Shorts for 8+

60 minutes
Shorts for 8+

Recent international gems especially selected for 8+.

This program screened as part of Haff 2015

Showing in this program

Air-Mail

Air-Mail

  • Isabelle Favez
  • Switzerland, 2015
  • 6 min.

A girl falls in love with a boxer she can never hope to meet, but the letter-birds will change her destiny forever.
Will the messages in the air make her dreams come true?

Aqua Profonda

Aqua Profonda

  • Nathan Campbell
  • United States, 2014

An encounter with a frog at a swimming pool prompts a young boy to reflect on his life growing up, and his fear of the creatures that lurk under the water.

Block and Piled

Block and Piled

  • Marc Riba / Anna Solanas
  • Spain, 2014
  • 5 min.

Warning! Disaster is coming! Ready for evacuation!

Humble Pie

Humble Pie

  • Cynthia Hogan
  • United States, 2014
  • 3 min.

A fly learns a difficult lesson in the difference between 'want' and 'need'.
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Lune

Lune

  • Toma Leroux / Patrick Delage
  • France, 2014
  • 6 min.

At night, a sleepy town, a deserted kitchen, a microwave turns, a bottle's warming up, a hungry baby's babbling. Who's gonna feed her?
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Pik Pik Pik

Pik Pik Pik

  • Dmitry Vysotskiy
  • Russia, 2014
  • 3 min.

There was a tree in the forest. Ants and a birdie are living there. They always fall over one another. But one day a wood-cutter comes to cut their own tree.

The Elephant and the Bicycle

The Elephant and the Bicycle

  • Olesya Shchukina
  • France / Belgium, 2014
  • 9 min.

An elephant lives in a town among people and works as a street cleaner. One day, he sees a big billboard advertising a bicycle. It seems the perfect size for him! This is the minute the elephant's life changes: he has to get this bicycle whatever it costs him.

The Little Bird and the Squirrel

The Little Bird and the Squirrel

  • Lena von Döhren
  • Switzerland, 2014
  • 4 min.

Its autumn. At the end of a branch hangs a red leaf. A little black bird comes along to water it. Suddenly a squirrel nicks the birds bright green watering can. The bird follows the cheeky thief: This is the start of an exciting chase through the forest.
But behind the trees the fiery red fox is already waiting for his chance.

The Mitten

The Mitten

  • Clémentine Robach
  • France / Belgium, 2014
  • 8 min.

It is snowing. Lily and her grandfather are making a little bird house to help the birds survive over the winter. 'But where do the other animals in the garden find shelter in winter?' wonders the little girl. So she puts one of her mittens at the foot of the tree where they have fastened the bird house.
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Two Friends

Two Friends

  • Natalia Chernysheva
  • France, 2014
  • 4 min.

Two friends, from two different worlds…

Utoe

Utoe

  • David Buob
  • Germany, 2014
  • 7 min.

On Utoe, the most southern inhabited island of Finland, an uncommon love triangle is taking place. Where is the difference between dance moves out of joy and wild movements out of rage?