As Long As It Takes: Short

Overview of films

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  13 Essential Rules for Understanding the World

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  Basim Magdy | 5' | Egypt | None

  ‘Never try to change anything,’ say tulips with faces. In his parody of educational films, Magdy’s humour has a cynical edge.
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  A 240 Second Analysis of Failure and Hopefulness (with Coke, Vinegar and other Tear Gas Remedies)

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  Basim Magdy | 8' | Egypt | None

  Employing household liquids used as teargas remedies in the Middle East, bold stains obstruct the clarity of vision in the double slide projection wor
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  Accent Grave on Ananas

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  Tamara Henderson | 3' | Canada | International premiere

  Accent Grave on Ananas is a full three-minute slice of gorgeously flawed perfection. We’re on paradise beach, but still no-one’s answering the phone.
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  After After the End

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  Laure Prouvost | 9' | United Kingdom | None

  Laure Prouvost’s mastery of her medium reigns supreme with a Kafkaesque trial of cinema’s narrative devices and techniques.
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  Aïssa

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  Clément Tréhin-Lalanne | 8' | France | None

  A doctor clinically records his findings whilst seeking to determine the age of Ghanaian immigrant Aïssa who says she is a minor.
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  The All-Hearing

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  Lawrence Abu Hamdan | 13' | Egypt | International premiere

  An Egyptian ode to loudspeaker libertarianism, Cairo’s omnipresent noise pollution and Sheiks’ determination to have the issue of noise heard.
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  Angelus Novus

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  Aboozar Amini | 25' | Afghanistan | World premiere

  Afghan Ali has just arrived in Turkey where he has to start a new life surrounded by other refugees.
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  Arid Edge

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  Phil Dadson | 8' | New Zealand | International premiere

  Bike ride through the rugged Atacama desert in Northern Chile, the driest in the world. Phil Dadson finds calm in the seemingly endless emptiness.
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  As Soon As Weather Will Permit

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  Su Rynard | 15' | Canada | European premiere

  The bizarre coincidental conditions that led to the dropping of the first atomic bomb in 1945, as told by one of the bomber’s crew.
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  Atlantis

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  Ben Russell | 23' | Malta | None

  Plato’s invocation of the lost continent of Atlantis re-resurrected via a 1970s science-fiction pulp novel, Atlantis is a documentary portrait of Utop
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  Auntie Maam Has Never Had a Passport

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  Sorayos Prapapan | 14' | Thailand | International premiere

  Small political satire about a confused country like Thailand and even film festivals like Rotterdam. An older foot masseuse acts in independent films
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  Bailu Dream

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  Nicolas Boone | 12' | France | World premiere

  A perfect French village has been built where a Chinese one was swept away by an earthquake in 2008. Experience the dream of a sunny…