Competition Student Films 3

70 minutes
Competition Student Films 3

The international competition for short student films is open for student films all over the world with a maximum length of 60 minutes. Graduation films as well as films from other years’ courses can be submitted. A Grand Prize will be appointed to the best student film. For this first international edition of the competition for student films, 65 films have been selected.

This program screened as part of Haff 2015

Showing in this program

Adaptation

Adaptation

  • Alan Canepa
  • Switzerland, 2014
  • 2 min.

A surprising journey through a strange forest.

Damn Those Crows

Damn Those Crows

  • Rotem Hermoni / Shay Blumenkranz / Inbal Grossman / Roy Tsour
  • Israel, 2014
  • 5 min.

An ancient ceremony is taking place at a ghost town in the middle of the desert.
Human indifference leads to the end of what naturally grows.

Eiskarl

Eiskarl

  • Manuela Molin / Nicolas Steiner
  • Germany / Switzerland, 2014
  • 9 min.

Eiskarl lives alone in his icy workshop. One day he unexpectedly discoveres a portal to a hidden world, where he meets a strange fellow. The first unwanted guest helps him into a friendship, but will Eiskarl accept it?

Follow Through

Follow Through

  • Liz el Saadany
  • The Netherlands, 2014
  • 5 min.

Two characters perform an everlasting dance, in which leadership and trust confront each other. Abstracted ego-document.

"Follow Through" references to finishing a movement (animation term) and to the English meaning of the word, to follow through with what one has started.

Magneticman

Magneticman

  • Adam Żądło
  • Poland, 2014
  • 3 min.

The world, which aim is keeping balance.
The place, where everything attract or repels everything else.
Even people.

MAGNETICMAN is a story about humans and principles controlling unlike world. Place dominated by the attractive force - similar to „our” magnetism. The world have one target - keeping balance. Magnetic people make it with their bodies.

Protocol

Protocol

  • Rodrigo Hernandez
  • Mexico, 2013
  • 15 min.

In the future cloning machines known as “Multipliers” were forbidden and abandoned still operating. They still create clones inside them, in an infinite loop that is perpetuated by their security protocol.
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Squids Are Part Alien

Squids Are Part Alien

  • Yingqi Wang
  • United Kingdom, 2014
  • 7 min.

This film is a narrative about the process of my two characters - Jude (a pink bunny) and Momo (a blue man) who meet each other and become friends. They both have super power, but their power is either useless or just harmful to themselves.
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Tenderfoot

Tenderfoot

  • Jessica Ashman
  • United Kingdom, 2014
  • 5 min.

Toni is lost in a sprawling metropolis, haunted by the shadow of her onset maturity
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The Counter

The Counter

  • Joseph Farahi
  • The Netherlands, 2014
  • 2 min.

' The Counter ' is the title of my graduation-animation. In this short demonstration i have tried to illustrate my perception of the ' Time Layers ' and share my view with other people interested in this subject.

The Shipping Forecast

The Shipping Forecast

  • David Blanche / Sarah Deane
  • United Kingdom, 2014
  • 4 min.

A story which follows the lives of Tomas and Alis: a retired couple in a small British coastal town dealing with the harsh realities of Dementia.

Tonight’s the Night

Tonight’s the Night

  • Franz Kirchner
  • France, 2014
  • 3 min.

Married to an alcoholic cosmonaut, fat and hairy, Tzutza is a star who wakes up every day to shine!
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It won't be possible to give the rights to show the film for HAFF winners on tours screenings.
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Unterwegs

Unterwegs

  • Meng Chang
  • Germany, 2014
  • 3 min.

Consider this animation a portrait film of myself, an individual viewpoint. The title is “Unterwegs”-it’s not the recording of a linear trip but more like a self confession. It can be also said, it presents my current life status, how did I think about feelings, views, and value.