Competition 2: Worlds Collide

Short Film Festival

The clash of cultures is the focus of our second international competition programme. Differences are challenged in both form and content, in a series of films that conflate the personal and the political.

When Worlds Collude

UK Premiere
Fred Worden; USA; 2008; 13min
A kind of specialized playground in which highly representational images are freed from their duties to refer to things outside of themselves.

Hunger

Scottish Premiere
Carolina Hellsgård; Germany; 2009; 17min
Neglected siblings Roland and Paul watch the deportation of their immigrant neighbours. After the police have left, they enter the abandoned apartment.

La Boheme

Scottish Premiere
Werner Herzog; UK; 2009; 4min
A moving yet enigmatic interpretation of Puccini set among the Mursi people of south-west Ethiopia.

Chantier

UK Premiere
Damien Dufresne; France; 2009; 29min
Pascal has turned his back on the past and works alone on a building site. When Kevin arrives asking for work, Pascal sees his old devils reappearing.