Short Film Competition # 2

14. Internationales Festival Zeichen der Nacht / Signes de Nuit

Leaves Will Bury
Toni Geitani
Lebanon
2015 / 0:23:00

A poetic visionary of the last hours lived by a suicide bomber in Lebanon before reaching his last physical destination in a hotel. The seething tie between the hotel and the kamikaze is filled with tension rising to a cinematic explosion of rhythmic thoughts and beautiful scenery.

The Light side
Khayyam Abdullayev
Azerbaijan
2015 | 00:07:30

The story of a miserable family living in oil country is depicted in the film. The oil which endows light to the world doesn`t shed light to this family.

Solium
Michaem Hunter
Great Britain
2015 | 00:16:00

Work and every day life can get you down. Solium is a film that follows one mans journey through his mind in search of enlightenment. Using his bath tub as a vessel to travel to various stunning locations around the Scottish wilderness, the character overcomes struggles and tasks to reach his final goal at the top of a mountain. Peace.

The Scarecrow
Phillip Rhys
United States
2015 | 00:12:15

A recently divorced man confronts the rocky shores of loneliness after a day spent with his adolescent son and an encounter with his ex-wife.

The Silent
Toni Tikkanen
Finlande
2015 | 0:07:27

A little girl's journey from a world of nightmares to the nightmare of reality using dream logic and aiming to touch the viewer on an subconscious level.. A family's life is thrown into turmoil after an event that tears the family apart. The Silent is a short film, that lies heavily on atmosphere and subtle storytelling.

Natural History
Júlio Cavani
Brazil
2014 | 0:12:00

A man finds a mysterious organic object at the top of the highest tree of a forest

The Dollhouse

Chad Galloway, Heather Benning
Canada
2014 | 0:08:00

For nearly a decade, The Dollhouse stood in a frozen field just off of highway #2 in the Canadian Prairies. A match was lit and in a few breaths it’s walls and everything they contained were lost forever.