Date: October 17th - October 27th, 2024, ONLINE: September 26th - November 7th, 2024

Programs

Online Comedy & Family Program

COMEDY & FAMILY

Screening

Online Screening

OnlinescheduleOnline Screening
Online Screening2024.9.26 [Thu] - 10.10 [Thu]
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    WATER COOLER WAR

    A man dressed in blue waits, thirsty, in a badly ventilated room. The arrival of a man dressed in red pulling a beautiful water bottle dispenser causes a conflict between the two, culminating in an epic war between two red and blue armies.

    Lisa Sallustio / 0:11:33 / France / Comedy / 2024

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    Fortissimo

    Guy, a pianist passionate about his music, sees his life turned upside down when the church where he officiates takes in a mysterious little girl. A true piano virtuoso, the child prodigy will soon steal the show. A duel of egos then begins.

    Victor Cesca / 0:15:35 / France / Comedy / 2023

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    Save the Earth! Minister's Award, the Ministry of the Environment

    LOCAL WARMING

    Heat reaches unbearable levels in an unknown village, forcing its inhabitants to seek extreme solutions in order to survive.
    Everyday life is shaped by the whims of the sun, assuming a dreamlike... and baleful touch.

    Manuel Vitali / 0:08:07 / Italy / Comedy / 2022

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    Unibrow

    An Irani-Canadian girl is forced to rethink her relationship with her unibrow and her Irani heritage, when she is forced to make friends with the new girl from Iran.

    Nedda Sarshar / 0:14:20 / Canada / Drama / 2023

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    J-WAVE SOUND OF CINEMAAWARD

    Cantata

    Darren needs help. His fears and anxieties are manifesting themselves in the most unusual of ways- through the medium of opera. He visits his therapist to find a quick solution, but sometimes restoring harmony is about facing the music.

    Dave Fox / 0:11:46 / Ireland / Comedy / 2023

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    The Doll’s House

    It's the end of dinner at Miriam's house and having just inherited a doll's house from her mother, she’d like the answer to one simple question before her four adult children leave the table: which one of them will give her a grandchild and inherit the family heirloom?

    Tim Rogg / 0:14:51 / United Kingdom / Drama / 2023

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    A Dream For My Daughter

    Inspired by the tragic loss of Southeast Asians smuggled inside a shipping container in Europe, "A Dream for My Daughter" unfolds in Cambodia. It follows Pheak, a crab catcher, reeling from his daughter's death abroad. Amidst his grief and the challenges of repatriating her body, an encounter with her spirit in a mangrove compels him to confront his sorrow and find closure.

    Mauricio Osaki / 0:24:00 / Cambodia, Japan / Drama / 2024

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    U-25 Project Best Short Award

    Mother’s Recipe

    A Japanese boy in a Singaporean food court bonds with a local boy from the universal language of food.

    Izumo Kawabe / 0:04:53 / Singapore / Drama / 2023

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    Starring Tokio Emoto

    AI Love You

    In the near future, the development of AI has made it possible to determine human compatibility with high probability. A young couple goes to the inlaws to meet them before being wed. As if in opposition to the efficiency-oriented world, the couple had been dating without having their compatibility score determined by an AI app. What will happen when the inlaws find out about this?

    Raita Yabushita / 0:06:55 / Japan / Drama / 2023

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    Audience Award(Live-action Competition Asia International)

    Road to Harvard

    When something threatens to derail a mother's long term plan of getting her 10 year-old son to be admitted into Harvard University, she will do whatever necessary to course correct the trajectory, no matter the consequences.

    Dan Chong / 0:14:19 / Malaysia / Drama / 2023

Organizer

Committee for Short Shorts Film Festival Asia

Patronage

J-WAVE

Co-organizer

Tokyo Metropolitan Government

Partner

TIFF

Support

Direct. Network systems.