International Competition 6
24.04.2022 – 21.30 – Flagey
29.04.2022 – 19.00 – Flagey
Out of 3714 short films submissions, 59 films will compete for the prizes in the International Competition.
Winners of the Grand Prix in the International Competition and National Competitions are considered for pre-selection for the Oscars® in the Best Fiction/Animation Short Film category provided that the film complies with the Academy’s rules.
Les huîtres
Maïa Descamps
Pays Belgium
Genre Fiction
2021 - 23'31" - Color
Mouths stay shut like the oysters these women are busy opening. But as shells shatter and hands are torn, truth rises to the surface.
Elizabet
Zifrut Nitzan
Pays Israel
Genre Fiction
2020 - 18'31" - Couleur
A soldier climbs up the metal stairs of a guard tower and takes his post. Around him, nothing but wilderness and endless silence echoed only by his thoughts.
Kadillak dhe Manaferra
Suela Bako
Pays Albania
Genre Fiction
2021 - 14'56" - Couleur
The “soft” but stubborn resistance of an oil technician who in Communist Albania in the 1975 dared to refuse giving away the american car that his father had gifted him and that the communists wanted to get at all the costs.
Vlekkeloos
Emma Branderhorst
Pays Netherlands
Genre Fiction
2021 - 15'41" - Couleur - Sous-titres: VO NL ST FR
Ruby lives in a small flat with her mother and her younger sister. Her mother works overtime to make ends meet. She realizes they are out of period products. To make sure she doesn’t trouble anyone with this problem, she tries to solve it herself.
Haut les coeurs
Adrian Moyse Dullin
Pays France
Genre Fiction
2021 - 15'00" - Couleur - Sous-titres: VO FR ST NL
Kenza, 15, and her little brother Madhi, 13, regularly humiliate one another on social media. On the bus, Kenza puts her naive and romantic little brother to the test: to profess his love for Jada, the girl that Madhi loves, even though she does not know him.