Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films

A captivating, dynamic mix of animation, news footage and music, ranging from real-world images of terrible violence to nearly abstract scenes of hallucinogenic beauty.

Dutch artist Tim Leyendekker's fresh 16mm film gives us nouns, dry facts and retina-scouring light whilst resisting telling us what to do with these things.

The history of decolonisation and political turmoil provides the background to a hallucinatory tour of today's Morocco where a new wave of resistance is emerging.

Equal parts documentary, ethnography and dream cinema, Ben Russell presents the third part in a trilogy examining the ecstatic limits of utopia in the present. See also Atlantis in compilation programme Arcadian Field Notes.

Visual, musical tour of eccentric funerary traditions and rites in Southern Vietnam. Loss and joy meet on the threshold of life and death.

A compelling mix of attraction and repulsion, Mainsqueeze is entirely composed of footage found online, surfing the deep web.

A mysterious and melancholic take on our fate as mortal beings, the film contemplates the details lost in the construction of history and memory.

Abstract video ingeniously captures and controls the viewer's gaze. From staring to toying with focus and depth. Breathtaking visual experience.

Study into the hallucinatory ayahuasca plant's healing power for modern man. On the limits of Western medicine, love, feminism and eco-consciousness.

Modernism's breath of fresh air is no more than a spirit from the recent past in the declining world of Our Body. Can it be re-awakened with a purification ritual?

T. Marie continues her exciting search for the boundaries of cinema and painting with three short time-based, pixel-paintings.

Fear of Wi-Fi and mobile phones can take over your life if you are electromagnetically sensitive. Exceptionally depicted search for a radiation-free place.

The 2014 Turner Prize nominated artist James Richards’ video is a looping, fizzing and sensually apocalyptic study of the elements.

Nina Yuen raises the question of whether you can approach and comprehend the world in a purely rational manner. Does something exist if it cannot be quantified?

Intensely musical film about the spiritual anchorages of life in and around Miami. Drenched in the heat, spirit and landscape of Southern Florida.

A four seasons' fable, we see a kaleidoscope of magic and uncertainty in Things, incredibly Ben Rivers' fifteenth film at IFFR since his 2007 debut.

A film about the melancholy of reconstruction. The story of the filmmaker's mother told in an unexpected, compassionate and visually inventive way.

Fascinating study into the life's work of an anonymous artist with an archive of abstract drawings; scores to his nightly walks. See also This Place Is Every Place in compilation programme Somewhere, Sometime.

In the rainforest Papuans build a traditional sculpture for their deceased family member Omomá. In the meantime, the filmmaker has a business conflict elsewhere.

Spiritual character cares for a tropical rainforest cemetery. Urbanisation stands to end the peace and quiet.