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.
In this combined programme
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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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Civic
Booker’s unannounced homecoming to South Central L.A. arouses ambivalent feelings, especially within himself. -
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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Chomp It!
Two crocodile-people are cooling down at a swimming pool. But are they even the same species? -
Prosinečki
Archival poetic analysis of the aesthetics of football conceived through the image of Robert Prosinečki. -
Horror Vacui
Observational meditation on growing militarisation of today’s society shot by acclaimed experimental documentary filmmaker, Boris Poljak. -
Theta
A self-driving police car laments to their built-in therapist in this exploration of non-human life. -
Square the Circle
A self-searching Finnish comedy about infinity, space and procrastination, innovatively framed as a circle. -
Repetitions
Repeating images and looping sounds become an incantation of industrialised labour and its struggles. -
La Grande Arche
A hand-drawn ode to La Défense in Paris, where the future is encroaching in steel and glass. -
Shabnam
Shabnam uncovers a hidden history, scattered by the ongoing effects of imperialism and colonialism. -
Fantoomwijk
A lively working-class neighbourhood is forced to make way for luxury homes. Fantoomwijk shows the destructive consequences for its former reside -
Remendo
Zé is a local repairman with simple aspirations: to learn to love and heal in postcolonialism. -
