On youtube.com/IFFRotterdam the festival presents a monthly compilation programme with shorts that have been screened at previous IFFR editions. Each programme can be viewed online for a restricted period of 2 months.
Shorts 4 (available until 8 November 2010)
Children have to grow up too fast in two of the shorts but in the animation there is paradise for them too. But, where is this creature coming from? Now online:
Eintritt zum Paradies um 3€20,
Entrevista con la tierra,
Oh Great Now Look What Happened and
The Beekeeper's Son.
Shorts 3 (offline - available until 17 September 2010)
The programme starts with a dog in a tragic animated story:
The Black Dog's Progress by Stephen Irwin. Following, two melancholic love stories in which the lovers only communicate via letters and postcards:
Address Unknown by Guo Xiaolu and
Aditi Singh by Mickael Kummer.
Shorts 2 (offline - available until 16 August 2010)
The second compilation programme with three dreamy and fantastic shorts about past & present, reality and fiction:
One by Ricardo Mehedff,
Monsieur Sélavy by Peter Volkart and
Murche (persisch: Ameisen) by Behrooz Karamizade.
Shorts 1 (offline - available until 16 July 2010)
The
first compilation programme consists of David Freyne's The Man in 301 on crime & punishment and Janez Burger's On the Sunny Side of the Alps, a festival hit on recent racism in Slovenia, can both be considered 'alternative musicals'. On the other hand there is Roma by Elisa Miller Encinas, a Mexican short in which not words, music or sound count but glances; about a special encounter.
More shorts and features on YouTube
Besides the shorts compilations, there are also individual shorts available on the channel, like the channel hit The Dirty Ones by Brent Stewart, Butterfly Light by Dónal Ó'Céilleachair and February 29th by Stefano Pari. Features include Weed by Wang Liren, Zara by Aytem Mutlu Saray and Does It Hurt? - The First Balkan Dogma by Aneta Lesnikovska. Please pay the channel a visit once in a while and let us know what you think; comments are much appreciated!