Ammodo Tiger Short Competition
Overview of films
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Mountain Plain Mountain
Yu Araki, Daniel Jacoby | 21' | Japan | World premiere
Sound and rhythms take centre stage in this observational documentary on Ban’ei, a rare kind of draft horse race that takes place only in Obihir -
Mum’s Cards
Luke Fowler | 9' | United Kingdom | European premiere
Hand-written index cards, filmed on 35mm: the key to stories where personal history is linked to a love of sociology. -
the names have changed, including my own and truths have been altered
Onyeka Igwe | 26' | United Kingdom | International premiere
Digging into personal, colonial and televisual archives, Onyeka Igwe trudges through the muddled biography of her grandfather. -
Natureza Humana
Mónica Lima | 25' | Germany | World premiere
A young couple struggles to get pregnant in an era of ever-mounting uncertainty. -
Nazarbazi
Maryam Tafakory | 19' | Iran | None
Nazarbazi is Farsi for ‘the play of glances’, a game of forbidden touch, played out for the camera through glistening eyes. -
Nehemías
Daniel Jacoby | 16' | Netherlands | World premiere
A portrait of Christian, who migrated from the city to the jungle village of Cocachimba, Peru, where he finds himself an outsider. -
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. -
El nombre de las cosas
42' | Chile | -
What is the legacy of male aggression? A man forgets his father’s face, and in his quest to remember discovers himself. -
Nosferasta: First Bite
33' | USA | -
A vampire story about Christopher Columbus, colonialism, and punitive marijuana laws. Ammodo Tiger Short Award winner. -
Outpost
Wim Catrysse | 34' | Belgium | World premiere
Outpost takes us to an isolated community of coal miners in northernmost Russia. A dark perspective on our terminal industrial age, heading towards to -
Paranon
Zeno van den Broek | 15' | Netherlands | World premiere
Paranon revolves around the idea of juxtapositioning fundamental elements of sound and image, by manipulating various parameters in shifting canon structures.