Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films
Overview of films
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Scene Shifts, in Six Movements
Jani Ruscica | 15' | Denmark | World premiere
Latest work by Finnish artist Jani Ruscica (retrospective at IFFR 2008) alternately describes locations in words, images and music. -
SEA STATE 6
Charles Yi Yong Lim | 10' | Singapore | World premiere
With mesmerising intensity, Singaporean artist Charles Lim’s camera dives deep underwater to investigate the changing state of the sea caused by stora -
Secretion
Willie Doherty | 20' | Ireland | None
A dank post-apocalyptic landscape reminiscent of Tarkovsky’s ‘Zone’. Amnesia’s impossible, the past inescapable and attempts at decontamination futile -
Shadow Life
Cao Fei | 10' | China | European premiere
How something as old-fashioned as hand shadow play can be elevated into a higher art form. A witty, intelligent animation. -
Six Day Run
Mika Taanila | 15' | Finland | World premiere
Runner Ashprihanal during the ultimate endurance test, The Six Day Run. Also at the festival, two installations by Taanila and a Short Profile compila -
Solitary Acts (4, 5, 6)
Nazlı Dinçel | 25' | Turkey | None
These three films follow a young girl through her teenage years while she explores her sexuality and discovers her perversions. Humorous, intimate and -
Springtime
Jeroen Eisinga | 19' | Netherlands | World premiere
Maker Eisinga described this performance – which people can now watch – as ‘a liberating experience’ during which his body was taken over by insects. -
Swimming in Your Skin Again
Terence Nance | 26' | USA | World premiere
Intensely musical film about the spiritual anchorages of life in and around Miami. Drenched in the heat, spirit and landscape of Southern Florida. -
Thing
Anouk De Clercq | 18' | Belgium | International premiere
An architect travels through his virtual memory to a boundless imaginary space. An unreliable, yet beautiful reality. -
Things
Ben Rivers | 20' | United Kingdom | None
A four seasons’ fable, we see a kaleidoscope of magic and uncertainty in Things, incredibly Ben Rivers’ fifteenth film at IFFR since his 2007 debut. -
Though I Know the River Is Dry
Omar Robert Hamilton | 20' | Egypt | World premiere
Caught between his brother’s past and his child’s future, one man’s choice triggers catastrophe for his whole family. -
The Tiger’s Mind
Beatrice Gibson | 20' | United Kingdom | International premiere
‘The tiger fights the mind that loves the circle that traps the tiger.’ Cardew’s score informs this abstract, collaborative and prodigious crime thril