Best of the Fest Award: Before Love (Igor Kovyalov, Russia)
Everybody is looking for love. But what is true love? A typically dramatic tale of human shortcomings from the acclaimed Russian filmmaker Igor Kovyalov.
19’00, 2016
Best British Film Award: Johnno’s Dead (Chris Shepherd, UK/France)
Serving twelve years behind bars for a crime you didn’t commit focuses the mind.
A terrifying and twisted tale of obsession, destruction and revenge.
9’00, 2016
Best Sound Design Award: Otto – Nicola Ariutti (Salvatore Murgia & Dario Imbrogno, Italy)
The switch from 2D to 3D is a turn of events Otto hadn’t anticipated at the beginning of his day.
2’00, 2015
Best Performance (Acting) Award: Jukai (Gabrielle Lissot, France)
A young woman follows a trail of colored threads leading deep into a forest, hoping to find the answers to her lingering fears.
9’00, 2015
Best Abstract Film Award: Sai Gon (Oerd van Cuijlenborg, France)
The hustle and bustle of the city, the incessant rain in the jungle – impressions based on several trips to Vietnam between 2007 and 2014.
5’00, 2015
Audience Vote: O (Erick Oh, South Korea)
The passage of time and the creation of the universe.
4’00, 2016
Voting for International Competition Programme 1 – From Absurd to Zany
Judges’ Vote: The Noise of Licking (Nadja Andrasev, Hungary)
A mysterious woman, a curious cat, some exotic plants and a perverse ritual.
9’00, 2016
Audience Vote: Panic (Joost Lieuwma & Daan Velsink, The Netherlands)
In the car Marja has a sudden rush of panic: did she turn off the gas? Did she leave the water running?
6’00, 2015
Voting for International Competition Programme 2 – Being Human
Judges’ Vote: How’s Your Prostate? (Jeanne Paturle & Cécile Rousset, France)
What do you chatter about at the pool with your girlfriend? Your father’s prostate, his erectile function, and his nighttime fantasies.
4’00, 2016
Audience Vote: Afternoon Class (Seoro Oh, South Korea)
Every schoolboy knows the gargantuan battle it takes to simply stay awake through the afternoon class.
4’00, 2015
Voting for International Competition Programme 3 – Looking For Answers
Judges’ Vote: G-AAAH (Elizabeth Hobbs, UK)
A celebration of Amy Johnson’s record-breaking solo flight from London to Australia in 1930 created with an Underwood 315 typewriter.
1’00, 2016
Audience Vote: Blind Vaysha (Theodore Ushev, Canada)
Simply gorgeous! Vaysha can see only the future with one eye and the past with the other.
9’00, 2016
Voting for International Competition Programme 4 – New Japanese Shorts – Beyond Anime
Judges’ Vote: Radio Wave (Miyajima Ryotaro, Japan)
During the Cold War a boy tunes the radio and discovers a world of hidden codes.
3’00, 2016
Audience Vote: I Can’t Breathe (Sayaka Kihata, Japan)
What happens when you drown your friend by mistake?
6’00, 2015
Voting for International Competition Programme 5 – Into the Dark
Judges’ Vote: Johnno’s Dead (Chris Shepherd, UK/France)
Serving twelve years behind bars for a crime you didn’t commit focuses the mind.
A terrifying and twisted tale of obsession, destruction and revenge.
9’00, 2016
Audience Vote: Happy End (Jan Saska, Czech Republic)
A black comedy about death with a happy ending featuring hunters, a tractor driver, a disco boy and a corpse.
9’00, 2015
Voting for International Competition Programme 6 – Below the Surface
Judges’ Vote: Ghost Cell (Antoine Delacharlery, France)
A truly stunning, breathtakingly intricate re-imagining of Paris as a massive, thriving organism of a billion pieces.
6’00, 2014
Audience Vote: He and Sea (Kris Genijn & Pieter Vanluffelen, Belgium)
A man, born of the sea is in search of his origins. The closer he gets to his goal, the more he loses of himself.
8’00, 2016
Voting for International Competition Programme 7 – Long Shorts
Judges’ Vote: Before Love (Igor Kovyalov, Russia)
Everybody is looking for love. But what is true love? A typically dramatic tale of human shortcomings from the acclaimed Russian filmmaker Igor Kovyalov.
Audience Vote: Sunday Lunch (Celine Devaux, France)
The constantly shifting sands of the family Sunday lunch dynamic, cruelly exposing hairline fractures and smudging unspoken truths.
14’00, 2015
Voting for International Competition Programme 8 – Animated Documentaries
Judges’ Vote: The Empty Space (Ülo Pikkov, Estonia)
A past memory, an apartment that once existed, and a small girl playing there. A reconstruction of a vision of the anxieties in the 1950s Soviet Union.
10,00, 2016
Audience Vote: I Was A Winner (Jonas Odell, Sweden) AND…
Three very different stories on the subject of computer game addiction.
14’00, 2016
Tough (Jennifer Zheng, UK) AND…
Some things can only be understood with maturity. New light is shed on childhood cultural misunderstandings when a Chinese mother and her British born daughter speak as adults for the first time.
5’00, UK
Private Parts (Anna Ginsburg, UK)
Shedding some light on the lack of female pleasure in modern day society.
4’00, 2016
Voting for Framed Film Club – Amazing Animations
Judges’ Vote: Hey Deer (Ors Barczy, Hungary) AND…
An adorable, cocoa-drinking deer is eager to tidy up the front of his house.
6’00, 2015
Eagle Blue (Will Rose, UK)
3’00, 2016
Audience Vote: Hey Deer (Ors Barczy, Hungary)
6’00, 2015
Voting for Marvellous Animations
Audience Vote: Voltaire (Jan Snoekx, The Netherlands)
12’00, 2015