2017 Short Short Story Film Festival

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Total run time: 70 minutes

Domek (The House)

Dir. Veronika Zacharová - Prostejov, Czech Republic

Family comes to regret vacating house.

Second Hand

Dir. Noémi Barkóczi - Békéscsaba, Hungary

Cat sweater recounts history of owners.

枝仔冰 (Popsicle)

Dir. Tzu-Hsin Yang - Taichung, Taiwan

Siblings recall memories of departed mother.

Interludio (Interlude)

Dir. Rodrigo Canet - Toledo, Spain

A woman, a rose, a piano.

My Mamma Is Bossies (My Mum’s Bonkers)

Dir. Naomi van Niekerk - Johannesberg, South Africa

Memories of a quixotic emotional mother.

Ayam (Days)

Dir. Sofia El Khyari - Casablanca, Morocco

Three generations of women exchange anecdotes.

Sukut

Dir. Ganza Moise - Kigali, Rwanda

Community struggles at attaining its voice.

Laymun

Dir. Catherine Prowse & Hannah Quinn - London, England

Growing lemon trees in war-torn city.

Lâl (Garnet)

Dir. Cemre Yilmaz - Ankara, Turkey

Woman’s abaya caught on barbed wire.

Icky

Dir. Parastoo Cardgar - Tehran, Iran

Rubik's cube girl feels mixed up.

Mimesis

Dir. Joana Freitas Flauzino, Leonor Filipa Cortesão Soares, Renilson Samuel dos Santos Renner - Portalegre, Portugal

Searching for connections in conformist society.

Papa

Dir. Magda Kreps - Hamburg, Germany

Soviet émigré's first impressions of Germany.

Pán (Sir)

Dir. Ján Jakub Štefan - Bratislava, Slovakia

Man briefly reborn as winged youth.

Closed Visit

Dir. Jade Evans - London, England

Divorced father anticipates weekly video call.

Street Shot

Dir. Yael Danon - Tel Aviv, Israel

Street photographer imposes upon homeless woman.

Ces p’tites heures (Sweet Wee Hours)

Dir. Judith Herbeth, Ines Brini, Julien Cortey, Lea-Caroline Larcher - Paris, France

Parisian woman imagines neighbors' nocturnal activities.

Meia Noite (Midnight)

Dir. Bruno Carnide - Leiria, Portugal

Silence of a city at midnight.

Total run time: 70 minutes

ARThropods

Dir. Chen Libman - Netanya, Israel

Eighteen unusual human and insect interactions.

Muteum

Dir. Aggie Pak Yee Lee - Tallinn, Estonia & Hong Kong

Children learn unforeseen lessons from art.

小間童話 (Little Nightmare Fairy Tale)

Dir. Pei-Ning Lu - Taoyuan, Taiwan

Siblings discover another dimension of laundry.

הפתעה (Surprise)

Dir. Bar Friedman - Zoran, Israel

Shopper considers evidence for surprise party.

Penelope

Dir. Heta Jäälinoja - Turku, Finland

Hurriedly tidying up for unexpected guest.

Anxiety

Dir. Alisia Manuguerra - Berlin, Germany

Panic attack through eyes of sufferer.

Yola

Dir. Héloïse Ferlay - Paris, France

Yola encounters adult version of herself.

Liens (Links)

Dir. Pascale Kinanga - Brussels, Belgium

Chairbound elder encouters hope, despair, acceptance.

Bystander

Dir. Mohsen Bagheri Dastgerdi - Shahrekord, Iran

Lynch mob forms to eliminate outsider.

My Unseen

Dir. Anton Bilzho - Moscow, Russia

Traces of strangely missing scientist husband.

Fiaskó (Fiasco)

Dir. Szabolcs Nagy - Budapest, Hungary

Old man haggles with magical traveller.

Hunters

Dir. Ido Shapira & Amit Cohen - Jerusalem, Israel

Boy endures brutal rite of passage.

The Moment

Dir. Sonali Bhattacharya - London, England

Emotional turmoil between mother and son.

Wolf

Dir. Karin van Zon - Breda, Netherlands

Young boy wishes he were wolf.

A Short History of Indians in Canada

Dir. Nancy Beiman - Burlington, Ontario, Canada

Coyote offers tourist satirical historical lesson.

Sonríe (Smile)

Dir. Pablo Vara - Madrid, Spain

Elena doesn't want to smile today.

Max Morrison

Dir. Ziga Pokorn - Ljubljana, Slovenia

Couch potato slowly consumed by entertainment.

SSSFF 2017 Heartstrings Audience Award

SF 17 Heartstrings Audience

A custom creation by Anna Kadykova

SSSFF 2017 Headtrip Jury Award

SF 17 Headtrip Jury

A custom creation by Sander Dufourmont

SSSFF 2017 Headtrip Audience Award

SF 17 Headtrip Audience

A custom creation by Sander Dufourmont

SSSFF 2017

Mind's Eye Award

SF 17 Mind's Eye

A custom creation by Bernhard Wenger