Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films
Overview of films
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Blinder
Tim Leyendekker | 13' | Brazil | World premiere
Dutch artist Tim Leyendekker’s fresh 16mm film gives us nouns, dry facts and retina-scouring light whilst resisting telling us what to do with these t -
Bobby Yeah
Robert Morgan | 23' | United Kingdom | None
A breathtakingly bizarre, hilariously horrifying, button-pushing stop-motion saga featuring a subhuman troublemaker who falls perilously out of his de -
By Pain and Rhyme and Arabesques of Foraging
David Gatten | 8' | USA | European premiere
Erudite, aesthetic film sonnet; a love letter to 17th-century naturalist Robert Boyle. -
The Chimera of M.
Sebastian Buerkner | 25' | United Kingdom | International premiere
Idiosyncratic, stereoscopic 3D animation. Film as a moving sculpture, a web of spatial deceit, with snippets of arguments, desires and lust. -
Cinéma concret
Makino Takashi | 23' | Japan | International premiere
Shadow presences gradually emerge in Japanese filmmaker Makino Takashi’s abstract cinema composed of layers upon layers of natural imagery that awaken -
Continuity
Omer Fast | 41' | Germany | European premiere
A couple try to keep the memory of their son alive by constantly replaying a specific scene with various male escorts. -
Da Vinci
Yuri Ancarani | 25' | Italy | International premiere
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… -
Dag’aa
Shadi Habib Allah | 19' | Palestine | World premiere
A tough journey with a Bedouin group across the Sinai Peninsula, far from habitation. Everything seems to take place outside political and historical -
Dentro
Emiliano Rocha Minter | 15' | Mexico | International premiere
Two friends doggedly build a mysterious artefact in the forest, the function of which remains unclear until the very end. -
The Double
Roy Villevoye, Jan Dietvorst | 21' | Netherlands | World premiere
An exacting sculpture of a middle-aged white man is hammered out in a studio. Voices bring him to life, but who is he really? -
Dream English Kid 1964-1999 AD
Mark Leckey | 23' | United Kingdom | None
Musical ode to the late 20th century with found film excerpts, ads and pop music, full of memories and experiences from Mark Leckey’s life. -
Elle pis son char
Loïc Darses | 28' | Canada | None
Years later, a woman decides to confront the man who abused her as a child with what he has done to her. Ultimately, her son…