SHORT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL & ASIA 2020
9.16 Wed - 9.27 Sun/Admission FREE (Except some events.)

SHORT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL & ASIA 2020
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TAG : drama

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Mads Koudal/0:18:46/Denmark/Drama/2019

A woman's lifelong relationship with her disabled daughter is changed forever when she receives an unwanted letter.

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mature Mature Content: These films may include sexual and/or violent content.

The Blue Bed

Alireza Kazemipour/0:14:10/Iran/Drama/2019

Zahra is a middle-aged woman who visits a temporary marriage agency and signs up to have a young working girl. She picks her up to take her home but the girl (Negar) who has never had a female client before, becomes suspicious of Zahra’s intent and sexual orientation.

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mature Mature Content: These films may include sexual and/or violent content.

Golden Frames in the Closet

Putri Sarah Amelia/0:16:22/Indonesia/Drama/2019

A mortuary cosmetologist has to face a dilemma when she receives a call from a mother who had lost her child in an accident. A film with no dialog.

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mature Mature Content: These films may include sexual and/or violent content.

Jane

Kathryn Prescott/0:15:24/USA/Drama/2019

A young woman suffering from heroin addiction and living in one of downtown Los Angeles' many low-income residential hotels, receives an invite to her estranged 4-year-old daughter's birthday party later that day.

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Audition on the Subway

Heui Song Son/0:04:35/South Korea/Drama/2019

Unknown Actress Yoon-ji gets on the subway after finishing her part time work. At that time, a famous director calls Yoon-ji and says that her role will be a singer. he then asks Yoon-ji to sing over the phone.

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Abu Eli

Maya Louzon /00:10:00/Israel /Drama /2019

Based on true story. The friendship between Avi, a former drug addict, and Jaber, a Sudanese refugee, is in danger. It is Jabber's last day before being sent to” Holot” Detention Facility, and Avi decides to take matters into his own hands.

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Official Competition supported by Sony
Japan Competition Best Actor Award

Her Beat

Tsubasa Tomori/0:25:00/Japan/drama/2019

A high school girl Misa moved to a countryside. She hears a mysterious beat from a distance every night.

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Birdland

Takeshi Kogahara/0:20:00/Japan/Drama/2019

A bedridden old man who spends every day on the bed. One winter night, the old man is looking at the snow falling outside the window and remembers the last time he spent with his late wife.

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En Garde!

Daniels Joffe/0:12:50/Latvia/Drama/2017

A story of a young fencer on his way to manhood, wrestling with fears and a feeling of guilt, after the loss of an important adult.

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Master Maggie

Matthew Bonifacio/0:21:31/USA/Drama/2019

A celebrity acting coach is interrupted by an unknown actor begging for her help for a TV audition. What follows is an unexpected journey for the both of them.

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BENTHOS

Tekkou Nogami/0:14:00/Japan/Drama/2019

The protagonist Mika and her mother Fumika are in preparation for engagement presents. The story goes back to the past with Mika’s monologue. Her brother, Hiroshi, suddenly stops going to school. The family's conflict is portrayed in Takashima.

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Removals

Greta Nash/0:12:57/Australia/Drama/2019

A woman enlists the help of a removalist and his reluctant son to move a piano at the last minute.

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Hikari TV Award

tapioca diary

Takashi Okado & Jon Cox/0:19:19/Japan/drama/2019

Takashi, who studies abroad in Taiwan, finds every day is full of fun in friendship and love that he can't find in Japan. However, he feels the difficulty of conveying his feelings frankly while the time goes by.

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mature Mature Content: These films may include sexual and/or violent content.

Parental Advisory

Benjamin Belloir /0:18:30/Belgium/Drama/2018

Clémentine, lives with her mother and her younger brother Raphaël. A gloomy young girl, she escapes her daily routine doing camshow for pay with strangers. One night, during one of her cam session, Raphaël busts her. In a state of schock, he threatens to tell everything to their mother. The family harmony is in danger…

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We Deliver a Smile

Leni Lauritsch/0:18:53/Austria/Drama/2020

To keep his job, delivery man Karim is forced to endure perfidious power games by customer Brigitte, who finds every excuse to keep him from leaving. Is she driven by racism or maybe just lonliness? When suddenly desperate cries for help resound from her bedroom, Karim faces a moral dilemma.

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Bare trees in the mist

Rajan Kathet/0:14:58/Nepal/drama/2019

A young woman struggles to provide for her son while waiting to receive money from her husband. When she hears that a neighbor's husband has returned from abroad with gifts, she undertakes the long, humbling journey to visit them.

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Lian

Darren Teo/0:15:00/Singapore/Drama/2019

LIA?N (12) and her family are stowaways on a ship, hiding inside one of the containers. One day Lia?n is caught and her family is accidentally locked in a container. Now, Lia?n must try and communicate the danger her family is in to try and save their lives.

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AIÒ ZITELLI

Jean Marie Antonini/0:20:43/France/Drama/2019

In the midst of the trench warfare, the Corsican soldier Lucien Casalta is called urgently at the back of the lines by a court of the country as a translator. Upon his arrival, he is surprised to see that the young soldier tried for desertion is none other than his compatriot and friend, Joseph...

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Hunger

Katyayan Shivpuri/0:08:26/India/drama/2019

Living by the railway tracks, a homeless man makes his living by selling novelty items at the busy traffic signals on the streets of Mumbai.The high point of his existence is passing a restaurant that serves the food he dreams of. One day he gets an opportunity to fulfil his life's big desire.

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Shibuya Diversity Award

You Need Help

Barbara Elbinger/0:16:58/UK/Comedy, Drama/2019

An older couple experience a blip in an otherwise pretty uneventful marriage when the husband, Fred, avoids embracing retirement , and drifts purposeless around the house with an increasing resentful wife, Doreen. However, when a leaflet lands on his doormat promising to bring joy into his life again, he embarks on a mission to find himself, and put the much-needed magic - and music - back into their marriage. But she’s terrified that his ‘ridiculous’ behaviour will show them both up…

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