Competition for shorts
Jury: Alexei Alexeev (Russia), Isabelle Favez (Switzerland), Osbert Parker (United Kingdom), Fons Schiedon (The Netherlands), Han Schuil (The Netherlands)

Jury report
Grand Prix non-narrative short
Mysterious, surreal and even slow at first. This brilliant non-narrative film gradually, but firmly takes hold of your imagination, pulling you into a unique dark world where animal and landscape collide. Refusing to let go the result is an apocalyptical climax where music and image come together in a compelling and powerful way. The winner is Je Criais Contre La Vie. Ou Pour Elle (I Was Crying Out At Life. Or For It) by Vergine Keaton (France).

Grand Prix narrative short
The jury was unanimous in their decision to award this bold directorial vision. This intimate, human film is a perfect symbiosis of story and form. Brilliantly structured, visually inventive with great use of sound and extremely funny. The harmony of humor and drama, the employment of a cinematic language within a visually raw universe and the unexpected painterly beauty found in this film touched us, made us laugh and brought back memories we hoped to forget. We are proud to present the prize for best short narrative film to The Tale of Little Puppetboy by Johannes Nyholm (Sweden).

Competition for commissioned films
Jury: Dominic Buttimore (United Kingdom), Mieke Gerritzen (The Netherlands), Motomichi Nakamura (USA)

Jury report
Music video
Don Diablo: Hooligans Never Surrender, Daniel Nogueira, The Netherlands
A nice combination between live action and animation. The character design is very well done and at first sight, the wrestlers actually frightened the jurors.

Commercial
Sulekha.com, Suresh Eriyat, India
This is the future of advertising! A traditional, yet modern journey, that is funny and gripping right to the end. Very original!

Leader
EBGE Awards: Intelligent Design, NOMINT, Greece
The jury liked the strong atmosphere, the artistic look, and nice movements in this leader. Surprising concept.

Educational
Young Animated Minds: Self Harm, Andy Glynne, United Kingdom
A very nice contrast between the horror of the story and the beauty of the image. A difficult subject, obviously studied thoroughly, well explained and beautiful in a morbid way.

GRAND PRIX
N.A.S.A.: A Volta, Alexei Tylevich, USA
The jury found themselves pleasantly shocked by this music video. Good lighting, self-containedness, a dramatic story, an interesting style and nice music made this film stand out.

Special Mention
This jury doesn’t have any guilty pleasures, but would like to give a Special Mention to:
De Kift: Beguine, Douwe Dijkstra, The Netherlands

Competition for student films from the Netherlands and Belgium
Jury: Michelle Nardone (Denmark), Michiel Snijders (The Netherlands), Anna Solanas (Spain)

Jury report
For this year’s jury of the student competition, the films did not need to be perfect in all aspects, but definitely had to excel in some very clear way. The jury wanted to see an author at work, not just an animator.
The members of the jury were not simply looking for a great film. They wanted to award ‘true creativity, originality, bravery’ and especially award those films that would make them want to see the debut film of the director.
The jury wants to give special mention to one film in that context. A special mention for presenting a charming film that creates a new comical and bizarre reality that invites the audience to lose oneself in the fiction. It is a film that makes you anticipate his next one. That special mention goes out to: Dirt in the Ground by Paul Delissen (Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussels).

Second runner up (3rd prize)
One film stood out because it scored high on all aspects of animation filmmaking: story, direction, design, animation, strong characterization, timing, camera and editing.
Although the clue of the film can be foretold by the audience, it is the overall quality of the filmmaking that keeps the audience amused until the very last credit.
Third prize goes to the film that tells us the story of mankind’s eternal fight over money and how it can ruin friendship: Opgejut by Koen De Koninck (RITS Erasmushogeschool Brussels).

First runner up (2nd prize)
The second prize in this competition goes to a film that intrigued the jury because of its strong and original design and its own distinctive and puzzling form of narrative. It is a surreal work of animation that keeps the audience involved in the action. The jury felt the director made very clear and distinctive choices in style and technique. 
For a fresh and surprising look on bird watching and adding the big blue whale to the ornithological encyclopedia, the jury awards second prize to: Boomkruiper (Treecreeper) by Dries Bastiaensen (KASK Ghent).

First prize
The winner of this year’s competition for student films from the Netherlands and Belgium, goes to a film that has created a completely new universe in a way that only animation can. It did not only make the audience laugh during the screening it also made the jury feel really good. It is almost a therapeutic film that proves that sweet is not always childish.
The film’s strong authentic design and especially its pure quality of imagination makes the jury want to see more work from this filmmaker and hopes the director will make good use of the award, so she will grow even more as an independent filmmaker, animation designer and animation scriptwriter.
For showing us that within every fat lazy Belgian desk-clerk there is a sweet soft and Buddhist world, we award first prize and an amount of 13,500 Euros to: Zachte Planten (Soft Plants) by
Emma De Swaef (Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussels).

Competition Audience Award Dutch Animation
No Place Like Home by Rosto
The prize is an invitation for the next edition of the festival.

Competition for web animations HAFFTube
Jury: filmmakers whose films were selected for the shorts competition appointed a winner from a shortlist of fifty films
The winner is Jesus 2000 by Rémi Bastie, Jean-Baptiste Cumont, Clément Desnos, Jonathan Djob Nkondo and Nicolas Pegon (France)

Competition MovieSquad HAFF
Jury: Steven-Lee Dias Morais (16), Jorn Leeuwerink (19), Nicolaas van Zeijl (19)

Jury report
Thank you to HAFF and the Nederlands Instituut voor Filmeducatie (NIF, Dutch Institute of Film Education) for the opportunity to be in the MovieSquad jury of this festival. We had a great time and we were taken care of very well. It was really nice to see the festival from within and for instance meet the other juries. The selection of films was varied in animation styles, subjects and atmospheres. What we did notice was that many stories were about people with mental problems or that were not fitting in society in another way. We wonder if that is the case with many artists and specifically animators. We think maybe you need to be a little bit crazy to make such awesome and creative films.

Skhizein by Jérémy Clapin (France)
The subject of this film was amazingly original and absurd. We would never think of it ourselves. The main character is literally out of his mind. However, he finds a way to deal with his problems that is quite inventive. The animations were a combination of different techniques, for instance pictures and computer animation. The overall atmosphere and colours were sad and dark, but still it was very funny, which we find quite an accomplishment.

L’Homme à la Gordini by Jean-Christophe Lie (France)
This film was a quite traditional animation, but in a seventies style we all liked. It reminded us of Austin Powers. Also the music was cool and added to the atmosphere. The story of the film was surprising. We think the message was about discrimination, not fitting in and that it is okay to be different. But mostly, it was very funny. The humor was quite rough but easy to get used to.

Lies by Jonas Odell (Sweden)
This film consisted of three stories in which very different animation techniques were used. Also, the atmosphere and colours were totally different. The only common ground was the subject: lies. In this way, the artist shows a wide range of animation skills. This made the film very interesting.

Red-end and the Seemingly Symbiotic Society by Robin Noorda & Bethany de Forest (The Netherlands)
A totalitarian society somewhere, sometime. And again, an individual that is not fitting in. The animations in this film were original and very well made. It probably took forever to make it. We liked the use of everyday materials like sugar cubes and bike chains. Also the music was more than background sounds. It really added to the meaning of the film. And lastly, we appreciated the ‘making of’ that was added during the credits.

The Tale of Little Puppetboy by Johannes Nyholm (Sweden)
This film was witty and smart. The subject was recognizable and realistic. The clay animations were combined with pictures. Also we liked the sound effects and the way the television was used to get the message across: now or you will never get your chance.

The programme will be screened in the Netherlands in the national educational filmprogramme MovieZone of the Nederlands Instituut voor Filmeducatie (NIF), season 2010-2011. The NIF develops educational material for this programme in cooperation with HAFF.
MovieSquad HAFF has been organized in collaboration with the NIF and has been made possible thanks to a contribution of the SNS REAAL Fund. MovieSquad has been made possible by the Dutch Film Fund.

Competition MovieSquad HAFF Junior
Jury: Luka van den Beld, Joris Knoop, Matthijs Robbert (all 10 years old)

Jury Award: Chicken Wings by Pauline Kortmann (Germany)

Audience Award: Hard Boiled Chicken by Arjan Wilschut (The Netherlands)

The films will be screened in the Netherlands in the national educational filmprogramme Klassefilm of the Nederlands Instituut voor Filmeducatie (NIF), season 2010-2011. The NIF develops educational material for this programme in cooperation with HAFF.
MovieSquad HAFF Junior has been organized in collaboration with the NIF and has been made possible thanks to a contribution of the VSB Fund. MovieSquad has been made possible by the Dutch Film Fund.