A marathon, but make it a six-hour sprint: IFFR challenges you to a succession of short films, screened traditionally on the last Saturday of the festival. It’s elite film viewing, with all the highlights of IFFR’s short film programme. Never a dull moment, we guarantee fiction, documentary, black-and-white, colour, highbrow, lowbrow, big names, and niche auteurs – it’s all there in our Short Film Marathon.
Short Film Marathon 2023
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Swimming in a Sea of Trauma
A ghost story with nightmarish echoes concerning the traumatic memories of the Nigerian Civil War.
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Prosinečki
Archival poetic analysis of the aesthetics of football conceived through the image of Robert Prosinečki.
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Paradiso, XXXI, 108
Disquieting, found-footage collage of heroic images of modern warfare – depictions that obscure the reality.
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Mama dan so que sorriso
Relationship between a woman and her deceased mother illuminates the strength, struggles and transcendence of black womanhood.
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Horror Vacui
Observational meditation on growing militarisation of today’s society shot by acclaimed experimental documentary filmmaker, Boris Poljak.
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Civic
Booker’s unannounced homecoming to South Central L.A. arouses ambivalent feelings, especially within himself.
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Chomp It!
Two crocodile-people are cooling down at a swimming pool. But are they even the same species?
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Fantoomwijk
A lively working-class neighbourhood is forced to make way for luxury homes. Fantoomwijk shows the destructive consequences for its former reside
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Theta
A self-driving police car laments to their built-in therapist in this exploration of non-human life.
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Square the Circle
A self-searching Finnish comedy about infinity, space and procrastination, innovatively framed as a circle.
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Shabnam
Shabnam uncovers a hidden history, scattered by the ongoing effects of imperialism and colonialism.
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Repetitions
Repeating images and looping sounds become an incantation of industrialised labour and its struggles.
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Remendo
Zé is a local repairman with simple aspirations: to learn to love and heal in postcolonialism.
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La Grande Arche
A hand-drawn ode to La Défense in Paris, where the future is encroaching in steel and glass.
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Mudos testigos
An imaginary melodrama excerpted from twelve extant films from the silent period of Colombian cinema.
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three sparks
A trilogy depicting life and the role of women in rural Albania, where canonical law rules society.
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Thiiird
At an auto repair shop, a quiet mechanic confronts the nature of existence in today’s Lebanon.