SHORT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL & ASIA 2020
（NEW）BORDERLESS

Director: Ryo Takebayashi
Agency: CHOCOLATE Inc.
Production: CHOCOLATE Inc.

A story about the relation between father and daughter who lives in Kashmir, father, work in a handmade carpet factory, but surrounding made him into convert into militant watching his daughter's struggle for family, he escapes from militant camp and join the family but militant force him to come back to camp.

A woman lies awake at night. Nearby, a set of theatre backdrops unspools itself, unveiling two alternate landscapes. Upon the woman’s blue sheet, a flicker of light reflects and illuminates her realm of insomnia.

Yves is the sole target of his bullying classmates. His only refuge is in synchronized swimming, which he practices nightly in secret. But when Charlotte, a fellow classmate and member of the team spies him at the pool, he will no longer be able to hide…

One morning an eclectic mix of people face the everyday battle - such as work, school and dish-washing. As the day progresses, their relationships are tested and ultimately their capacity to cope.

Tired of being a banal architectural ornament, a sculpture runs away from the Louvre to confront real life on the streets of Paris.

On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his young daughter set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift. Between soldiers, segregated roads and checkpoints, how easy would it be to go shopping?

Pablo, in a failed attempt to get back together with his ex girlfriend, he realizes he's going bald. Thereafter, he will do his best to achieve the two main challenges: not getting bald and get back with his ex girlfriend.

An altercation breaks out between two young men who are complete opposites.

Two japanese monkeys fight for an onsen (natural spring water), but after an unexpected disaster they’ll have to help each other to survive.

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.

Trains, escalators, elevators. Tokyo is a city of movement, and its modernity moves to the sound of Koto music.

Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House Is Black juxtaposes “ugliness,” of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude. The film was restored by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and Ecran Noir productions, in collaboration with Ebrahim Golestan. Additional support was generously provided by Genoma Films and Mahrokh Eshaghian. Restoration work was carried out at L’Immaginie Ritrovata laboratory in 2019.

An optician grows tired of seeing the world too clearly and understands her inevitable involvement in its faults.

The Shimuras, mother Fukumi and daughter Yoko, devote their daily lives in a lifelong pursuit to understanding and preserving the national treasure that is Japanese textiles,

When Dunya decides to accompany her father on his wine delivery route, an unexpected encounter with her father’s old love confronts her with the inaccessible, inescapable mystery of who her father is and more mysteriously - who he used to be.

A tale of first love. While waiting for their parents, two boys and a girl meet in the carpark of a rural pub. What at first seems to be a relationship based on rivalry soon develops into a close friendship. We learn that love can be found in the most unlikely of places.

It’s summertime, by the Mediterranean Sea. Garance joins her sister to look after her children. But for a few months now, something alters her appearance. Close to the water and the waves, she meets again with a man that she once knew.

In the middle of the night, when the girl tries to go to the toilet with her doll, the dark and scary hallways change into a creepy but colorful fantasy forest, and on their way are full of weird toys and water. Can they make it to the toilet in time?

Director: Phiratee Wasinchai
Agency: Wolf BKK
Production: Factory01 Co., Ltd.