Competition Student Films 5

75 minutes
Competition Student Films 5

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

Decipere

Decipere

  • Yue Wang / Gonçalo Encarnação / Bruno Santos
  • Portugal, 2015
  • 2 min.

Inspired by John Cage pieces that broke the conventional rules of music, and texts Gi Negrão that attach to the line movements and unusual dimensions .
« Decipere » , from Latin deceive, mislead .
Explores the initial impression created by the line , breaking the apparent linearity , showing their potential with the emergence of forms of different dimensions.

Deep Space

Deep Space

  • Bruno Tondeur
  • Belgium, 2015
  • 7 min.

Brandon is given his first intergalactic mission: finding a new intelligent species. For months he will live a strange experience on a planet with surprising customs. Mentally and physically, the astronaut will have to resist with all his heart.

Gemoed

Gemoed

  • Jeroen Hoogaars
  • The Netherlands, 2014
  • 2 min.

Een visueel spel tussen de hedendaagse prikkels van natuur, geluid en het menselijk lichaam. Dit verbeeld in verschillende Animatie, Film en motion technieken.
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Hat Theory

Hat Theory

  • Asya Strelbitskaya
  • Russia, 2014
  • 3 min.

It is the story of confrontation between society and a man in a hat, who keeps wearing it no matter what.

I Saw,  One Time,  a Magnificent Image.

I Saw, One Time, a Magnificent Image.

  • Sheng-Wen Hsiao
  • Taiwan, 2014
  • 2 min.

Each of these three animals has its own unique vision system:compound eyes, motion capture and fish eye; these systems happen to be a food chain. For living animals, the moment of being eaten may be the most magnificent image, seen once only in the whole life.
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Mrs.KABAGOdZILLA

Mrs.KABAGOdZILLA

  • Moe Koyano
  • Japan, 2014
  • 9 min.

Synopsis
”Mrs. KABAGodZILLA had a daughter whose arms and legs were the spitting image of her own.” Mother and daughter were always together, but the mother's hospitalization makes the daughter remember the past, and think a little about what lies ahead.

Concept
Animation film that is based on the author of real experience.
To express the scattered memory using the afterimage of tracing paper.

Oak

Oak

  • Jeroen Ceulebrouck
  • Belgium, 2014
  • 6 min.

A lonesome woodcutter living a peaceful life in the woods. Although something seems to be a little
off. A strange obsession seems to control his everyday life.

One Turtle

One Turtle

  • Anna Romanova
  • Russia, 2014
  • 5 min.

Sometimes people around are so annoying. Questions, jeremiads, fumbles, chatters… You want to escape to the place where nobody is present. But what if you aren’t present when you are absolutely alone.

Paradise

Paradise

  • Laura Vandewynckel
  • Belgium, 2014
  • 5 min.

Op zoek naar de beste plek op aarde steken mensen de oceaan over. Hoewel hun paden kruisen, lijken ze elkaar nooit te ontmoeten.
Paradise is the story of people heading for a better place on either side of the ocean. Although at times their paths do cross, they never really seem to meet.

Small People with Hats

Small People with Hats

  • Sarina Nihei
  • United Kingdom, 2014
  • 6 min.

There are small people wearing hats in the society.

Tadaima

Tadaima

  • Jonathan Wüst
  • Switzerland, 2014
  • 4 min.

One evening on arriving home from work Akio's lonely external reality encounters his inner world, one that is filled with people and rich memories. The walls dissolve and longed for peace seems attainable.

The Crown of Truth

The Crown of Truth

  • Senne Hartland
  • The Netherlands, 2014
  • 6 min.

'the Crown of Truth' is the tale of a mouse called Richard. He tries to discover the truth behind his existence by looking for the titular crown inside a haunted mansion.
The film deals with subjects such as fear, the truth and becoming a real person.
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Tubed

Tubed

  • Elisabeth Rädler / Johanna Pedarnig / David Schröter
  • Germany, 2014
  • 2 min.

What if tubes were connected to our heads that had an imperceptible influence to us?
What if we would really seek for something, but already have given up our self-determination?
This is not a lovestory.
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Way Back to the Sea

Way Back to the Sea

  • Kaori Iwase
  • Japan, 2014
  • 9 min.

The catfish can't return to the sea. A big catfish is stuck on a riverbank, where he lives quietly with a little catfish in a boat packed with memories from back home.
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