Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films
Overview of films
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Greystone
Kerry Tribe | 29' | USA | European premiere
Conceptual film about a murder in the Greystone Mansion in 1929 and exploration of structure in Hollywood films that were actually shot here. -
Hacked Circuit
Deborah Stratman | 15' | USA | World premiere
Gene Hackman meets foley artist Gregg Barbarnell in Deborah Stratman’s radical complication of the seen, the known, the heard and the undetectable. -
Here Is Everything
Emily Vey Duke, Cooper Battersby | 14' | Canada | European premiere
A talking cat and rabbit – our spirit guides from the future – realise we’re pretty confused about a lot of things and set out… -
I’m Lisa
Charlotte Lim Lay Kuen | 8' | Malaysia | European premiere
Almost sensual observation of a young cleaning lady. The heat of the Malaysian evening is almost tangible. -
Im Freien
Albert Sackl | 23' | Austria | International premiere
A three-month sojourn on Iceland linearly condensed into 23 minutes by the camera. An existentialist portrait of an awe-inspiring setting. -
Immortelle
David Verbeek | 17' | Taiwan | World premiere
Experimental dance film in which two ex-lovers deal with their relationship’s collapse. While the body dances, the heavy heart follows. -
In Search of a City (in the Papers of Sein)
Hala Elkoussy | 34' | Egypt | World premiere
Idler Sein’s perambulations become a layered declaration of love to the city of Cairo. Shot before, but edited after the Egyptian revolution. -
Inferno
Yael Bartana | 22' | Netherlands | European premiere
Bartana visualises the building of the Third Temple of Solomon in convincing Hollywood style. The first was violently destroyed. Will history repeat i -
Insight
Sebastian Diaz Morales | 12' | Argentina | European premiere
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… -
La isla
Dominga Sotomayor, Katarzyna Klimkiewicz | 30' | Chile | International premiere
Family reunion on captivatingly beautiful island replete with memories; everyone is waiting for Jaime who should have arrived already. -
It Has Already Been Ended Before You Can See the End
Arikawa Shigeo | 11' | Japan | International premiere
The experience of time and ‘the end’ gain a new dimension in this, by far the most mysterious film at the festival. A time vacuum… -
Janus
Erik van Lieshout | 51' | Netherlands | None
About a man from a working-class neighbourhood in Rotterdam-Zuid named Janus, a collector of curiosities who has recently died. And about art.