The Grand Prix winners of the 2009 shorts competition were given carte blanche as curators for the Winners Programmes of the 2010 HAFF. Vergine Keaton (France) won the Grand Prix for non-narrative films with her Je Criais Contre la Vie. Ou Pour Elle. (I Was Crying Out At Life. Or For It.). Johannes Nyholm (Sweden) won the Grand Prix for narrative films with The Tale of Little Puppetboy.

This program screened as part of HAFF 2010

Showing in this program

An Ephemeral Mission

• Piotr Kamler
• France, 1993
• 8 min.

A white sphere descends, seemingly exploring the universe in which it moves. Then it stops and unfolds. From it emerges a entity who, like a magician, animates matter... It finally creates something new: cubes. 

La Jetée

• Chris Marker
• France, 1963
• 29 min.

Earth lies in ruin after a nuclear war. The few surviving humans begin researching time travel.

Prometheus’ Garden

• Bruce Bickford
• United States, 1988
• 28 min.

Clay characters in a frantic struggle for survival, inspired by the Greek myth of Prometheus, who moulded the first mortals from clay.