Short films

20- The Way We Live

COMP20

Screening

Screening Venue

VenueScheduleReservation
WITH HARAJUKU HALL2026.06.08 [Mon] 13:00-14:50

Online Screening

OnlineScheduleOnline Screening
Online Screening2026.06.11 [Thu] - 2026.06.30 [Tue]
  • Online

    What it Says About Us

    In a materialistic modern society, desires and needs manifest as countless consumer goods, reflecting human longings and fears. employs non-linear storytelling to construct an absurd microcosm of human life through the perspective of objects, revealing their intricate relationship with us.

    Chien Yu Lin / 00:13:36 / Taiwan / Experimental / 2025

  • Online

    Sound Guardians

    As Jakarta sinks and sea levels rise, Indonesia is moving its capital to Borneo, on the traditional land of the indigenous Balik people. Abidin, a Balik elder, is documenting his forest’s soundscape with the help of scientists to preserve ancestral knowledge – before it’s too late.

    Leah Varjacques / 0:18:36 / United States / Non-Fiction / 2025

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    Dollhouse Elephant

    In a world that demands community participation, individual desires inevitably collide. A group of neighbours, each focused on their own goals, must learn to communicate and consider one another. But when small, everyday actions trigger unexpected consequences, they are forced into interactions that challenge their independence.

    Jenny Jokela / 0:11:14 / Finland / Animation / 2025

    mature Mature Content:
    These films may include sexual and/or violent content.

  • Online

    Nobody Knows the World

    In the outskirts of Lima, 11-year-old Chito cares for messenger pigeons used in his brother’s drug trade. After violence shatters his childhood, grief and a fragile gesture of humanity open the possibility of another destiny.

    Roddy Dextre / 0:18:00 / Peru, Colombia, Spain, Mexico / Drama / 2026

    mature Mature Content:
    These films may include sexual and/or violent content.

  • Online

    Smile Shines Wet

    After a life-altering event, a grandfather leaves his hometown and moves to Kyoto with his young granddaughter. Living among strangers, he carries an unspoken darkness. Yet in the girl’s quiet strength he begins to glimpse a different meaning of salvation, and a fragile hope that quietly endures.

    Akio Fukushima / 0:17:21 / United Kingdom / Drama / 2025

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