This is the list of the films screened at August 2017 Short Film Factory edition.
A WHOLE WORLD FOR A LITTLE WORLD
BEST FILM @ STTP FEBRUARY 2017 AWARDS
Director: Fabrice Bracq
Country: France
Duration: 15:00
Synopsis:
A woman tells a great story to her baby. In the manner of a tale with princes and princesses, she remains into his memories to pass on his daughter.
#MEAT
BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM @ STTP FEBRUARY 2017 AWARDS
Director: Marc J. M. van den Broek
Country: Germany
Duration: 07:10
Synopsis:
#MEAT distills a hundred years of human inventiveness and arrives at a wordless digital dystopia that’s as inescapable as man’s thirst for knowledge and power.
Shot as a series of fragments by Belgian-born artist and sculptor Marc van den Broek, this six-minute art film resembles a retrofitted tale of Faust.
Essential elements of humanity – the written word, the human body, music – are clasped and reduced to mechanical function by van den Broek’s eerily beautiful
sculptural restraints, strapped first onto a hand, a leg, head, finally an entire body. Hooks and eyes in the bowels of a warehouse reflect a fragment of binary script and double up as industrialization’s invitation to mass consumption. Ancient songlines metamorphose into the hum of drones.
ELLES OU MOI (THEM OR ME)
SPECIAL JURY AWARD @ STTP FEBRUARY 2017 AWARDS
Director: PH Debiès
Country: France
Duration: 03:17
Synopsis: “They” suck up his whole life. He’s going to have to make a choice.
ELO
BEST SCREENPLAY @ STTP FEBRUARY 2017 AWARDS
Director: Helen Takkin
Country: Estonia
Duration: 15:00
Synopsis:
Elo is a stubborn kindergarten child whose sole purpose is to escape the repression of her evil teacher. One day a new teacher Helena appears and Elo’s life changes completely.
HEAD SPACE
BEST YOUNG DIRECTOR @ STTP FEBRUARY 2017 AWARDS
Director: Emma Huibregtse
Country: United States
Duration: 04:55
Synopsis: A single mother concerned with her son’s inability to cope, sees the tables turn when faced with danger.
KARMA
BEST ANIMATION SHORT FILM @ STTP FEBRUARY 2017 AWARDS
Director: Peter Zhaoyu Zhou
Country: United States
Duration: 03:48
Synopsis: A boy meets a fish in a mysterious forest.
LIGHT SIGHT
SPECIAL JURY AWARD @ STTP FEBRUARY 2017 AWARDS
Director: Seyed M. Tabatabaei
Country: Islamic Republic of Iran
Duration: 07:34
Synopsis: M.E., the imprisoned character in a room is attracted to a hanging light and tries to catch it. But the room itself becomes an obstacle on his way.
ME (ASMAD)
SPECIAL JURY AWARD @ STTP FEBRUARY 2017 AWARDS
Director: Prabhjit Dhamija
Country: India
Duration: 29:57
Synopsis: In a slow paced himalayan village in India, a young boy goes through a guilt-led state due to an incident for which he feels responsible. In the course of events the film enquires into the idea of ‘me’, thoughts, actions, suffering, and the degree of man’s free-will.
THE BOY BY THE SEA
BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM @ STTP FEBRUARY 2017 AWARDS
Director: Vasily Chuprina
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 06:56
Synopsis: The story of an unlikely friendship. A young boy sitting by the sea, watching the stones he throws disappear beneath the surface. An old lighthouse keeper. A different truth beyond the water.
THE INTERVIEW
SPECIAL JURY AWARD @ STTP FEBRUARY 2017 AWARDS
Director: Marc GURUNG
Country: France
Duration: 17:38
Synopsis:
Christophe, in his thirties, black, passes a job interview in the company where his girlfriend, Emma, works. The same night, convinced he got the job, the couple celebrates the event. But in the heat of the moment, Christophe asks himself if he will be chosen for his skills or if he received special treatment. The evening has only just begun…