Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films
Overview of films
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Tijd en plaats, een gesprek met mijn moeder
Martijn Veldhoen | 35' | Netherlands | World premiere
A film about the melancholy of reconstruction. The story of the filmmaker’s mother told in an unexpected, compassionate and visually inventive way. -
Tokyo Giants
Nicolas Provost | 23' | Belgium | World premiere
Last part of the Plot Point Trilogy by Nicolas Provost with the Japanese capital Tokyo and its inhabitants as the leads. -
Tout le monde aime le bord de la mer
Keina Espiñeira | 18' | Spain | World premiere
A group of men are waiting on the coast for passage to Europe. They play themselves in a fiction film. -
Trento Symphonia
Flatform | 20' | France | World premiere
At sunset an orchestra plays Mahler’s 8th Symphony. In the dying light the mountain landscape and the music dissolve into twilight. -
Two Points of Failure
Michael Moshe Dahan | 13' | USA | World premiere
The disappearance of the analogue film medium, heralded by Jean-Luc Godard, is visualised by allowing film to disintegrate in a chemical solution. -
Unsupported Transit
Zachary Formwalt | 15' | Netherlands | International premiere
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. -
Untitled (The City at Night)
Ane Hjort Guttu | 26' | Norway | International premiere
Fascinating study into the life’s work of an anonymous artist with an archive of abstract drawings; scores to his nightly walks. See also This Place… -
Village modèle
Hayoun Kwon | 10' | France | World premiere
Offensively loud propaganda village in the Korean demilitarised zone is inaccessible to cameras and therefore a target for the imagination. -
Viva água
Cynthia Madansky | 9' | Italy | World premiere
Musical dream consisting of processed film, freely acted passages and abstract colour fields. A meditation on the philosophical work Áqua viva by Clar -
The Voice Thief
Adan Jodorowsky | 26' | Chile | European premiere
When an opera singer loses her voice during an argument with her husband, she threatens to leave him if he doesn’t put things right by… -
Voice-Over
Roy Villevoye | 22' | Netherlands | World premiere
In the rainforest Papuans build a traditional sculpture for their deceased family member Omomá. In the meantime, the filmmaker has a business conflict -
Walk with Me
Johan Oettinger, Tukei Peter Muhumuza | 12' | Denmark | World premiere
The dream, but also the nightmare of a young African dancer. Unchildish puppetry film. Fantasy and reality clash.