BackShort Films in Competition Official
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Director : JEVREMOVIC Vuk
Countries : Croatia, Germany
Duration : 00:05:28
Synopsis : Three masterful footballers. They can perform wonders during a match and score impossible goals, but what goes on in their heads when they are about to take a penalty kick?
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27
Director : BUDA Flóra Anna
Countries : France, Hungary
Duration : 00:10:38
Synopsis : Alice is 27 years old today. Although she feels oppressed because she still lives with her parents, she spends her time daydreaming to escape her dreary everyday life.
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Astoria
Director : DION Franck
Countries : France
Duration : 00:09:00
Synopsis : An astronomer is overwhelmed by the ramifications of her research and goes into exile.
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Box Cutters
Director : VAN NIEKERK Naomi Classien
Countries : France, Netherlands, South Africa
Duration : 00:08:24
Synopsis : A young woman recalls a day when she was attacked by three men on her way home, but daily life must resume its course.
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Carne de Dios
Director : PLAZA Patricio
Countries : Argentina, Mexico
Duration : 00:21:00
Synopsis : During Mexico's colonial period, an ailing Spanish priest will have to endure in his own body the native rituals that he has been hunting down.
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Catisfaction
Director : ALMEIDA André
Countries : Portugal
Duration : 00:06:35
Synopsis : A man and a cat. It's about relationships and how they can shape our life forever. It's also about a weird character and his cat who claims his way to eternity.
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Ce qui bouge est vivant
Director : MARSILY Noémie
Countries : Belgium
Duration : 00:11:05
Synopsis : While slugs slither aimlessly across the kitchen floor, Noémie composes a moving and fragmented self-portrait, on the fringes between intimacy and the world’s hubbub.
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Christopher at Sea
Director : BROWN Tom CJ
Countries : France, United States, United Kingdom
Duration : 00:20:04
Synopsis : Christopher embarks on a transatlantic voyage as a passenger on a cargo ship. His hopes of finding out what lures so many men to sea sets him on a journey into solitude, fantasy and obsession.
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D'une peinture... à l'autre
Director : SCHWIZGEBEL Georges
Countries : Switzerland, France
Duration : 00:03:10
Synopsis : An immersion into art through two paintings on the same subject created half a century apart.
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Daug Geresnis
Director : JAKAITĖ Skirmanta
Countries : Lithuania
Duration : 00:13:47
Synopsis : A man is waiting for test results. He expects the worst but at the same time hopes for the best. Distressed and afraid he spends a week in a limbo of his own creation, neither here nor there, dreading what the outcome might be.
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Drijf
Director : STOOPS Levi
Countries : Belgium
Duration : 00:14:59
Synopsis : Two people adrift at sea are fighting a bloody battle for both their survival and their relationship.
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Eeva
Director : TŠINAKOV Morten, MRZLJAK Lucija
Countries : Estonia, Croatia
Duration : 00:15:58
Synopsis : It's pouring down with rain at the funeral. There's a lot of crying, too much wine, several woodpeckers and a couple of dreams that fill in the gaps.
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Electra
Director : KASHCHEEVA Daria
Countries : Czech Republic, France, Slovakia
Duration : 00:26:33
Synopsis : Electra thinks back to her 10th birthday, mixing memories with dreams and hidden fantasies. Is our memory just fiction? Or is it a myth?
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Haljina za finale
Director : MESTROVIC Martina
Countries : Croatia
Duration : 00:08:45
Synopsis : One day, my granny dyed her wedding dress black. She wanted to be buried in it.
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Humo
Director : BASULTO Rita
Countries : Mexico
Duration : 00:10:00
Synopsis : A boy, Daniel, travels by train towards a dark destination known as the smokehouse.
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I'm Hip
Director : MUSKER John
Countries : United States
Duration : 00:04:10
Synopsis : A self-absorbed cat, in a jazzy song and dance, proudly and comically proclaims his "hipness" to the world. The world is less convinced than he is.
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Intersextion
Director : REEVES Richard R.
Countries : Canada
Duration : 00:04:05
Synopsis : Two abstract energies fall in love, unite as one and disappear into a vanishing point.
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Koerkorter
Director : TENDER Priit
Countries : Estonia
Duration : 00:14:07
Synopsis : Misfortune deported a ballet dancer Sergei to a suburban kolkhoz. Here, he's having his mundane battles against routine, domestic animals and alcohol.
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L'Ombre des papillons
Director : EL KHYARI Sofia
Countries : France, Portugal, Qatar
Duration : 00:09:00
Synopsis : In a mysterious forest, a woman is slowly lured into a nostalgic daydream as she observes the butterflies.
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La Grande Arche
Director : AUTHOUART Camille
Countries : France
Duration : 00:11:58
Synopsis : With nearly 70 monumental works of art scattered throughout the district, La Défense in Paris is Europe's largest open-air museum. Sitting between the legs of the gigantic Red Spider, I wonder how I hadn’t noticed them before?
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La perra
Director : MELO GAMPERT Carla
Countries : Colombia, France
Duration : 00:14:05
Synopsis : In Bogota, a bird-girl leaves behind the family home, her domineering mother and faithful dog to go and explore her sexuality.
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La saison pourpre
Director : BOUCHEREAU Clémence
Countries : France
Duration : 00:09:07
Synopsis : On an island at the edge of the mangrove, girls live in tune with the climate.
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Last Order
Director : JO Hangjin
Countries : South Korea
Duration : 00:11:11
Synopsis : A pizza guy goes on a late-night delivery to a suburban apartment. Despite long flights of stairs, room 1601 is nowhere to be found. Instead, he is left with grim, mysterious illusions and traces.
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Love Me True
Director : SEDAN Inés
Countries : France
Duration : 00:07:39
Synopsis : Laurence is desperately looking for love. Following a friend’s advice, she connects to online dating sites to find her soulmate. She becomes addicted to her phone and addicted to a toxic man.
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Marie.Eduardo.Sophie
Director : CORRIVEAU Thomas
Countries : Canada
Duration : 00:03:15
Synopsis : A mesmerising contemplation of moving bodies and painting, with three magnificent contemporary dance performers from Montreal, Marie Mougeolle, Eduardo Ruiz Vergara and Sophie Corriveau.
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Maurice's Bar
Director : PREZMAN Tom, EDERY Tzor
Countries : France, Israel
Duration : 00:14:59
Synopsis : In 1942, on a train to nowhere, a former drag queen remembers a night from her past in one of Paris’ first queer bars. Remnants of customer gossip recall this mythic bar and its mysterious Jewish-Algerian owner.
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Nun or Never
Director : JÄÄLINOJA Heta
Countries : Finland
Duration : 00:10:46
Synopsis : A nun digs a man out of the ground and loses her grip on everyday life. Can secrets and harmony coexist?
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Our Uniform
Director : MOGHADDAM Yegane
Countries : Iran
Duration : 00:07:25
Synopsis : An Iranian girl unfolds her school memories through the wrinkles and fabrics of her old uniform. She admits that she's nothing but a "female" and explores the roots of this idea in her school years.
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Regular Rabbit
Director : DUFFY Eoin
Countries : Ireland
Duration : 00:07:43
Synopsis : The good name of a seemingly regular rabbit falls victim to an unstoppable tide of disinformation.
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Salvation Has No Name
Director : WALLACE Joseph
Countries : United Kingdom, France, Czech Republic
Duration : 00:16:45
Synopsis : A troupe of clowns gather to perform a story about a Priest and a refugee but as their misguided tale unfolds, the boundaries between fiction and reality begin to fray.
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Sweet Like Lemons
Director : JOKELA Jenny
Countries : Finland, United Kingdom
Duration : 00:05:31
Synopsis : A visual reflection on getting out of a harmful relationship and moving on.
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Telsche
Director : COLFER Sophie, NUNU Ala
Countries : Poland, Saudi Arabia, Portugal
Duration : 00:08:34
Synopsis : On the vast salt flats under dark clouds, a hole in the ground swallows the memory of a woman that Telsche longs to see again.
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The Miracle
Director : DEUTZ Nienke
Countries : Belgium, Netherlands, France
Duration : 00:15:03
Synopsis : The Miracle, a place where the sun always shines, there’s endless opportunities to relax and food is in abundance.
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The Smile
Director : VAN SCHAAIK Erik
Countries : Netherlands, Belgium
Duration : 00:16:00
Synopsis : When a world-famous film star is accused of eating his female co-stars, his career goes down the drain. That wipes the smile off his face!
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Tongue
Director : YOSHIDA Kaho
Countries : Canada, Japan
Duration : 00:02:02
Synopsis : Tired of being talked at by men, a woman decides to liberate his tongue.
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Wild Summon
Director : FREED Saul, ARIELI Karni
Countries : United Kingdom
Duration : 00:14:40
Synopsis : A natural history fantasy that follows the dramatic life cycle of wild salmon in human form.
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World to Roam
Director : IRWIN Stephen
Countries : United Kingdom
Duration : 00:12:21
Synopsis : Mother and Father lay the child in his cot at the same time every night. However, come morning, only a shallow crater remains – a baby-shaped depression. The boy was destined to be a wanderer.