Tiger Competition for Short Films
Overview of films
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Last Days of Leningrad
Maria Zennström | 28' | Russia | None
Recorded in a small apartment in a city known in 1989 as Leningrad. That life no longer exists, the film is now a time capsule. -
The Lost Object
Sebastian Diaz Morales | 13' | Netherlands | World premiere
A film studio; a simple room with a bed, chair, desk and sink; a crew. And a mysterious object. What more is needed for a… -
Lunar Dial
Gao Yuan | 15' | China | None
Painter Gao Yuan’s experimental animation is composed of a series of surreal scenes. Objects and people find themselves in unusual situations wh -
Meridian Plain
18' | USA | International premiere
Meridian Plain maps an enigmatic distant landscape excavated from hundreds of thousands of archival still images, forecasting visions of a possible fu -
No Shooting Stars
Basim Magdy | 14' | Egypt | World premiere
A poetic story from the depths of the ocean in merged images referencing humanity’s relationship with the sea, supported by a hypnotising s -
Nyo vweta Nafta
Ico Costa | 21' | Mozambique | World premiere
In Mozambique, director Ico Costa explores the textures of human behaviour as he follows young men who wonder what lies beyond their immediate surroun -
On Generation and Corruption
Makino Takashi | 26' | Japan | World premiere
Borrowing its title from a treatise by Aristotle, Makino Takashi’s latest film is an abstract work that finds its drive in the clash between light… -
Rubber Coated Steel
Lawrence Abu Hamdan | 21' | Germany | World premiere
A tribunal for the sounds of deadly gunfire. The victims’ silence is amplified through the absence of emotion, the sound of ammo and voices. -
Sakhisona
Prantik Basu | 26' | India | World premiere
A dig in a West-Bengal village unearths lots of stories and objects that lay hidden for too long. -
Super Taboo
Su Hui-Yu | 19' | Taiwan | World premiere
Based on a pornographic book from the 1980s, Taiwanese artist Su Hui-yu’s immersive two-channel video brings frozen tableaux of a forest orgy to -
What the Heart Wants
Cécile B. Evans | 41' | Australia | World premiere
Set deep within an imagined future, HYPER, a new system that has achieved the ultimate goal of becoming human, introduces us to her dizzying world.