Awarded Films 3: Best of International Shorts

Language: Fin, Eng Age Limit: 12+

  • Vanhan naisen näköinen nukke istuu vanhan videosoittimen päällä.

    Wander to Wonder

    Director: Nina Gantz
    Country: The Netherlands, France, Belgium
    Year: 2023
    Genre: Experimental, Animation
    Duration: 17 min

    Mary, Billybud and Fumbleton are three miniature, human actors who perform in an eighties kids TV series. After the series’ creator dies, they are left alone in the studio. With their slowly decaying costumes and growing hunger, they continue to make increasingly strange episodes for their fans.
    NOTE! Not available to watch on Festhome TV.

    Wander to Wonder won the Grand Prix in the International Competition.

  • Pieni alaston piirroslapsi istuu jousi kädessään.

    La saison pourpre

    The Purple Season
    Purppuran aikakausi
    Director: Clémence Bouchereau
    Country: France
    Year: 2023
    Genre: Animation
    Duration: 10 min

    On the edge of a mangrove, a group of girls lives to the rhythm of the climate and the wild geese around them. They see each other live and grow up at different ages. As time passes, tensions arise and rivalries develop.

    La saison pourpre was awarded the prize for Best Animation in the International Competition.

  • Kuvausryhmä metropysäkillä.

    Shotplayer

    Taskuvaras
    Director: Sam Shainberg
    Country: United States
    Year: 2023
    Genre: Documentary
    Duration: 22 min

    A notorious NYC pickpocket returns to the subway system, the scene of his crimes, and in a fever dream of memories is forced to dissect his relationship to the act that has ruled his life for over forty years.

    Shotplayer was awarded the prize for Best Documentary in the International Competition.

  • Oyu

    Director: Atsushi Hirai
    Country: France
    Year: 2023
    Genre: Fiction
    Duration: 22 min

    It is the last day of the year and night falls on the small town of Toyama, Japan. A man goes to the public bath to retrieve a forgotten object. But once inside, the promise of a hot bath compels him to stay.

    Oyu was awarded the prize for Best Fiction in the International Competition.

  • Tyttö ja nainen istuvat pihatuoleissa nurmikolla.

    Guazuvirá

    Director: Joaquin Araújo, Nicolás Sequeira
    Country: Uruguay
    Year: 2023
    Genre: Fiction
    Duration: 22 min

    Twelve-year-old Juana smokes and claims to be pregnant. At the end of an immutable summer, she wanders between absence and discontent with the adult world. During those hot and humid days, she weaves a web of lies that ends in disaster.

    Guazuvirá won the Audience Award in the International Competition.

  • Iloinen nainen pinkeissä vaatteissa pinkkiä taustaa vasten.

    Leila

    Director: Fariba Haidari
    Country: Sweden
    Year: 2023
    Genre: Documentary
    Duration: 25 min

    Poignant and touching slices of Leila’s life, a charming 64-year-old transgender woman who is permanently navigating and negotiating her place in an antagonistic world, just before the Taliban retake control of Afghanistan.

    Leila was given the Special Mention in the International Competition.