Ammodo Tiger Short Competition
Programme IFFR 2023
The power of short. Twenty-four short and mid-length films compete for one of three equal awards.
Overview of films
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From Voice to Pulse
Zeno van den Broek | 10' | Netherlands | World premiere
An audio-visual work, driven by algorithmic compositions for percussion and voice. -
La Grande Arche
Camille Authouart | 12' | France | World premiere
A hand-drawn ode to La Défense in Paris, where the future is encroaching in steel and glass. -
I Can See the Sun but I Can’t Feel It Yet
Joseph Wilson | 20' | United Kingdom | World premiere
Young queer people forced to undergo conversion therapy find beauty in their despair. -
Last Days of Summer
Stenzin Tankong | 15' | France | World premiere
A strange young man hears ominous sounds in the distant mountains but no one believes him. -
Light of Light
Neritan Zinxhiria | 12' | Greece | World premiere
A meditative journey to the untouched monastic state of Mount Athos. -
Natureza Humana
Mónica Lima | 25' | Germany | World premiere
A young couple struggles to get pregnant in an era of ever-mounting uncertainty. -
Never Come Back
Assaf Gruber | 17' | Austria | World premiere (festival)
A witty and impertinent look at exoticism and Eurocentrism in art and music. -
Night and Fear
Lipika Singh Darai | 28' | India | World premiere
An engaging film, carefully crafted from archival footage from the filmmaker’s earlier projects. -
Pátio do Carrasco
André Gil Mata | 44' | Portugal | World premiere
A slayer’s courtyard as a past and future crime scene. André Gil Mata’s masterclass in slow cinema. -
Phalène
Sarah-Anaïs Desbenoit | 19' | France | World premiere
An immersion into a new world built on perfect harmony between sound and vision. -
Pure Land
Tenzin Phuntsog | 16' | USA | World premiere (festival)
Mother and son try to evoke the memory of her native Tibet through images captured elsewhere. -
Remendo
Roger Ghil | 20' | Brazil | World premiere
Zé is a local repairman with simple aspirations: to learn to love and heal in postcolonialism.