Laura
  • Belgium, 2016

This is a love story seen from a square.

A Narrative Film

A Narrative Film

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

The most narrative narrative never narrated. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end…. It is at once both a three-act assault on the conceit of the traditional narrative, and also perhaps, a futile attempt to escape the narrative impulse of cinema.
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After a While

After a While

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

De vindingrijke beer probeert te overleven door zich aan te passen aan zijn veranderende omgeving. Hij maakt een reis waarin hij elementen in zijn omgeving tegen komt die hem vragen te veranderen. Het leven vraagt om flexibiliteit en het zoeken naar oplossingen. De elementen die de beer vragen te veranderen zijn: temperatuur, kleur,materiaal en vorm.

Auto

Auto

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

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

Batfish Soup

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

A rural family welcomes estranged guests for an afternoon visit.

Home Sweet Home

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. But is she as nice as she looks?

Hypochristmutreefuzz: Gums Smile Blood

Hypochristmutreefuzz: Gums Smile Blood

  • Rik Chaubet
  • Belgium, 2016
  • 3 min.

Een caleidoscopische tocht doorheen het leven van een misvormd performer in het verlengde van het 'zunk' (Zappa meets punk)-nummer.
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Digital file is an WeTransfer-link and wil stop being available on November 7.
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Ink Meets Blank

Ink Meets Blank

  • Tymon Albrzykowski
  • Poland, 2016
  • 5 min.

The movie is black and white, rythmic 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 Missi

Mooi Missi

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

A poetic portrait about how Beyong , 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 woman she is today.

Backstory:
This portrait was made as an apology to my nephew. He was openly discriminated against by the family when he shared with us his sexual orientation.

Once Upon a Line

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.

Pigeon

Pigeon

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

'The difference between life and death is huge, but the line between them is thin.' - Tadashi Kawashima

Explore the absurdity and frailty of life and death as a stereotypical pigeon in a stereotypical town. Coo, Peck, Poo, as the sanity of those around you continues to fall apart.
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The Client

The Client

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

A man stays in a hotel to pass a job interview.
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