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National Competition Branded Shorts of the Year
Straight Path
Post-war Viet Nam.
A nine-year-old Vietnamese boy, Tri, liked to be neat and for things to be in order. He preferred for things to happen according to plan and was happy to keep on his straight path. After moving to the USA, he was amazed to see clean water was accessible at just a turn of a tap. We follow young boy Tri’s life story, as he takes his strong willed steps from survival to great success.Yu Yamanaka / 0:18:40 / Japan / Branded Movie / 2024
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Animation Competition Best Short Award
A Crab In The Pool
In a run-down neighborhood, Zoe and her little brother Theo are left to fend for themselves. A young adolescent, Zoe is a ball of anger haunted by an intimate terror. Theo, still a child, flees reality into a fantastical world.
Alexandra Myotte & Jean-Sébastien Hamel / 0:11:11 / Canada / Animation / 2023
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Best Actor Award（Live-action Competition Asia International）
Negative Space
Jiwon, a 29-year-old, has spent over three years looking for a job while dealing with two kinds of negative space: a gap in her Resume (CV) and a personal void in her life. On the day of a job interview, she becomes increasingly anxious.
Jeonghui An / 0:15:00 / Korea / Drama / 2023
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Silhouette
Silhouette tells the story of Claire, a young woman who has just moved to a big city. She soon finds her body gradually disappearing.
Alexis Lafuente, Marc Forest, Antoni Nicolai, Elliot Dreuille, Baptiste Gueusquin & Chloé Stricher / 0:05:02 / France / Animation / 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
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Like bamboo, like bamboo shoot
Akira is obsessed with handheld 'Teztsu' fireworks, which originate in Toyohashi. His son, Yuto, who is neurodivergent, has a talent for drawing pictures but Akira shows no interest in them. One day, Akira falls ill and hospital tests show that he has little time left to live.
Shinya Kawakami / 0:25:00 / Japan / Drama / 2024
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Starring Jun Kunimura
Blue and White
Ryusuke, who is grieving, makes salt on the day of his wife's funeral, aiming to preserve the local salt's history.
Hiroyuki Nishiyama / 0:25:00 / Japan / Drama / 2022
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Hey… Mom…
Kenji, who works alone, meets a young woman on his way home from work who is an AI robot who calls him "master". To avoid making his wife jealous, he suggests that If the robot looked like his mother there would be no way that she would have an issue.
Seiko Tano / 0:18:30 / Japan / Drama / 2023
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Warmth in a Puddle
In a dimly lit room where only the sound is the reverberation of ventilation fan, a young man is delivered a fish. The distorted face of the fish somehow seems to resemble the young man himself.
The limp fish suddenly flops up and flies out the window as if floating in water. The young man stares at the fish disappearing into a puddle on the street, and is suddenly drawn into a strange, dark, cavern-like place.
This otherworld, in solitude and dark, somehow resembles the mental state of the young man.Sorao Sakimura / 0:10:08 / Japan / Animation / 2024
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SEPIA NOTES
A story about a girl who climbs up a long ladder that leads into thick clouds, and on the way, she meets a junk-fishing robot and the two of them aim for the sky above the clouds.
Fumiko Kumagai / 0:02:58 / Japan / Music Video / 2023
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