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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Repetitions
Morgan Quaintance | 24' | United Kingdom | World premiere
Repeating images and looping sounds become an incantation of industrialised labour and its struggles. -
Shabnam
Reetu Sattar | 23' | Bangladesh | World premiere
Shabnam uncovers a hidden history, scattered by the ongoing effects of imperialism and colonialism. -
Skin in the Crosswinds
Andrew Rubin | 16' | USA | World premiere
Fiction, memory, myth: the filmmaker weaves together multiple stories of their family’s Ukrainian heritage and American roots. -
Square the Circle
Hanna Hovitie | 17' | Finland | World premiere (festival)
A self-searching Finnish comedy about infinity, space and procrastination, innovatively framed as a circle. -
Theta
Lawrence Lek | 12' | United Kingdom | World premiere (festival)
A self-driving police car laments to their built-in therapist in this exploration of non-human life. -
Tito
Kervens Jimenez, Taylor McIntosh | 14' | Haiti | World premiere
A posthumous edit of video captured by ‘Tito’ during his unlawful imprisonment in Haiti. -
What the Soil Remembers
José Cardoso | 29' | Ecuador | World premiere
A compelling documentary examining the trauma of a community uprooted during the Apartheid regime. -
Zabriskie Point
Cho Seoungho | 8' | USA | World premiere
This landscape of cinema legend is reimagined through the distillation of the filmic image and time itself.