Shorts Competition Winners
1st July
2 pm
Auditorium Multimeios
Silver Lynx Fiction Winner:
It Turns Blue | Shadi Karamroudi | IRN | 15 min
Morteza beats up his 3 years old daughter in one of her weekly visits. Then he asks his older sister, Pari, to help him handle the situation. Pari cares for the child’s wounds and then tries to manipulate the child’s mind so she remembers the whole incident as a simple game with her father.
Silver Lynx Animation Winner:
Tako Tsubo | Fanny Sorgo, Eva Pedroza | DEU | 6 min
Mr. Ham decides to have his heart removed in order to be relieved of his complicated feelings. The doctor assures him that this is no problem at all in this days and age. Thoughtfully inclined, however, Ham keeps his heart for a while after the removal, perhaps to understand it better after all. "Tako Tsubo"* is an animated, surrealistic reflection on how to deal with feelings in a meritocracy. *Tako Tsubo, also known as stress cardiomyopathy or broken heart syndrome, is a rare, acute-onset and often severe dysfunction of the heart muscle, similar to that of a heart attack, and usually results from extraordinary emotional or physical stress.
Silver Lynx Documentary Winner:
City of Poets | Sara Rajaei | NLD | 21 min
In a small, semi-utopian city, all the streets are named after poets. When war begins, new neighbourhoods emerge to accomodate the refugees. Soon the citizens find themselves lost amid the memories of the forgotten poets.
Silver Lynx Experimental Winner:
The eyeball person | Yuri Muraoka | JAP | 12 min
This film is about gazes and goodbyes. An attempt to weave images with words and to weave a poem with images. I realize that living is suffering to see that Nemu, the one of my daughters, squirms with the struggle and sunflowers squirm to try to bloom.
NEXXT Winner:
The voice of others | Fatima Kaci |FRA |30 min
Rim is a Tunisian interpreter working in France on asylum procedures. Every day, she translates the stories of exiled men and women, whose voices raise questions about her own history.
National Grand Prix Winner:
Seu nome era Gisberta | Sérgio Galvão Roxo | PRT | 31 min
Her name was Gisberta (2D) is a documentary based on an immersive experience that portrays the life and death of Gisberta Salce, a transgender woman murdered by 14 young men in Portugal in 2006. This project was created as a tool for education, social intervention, and activism against transphobia.
FESTinha Sub16 Winner:
El Ombligo de la Luna | Sara Lourenço António, Julia Grupińska, Bokang Koatja, Ezequiel Garibay Cires, Tian Westraad | FRA | 8 min
Chava, a Mexican mechanic, must take his son to the moon in order to fulfill his late mother's last wish.
FESTinha Sub 12 Winner:
Canary | Pierre-Hugues Dallaire | CAN | 12 min
A young boy named Sonny works in an underground coal mine with the adults, taking care of the canary that detects deadly methane gas. He teaches the bird to play dead to prank the men, risking their lives for a moment in the sunlight above.
FESTinha Sub 10 Winner:
Writing Home | Eva Matejovičová | CZE | 12 min
A small bark beetle girl lives peacefully in a forest in a tree. However, a fire, caused by irresponsible humans, burns the forest down to ashes. Her hand gets burned to charcoal and she gets separated from her family. Lost in a human town, she has to face the dangerous world of giants on her own.
