Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films
Overview of films
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Engram of Returning
Daïchi Saïto | 19' | Canada | International premiere
Accompanied by an extraordinary improvisational score, Engram of Returning is an epic 35mm metaphysical travelogue that reveals a supernal world which -
Eris
Claire Hooper | 36' | United Kingdom | International premiere
A poetic film that rescues British social realist and documentary traditions with Greek gods, some incredible music and shovel-loads of imagination. -
Establishing Eden
Persijn Broersen, Margit Lukács | 10' | Netherlands | World premiere
Broersen & Lukács recreated the landscapes of New Zealand as confiscated by the entertainment industry to establish it as a new Land of Eden. -
Even Pricks
Ed Atkins | 8' | United Kingdom | International premiere
A slick Tourettes tic, an ‘I Like’ smog of Hotel California and handclaps, shimmering with the glossy seductive joy of CGI but refusing the hard… -
Faux départ
Yto Barrada | 23' | Morocco | None
False Start observes the elaborate fossil industry in Morocco and is a sly meditation on authenticity and a paean to the creativity of the ‘preparator -
Field Notes from a Mine
Martijn van Boven, Tom Tlalim | 20' | Netherlands | World premiere
Abstract documentary about a data environment. Based on a list of cities, villages and unnamed places in North Africa that were part of old pilgrim… -
La fièvre
Safia Benhaim | 40' | France | European premiere
The history of decolonisation and political turmoil provides the background to a hallucinatory tour of today’s Morocco where a new wave of resistance -
Figs
Tony Cederteg | 5' | Sweden | World premiere
Captivatingly filmed, very candid story about a now-ended relationship. -
Generator
Makino Takashi | 20' | Japan | International premiere
Generator is a response to the disaster in Fukushima and visualises Tokyo as an eroding metropolis accompanied by Jim O’Rourke’s dark soundscapes. -
Giant
Salla Tykkä | 13' | Finland | World premiere
Filmed at Romanian, communist-era gymnastics schools, Giant reveals the links between the sport and the sports centres’ severe architecture. -
Grandma’s Dream
Laure Prouvost | 9' | United Kingdom | International premiere
A rosy vision of teapots, carpets and dancing where we’re asked to draw the dots, add our own associations and powerfully complete the meaning for… -
Greetings to the Ancestors
Ben Russell | 29' | South Africa | World premiere
Equal parts documentary, ethnography and dream cinema, Ben Russell presents the third part in a trilogy examining the ecstatic limits of utopia in the