IFFR awarded 3 films from among the the 21 competitng Tiger Shorts of 2024. The jury included former Tiger Short Award-winner Mónica Lima, writer, programmer, and researcher Yasmina Price and distributor, curator and festival producer Jade Wiseman. The KNF (Circle of Dutch Film Journalists) Award winner and nomination for European Short Film Award are also announced.
Crazy Lotus (Thailand) by Naween Noppakun
Jury Comments: “Blurring the lines between reality and a peculiar, virtual world, this film is a wild ride. With its bold stylistic choices and unique tone, this film bends, twists, warps and questions. Philosophical yet funny, mesmerising yet kitschy, we were carried away to a distorted dimension, full of possibilities and meanings, with for background a cityscape in constant flux. It’s a weird, pink, flashy and delightful oddity that will leave no one indifferent.”
Few Can See (Ireland) by Frank Sweeney
Jury Comments: “History lives on shaky, uncertain grounds. Through imaginative reenactments and dynamic manipulation, this film exposes an always-present crisis around truth and evidence, document and fiction. Even as a colonial struggle over land and life is destroying another geography in the present, this film’s setting of 1980s Northern Ireland is a reminder of still active histories of repression and resistance. Using archival materials and oral histories to fill in what was erased through broadcast censorship, this film is a lesson in recovering the past.”
Workers’ Wings (Kosovo) by Ilir Hasanaj
Jury Comments: “A testimony to the labour of working class people, made with an empathetic and gentle tone, this film portrays tragic events in the lives of individuals whose scars and dignity are beautifully amplified by an honest and humble cinematic style. The film’s formal elegance and restraint are impressively infused with subtle and captivating aesthetic qualities – chromatic, rhythmic and haptic.”
The KNF (Circle of Dutch Film Journalists) was awarded to
Daphne was a torso ending in leaves (Italy, Greece) by Catriona Gallagher.
“A testimony to the labour of working class people, made with an empathetic and gentle tone, this film portrays tragic events in the lives of individuals whose scars and dignity are beautifully amplified by an honest and humble cinematic style. The film’s formal elegance and restraint are impressively infused with subtle and captivating aesthetic qualities – chromatic, rhythmic and haptic.”
IFFR Selection for the next European Short Film Award is
I Would Rather Be a Stone (Croatia) by Ana Hušman
Jury Comment: “Through a lyrical and sensorial attention to a landscape threatened by ecological and economic changes, this filmmaker presents a disarmingly caring gaze, sewed together by a masterfully poetic narration. A region of Croatia is shown through a moving tapestry of personal and collective memories, to tenderly consider the traces we leave behind.”
