The Silver Lynx Competition is a short film competition that attempts to provide a launch board for new filmmakers in Fiction, Documentary, Animation and Experimental Cinema.
This year's selection of short films in competition for the Silver Lynx award returns to Espinho with 50+ films, split between the usual Fiction, Documentary, Animation and Experimental section, celebrating the best batch of 2022's international cinema.
These 10 international short film programs promise a lot of surprising moments, as well as much delight and controversy along the way.
Fiction
Session #1
“Borzaya” - Simon Schneckenburger
“The Right Words” - Adrian Moyse Dullin
“A Man Trembles” - Lam Li Shuen, Mark Chua
“Il turno” / “The Shift” - Chiara Marotta, Loris Giuseppe Nese
“Shelled” - Boris Vedensky
Session #2
“Holadirio” - Mariel Sosa
“Bitch” - Bertille Z. Estramon
“Slave” - Grzegorz Piekarski
“Collapse” - Mathieu Rathery
Session #3
“Mona & Parviz” - Kevin Biele
“Liquid Bread” - Alica Bednáriková
“7 Star Dinosor Entertainment” - Vaishali Naik
“A Swedish Defence” - Simon Elvås
Session #4
“Unter der Welle” - Veronika Hafner
“Growing” - Agata Wieczorek;
“I, Adonis” - Angelo Raaijmakers
“Tibbits Hill” - Edith Jorisch
Documentary
Session #1
“Expiration” - Joris Cottin
“The Gallery” - Cordula Rieger
“Brave” - Wilmarc Val
“Buck Fever” - Griet Goelen, Louise Van Assche
“Solar Voyage” - Adam Zadlo
“Whispers” - Léa Morelli
Session #2
“Touch me” - Hendrik Ströhle
“Even though they steal my dreams” - Zoé Brichau
“Some Kind of Intimacy”- Toby Bull
“My Period is Late” - Cai Ning
“Black Wagon” - Adilet Karzhoev
Animation
Session #1
“Terra Incognita” - Pernille Kjaer, Adrian Dexter
“Eating in the Dark” - Inari Sirola
“Bestia” - Hugo Covarrubias
“All My Mom’s Phone Calls” - Iiti Yli-Harja
“Goodbye Jérôme!” - Gabrielle Selnet, Adam Sillard, Chloé Farr
“The Seine's tears” - Alice Letailleur, Philippine Singer,Lisa Vicente, Hadrien Pinot, Etienne Moulin, Nicolas Mayeur, Elliott Benard, Yanis Belaid
Leopoldo from the bar - Diego Porral
Session #2
“Sierra” - Sander Joon
“Mr. Pete & the Iron Horse” - Kilian Vilim
“Kelasi” - Fransix Tenda Lomba
“Granny's Sexual Life” - Urška Djukić, Émilie Pigeard
“Toothless” - Andrea Guizar
“Fall of the Ibis King” - Mikai Geronimo, Josh O'Caoimh
“Noise Film” - Merlin Voss
“Sauna” - Anna Lena Spring, Lara Perren
Experimental
Session #1
“Apocalypse Baby, we advertise the end of the world” - Camille Tricaud, Franziska Unger
“No Voice” - Jiajie Yu Yan
“Woman as image, man as bearer of the look” - Carlos Velandia
“Continuity of Parks” - Zhenia Kazankina
“Epitaph” - Silvia Lorenzi
“The empty sphere” - Stéphanie Roland
Session #2
“Tomorrow is a Water Place”- Juanita Onzaga
“Parade” - Ines Sieulle
“Whirlwinds” - Adriana Jamisse & Sara Carneiro
“Are You Ok” - Mattis Ohana Goksøyr
“Motorcyclist’s Happiness Won’t Fit Into His Suit” - Gabriel Herrera
“The Land of Cruciform Sun” - Aleš Zůbek
“Changing skin” - Maxime Coton
