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SX2019 THAILAND | Duration: 65:33 | AGE RATING: 17+

Programmer: Sanchai ChotirosseraneeSanchai Chotirosseranee is currently the Deputy Director of the Film Archive (Public Organization), Thailand. He is one of the programmers of the Thai Short Film and VideoFestival and Silent Film Festival in Thailand.

A ROOM WITH A COCONUT VIEW

Tulapop Saenjaroen / Thailand / 2018 / experimental / 28:21

An automated voice app called ‘Kanya’ guides a foreign tourist named ‘Alex’ through a beach town Bang Saen.

THE SEA RECALL

Aekaphong Saransate / Thailand / 2018 / documentary / 26:53

Back in 2016, Mr. Krit Saranset and his wife had been murdered. His nephew has returned to observe.

SUPERBARBARA: THE BEGINNING

Boonsri Tangtrongsin / Thailand / 2017 / fiction / 10:19

After an inflatable doll (Barbara) has been abused and abandoned, she decides to no longer be a victim.

THE POWER OF PAUSE | Duration: 75:29 | AGE RATING: 17+

THE TRAFFIC SEPARATING DEVICE

Johan Palmgren / Sweden / 2018 / Documentary / 15:00

Tragic and funny situation occur and we follow the whole mess of human failure.

–Awards/Screenings: LOS ANGELES FILM AWARDS (2018 HONORABLE MENTION: DOCUMENTARY SHORT), INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF SRIGANGANAGAR (2019 BEST DOCUMENTARY)

LUCIANA

Renton Méndez / Mexico / 2018 / Fiction / 15:00

A detective explores the mind of Luciana, a teenager who has been a victim of rape and accused of murder.

–Awards/Screenings: Top Shorts Los Angeles United States November, 201, Honorable Mention Los Angeles CineFest Los Angeles United States January 20, 2019 Semi Finalist

ULYSSES (Ulises)

Jorge Malpica / Mexico / 2018 / Feature / 08:00

Ulysses is a duel in which a mermaid tries to seduce an old fisherman but the hunter can become the prey.

–Awards/Screenings: discover film festival Jurys choice and Gosh film festival Audience Award.

THE VISITOR Justin Olstein / Australia / 2018 / Fiction / 10:03

A woman grapples with how far she can go to protect a late-night visitor from rapidly encroaching danger.

–Awards/Screenings: NEW YORK SHORTS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection 2019), FESTIVAL OF NATIONS (Official Selection 2019)

RED LIGHT GREEN LIGHT Maegan Houang & Grace Kredell / United States / 2018 / Fiction / 07:26

Two young women are sequestered in an underground bunker, waiting for a window of release.

–Awards/Screenings: SORSICORTI SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection 2019), FIRENZE FILMCORTI FESTIVAL (Official Selection 2019)

THE LAST WELL

Filip Filković / Croatia / 2018 / Fiction / 20:00

2037, Europe is in shambles. The last well with natural clean water dries out. His owner is going to makes one last“trade”.

–Awards/Screenings: New Renaissance Film Festival – Best Sci-Fi Short // Diversions Short Film Festival – BestCinematography Award

LIGHT AND FUN | Duration: 24:53 | AGE RATING: All

A selection of toddler friendly films, joyful and optimistic that can be enjoyed by everyone.

PEEKABOO!

Brett Jubinville, Troy Mcdonald / Canada / 2017 /Animation / 01:32

Where is Peekaboo Cat hiding? Can you find her? This Super Simple song is great for very young learners and even babies.

MASTER OF LIGHT

Stefan Vogt / Germany / 2019 / Animation / 01:40

Friendship can happen in absence

–Awards/Screenings: ITFS 2019

SAND SIGNS

Hermes Mangialardo / Italy / 2018 / Animation / 02:00

a child draws on the sand all that he has lost among the indifference of the people.

–Awards/Screenings: Best Animation Award at 100 seconds FILM FESTIVAL (TEHERAN – IRAN), Best Animated Film – PUNTO DI VISTA International Film Festival (CAGLIARI – ITALY

BALANCE

Raymond Limantara Sutisna / Singapore / 2018 /Animation / 03:36

A boy and girl fight for painting space, both refusing to give in until the mess they create goes out of control.

–Awards/Screenings: Best Emerging Industry Short Film (Panama Animation Festival 2018), Best Student Film (RGU Film Festival 2019)

CATUS POCUS

Merry Wijaya, Yujin Sick / Indonesia / 2019 / Animation /02:57

After watching a palm reading online tutorial video, Lana wants to practice her new skills

SHUFFLED

Markus Helmersson / Sweden / Animation / 05:05A film with a bunch of twists to it.

–Awards/Screenings: Changing Face International Film Festival 2018 – Monthly winner, Imaginarium Comic Con Film Festivals 2019.

UTAN THE RAMBUTAN (Utan Rambutan)

Andra Fembriarto / Indonesia / 2019 / Animation / 08:03

Utan wants to fly in the sky like a bird, but Utan is only a rambutan fruit stuck in a tree.

–Awards/Screenings: Finalist at the NCCC Film & Animation Festival 2019

SNEJINKA

Natalia Chernysheva / Russia / 2012 / Animation / 06:00

A little African boy once got a letter. Inside he found a snowflake made of paper that he liked it so much.

PANIEK!

Joost Lieuwma, Daan Velsink / Netherlands / 2015 / Animation / 05:53

While driving, Marja has a sudden rush of panic: did she turn off the gas? Did she leave the water running?

LE LION ET LE SINGE

Benoit Feroumont / Belgium / 2017 / Animation / 06:34

A wounded lion saves the life of what he thinks is a little monkey. A friendship is born, but…

DVA TRAMVAYA

Svetlana Andrianova / Russia / 2017 / Animation / 10:00

Klick and Tram – two city trams, leave their camp every morning.

THE BIRD & THE WHALE

Carol Freeman / Ireland / 2018 / Animation / 07:04

After straying too far from his family to explore a shipwreck, a young whale discovers its sole survivor, a cagedsongbird.

VIVAT MUSKETEERS!

Anton Dyakov / Russia / 2017 / Animation / 05:30

The world is on the verge of an abyss. But the serious men appear, heroes without fear and without reproach,real musketeers.

LE RENARD MINUSCULE

Aline Quertain, Sylwia Szkiladz / France, Belgium, Switzerland / 2015 / Animation / 08:22

In the middle of a luxurious garden, a teeny-weeny fox meets a daring little girl who grows giant plants.

HORS PISTE

Léo Brunel, Loris Cavalier, Camille Jalabert, Oscar Malet / France / 2018 / Animation / 06:01

The region’s two best rescue workers are ready for their next mission. But things don’t go as planned.

SEARCHING FOR MEMORY | Duration: 77:03 | AGE RATING: 17+

There’s a strong bond of relationship that these films wish to establish with the audience. We might be left wondering if we ever share the same quest.

BANGKOK 2032 Pongkiti Manityakul / Thailand / 2018 / Fiction / 19:59

Two brothers are forced to relocate back towards to their childhood home in the north Thailand.

–Awards/Screenings: Arc Film Festival, 9FilmFest

NIGHT WALKING (Marcher dans la nuit)

Ann Sirot , Raphaël Balboni / France / 2018 / Fiction / 04:37

To fall asleep, we need to close our eyes. After a few minutes, it will happen naturally, or not at all.

INTO MY LIFE

Ivana Hucikova, Sarah Keeling, Grace Remington / United States / 2018 / Documentary / 15:00

EL AGUACATE

Darwin Serink / United States / 2018 / Fiction / 10:00

Rosa and Raul always share their lunch breaks together

BUTTERFLY & MOUSE (Пеперуда и Мишка)

Mira Yankova / Bulgaria / Animation / 14:19

A short jazzy film about the fears that obstruct man’s way to himself and to others.

–Awards/Screenings: Best Animation – Newlyn International Film Festival Special Prize Proyko Proykov for Best Animation Film – INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FILM FESTIVAL GOLDEN KUKER – SOFIA

STARSHOT

Samuel Perriard / Switzerland / 2019 / Fiction / 13:08

After twelve years, Matti returns to the city where his life had changed. Just like then, he carries the revolver with him.

SX2019 PHILIPPINES | Duration: 57:43 | AGE RATING: 17+

Programmer: Francis Joseph Cruz (Oggs Cruz)Oggs Cruz has served as member and jury alike in the selection committee of many local and international film festivals. In themeantime, he writes about cinema for various publications.

BAGUIO ADDRESS NO. 10

Mervine Aquino / Philippines / 2019 / fiction / 14:42

They try to imagine and describe a “dream house” and await the possibility.

FIREFLIES

Robin Estargo / Philippines / 2019 / fiction / 20:45

A synesthetic musical short film about a friendship.

MigrArti | Duration: 43:00 | AGE RATING: 13+

KRENK

Tommaso Santi / Italy / 2018 / / 14:00

A new student comes to the school from a far away country.

IL MONDIALE IN PIAZZA

Vito Palmieri / Italy / 2018 / / 14:00

A group of people will compete against other national football teams made by immigrants.

AMBARADAN

Paolo Negro / Italy / 2017 / / 15:00

The history of a need: the need of feeling accepted, integrated and recognized by others.

BEYOND EXPECTATION | Duration: 83:25 | AGE RATING: 17+

Life and reality are like twisted wires and one or the other sometimes go far beyond anything that had been expected.

a woman named Yumiko, a serious, yet apprehensive and honest single mother of a son and daughter, both in their twenties.

–Awards/Screenings: Spain Moving Images festival 2019 / Official Selection, zeitimpuls short film 2019 / Finalist

SARINO

Valerio Filardo / Italy / 2019 / Fiction / 14:00

Nazi concentration camp, 1944. Two Italian prisoners locked in a very small cell are taking a pledge.

little Rubén narrates the adventures of Galactic Lighting, a brave space hero who fights Dr. Evil.

DREAM/LIFE

David (Davi.In) Aufdembrinke / Germany / 2018 / Experimental / 22:22

A young man tries out what happens if he assumes that everything was possible

–Awards/Screenings: DOOR KINETIC ARTS FESTIVAL (Official Selection 2019), THE QUARANTINE FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection 2019)

WANDERBOY

Thomas Bernos / United States / 2019 / Fiction / 16:28

The final journey of Paco, an imaginary boy and his lifelong friend Ben, the old man who grew out of him long ago.

–Awards/Screenings: Independent Shorts Awards (ISA)- Platinum Awards winner for: Best Fantasy short and Best First time Director.

FAMILIAR STRANGER | Duration: 64:20 | AGE RATING: 17+

This program explores themes that might sound strange but familiar. The films are in the border zone between the stories we know and the unknown.

A+ (٢٠)

Behrang Mirzayi / Iran, Islamic Republic of / 2018 / Fiction/ 15:26

A young woman asks a little boy to help her taking heavy groceries home

–Awards/Screenings: 35th Tehran International Short Film Festival (Screening) Short Shorts Film Fest & Asia 2019(Screening)

WALDWÖLFE (FOREST WOLVES)

Peter W. Allen / Australia / 2018 / Fiction / 07:55

In 1940s Germany, three Nazi soldiers capture an escaped Jewish woman. But what will they do with her now that they have her?

–Awards/Screenings: Columbus International Film Festival (Finalist), FilmBath

NEXT ONE PLEASE (DER NÄCHSTE BITTE)

Alexandra Rieser & Alina Fromm / Austria / 2018 / Experimental / 06:34

ZACARIAS

Violeta Trincado / Spain / 2017 / Fiction / 12:00

A homeless called Zacarias, a Man in Suit and a Taxi Driver meet together in a traffic accident that causes Zacarias death.

A FILM CREW CENSORS ITSELF

Bentley Brown / Saudi Arabia / 2019 / Documentary, Experimental / 03:25

A film crew on a private beach must censor its behind-the-scenes so as not to risk trouble with Saudi Arabia’s moral law.

–Awards/Screenings: 2019 Dallas International Film Festival

A SHORT FILM ABOUT EDUCATION (Un cortometraje sobre la educacion)

Sebastián Nemo Arancibia. / Chile / 2017 / Fiction / 19:00

Jorge is a fifty-year-old math teacher who is hired at a school with serious bullying issues.

HEART POUNDING | Duration: 88:03 | AGE RATING: 17+

These film selection might trigger your body’s “fight or flight” response, and increases your heart rate.

LAST SEEN ALIVE

Dan Walls / Australia / 2018 / Fiction / 09:45

A broken man connects with a woman bearing her own sadness.

–Awards/Screenings: Golden State Film Festival (TCL Chinese Theatre, Hollywood), Setting Sun Film Festival

SPORTS DAY

Lin Tu / China / 2018 / Fiction / 10:54

A teenage girl is confronted with her inner demon when forced to lose her virginity on school’s sports day.

–Awards/Screenings: CAAMFEST (Official Selection 2019), FOTOGRAMMA D’ORO SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection 2019)

QUIVER

Shayna Connelly / United States / 2018 / Fiction / 13:41

Horror and desire meld when Suzanne arouses a ghostly presence and begins an unusual courtship across space and time.

–Awards/Screenings: Best Experimental Horror Short, Women in Horror Film Festival 2018 Jurors Award, The Artists Forum Festival of the Moving Image

FIVE COURSE MEAL

James Cadden / Canada / 2018 / Fiction / 06:00

Mark and Jenny agree to take part in a mysterious experiment for money.

–Awards/Screenings: “Best Horror” at 2018 Edmonton Short Film Festival, “Best SFX” at 2019 First Contact Film Festival.

MUFFIN

Daniel Bolda / Greece / 2019 / Fiction / 16:45

What would you trade for a muffin?

–Awards/Screenings: CORK FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection 2018), STOCKHOLM INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection 2019)

RED PAPER (Kertas Merah)

Revin Palung / Indonesia / 2018 / Fiction / 15:00

A 19th years old girl from Tangerang (Benteng) Chinese family. A girl must be a virgin if she wants to be married

–Awards/Screenings: Finalist Sound & Image Challenge Festival Macau 2018 Nomine, eBest Short Film Salamindanaw Film Festival 2018

ALTITUDE

Nicole Scherer / Austria / 2019 / Fiction / 10:58

–Awards/Screenings: Genrenale 6 – Scared Shitless Award

SAVOR IT (Déguste)

Stéphane Baz / France / 2018 / Experimental / 05:00

A day at the top of food chain, closest to the matter. A day in the culinary crash.–Awards/Screenings: PIFFF – Paris International Fantastic Film Festival, 2018 JURY AWARD // Festival L’ombre d’un Court, “La Séance de l’Étrange” 2018 AUDIENCE AWARD

LETTING GO | Duration: 100:13 | AGE RATING: 17+

To accept that some things are part of your history. This program is a tribute to letting go and look to the future.

UNLIKE TODAY (Nicht im Traum)

Astrid Menzel / Germany / 2018 / Fiction / 20:00An elderly couple fights for dignity while balancing on the edge of the existence of their former lives.–Awards/Screenings: 31. Filmfestival Dresden, 52 International Filmfestival Hof e.g

Marie-Pierre is convinced that her husband Jean-Louis, despite his docility, will eventually cheat on her.-

Awards/Screenings: Sunday Shorts Film Festival (Londres, Royaume-Uni), 2019 JURY AWARD // ÉCU – The European Independent Film Festival (Paris), 2019 BEST ACTRESS

MENUETT

Felix Karolus / Germany / 2018 / / 10:45

For Charlotte it is like any other Sunday, until the doorbell rings and a stranger surprises her

–Awards/Screenings: THE MYRTLE BEACH INT’L FILM FESTIVAL (2019 HONORABLE MENTION), PALM SPRINGS INT’L SHORTFEST (Official Selection 2019)

LOVELOST

Ven Gia / Australia / 2019 / Fiction / 13:01

A man stranded in the Australian outback dealing with the emotional fallout of his broken-down relationship

–Awards/Screenings: THE MYRTLE BEACH INT’L FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection 2019), OLBIA FILM NETWORK (Film Market Professional Video Library 2019)

SIBLINGS

Tang Kang Sheng / Singapore / 2018 / Fiction / 18:38

After their father enters the hospital, both siblings are forced to interact with each other.

THE SILENCE OF A FLOWER (De stilte van een bloem)

Anne Jan Sijbrandij / Netherlands / 2019 / Documentary / 13:49

For the first time, a son talks with his immigrant mother about her past in the Dutch East Indies

REQUIEM

Juanma Juárez / Spain / 2018 / Fiction / 04:00

Manuela Delgado awaits the arrival of some very special guests.

THE PIE

Nijitaro / Japan / 2019 / Animation / 05:00

We change as we age. We gain, we lose. But somethings never change. Meet the Papa bear and Baby bear and the miracle pie!

–Awards/Screenings: The Seoul Guro International Kids Film Festival 2019

LONGING TO BELONG | Duration: 80:17 | AGE RATING: 17+

Playing in the fiction realms, these films show how feelings can shape the human soul and push to find balance.

Two teenage outcasts form an uncanny friendship, discovering dark secrets

MOTHER, DAUGHTER, DREAMS

Linh Duong / Viet Nam / 2018 / Fiction / 19:13

In the search for her vanished father, Phuong and her mom are forced to confront each other

–Awards/Screenings: Official Competition – Busan International Film Festival, Official Competition – Singapore International Film Festival

SECOND SKIN (ZWEITE HAUT)

Ismet ErgüN, Kerem ErgüN / Germany / 2019 / Fiction / 10:03

What would you do if you were confronted by a racist or sexist individual?

–Awards/Screenings: MOSCOW SHORT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (2019 BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM), FÜNF SEEN FILMFESTIVAL (Official Selection 2019)

BENEATH US

Kanako Pooknyw / United States / 2018 / Fiction / 08:52

A narrative of white ignorance creating circumstances which obstruct the possibility of deeper, authentic relationships.

AN ORDINARY MARRIAGE

Sein Lyan Tun / Myanmar / 2018 / Fiction / 13:00

an unexpected agreement between the bride, the groom and his sister threatens to unravel their relationships and their plans.

–Awards/Screenings: Cambodia International Film Festival, Cambodia Short Wave International Film Festival, Poland

COMPLIANCE LEVEL

HAN Sung Nam / Japan / 2018 / / 23:00

A moving image work that makes us think about social issues.

ON THE WAY HOME

KIYAMA Mizuki / Japan / 2018 / / 03:00

An instant between reality and a dream, in which a father and a daughter become one.

A GIRL HELD BETWEEN THE TREES SINCE BIRTH

YAMANAKA Chihirio / Japan / 2017 / / 05:00

Landscape after landscape is projected through animation that employs various techniques.

AS FRICTION, WITH FRICTION

YAMADA Sanae / Japan / 2018 / / 15:00

This work examines “yukihori” (removing snow from roofs) in Matsunoyama.

HOTTAMARU DAYS

YOSHIGAI Nao / Japan / 2014 / / 07:00

Even when it is still the human body never actually stops moving.