■For inquires
Committee for Short Shorts
03-5214-3005


AI-A AI-B AI-C AI-D N-A N-B N-C
ACADEMY SPECIAL.1 SPECIAL.2 BEST.1 BEST.2

Films by women directors. Mature Content
These films contain sexual or violent content.
Films by Singaporean filmmakers

SHIROTAKU, Tokyo Tenshi and other special screenings are non-competition.

Asia International A


The Eyes

Saeyoon Shim/15:00/Drama//Korea/2004
A world famous photographer is under arrest and accused of aiding in the death of his  father, who was also a prominent photographer.
Saeyoon Shim / A graduate of Sogang University , he majored in film production. Since 2000 he has experienced the roles of director, line producer, and unit production manager for both long and short films. “The Eyes” is his 3rd film as a director. He found inspiration for this film when he felt a dilemma watching Korean news footage an old lady who fainted after meeting her long-lost relatives since the war separated them.

STOP HUMAN CLONING

Wahyu Aditya/4:16/Animation/Indonesia/2004
What happens when our body becomes an experiment that might still fail?
Wahyu Aditya /Wahyu was born in Indonesia in 1980. After graduating from high school, he studied at the KvB Institute of Technology in Australia while starting his career as a freelance illustrator and comic book artist. His animation films have won many awards and screened in various film festivals.

Pass Over

Sanghoon Ahn/22:00/Drama /Korea/2005
3 victims... All that was left of these victims was their skulls and bones.
Sanghoon Ahn / Sanghoon Ahn was born in Seoul in 1976.  He graduated from Dongguk University and the Korean National University of Arts, where he received his MFA.  “Pass Over” is his fourth film.

THE LAST CHIP

Heng Tang/21:00/Drama/Hong kong・Vietnam・Australia/2005
Madam Fang, Mrs. Nguyen & Ah Lan are 3 immigrants to Australia . They struggle to survive with loneliness and economic freedom by pinning their hopes on winning the jackpot at the casino.
Heng Tang / “Boy Serpentine”, which is the first film he created in 1999 at Australian Film, Television and Radio School in Sydney , won a Special Mention Prize at the Venice International Film Festival.  His next short film “The Other Son” has screened at many festivals all around the world.  These achievements led to his award of the Young Directors’ Fellowship Program sponsored by the Cannes International Film Festival.

THE HAND

Anoushiravan Haddad/12:13/Drama/Iran/2004
A man with one arm has wished to have a son. He is given three daughters and threatens God to bring him a son or he will cut off his other arm.
Anoushiravan Haddad / Anoushiravan Haddad / Anoushiravan Haddad was born in 1965 in Tehran , Iran . In 1998 he obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in Dramatic Literature from Azad University in Tehran . Since 1994, he has been involved in cinema and television productions as an assistant director and a producer.  He has directed two short documentaries and “The Hand” is his first short narrative.

Singapore Short Shorts

Buy Me Love

Ric Aw/14:30/Drama/Singapore/2005
How much is it to buy love? A pork cook buys a wife from China . Pork, sex, wife and love. What can money really buy?
Ric Aw / Ric Aw’s interest lies in telling stories of real people surviving in our modern, uncaring world.  Working to capture the common aches of the contemporary heart, he hopes to change the trite into the essential, and the ordinary into extraordinary.  Simply put, he just likes to tell a good love story.  There is truly no story worth telling that is not a love story.

Short Shorts Film Festival
(c) Short Shorts Film Festival 2006 . All rights reserved.