Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films

Flashing neon transforms a factory corridor into a stunning light and sound sculpture. The workers move silently towards the exit.

Atropa impressively breathes new life into the forgotten world of European shamanism. A trance-inducing film.

Erudite, aesthetic film sonnet; a love letter to 17th-century naturalist Robert Boyle.

A couple try to keep the memory of their son alive by constantly replaying a specific scene with various male escorts.

Exceptional, cinematic take on the amazing world of the modern operating theatre, in which the patient seems to have only a bit part as all eyes are on the monitor.

Two friends doggedly build a mysterious artefact in the forest, the function of which remains unclear until the very end.

A poetic film that rescues British social realist and documentary traditions with Greek gods, some incredible music and shovel-loads of imagination.

Captivatingly filmed, very candid story about a now-ended relationship.

Conceptual film about a murder in the Greystone Mansion in 1929 and exploration of structure in Hollywood films that were actually shot here.

Experimental dance film in which two ex-lovers deal with their relationship's collapse. While the body dances, the heavy heart follows.

We look at a film crew; the film crew is watching us. Cinema as a mirror of reality that becomes fiction. Or is it vice versa?

About a man from a working-class neighbourhood in Rotterdam-Zuid named Janus, a collector of curiosities who has recently died. And about art.

Atmospheric, stately Turkish film about man and nature. And about mourning, something every family member does in their own way.

Last day of official mourning for a child. Mother receives her final visitors: the guilty parties. Masterfully captured in a single shot.

Extraordinary, intriguing and unconventional portrait of art historian and professor B.N. Goswamy.

Key, romantic work in Van der Werve's oeuvre for which he himself composed the requiem, in d-e-a-d.

A dank post-apocalyptic landscape reminiscent of Tarkovsky’s 'Zone'. Amnesia’s impossible, the past inescapable and attempts at decontamination futile.

Runner Ashprihanal during the ultimate endurance test, The Six Day Run. Also at the festival, two installations by Taanila and a Short Profile compilation.

Caught between his brother's past and his child's future, one man's choice triggers catastrophe for his whole family.

‘The tiger fights the mind that loves the circle that traps the tiger.’ Cardew’s score informs this abstract, collaborative and prodigious crime thriller.

Last part of the Plot Point Trilogy by Nicolas Provost with the Japanese capital Tokyo and its inhabitants as the leads.

Set on a construction site in Shenzhen, China's first Special Economic Zone, where a new stock exchange designed by Rem Koolhaas is being built.