In total 38 narrative and 14 non-narrative films were selected for the Competition Independent Short Films. The jury consisted of Dick Arnall, Peter Chung, Bady Minck, Joost Rekveld and Dennis Tupicoff.

This program screened as part of HAFF 2004

Showing in this program

Harvie Krumpet

• Adam Elliot
• Australia, 2003
• 22 min.

The biography of an ordinary man seemingly cursed with perpetual bad luck.

L’Homme Sans Ombre

• Georges Schwizgebel
• Canada / Switzerland, 2004
• 9 min.

A man makes a pact with a magician and swaps his shadow for riches. He ends up in Bali, in a theatre of shadow puppets, where he discovers the true worth of shadows.

Love is Strange

• Phil Mulloy
• United Kingdom, 2002
• 6 min.

Two magicians entertain the King, Queen and their baby with drawings done with their magic pencil. However, try as he might the bad magician is always outshone by the good magician. Frustrated by this, the bad magician kidnaps the Royal baby and starts a chain of events that cumulate in those involved finding good and love in unlikely places.

The Last Words of Dutch Schultz

• Gerrit van Dijk
• The Netherlands, 2003
• 23 min.

New York, 1935. Notorious gangster Dutch Schultz survives for one day after being shot. Police stenographers sit at his bedside to take down his final words.

The Shredder

• Adriaan Lokman
• The Netherlands, 2002
• 8 min.

About a photogenic metalworks.