Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films
Overview of films
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In Search of a City (in the Papers of Sein)
Idler Sein’s perambulations become a layered declaration of love to the city of Cairo. Shot before, but edited after the Egyptian revolution.
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Da Vinci
Exceptional, cinematic take on the amazing world of the modern operating theatre, in which the patient seems to have only a bit part as all eyes are o
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The Mother
Last day of official mourning for a child. Mother receives her final visitors: the guilty parties. Masterfully captured in a single shot.
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Die ArbeiterInnen verlassen die Fabrik
Flashing neon transforms a factory corridor into a stunning light and sound sculpture. The workers move silently towards the exit.
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Continuity
A couple try to keep the memory of their son alive by constantly replaying a specific scene with various male escorts.
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Unsupported Transit
Set on a construction site in Shenzhen, China’s first Special Economic Zone, where a new stock exchange designed by Rem Koolhaas is being built.
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Tokyo Giants
Last part of the Plot Point Trilogy by Nicolas Provost with the Japanese capital Tokyo and its inhabitants as the leads.
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The Lament
Atmospheric, stately Turkish film about man and nature. And about mourning, something every family member does in their own way.
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Greystone
Conceptual film about a murder in the Greystone Mansion in 1929 and exploration of structure in Hollywood films that were actually shot here.
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Dentro
Two friends doggedly build a mysterious artefact in the forest, the function of which remains unclear until the very end.
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Insight
We look at a film crew; the film crew is watching us. Cinema as a mirror of reality that becomes fiction. Or is it vice versa?
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Eris
A poetic film that rescues British social realist and documentary traditions with Greek gods, some incredible music and shovel-loads of imagination.