Tiger Short Competition
Programme IFFR 2025
The power of short. Twenty short and mid-length films compete for one of three equal awards.
Overview of films
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Empty Rider
Lawrence Lek | 15' | Switzerland | World premiere (festival)
Empty Rider is a powerful reminder of the normalisation of the absurd. -
The Garden of Electric Delights
Billy Roisz | 12' | Austria | World premiere
A tantalising, electric interpretation of Bosch’s iconic triptych, reaching from paradisiacal allure to hellish distortion. -
Hepingli Playthrough
Zheng Yuan | 36' | China | World premiere
Playthrough of a non-existent, nostalgic text-based video game, exploring memory and the irreversibility of time. -
I Wan’na Be Like You
Margit Lukács, Persijn Broersen | 13' | Netherlands | World premiere (festival)
A decolonial reinterpretation of The Jungle Book, its famous song, and their contemporary legacies. -
Memory Is an Animal, It Barks with Many Mouths
Eva Giolo | 24' | Belgium | World premiere
An exquisite essay on the vital importance of linguistic diversity. -
Merging Bodies
Adrian Paci | 23' | Italy | World premiere (festival)
Delve into gestures and materials that blur the boundaries between the workers and the machinery. -
A Metamorphosis
Lin Htet Aung | 16' | Myanmar | World premiere
A Metamorphosis redefines government television broadcasts and the imagery of propaganda into a counter-nightmare. -
Now, Hear Me Good
Dwayne LeBlanc | 15' | USA | World premiere
When the party quietens, Booker is left with a silence he fills with music. -
Les Rites de Passage
Florian Fischer, Johannes Krell | 14' | Germany | World premiere
A phantasmagorical journey through a spruce monoculture in decline. -
The Rock Speaks
Amy Louise Wilson, Francois Knoetze | 7' | South Africa | World premiere
The ecological degradation caused by the neo-colonial extraction of coveted Cobalt minerals. -
Suspicions About the Hidden Realities of Air
Sam Drake | 9' | USA | World premiere
Fragments of records documenting past radiation testing on civilians conjure testimony to a disturbing past. -
Temo Re
Anka Gujabidze | 50' | Georgia | World premiere
A daily ride through Tbilisi as seen from the back of a delivery driver’s scooter.