SHORT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL & ASIA 2020
（NEW）BORDERLESS

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.

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.

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

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

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...

Do YOU want to live happily ever after? Find the shoe, outplay your opponents, and beat the clock to claim the prize! A group of contestants battle it out in a competitive game show, each one desperate to prove they are the real Cinderella in order to win their very own Happy Ever After.

Inherited Memories explores the notion that traumatic experiences can be passed on to future generations. In 1941, a young Estonian railway worker was nearly executed for attempting to escape conscription by the occupying forces. Seventy-seven years later, his granddaughter revisits the places from his stories to gain deeper insight into the connections between them.

On his morning bike ride, Scott grapples with the memories of a trauma he experienced with his husband Todd. When his route suddenly takes an unexpected turn, Scott finds himself on the doorstep of a stranger intimately connected to the past he can’t shake.

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

When an intense connection with a charismatic customer throws the well ordered world of a reserved cloakroom attendant into disarray, will following his heart mean taking drastic measures?

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…

On a sunny day, Louise wakes up with a painful toothache. Her ex-fiancé, Jérôme, decides to come over to discuss and agree on the split of their belongings...

Legend has it, on the night of Chinese Valentine’s Day, if one brings 1,000 paper stars to some ruins and burns them, the wishes written inside will come true.

Layla is a 60 year old Syrian refugee and Dreamland Amusement Park cleaner whose life is turned upside down when she meets a young boy, Femi, who teaches her to skateboard.

An astronaut, Anna, who has been in an accident on the moon and is the only survivor returned to Earth. Being rehabilitated with her doctor and trainer, she recovers her memories of the accident bit by bit. At the same time, she is troubled by the memories she recalls and the difference (diff) with her current self.

Eight-year-old Su Min and her mother reside in the slums of an anonymous metropolis in China. Su Min dreams of going to school some day. To fulfill her dream, her mother risks her job by sneaking into classrooms and offices to steal money.

Singay, a successful man in his mid-30s, recalls the moment when officials from the Rural Education Department visited his remote village in Changthang, Ladakh, to take him—and possibly his pet lamb—to boarding school.

His feeling was turned from sadness to gratitude just before her died. He accepted her everything.

Kento is selected by a team to promote a partnership with a Singapore company.

Mariam fled her country, she is pregnant, and she is looking for a safe home for her baby. Due to the hazards along the way, women prefer to keep their stories secret. Nevertheless, Mariam has decided to tell her story to her child Treasure before giving birth in Christmas.