SHORT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL & ASIA 2020
（NEW）BORDERLESS

LIA?N (12) and her family are stowaways on a ship, hiding inside one of the containers. One day Lia?n is caught and her family is accidentally locked in a container. Now, Lia?n must try and communicate the danger her family is in to try and save their lives.

In the midst of the trench warfare, the Corsican soldier Lucien Casalta is called urgently at the back of the lines by a court of the country as a translator. Upon his arrival, he is surprised to see that the young soldier tried for desertion is none other than his compatriot and friend, Joseph...

Living by the railway tracks, a homeless man makes his living by selling novelty items at the busy traffic signals on the streets of Mumbai.The high point of his existence is passing a restaurant that serves the food he dreams of. One day he gets an opportunity to fulfil his life's big desire.

An older couple experience a blip in an otherwise pretty uneventful marriage when the husband, Fred, avoids embracing retirement , and drifts purposeless around the house with an increasing resentful wife, Doreen. However, when a leaflet lands on his doormat promising to bring joy into his life again, he embarks on a mission to find himself, and put the much-needed magic - and music - back into their marriage. But she’s terrified that his ‘ridiculous’ behaviour will show them both up…

Set against the backdrop of the foreign world of Tokyo, two young lovers are separated when one accidentally boards the last train without the other. With a dead phone battery, and unaired tension, Lucas and Lindsay's relationship is tested as they learn that communication is the only thing that can bring them back together.

On his morning bike ride, Scott grapples with the memories of a trauma he experienced with his husband Todd. When his route suddenly takes an unexpected turn, Scott finds himself on the doorstep of a stranger intimately connected to the past he can’t shake.

Layla is a 60 year old Syrian refugee and Dreamland Amusement Park cleaner whose life is turned upside down when she meets a young boy, Femi, who teaches her to skateboard.

Single mother Miyabi relies on her child idol daughter Kasumi as her only source of income and ticket to future financial stability. When Kasumi is replaced in the group by a more popular girl, Miyabi must ensure she gets her daughter back in the lineup or face destitution.

A high school girl Misa moved to a countryside. She hears a mysterious beat from a distance every night.

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...

A mother who cannot accept her son’s death. One day, she gets to know that there is a service of the undertaker which can recover her deceased son as a humanoid robot for only 49 days. She is in torment whether using the service or not…

Mamoru meets with his grandfather at the lottery venue to win the first prize, a pair of space travel tickets. But Mamoru oversleeps and gets late. His grandfather is angry at Mamoru and blows gas from inside his body. Then the Antarctic glaciers start melting...

Tokyo, a city with colorful desires sweep through. A woman who works as a sex worker in Shibuya. She is called by a customer tonight and when she opens the door, he is there. The awkward guilt-ridden conversation between the two will turn into songs and dances.

Mother, Flower, is a story of a woman, Soo, who's having Post Partum depression after a few months of delivering her first child. Soo is forced to leave her work because of her depression and faces various judgements towards her from her mom, husband, and others throughout the story.

Is scoring top in class more important than having compassion? In a harsh environment called school, the top 3 students in the class are tasked to help their classmate Nina improve her exam score. The trio discovers that the upcoming test could be her final exam in school.

Singay, a successful man in his mid-30s, recalls the moment when officials from the Rural Education Department visited his remote village in Changthang, Ladakh, to take him—and possibly his pet lamb—to boarding school.

Emma had a c-section. She didn’t see her son when he was born. When she finally meets him, she doesn't recognize her baby. How could she? Little by little, mother and child fall in love. The Cut delicately explores the complexity of the bond between mother and child.

Eight-year-old Su Min and her mother reside in the slums of an anonymous metropolis in China. Su Min dreams of going to school some day. To fulfill her dream, her mother risks her job by sneaking into classrooms and offices to steal money.

Syrian pediatric surgeon Amira works to save children from death's door, so much so that she has become neglectful of her own daughter. When the war that has largely spared them strikes close to home, Amira and her daughter suddenly find themselves fleeing for their lives.

Limbo is a short film that will attempt to capture a day in the life of a poor young boy named Anton from Malabon who is seemingly stuck in a toxic cycle of finding food and luck.