SHORT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL & ASIA 2020
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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.

Somewhere in the Ukrainian hills, near the Romanian border, Gigi celebrates Malanka, a pagan festival where bears are heroes.

A bedridden old man who spends every day on the bed. One winter night, the old man is looking at the snow falling outside the window and remembers the last time he spent with his late wife.

A woman enlists the help of a removalist and his reluctant son to move a piano at the last minute.

After two tours in Fallujah during the Iraq War, US Marine Roman Baca came home ravaged with depression, anxiety, and anger. He turned to his first passion, dance, and ultimately formed Exit 12 — a dance company led by Veterans and military families who use dance to cope with the complex effects of war.

In Virago village where no man has lived long enough to see his fortieth birthday, Tõnu is about to turn forty.

A mortuary cosmetologist has to face a dilemma when she receives a call from a mother who had lost her child in an accident. A film with no dialog.

Clémentine, lives with her mother and her younger brother Raphaël. A gloomy young girl, she escapes her daily routine doing camshow for pay with strangers. One night, during one of her cam session, Raphaël busts her. In a state of schock, he threatens to tell everything to their mother. The family harmony is in danger…

In the dark, serious interrogation room, the detective and the guy were facing each Other. The detective was questioning the guy about "something", however he remained silence on it. After awhile, the guy could not hide it any longer and finally he confessed his big love for Hatsukaichi-city and showed the t-shirt he put on, which is printed that "I love Hatsukaichi-city!"

Three sisters are facing an impending disaster: the imminent flooding by the Sea of the lands where they live. In the midst of such chaos, the sisterly union is shaken up and each of the sisters experiences the imminence of death, in their inner selves, in a different way.

In Hindu Mythology, “Mara” is “the god of death," sometimes seen as a hidden aspect of “erotic desire.” This modern fable vividly depicts the love and madness of a lonely man and woman. In a dark corner of the city, the vagueness of love flickers.

A woman's lifelong relationship with her disabled daughter is changed forever when she receives an unwanted letter.

On a sunny day, Louise wakes up with a painful toothache. Her ex-fiancé, Jérôme, decides to come over to discuss and agree on the split of their belongings...

Legend has it, on the night of Chinese Valentine’s Day, if one brings 1,000 paper stars to some ruins and burns them, the wishes written inside will come true.