Competition Student Films 4

65 minutes
Competition Student Films 4

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

Dust Buddies

Dust Buddies

  • Beth Tomashek / Sam Wade
  • United States, 2016
  • 4 min.

Dust Biddies is a story about the friendship between two dust bunnies, Fuzz and Lint, who live peacefully under a couch. When an evil maid comes to clean the house and sucks Fuzz into her vacuum, Lint must overcome his fears and set out to rescue his friend.
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ego

ego

  • PeiHsin Cho
  • Taiwan, 2016
  • 4 min.

People would recall what they've experienced in some ways.
They find out their changes like losing a little hair when brushing hair, which is no more natural.
They wouldn't feel the pain, but they know that part of themselves leave away.

Fault Lines

Fault Lines

  • Mandy Wong
  • United States, 2016
  • 3 min.

I only see in neon

Frostbite

Frostbite

  • Jasper J de Vries
  • The Netherlands, 2016
  • 4 min.

A scavenger looking for valuables in a crashed freight spaceship, finds a small creature. The mother of the creature tries to get his child back in a thrilling chase but fails. The scavenger leaves the planet successfully, not knowing the small creature grew in the back of his plane.
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Immersion

Immersion

  • Lalita Brunner
  • Switzerland, 2016
  • 3 min.

Indoor pools are both fascinating and stressfull. Tommy finds his peace as soon as he accepts his sweaty condition and immerses in it. He is gliding through the sweaty water – which comes as a surprise. In contrasting colours, sophisticated split screens and geometric plays of forms the design language allows to delve deep into Tommy’s phys

Last Judgment

Last Judgment

  • Junyi Xiao
  • United States, 2016
  • 2 min.


50 years ago, the Culture Revolution took place in China. This short story happened on that special time period, but can be more than that…

Opia

Opia

  • Shanta Jethoe
  • The Netherlands, 2016
  • 5 min.

An inquisitive, little girl sets out to buy herself some ice cream. She then finds herself in an encounter with the neighbourhood children, who seem to question her presence.

Poilus

Poilus

  • Guillaume Auberval / Léa Dozoul / Simon Gomez / Timothé Hek / Hugo Lagrange / Antoine Laroye / David Lashcari
  • France, 2016
  • 4 min.

In the French trenches, calm reigns. The "Poilus" are waiting to leave for the battlefield. Among them, Ferdinand, a young hare, is playing the harmonica. A whistling signal is given, the attack begins. It's on the no man's land that he first encounters his enemy, a horrible creature.

Starting Over

Starting Over

  • Mika Seike
  • Japan, 2016
  • 8 min.

You fall dawn every time before reaching your goal. At each fall, the glass you held in your hand brakes, then everything start again from the start. But there are things one can only discover through repetition. The answer lies within yourself.

Summer’s Puke is  Winter’s Delight

Summer’s Puke is Winter’s Delight

  • Sawako Kabuki
  • Japan, 2016
  • 3 min.

Painful events become memories over time. Still, we vomit and eat again. Life is Eco.

The Last Room

The Last Room

  • Marta Chyła-Janicka
  • Poland, 2016
  • 5 min.

Marriage is selling the apartment. A woman comes to them; she is not only interested in buying...

The Waves

The Waves

  • Oscar Lewis
  • United Kingdom, 2016
  • 4 min.

The Waves is a short animated film inspired by an artist, who after returning home from hospital having suffered a mental breakdown, attempts to describe the thoughts that wash over him as he returns to work.
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Until Dawn

Until Dawn

  • Kaylee SooHyun Lee
  • United States / South Korea, 2016
  • 4 min.

A woman relives the horror of her lover's death until she is awoke by the stark reality of passing time.

Water Marks

Water Marks

  • Meshy Koplevitch
  • Israel, 2016
  • 3 min.

The movie brings forth a personal childhood memory in the north of the country.
Bomb shelters and rocket thunder blend with the flow of the Dan river.