Awarded Films 4: Best of Generation XYZ

Language: Eng Duration: 93 min Age Limit: 16+

  • Keski-ikäinen mies halaa varovasti jalkalamppua, keski-ikäinen nainen halaa polvillaan huonekalua. Heidän takanaan nuori nainen istuu ilmeettömänä sohvalla.

    Se dit d'un cerf qui quitte son bois

    Said of a Deer That Sheds Its Antlers
    Kuin sarvensa pudottava peura
    Director: Salomé Crickx
    Country: Belgium
    Year: 2023
    Genre: Fiction
    Duration: 20 min

    Today is the 167th annual moult, a ceremony to promote ideological renewal. This year, in this countryside village, it is Ben and his parents' turn to experience the moult.

    Said of a Deer That Sheds Its Antlers was awarded the prize for Best Genre Film in the Generation XYZ Competition.

  • Ilmakuva kivisestä rannasta, jolla on kolme henkilöä.

    Wildmen of the Greater Toronto Area

    Toronton villi-ihmiset
    Director: Solmund MacPherson
    Country: Canada
    Year: 2023
    Genre: Fiction
    Duration: 12 min

    In response to the rising cost of living, the citizens of Toronto begin renouncing their personhood en masse to legally become animals, forming a society of "Wildmen" in the city's vast ravine network.

  • Piirretty nunnakuoro laulaa lukuunottamatta keskellä seisovaa nunnaa, joka katselee ympärilleen posket punaisina.

    Nun or Never!

    Director: Heta Jäälinoja
    Country: Finland
    Year: 2023
    Genre: Animation
    Duration: 11 min
    Age Limit:

    The nuns live in the monastery in contentment and harmony, fused together. One of the nuns finds a man underground while digging potatoes. The nun begins to dream of a man, goes mad and loses a common rhythm with others.
    NOTE! Not available to watch on Festhome TV.

    Nun or Never! was chosen as the Tampere Nominee for the European Short Film Audience Award. It was also awarded the Sustainability Award Verso.

  • 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.

  • Metsässä neljä puupölkkyä, joihin on veistetty kasvot.

    Bannkorb

    Director: Vincent Ercolani, Julius Schulze Farwick, Nicholas Dues
    Country: Germany
    Year: 2024
    Genre: Fiction
    Duration: 18 min

    Germany, 1945: The Second World War is over. Josef, a former SS colonel, lives a secluded life in a hut deep in the forest. His only companions are his bees and a rabbit that he reads to. The idyll proves to be a facade, because the demons of the past haunt Josef.

    Bannkorb won the Audience Award in the Generation XYZ Competition.

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