SHORT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL & ASIA 2020
（NEW）BORDERLESS

Zahra is a middle-aged woman who visits a temporary marriage agency and signs up to have a young working girl. She picks her up to take her home but the girl (Negar) who has never had a female client before, becomes suspicious of Zahra’s intent and sexual orientation.

A story of a young fencer on his way to manhood, wrestling with fears and a feeling of guilt, after the loss of an important adult.

In a place much like Japan, the protagonist escapes the negative effects from an entity which she had noticed as she grew, and return for recovery.

A newly married woman lives with her in-laws while her husband works in the neighboring country, Greece. One day she discovers a corpse and the whole small town faces in a battle to get coverage on national television.

On the Bonneville salt flats, the sound of roaring engines can be heard in the distance. At the wheel is Icarus, a chimpanzee hell-bent on transcending the limits of speed. Aboard iconic and increasingly powerful vehicles, Icarus will attempt to reach the ultimate speed of 400 Mph, thought to be impossible for land vehicles.

Client: Suntory Holdings Limited Agency: CHOCOLATE Inc. Production: CHOCOLATE Inc.

To keep his job, delivery man Karim is forced to endure perfidious power games by customer Brigitte, who finds every excuse to keep him from leaving. Is she driven by racism or maybe just lonliness? When suddenly desperate cries for help resound from her bedroom, Karim faces a moral dilemma.

A celebrity acting coach is interrupted by an unknown actor begging for her help for a TV audition. What follows is an unexpected journey for the both of them.

Director: Edward Andrews
Production: Skin and Bones Film Company Inc.

Director: Toshiyuki Yagi
Agency: Dentsu Inc.
Production: GEEK PICTURES INC.

A young woman suffering from heroin addiction and living in one of downtown Los Angeles' many low-income residential hotels, receives an invite to her estranged 4-year-old daughter's birthday party later that day.

Three high school students at the Robocon Research Club, who learned that UFO will destroy the earth from Akane, a mysterious new student who suddenly appeared in the area of Hayama and Iijima. They gather junk to save the Earth by building a three-body-combined robot and stand up to the enemies.

People of different ethnic groups crowd a house in the suburbs. At night everyone plays its own music, trying to overcome the other. They will learn that to live together they have to play together.

Takashi, who studies abroad in Taiwan, finds every day is full of fun in friendship and love that he can't find in Japan. However, he feels the difficulty of conveying his feelings frankly while the time goes by.

Special Crime Squad from Seoul pays a visit to Sojin's house. Sojin is a prime suspect of an arson murder case.

LACOSTE Agency: BETC Production: ICONOCLAST

A young woman struggles to provide for her son while waiting to receive money from her husband. When she hears that a neighbor's husband has returned from abroad with gifts, she undertakes the long, humbling journey to visit them.

The video for The One and Only is a declaration of love for the culture of skateboarding. A forties goes on vacation in Tokyo and does not take his skateboard with him. The latter will take revenge for having been "abandoned".

Did you know puberty lasts forever? On Hold is an experimental documentary short film contemplating around the themes of intergenerationality and socially constructed masculinity. The film is based on anonymous phone calls dialed for a helpline for boys and young men under 20-years of age.

Looking at an x-ray image a young handsome man is horrified to learn that the weird, tumor-like lump on his chest is the top of a tiny plump man`s head. Nested in his body, he is waiting to be born… ’Mr. Mare’ is a surreal animated chamber play, set in a ‘haunted’ claustrophobic space, in which we witness the dynamics of unrequited love as we follow the relationship of an oddly codependent pair.