The power of short. Twenty-two films from the short film selection compete for one of three equal awards.

IFFR 2018

Maryam Tafakory

Transforming public spaces women are prohibited from entering into a stage, Maryam Tafakory’s poetic film depicts the rituals involved in women and men coming of age.

Bright Future

Ammodo Tiger Short Competition

Absent Wound

Nazlı Dinçel

Nazli Dinçel's latest work uses borrowed words, carefully etched in the 16mm film surface, turned inwards to explore how we use our lovers.

Between Relating and Use

Monira Al Qadiri

Childhood memories, VHS home movies and alien drawings come together in a story of increasing paranoia, international diplomacy, war and peace.

The Craft

Mel O'Callaghan

Sensuous portrayal of the traditional harvesting of bird's nests, a particularly dangerous ritual performed by the Orang Sungai-people in the 'White Cave' of Gomantong, Borneo.

Dangerous on the Way

Maeve Brennan

In this film about the resistance to progress at the expense of history, Maeve Brennan's wonderfully poignant documentary intertwines three stories of men in contemporary Lebanon.

The Drift

Alina Kotova

Vladlena Sandu

Nastya Sokolova is one of the many overqualified graduates in Russia. This documentary reveals the unlikely range of work experience she has gathered to make ends meet.

Eight Images from the Life of Nastya Sokolova

Artur Żmijewski

Confrontational film on life in four European refugee camps. Provocation by Żmijewski, who pushes what is and isn’t acceptable increasingly far.

Glimpse

Adrian Paci

The eyes of the world are watching after the death of a dictator. Long lines of mourners wait to pay homage to an absent man in an ingenious found-footage film.

Interregnum

Tanguy De Donder

A compassionate visual narrative that inspires anticipation in telling the story of a woman who thinks she's a monster.

Je suis un monstre

Tobias Zielony

Layers of stop-motion images edited into a flickering frenzy. Street protesters and soldiers on Maidan Square morph into Kiev's underground queer and  techno scene.

Maskirovka

Diogo Baldaia

A small portrait of a developing generation, ready for the future. A triptych about primary school, a football club and a party, full of dreams, hope and desire.

Mirage My Bros

Manuel Knapp

Fascinating computer animation researches the temporality and after-images that can be seen in two states of spatial folding, resulting in a journey through a multitude of textured spaces.

Momentum 142310

Rainer Kohlberger

A subtle visual experiment in fooling the senses using stereoscopy that sends different visual information to each eye.

more than everything

Yu Araki

Daniel Jacoby

Sound and rhythms take centre stage in this observational documentary on Ban’ei, a rare kind of draft horse race that takes place only in Obihiro, Japan.

Mountain Plain Mountain

Wim Catrysse

Outpost takes us to an isolated community of coal miners in northernmost Russia. A dark perspective on our terminal industrial age, heading towards total exhaustion

Outpost

Isabelle Tollenaere

Young soldiers are roaming through lush green woods. But something isn’t quite right. A lighthearted film connecting imagination and storytelling to the reality of war.

The Remembered Film

Sara Cwynar

Richly layered, Rose Gold focuses on Apple's Rose Gold iPhone, tracking how the phone acts as a talisman of desire for objects, people, power, and money.

Rose Gold

Yto Barrada

Revolutionary ideas and family histories come together in this stop-motion animation. Based on the experiences of the young Mounira Bouzid, who visited the USA in the summer of 1966.

Tree Identification for Beginners

Hiwa K

A model of a destroyed city centre. M learns all about a town in an unsafe zone that is not his place of origin.

View from Above

Heather Phillipson

A provocation against dominant power structures, augmenting feelings of chronic unease, protest and dissent by intertwining spoken word, over-groomed toupees and advancing super-moons, pizzas and drones.

WHAT'S THE DAMAGE

Korakrit Arunanondchai

In a world where drones take on the role of spirits and co-exist with living species, Thai artist Korakrit Arunanondchai tackles the  subject of death.

With History in a Room Filled with People with Funny Names 4

Zhou Tao

Zhou Tao directs his gaze at diasporic communities of Hakka people, finding them within otherworldly, vast landscapes. Stunning images transport us to a dreamlike universe.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025