Adam
In the beginning… She created us. Organic clay animation about the dawn of Creation.
Competition Student Films 5
60 minutes
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
Geôlier
The jailer locked his love up because he loved her too much, because he wanted her for himself.
Goats
A group of travelling goats tries to get a free snack.
Knots
Suspenseful nature film in stop motion about a moth.
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Lifeless
A new kind of organism has been born. It is not made up of flesh and blood, but of circuits and wires. Witness the life of this organism unfold as it grows and thrives, until it must inevitably conclude.
LOST
'Lost' tells Margaret Smith's perspective of experiencing her beloved husband develop dementia. A heartbreaking illness for spouses, who have to watch their loved one lose who they are and forget everything they ever knew.
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Luscious
A beautiful woman achieves satisfaction by having a psychedelic, metaphoric, sensual fantasy during dinner.
Machina Mortem
World War I. A soldier marches towards the frontlines, only to face the enemy in an unexpected way.
Missing Pet
A small boy discovers his favourite pet has disappeared. He starts looking for it.
Penelope
The doorbell rings. Someone bangs the door. A woman wakes up. Her house is a mess. She quickly tries to clean up, which only makes things worse. Somewhat surreal drawn animation with cut-outs.
Point No Point
The genius loci, the spirit of the city, fights together with its inhabitants against the city’s imminent destruction.
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Race
An animated short film exploring the issue of intergenerational care featuring an infinite race track as a visual metaphor for the repetitive daily routines of taking care of an elder, much like a race.
The Grey Hound
A woman struggles with her grey hound. Her partner struggles to understand.
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Through My Eyes
A man is tossing and turning in bed. The door seems to open slowly. Suddenly, there is a suitcase in the room. It helps him recover from his psychological problems. What is reality? What are the things he has to face? Stop-motion animation.
Tough
Some things can only be understood with maturity.
New light is shed on childhood cultural misunderstandings when a Chinese mother and her British born daughter speak as adults for the first time.
Tour
A playful and somewhat abstract hand-painted animation with heaps of energy, dedicated to bicycle track racing. Made in honour of ’t Kuipke, a wooden indoor track in Ghent, Belgium, where the 6 days of racing are held since 1922.
Umbrella
In a world where black ink perpetually rains down, people always need an umbrella.
Venus Hum
Eluding the blind guardian, a traveller dives deep into the Venus hum.
