The Silver Lynx Competition is a short film competition that attempts to provide a launch board for new filmmakers in Fiction, Documentary, Animation and Experimental Cinema.
This year's selection of short films in competition for the Silver Lynx award returns to Espinho with 50+ films, split between the usual Fiction, Documentary, Animation and Experimental section, celebrating the best batch of 2023's international cinema.
These international short film programs promise a lot of surprising moments, as well as much delight and controversy along the way.
Fiction
"Fairplay" de Zoel Aeschbacher (FRA)
"Super" de Nikolas Kouloglou (GRC)
"Gush" de Juliette van Ardenne (NLD)
"P.D.O." (Protected Designation of Origin) de Samy Sidali (FRA)
"The Fourth Friend" de Zoe Simone (USA)
"Tria" de Giulia Grandinetti (ITA)
"Bergie" de Dian Weys (ZAF)
"The Fuse" de Kevin Haefelin (CHE)
"Thank you for your patience!" de Simon van der Zande (BEL)
"Warsha" de Dania Bdeir (FRA)
"Our Males and Females" de Ahmad Alyaseer (JOR)
"Live" de Mara Tamkovich (POL)
"Heat Spell" de Marie-Pier Dupuis (CAN)
"The Train" of Joy de Jordi Boquet (ESP)
"Recordings of a Weather Camera" de Bernhard Wenger (AUT)
"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" de Alvin Lee (SGP)
"Memoir of a Veering Storm" de Sofia Georgovassili (GRC)
"She said No" de Sondos Shabayek (EGY)
"Daughters of Witches" de Faride Schroeder (MEX)
Documentary
"20 years, it’s just a few days" de Sylvain Dufayard (BEL)
"Paola" de Claudia Solano Goñi (ESP)
"Hardly Working" de Total Refusal (AUT)
"Will You Look At Me" de Shuli Huang (CHN)
"Prelude of a Story" de Ashley Salman Herrera (CHL)
"Anaklia" de Elisa Baccolo (ITA)
"The (Other) 700 Club" de Juan Blanco Garcia (USA)
"Things That Won’t Die" de Manuela Gutiérrez Arrieta (ESP)
"The Swimmers" de Charlie López (CRI)
"Amemory" de Victoria Joelle Hesselbach (DEU)
"Squid Fleet" de Ed Ou & Will N. Miller (USA)
"Dilemma of modern sex simulation" de Charlotte Bevilacqua (BEL)
"Insight" de Emma Braun (AUT)
Animation
"Slow Light" de Katarzyna Kijek & Przemysław Adamski (POL)
"Pentola" de Leo Černic (ITA)
"Swallow Flying to the South" de Mochi Lin (CAN)
"Searching Heleny" de Esther Vital (BRA)
"Backflip" de Nikita Diakur (DEU)
"Trace" de Asparuh Petrov (BGR)
"A Bloody Graveyard Story" de Vanessa Stachel (DEU)
"This will not be a festival film" de Julia Orlik (POL)
"Epicenter" de Jinsan Kim (KOR)
"All Is Lost" de Carla Pereira & Juanfran Jacinto (ESP)
Experimental
"Follicular images" de Ludivine Large-Bessette (FRA)
"Territory" de Julian Quentin (DEU)
"Rotterdam, Don't Leave Us" de Guido FG Jeurissen (NLD)
"True Bug" de Tuisku Lehto (FIN)
"Imagine The Fire" de Zachary Yap (SGP)
"Mássala" de Alexis Gomez (MEX)
"Online Bodies" de Mischa Dols (BEL)
"Under control" de Amardeep Khokhar (AUS)
"As political landscapes dissolve" de Zora Ottink (NLD)
