A selection of 22 short and mid-length films have been announced for the Ammodo Tiger Short Competition. A professional jury will choose three winners to receive an Ammodo Tiger Short Award that will be presented during IFFR 2021 in February.
We’ve just announced the 22 short and mid-length films selected for the Ammodo Tiger Short Competition. The competition is dedicated to films between 1 and 63 minutes long and is part of IFFR’s new programme section Short & Mid-length Film. The jury will determine which three titles will receive the Ammodo Tiger Short Award, which are equal prizes and worth €5,000. This edition’s selection includes 10 world premieres, 8 international premieres and 2 European premieres.
Over half of the filmmakers are making their IFFR debut in the competition, next to some familiar names. Su Hui-yu, whose work we dedicated a retrospective to in 2017 while Super Taboo showed in competition, now presents The Women’s Revenge. World premiere earthearthearth is by Daïchi Saïto, director of Engram of Returning, which won a Tiger Short Award in 2016. Christelle Lheureux was part of the competition with La maladie blanche in 2012, and now presents 80 000 ans. Simon Liu, director of E-Ticket selected in 2019, shows Happy Valley. Ane Hjort Guttu returns with world premiere Manifesto, after showing Untitled (The City at Night) in 2015.
Filmmakers Eva Giolo, Félix Blume, Marwa Arsanios, Morgan Quaintance, Riar Rizaldi and Suneil Sanzgiri have all directed or worked on films previously featured in IFFR’s shorts programme, and now show work in the competition for the first time.
Ammodo Tiger Short Competition Jury
Three art and film professionals make up the jury: Anna Abrahams, audiovisual curator, programmer at Eye Filmmuseum and teacher at Royal Academy of Art in The Hague who has made films for the independent production company Rongwrong; Amira Gad, French curator and writer based in Rotterdam, currently Head of Programmes at LAS (Light Art Space) in Berlin; and filmmaker Vincent Meessen, whose short documentary One.Two.Three screened in the Tiger Short Competition in 2016 and later film Ultramarine (2019) won a Tiger Short Award.
Ammodo Tiger Short Competition selection
- 80 000 ans, Christelle Lheureux, 2020, France, international premiere
- earthearthearth, Daïchi Saïto, 2021, Canada, world premiere
- Er is een geest van mij, Mateo Vega, 2021, Netherlands/Peru, world premiere
- Erde essen, Laura Weissenberger, 2021, Austria, world premiere
- The Eternal Springtime, Việt Vũ, 2021, Vietnam, world premiere
- Flowers blooming in our throats, Eva Giolo, 2020, Italy, international premiere
- For the Sake of Calmness, Newsha Tavakolian, 2020, Iran, world premiere (festival)
- Happy Valley, Simon Liu, 2020, Hong Kong/USA, international premiere
- The Hole’s Journey, Ghita Skali, 2020, Netherlands, world premiere (festival)
- Lemongrass Girl, Pom Bunsermvicha, 2021, Thailand, world premiere
- Letter From Your Far-Off Country, Suneil Sanzgiri, 2020, USA, international premiere
- Luces del desierto, Félix Blume, 2021, France/Mexico, world premiere
- Maat Means Land, Fox Maxy, 2020, USA, international premiere
- Manifesto, Ane Hjort Guttu, 2021, Norway, world premiere
- Plant (879 pages, 33 days), Ruth Höflich, 2020, Australia, European premiere
- Sunsets, everyday, Basir Mahmood, 2020, Italy, international premiere
- Surviving You, Always, Morgan Quaintance, 2021, UK, world premiere
- Tellurian Drama, Riar Rizaldi, 2020, Indonesia, European premiere
- Terranova, Alejandro Pérez Serrano/Alejandro Alonso Estrella, 2021, Cuba, world premiere
- Tracing Utopia, Catarina de Sousa/Nick Tyson, 2021, Portugal, world premiere
- Who Is Afraid of Ideology? Part 3 Micro Resistances, Marwa Arsanios, 2020, Colombia/Germany, world premiere (festival)
- The Women’s Revenge, Su Hui-yu, 2020, Taiwan, international premiere
See IFFR 2021’s February film lineup here
Ammodo Tiger Short Competition
IFFR's competition for short and mid-length films.
