SHORT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL & ASIA 2020
（NEW）BORDERLESS

In the cold northeast China, people lived by hunting for generations. A little boy born in a hunter family seemed to have a mysterious connection with the forest. Killing animals upset him but he couldn't stop his father. The relationship between them became increasingly tense. Eventually, the boy's naive behavior changed the fate of both.

Ditch the class and lie down on the stairs. However you try to escape from your restrained everyday life, the reality always comes back on time. From his own experience, he vividly portrays the daily life of high school students that the path everyone goes through.

A young woman goes to Japan for half a year and leaves her cat behind in Vienna. But Ong-nyun won’t be having that. She packs her little kitty suitcase and heads off to Tokyo straightaway. Sometimes a cat’s gotta do what a cat’s gotta do.

In a cottage deep in the forest, a cat and an owl are competing for the approval of their witch mistress. Less skilled for spellcasting than his rival, the cat steals her magic wand from the witch as she leaves for the woods.

Japanese artist Maya Yonesho visited Linz, the capital of Upper Austria, to explore the city’s character and specific atmosphere. Based on her impressions of the Old Cathedral, the Ars Electronica festival, Pöstlingberg mountain, Cafè Traxlmayr, the Tabakfabrik complex and much more besides she created one of her famous ‘thumb trips’.

Felix, a little kid who loves his fish, Lala, really wants to make her happy by sharing everything he eats with her, but it only makes the fish bowl murky and Lala’s condition gets worse and worse.

A Group of refugees tries to reach themselves to a safe country in search for a better life. They pay a smuggler to convey them across the boarders in a fridge truck. However, the freezing temperature of the truck turns their hopes for a better future into a fierce struggle for survival.

While visiting a home for children, a little girl meets Joseph, a boy whose only dream is to have a yellow umbrella. This unexpected encounter awakens his memories of the past. Inspired by true events,Umbrella is a homage to empathy and hope.

A recent arrival at the zoo, a turtle, challenges the zookeeper and other animals by not speaking on command to receive his food. By revealing his story to the others, the turtle exposes themes of exile as a refugee in a land that provides for the body at the cost of the soul.

Wuen, a prairie boy and his horse were inseparable until an unexpected dust storm separated them. One day, Wuen finds out his horse was kidnapped to the metropolis for horse racing. Despite never having left his prairie, Wuen sets off on an adventure to save his beloved horse.

You fly with no seat! That's the rule in the Turbobus. To get one is a hard day job for a young wolf on his turbo-journey to find real friendship.

We all tend to see things the way we want, even if it is just an illusion. It helps us to stay happy in life.

Middle-aged and round, Richard the security guard has a great love for ballet. It compels him to steal every fleeting opportunity to dance, only to be constantly interrupted by his boss. Yet the spotlight beckons, and Richard decides to take the stage in a life-changing moment...

Alone on an asteroid, Stan feeds himself harpooned space debris and converts it into nourishment. To feed his soul, he dreams only of love. One day, he spots Beatrice, a fellow astronaut stranded on a passing comet. To be with her, he will need to resort to extreme measures.

Dino was very hungry. As he roamed the woods, a strange egg fell from the sky, clonkety-clonk. He gobbled it up... And that lead to trouble!

Recently, Louis, painter is experiencing strange events. His world seems to be mutating. Slowly, furnitures, objects, people lose their realism. They are destructuring, sometimes disintegrating …

Amandine, an inflexible traffic warden, takes perverse pleasure in punishing every little infraction by handing out a fine. An unexpected event suddenly disturbs her daily routine.

One day, a pet turtle named Kamesuke decided to go out alone.

Shun regrets it. Why does he have to play with four of them? They are not good friends. He hates them. The unpleasant heat and the heavy atmosphere of the shrine gradually darken Shun’s mood.

Normally, you would drink a bottle of wine with your friends or family. Assuming you drink at all. But during the Corona confinement, nothing is normal. So a young animator drinks the bottle alone by herself and animates a movie.