Event category: Panorama

Adapted Classics

TAFF Pro Panorama

All films that have dialogue in a language other than English, are subtitled in English.

Kaikki elokuvat, joissa puhutaan muuta kuin englantia, on tekstitetty englanniksi.

Films in this screening:

Koji Yamamura:

The Old Crocodile
(年をとった鰐 / Toshi wo totta Wani)

Japan, 2005. 12 minutes.

An adaptation of a rather antiquated fable by French author and illustrator Leopold Chauveau (1870-1940) called “Histoire du vieux crocodile”

Priit Pärn, Olga Pärn:

I feel a Lifelong Bullet in the Back of My Head

Estonia, 2007. 2 minutes.

Based on a Poem by Jüri Üdi

Caroline Leaf:

The Street

Canada, 1976. 10 minutes.

Based on a short story by Mordecai Richler

Špela Čadež:

Boles

Slovenia, Germany, 2013. 12 minutes.

Based on the short story Her Lover by Maksim Gorky​

Jonathan Hodgson:

Man with the Beautiful Eyes

United Kingdom, 1999. 6 minutes.

Based on a poem by Charles Bukowski

Gianluigi Toccafondo:

Pinocchio

Italy, 1999. 6 minutes.

Based on a novel by Carlo Collodi

Eva Cvijanović:

Hedgehog's Home

Canada, Croatia, 2017. 10 minutes.

Based on the classic story by Branko Ćopić

Brothers Quay:

Street of Crocodiles

United Kingdom, 1986. 21 minutes.

Based on a short story by Bruno Schulz

TAFF Pro Panorama

All films that have dialogue in a language other than English, are subtitled in English.

Kaikki elokuvat, joissa puhutaan muuta kuin englantia, on tekstitetty englanniksi.

Music Videos

All films that have dialogue in a language other than English, are subtitled in English.

Content warning: The screening includes sexual harrasment.

Kaikki elokuvat, joissa puhutaan muuta kuin englantia, on tekstitetty englanniksi.

Sisältövaroitus: Näytös sisältää seksuaalista häirintää.

Films in this screening:

Agnès Patron, Morgane Le Péchon:

Météores

France, 2023. 5 minutes.

On a cool summer night, animals with eyes full of light leave the forest to venture into the alleys of a suburban neighbourhood. Four children sneak out of their beds, and stars begin to fall from the sky. By the morning everything will have changed, but for now let’s run!

Stéphane Berla:

À toi

France, 2023. 3 minutes.

We follow the growth of two characters, a red boy symbolizing masculinity and reality, and a blue girl embodying the feminine ideal and dreams. Each builds their own identity and cultivates their differences, only to meet again in adulthood to create a common work and merge their colors into a new one.

CIANG, Matteo Dang Minh, Francesca Colombara:

Boy Blue

Italy, 2023. 4 minutes.

A seashell on the ocean floor opens, revealing a shape-shifting elephant inside. The elephant emerges from the water and crosses a forest, eventually arriving in a small town with a row of beautiful houses. One house, in particular, stands out among the others, surrounded by dense vegetation and crowned by a dark cloud. The elephant peers over the fence and spots the melancholic Boy Blue.

Claudia Cortès Espejo, Margot Reumont:

Cut Short Crisply

Belgium, 2023. 4 minutes.

The team of a restaurant prepares the setting of the evening’s shift. As the customers arrive, the pace quickens, the restaurant room is full and the stomachs are filled. The kitchen is literally overflowing

Katalin Egely:

To know to fall is a science
(Saber cair é uma ciencia )

Portugal, 2023. 2 minutes.

A charming musical short with songs in Spanish about adopted parents and children.

Ingrid Heiderscheidt:

Sexual Misery
(Misère sexuelle)

Belgium, 2023. 5 minutes.

Brussels. In some parts of the city, women are very familiar with a phenomenon which is as widespread here as elsewhere: they attract attention, even if they do not want it, and then there are remarks, proposals, ‘compliments’ and finally insults.

Michelle Brand:

I'm Leaving
(Je Pars)

Germany, 2023. 4 minutes.

As the night comes, the journey begins. Running rushing, racing. Unbound from time and swept away by the night’s surreal cascade of lights, we leave day-life behind.

Håvard Skeide Glad:

Theo Myling - my heart is in limbo

Norway, 2023. 4 minutes.

A heartbroken man stuck in grief, is looking out his window towards a past love, in his floating house amongst the stars. Myling, a mysterious entity, appears and delves into the dark depths of the hidden basement, to find and uproot the pulsating source. As the entity rips out the growth, the man must confront his fiery pain, to ultimately be able to step outside and move on.

Mattis Dovier, Yoann Dovier:

Worm

France, 2023. 2 minutes.

During a performance in the Moscow underground, the group IC3PEAK invoked an evil entity: Kim Dracula, in the form of a giant worm.

Carlon Hardt, Rimon Guimarães:

Laguna Plena

Brazil, 2024. 4 minutes.

In a setting of natural plenitude, a mystical figure, embodiment of the feminine origin, encounters a wild horse with which she embarks on an ancestral journey of union with nature. An ode to purity, to harmony with the natural, to the pursuit of unbridled freedom, celebrating love in its most natural and raw form.

Pearl Seemann:

Opto Optics

Germany, 2024. 4 minutes.

A man gets lost trying to obtain ingredients for his dinner.

Tarafu Otani:

Mind Replacer

Japan, 2024. 2 minutes.

HOSHIMIYA TOTO is a VR singer without a physical body. At their live performances, many audience members are enthralled by their flat avatars on the screen. It is as if a physical being is there, The desire to become one with them separates our body and spirit. The line between reality and VR is very blurred today. Our psyche, which has left the body, is becoming a new life form, combining, disintegrating, and replacing each other. The classic motif of “primitive eroticism,” which requires the body to become one with the spirit, is depicted through a VR singer in this music video.

Erentia Bedeker:

Wildlife Cameraman (Summer Farm)

United Kingdom, 2023. 4 minutes.

Wildlife Cameraman (Summer Farm) is a music video/poetry film based on the poem “Summer Farm” by Scottish poet Norman MacCaig with music and lyrics by Scott William Urquhart & Constant Follower. The film focuses on the connection between nature and our inner world. McCaig’s poem looks outward to nature, noticing the simplistic details which become a metaphysic web that connects all living things. The expansiveness of nature often triggers an inward journey when we feel disconnected from ourselves and the world around us. The true self manifests as the inner child who is always true and pure no matter what hardships we might face. We can lose touch with our inner child, but the connection can never be severed. We can always find our way back to ourselves and to nature.

Marie Opron:

The Time
(Le Temps)

France, 2023. 4 minutes.

Project of animated music video

Jeremy Boulard, Paul Bourgois:

Doughy the Doggy

France, 2023. 3 minutes.

In the middle of the ocean, a gigantic column gives birth to a small creature half dog, half pig. Driven by the pulsation of an electro-surf music, she will have to ride the wave of her life to join.

All films that have dialogue in a language other than English, are subtitled in English.

Content warning: The screening includes sexual harrasment.

Kaikki elokuvat, joissa puhutaan muuta kuin englantia, on tekstitetty englanniksi.

Sisältövaroitus: Näytös sisältää seksuaalista häirintää.

International Panorama

All films that have dialogue in a language other than English, are subtitled in English.

Content warning: The screening includes minor gory content.

Kaikki elokuvat, joissa puhutaan muuta kuin englantia, on tekstitetty englanniksi.

Sisältövaroitus: Näytös sisältää jonkin verran veristä sisältöä.

Films in this screening:

Sean Pecknold:

Tennis, Oranges

United States, 2024. 11 minutes.

A robotic vacuum suffering from burnout quits its job at a hospital and sets out to find community and a greater purpose on a quiet street where two lonely rabbits are stuck in perpetual loops.

Nana KAWABATA:

The Point of Permanence

Japan, 2024. 10 minutes.

From the creation of the human race to its final destination of being trapped in the point of permanence.

Laura Vandewynckel:

Le Crépuscule

Belgium, 2023. 14 minutes.

The sun shines fully and generously on a square brimming with people, enjoying her light and warmth to the fullest. A flux of newspapers whirls down, gently spreading seeds of unrest amongst the bathers. Unrest turns to fear, when a sudden eclipse clads the square in total darkness. The minds grow desperate for light. Then the sun slowly subsides…

Stas Santimov:

Spooky Loops

Ukraine, 2024. 4 minutes.

Spooky Loops is a compilation of independent films of 13 ultra-short animated stories about dreams, fears, loneliness, injustice, violence, cruelty, and inhumanity.

Jan Saska:

Hurikán

Czech Republic, 2024. 13 minutes.

Hurikán rushes to save his favourite beer stand from closure by fetching a new keg to impress the bartender he crushes on. In a wild Prague district, he faces robbers, cops, and his own thirst. Despite getting the keg, he succumbs to temptation.

Pablo Ballarín:

Point and Line to Cosmos

Estonia, 2023. 8 minutes.

A cosmic entity talks to humankind. Meanwhile, three dinosaurs cross the desert guided by a shooting star.

Alessandro Novelli:

De Imperio

Portugal, 2023. 13 minutes.

During a peaceful night, a group of fugitives tries to find its way to the center of the building, where the entire resistance is gathering. Evading the surveillance, they go through the rooms of the Giants and witness their macabre routines.

Nicolás Petelski:

Godspeed Cowboy

France, 2024. 3 minutes.

A lonesome Cowboy receives an unexpected visit

All films that have dialogue in a language other than English, are subtitled in English.

Content warning: The screening includes minor gory content.

Kaikki elokuvat, joissa puhutaan muuta kuin englantia, on tekstitetty englanniksi.

Sisältövaroitus: Näytös sisältää jonkin verran veristä sisältöä.