The Best of TAFF 2023
Films in this screening:
Heta Jäälinoja:
Nun or Never!
Finland, 2023. 11 minutes.
The nuns living in the convent are happily melted together. When one nun finds a man in the garden, the harmony breaks and she loses the shared rhytm.
Milly Yencken:
The Eastern Rain
Estonia, 2023. 9 minutes.
If the rain were to fall indoors, but never out doors …where do we begin to look for shelter?
Levi STOOPS:
Drijf
Belgium, 2023. 15 minutes.
Jeremy and Aurora are lost at sea. In the vast openness of the ocean they are cooped up together on a small tree bark. As they fail to understand each other’s desires and boundaries, the fight for their survival and the survival of their relationship becomes a bloody mess. Will our castaways be able to grow while trying to make it back to shore, or will they lose a piece of themselves along the way?
Joachim Hérissé:
Skinned
(Écorchée)
France, 2022. 15 minutes.
In an old building, lost in the middle of the swamp, live two strange women, Siamese twins by one leg. At night, the Flayed has terrifying nightmares in which she sees her sister’s flesh covering her own body…
Flóra Anna BUDA:
27
France, 2023. 11 minutes.
Alice is 27 years old today. Even though she is suffocating a bit, she still lives with her parents and tends to live in her dreams to escape her dreary everyday life. After a psychedelic party on a factory roof, she has a serious drunken bike accident. Will this give her the courage to become an adult?
