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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Idol

Ryushi Lindsay/0:20:12/Japan/Drama/2020

Single mother Miyabi relies on her child idol daughter Kasumi as her only source of income and ticket to future financial stability. When Kasumi is replaced in the group by a more popular girl, Miyabi must ensure she gets her daughter back in the lineup or face destitution.

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Fly to the Dream - JTB Wheelchair Tennis Global Challenge

Takahisa Shiraishi/0:16:53/Japan, USA/Documentary/2018

Four junior wheelchair-tennis players leave for Los Angeles, USA. The challenge of leaving home to play away overseas makes them grow. And through the competition, they experience the cultures of different countries and meet new friends.

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For a Fistful of Toffees

Nikita Gavard Noyer, Clara Dulaut, Nghia Bui Trung, Berenger Guilbault, Martin Fettuciari, Timothee Maron & Ugo Masutti/0:06:00/France/Animation/2019

Grandma and Grandpa, a couple of old people are about to hold up their retirement home's cafeteria for a fistful of toffees.

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Story

Jola Bańkowska/0:05:08/Poland/Jola Bańkowska/2019

A reflection about modern man in an age of omnipresent technology.Looking through stories - a popular function in many social media platforms - we see people who are lonely, lost or already indifferent about reality surrounding them.Action takes place during one day and it's told by short, often (auto)ironic scenes,where virtual world sinks to reality

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Non-Fiction Competition Best Short Award

Kamali

Sasha Rainbow/0:23:47/UK/Non-Fiction/2019

Kamali is the only girl skateboarder in a fishing village. Her timorous mother, Suganthi takes a pilgrimage in a quest for self discovery. Separated for the first time, they must find freedom in a man’s world.

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Kapaemahu

Dean Hamer, Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu & Joe WIlson/0:08:30/USA/Animation/2020

The hidden history of four mysterious boulders on Waikiki Beach—and the mystical transgender healing spirits within them.

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

The Burden

Nico van den Brink/0:16:49/Netherlands/Horror/2019

THE BURDEN (2019) is a horror short about a young woman visiting her boyfriend’s family home and learning about a sinister history with his creepy neighbor.

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Cut Cut

Leila Macaire/0:08:44/France/Comedy/2020

Cut Cut is a quirky tale about the emancipation of a women in a codified world. Rousse works for three conventional hairdressers and she feels excluded. Tired of fantasizing a world that doesn’t exist, she will try to become like them to feel more alive.

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Friends

Florian Grolig/0:07:45/Germany/Animation/2019

The ‘small’ one is, well, small, and the ‘big’ one definitely very very big. They are friends.

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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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The perfect equation

Lola Degove/0:02:35/France/Animation/2019

Paul is the 4th of his family. He needs to put on 4 sweaters to get warm enough, to walk on 4 tiles to reach his dining room, to drink in 4 different glasses ... Paul needs the 4. He loves her, and he obsesses her. He will be confronted with 5.

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Official Competition supported by Sony
Japan Competition Audience Award

West End Girls

Hiroki Kataoka/0:25:00/Japan/drama/2020

Sally, who is determined to make money by live-streaming, comes to Tokyo and meets a foreign student, Kanja, in Nishi-Shinjuku. One day, Kanja starts saying that she wants to work like Sally.

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Son of Memory

Hayato Ando/0:18:27/Japan/Drama/2019

A mother who cannot accept her son’s death. One day, she gets to know that there is a service of the undertaker which can recover her deceased son as a humanoid robot for only 49 days. She is in torment whether using the service or not…

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Cinematic Tokyo Competition Best Short Award

Guppy

Charles Richardson/0:13:12/Australia/drama/2017

Set against the backdrop of the foreign world of Tokyo, two young lovers are separated when one accidentally boards the last train without the other. With a dead phone battery, and unaired tension, Lucas and Lindsay's relationship is tested as they learn that communication is the only thing that can bring them back together.

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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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In the Still Night

Jean-Baptiste Braud/0:16:04/Japan / France/Drama/2019

Heartbroken, Matthew, an American art curator, wanders daydreaming through a maze of artworks in his hotel in Tokyo. That is, until he has a surreal encounter.

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Clatter

Rémi Rappe/0:06:07/France/Non-Fiction/2019

Isolated on the Salvation Islands, a troop of monkeys and a peacocks are living a mysterious epic. The magnificent beauty of nature are slowly erasing the vestiges of this remembrance place, known for being the home to one of the toughest penal colony in French Guiana.

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

Per tutta la vita

Roberto Catani/0:05:20/Italy /animation/2018

Through a journey back in memory, a woman and a man retrace the more important moments of their love story.

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The Man without a Head

Juan Solanas/0:15:00/France/Experimental /2003

Tonight, the man without a head will declare his love. For such an occasion, he shall buy a head.

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

Bring me home

Dair Karakeev/0:24:29/Kazakhstan/Thriller/2019

Young girl Asiya dreams of singing on the big stage to the accompaniment of her little brother, and so that mom and dad would witness this joyful and exciting event. But dreams cannot come true. The nightmares that visit her become reality...

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