Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films

A breathtaking quest for the dream the imposing city of Brasilia was based on, a marked contrast with the chaos of the adjacent construction workers' village.

Absurdism, cultural references and a great soundtrack are the ingredients of this contemplation of our experience and understanding of reality.

A documentary-style detective with anonymous testimony about Andre, who proves more than just a brilliant crook. Clichés scrutinised with humour.

Shadow presences gradually emerge in Japanese filmmaker Makino Takashi’s abstract cinema composed of layers upon layers of natural imagery that awaken the senses.

A tough journey with a Bedouin group across the Sinai Peninsula, far from habitation. Everything seems to take place outside political and historical frameworks.

An exacting sculpture of a middle-aged white man is hammered out in a studio. Voices bring him to life, but who is he really?

Musical ode to the late 20th century with found film excerpts, ads and pop music, full of memories and experiences from Mark Leckey’s life.

Years later, a woman decides to confront the man who abused her as a child with what he has done to her. Ultimately, her son finishes the job.

Accompanied by an extraordinary improvisational score, Engram of Returning is an epic 35mm metaphysical travelogue that reveals a supernal world which pulses and flickers with formal patterns and deep hues.

Broersen & Lukács recreated the landscapes of New Zealand as confiscated by the entertainment industry to establish it as a new Land of Eden.

False Start observes the elaborate fossil industry in Morocco and is a sly meditation on authenticity and a paean to the creativity of the 'preparators'.

In Vietnamese artist Thi Nguyen’s tranquil essay film, a letter exchange unveils the changing uses of space in various provinces and the different ways its inhabitants remember history.

Night Soil - Economy of Love portrays a Brooklyn-based movement of female sex workers who regard their work as a way for women to reclaim power in a male-dominated pleasure zone.

A sensationally colourful nighttime drive with a relentless soundtrack. Cinema and music become a sculpture rich in hidden political references.

Made without camera or film, Austrian artist Rainer Kohlberger’s algorithm-based abstractions engulf the cinema space with their light rhythms and optical vibrations.

A mysterious merging of cinema, performance and home video. A dancer practices his jumpstyle choreography in an empty steelworks.

This work explores the unknown participation of Congolese intellectuals in the Situationist International movement, especially the student M'Belolo who wrote a protest song in May 1968.

Drones replace divine spirits in Thai artist Korakrit Arunanondchai’s explosive film that contemplates the place for spirituality today through body painting, performative expression and catchy hip hop.

Portrait of youths in an abandoned amusement park in Casablanca, in meaningful tableaus inspired by social media. "I am here, I exist."

With mesmerising intensity, Singaporean artist Charles Lim’s camera dives deep underwater to investigate the changing state of the sea caused by storage facilities and sand deposits.

These three films follow a young girl through her teenage years while she explores her sexuality and discovers her perversions. Humorous, intimate and confrontational.

A group of men are waiting on the coast for passage to Europe. They play themselves in a fiction film.

Musical dream consisting of processed film, freely acted passages and abstract colour fields. A meditation on the philosophical work Áqua viva by Clarice Lispector.