IFFR announces winners Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 2020

From left to right: Dorian Jespers, Maïder Fortuné, Ismaïl Bahri

On Sunday 26 January 2020, the jury announced the winners of this year’s Ammodo Tiger Short Competition at International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). The winning films are Apparition by Ismaïl Bahri, Communicating Vessels by Maïder Fortuné and Annie MacDonell, and Sun Dog by Dorian Jespers. They won three equal Ammodo Tiger Short Awards.

The jury consisted of recently appointed director of Kunsthal Rotterdam Nathanja van Dijk, French filmmaker and previous Tiger Award for Short Films winner Safia Benhaim (La fièvre, IFFR 2014), and Los Angeles-born, Belgrade-based film curator and writer Greg de Cuir Jr.

The jury gave a special mention to Wong Ping’s Fables 2 by Wong Ping. They said: “This admirable work, whose sharp political satire and madcap animation started so memorably last year in the award-winning first part of the series, continues to keep a finger on the pulse of society.”

Still: Apparition by Ismaïl Bahri

The jury on Apparition:
“A short and poetic piece that contemplates history and memory through the materiality of the moving image. It deals with politics, the suppleness of gesture, and the fleeting nature of our collective footing in tumultuous moments in time.”

Still: Communicating Vessels by Maïder Fortuné and Annie MacDonell

The jury on Communicating Vessels:
“An incredibly intricate and layered work about being haunted by someone else’s story. A tribute to the efforts of a generation of pioneering women and the conceptual art they created. Also a meditation on motherhood, the responsibility of teaching and the fluid boundary between art and life. How does one imprint narratives and ideas on bodies and minds?”

Still: Sun Dog by Dorian Jespers

The jury on Sun Dog:
“The emerging young artist demonstrates a visionary approach to the tale of a young man adrift at the end of the world. A subjective piece that captures the acute delirium of tedious work and an environment that is harsh and unforgiving. The final, very uncanny image of two suns breaking through the clouds and rising in the distance is one of the more striking images of the Ammodo Tiger Short Competition.”

Sun Dog has also been selected as IFFR’s Short Film Candidate for the European Short Film Awards 2020.

Ammodo, an organisation supporting art and science, became official partner of the competition in 2018. The three Ammodo Tiger Short Awards come with €5,000 each.

In addition to the Ammodo Tiger Short Awards, IFFR presents the Voices Short Award during the Awards Ceremony on Friday 31 January (streamed live on IFFR.com). The Voices Short Award, launched in 2018, is an audience award and celebrates the more narrative-driven short films in the festival’s Voices section.

All 21 films selected for the Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 2020:

3 Logical Exits, Mahdi Fleifel, 2020, Denmark/UK/Lebanon, world premiere
Aggregate States of Matters, Rosa Barba, 2019, Peru/Germany, world premiere (festival)
Apiyemiyekî?, Ana Vaz, 2020, France/Netherlands, world premiere
Apparition, Ismaïl Bahri, 2019, France, world premiere
Aquí y allá, Melisa Liebenthal, 2020, France/Argentina, world premiere
Becoming Alluvium, Phan Thao Nguyen, 2019, Vietnam/Spain, world premiere (festival)
Beer, Erik van Lieshout, 2019, Netherlands, world premiere (festival)
A Bright Summer Diary, Lei Lei, 2020, USA, world premiere
A chuva acalanta a dor, Leonardo Mouramateus, 2020, Portugal/Brazil, world premiere
Communicating Vessels, Maïder Fortuné/Annie MacDonell, 2020, Canada, world premiere
The Eyes of Summer, Rajee Samarasinghe, 2019, Sri Lanka/USA, international premiere
Look Then Below, Ben Rivers, 2019, UK, world premiere
The Lost Procession, Bani Abidi, 2019, United Arab Emirates/Germany/Pakistan, world premiere (festival)
the names have changed, including my own and truths have been altered, Onyeka Igwe, 2019, UK, international premiere
Progressive Touch, Michael Portnoy, 2019, Austria/Netherlands/USA, international premiere
Sayōnara, William Andreas Wivel, 2019, Denmark, international premiere
Sun Dog, Dorian Jespers, 2019, Belgium, world premiere
Tendre, Isabel Pagliai, 2020, France, world premiere
They Parlaient Idéale, Laure Prouvost, 2019, France/Belgium/Italy, world premiere (festival)
Tyrant Star, Diane Severin Nguyen, 2019, Vietnam/USA, international premiere
Wong Ping's Fables 2, Wong Ping, 2019, Hong Kong, European premiere

International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)

With nearly 330,000 admissions and 2,405 film professionals attending, IFFR is one of the largest audience and industry-driven film festivals in the world, offering a high quality line-up of fiction and documentary feature films, short films, exhibitions, performances, masterclasses and talks. IFFR actively supports new and adventurous filmmaking talent through numerous industry initiatives including co-production market CineMart, through the BoostNL and Propellor initiatives, its Hubert Bals Fund and Rotterdam Lab. IFFR's 49th edition takes place from Wednesday 22 January to Sunday 2 February 2020. More information can be found at IFFR.com.

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30.01.2020 | International Film Festival Rotterdam's blog

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