ANTIDA SOUND GARDEN

Shorts are fun for the whole family. You will not notice when it’s over and wanting more!

Martinus Klemet / Estonia / 2019 / Animation / 02:26

The next step in the evolution of hummingbirds just may suprise you!

Awards/Screenings: Best Musical Score (Epic ACG Fest 2019, USA)

Nui Naruphon / Thailand / 2019 / Animation / 03:49

It’s a story about an abnormal worm who have a great dream.

Awards/Screenings: WORLD PREMIERE at MFW6

Verena Fels, Marc Angele / Germany / 2019 / Animation / 07:20

You fly with no seat! That’s the rule in the Turbobus.

Awards/Screenings: 27. International Festival of Animated Films Stuttgart (ITFS)/ 37th Busan International Short Film Festival (BISFF)

Clara Billat / France / 2019 / Animation / 03:00

A pinguin sees gobal warning affect his floe. One morning, he wakes up to discover a strange machine in his backyard…

Michael Frei / Switzerland / 2019 / Animation / 09:00

An animated short exploring group dynamics. How do we define ourselves when we are all equal?

Awards/Screenings: 1.B erlinale International Film Festival, Germany (7 – 17 February, 2019) Generation 14PLUS2 .G las Animation Festival, United States (21 – 24 March, 2019) O fficial Selection

Feel their heart beats reminding us we’re alive and searching for love as we need it.

Miguel Gabaldón / Spain / 2019 / 14:16

A glimpse with no words through the life of four couples in the cities of Madrid, Chicago and New York.

Awards/Screenings: Special mention of the jury at MAGMA -MOSTRA DI CINEMA BREVE (Italy 2019)

Louise Cailliez / France / 2019 / Animation / 18:00

Three teenagers spend the weekend together in Nature.

Shoki Lin / Singapore / 2019 / Fiction / 19:33

Tired of his turbulent family life, Adam seeks out an alternative arrangement in hopes of finding his place.

Awards/Screenings: FesƟval de Cannes – CinéfondaƟon 2019, France/ World Premiere Nashville Film FesƟval 2019, USA

Patar Simatupang / Indonesia / 2019 / Documentary / 12:09

A self expression of the director Patar Simatupang. He hates his deceased father for years until a decision himself makes.

Awards/Screenings: Nominee of Best Documentary Piala Maya

Chan Teik Quan / Malaysia / 2019 / Fiction / 06:51

A young woman accompanies her mother down into the deep abyss. Under the setting moon, they reminisce the past.

Awards/Screenings: Winner of Kancil 666 Young Directors Challenge 2019 (Jury’s Choice & People’s Choice Awards)

Let’s check in reality, they might really exist.

Charles Fairbanks, Saúl Kak / Mexico / 2020 / Experimental, Documentary / 18:15

( ( ( ( /*\ ) ) ) ) ) is a sensory ethnography of culture and communication in a community founded by volcano refugees.

Awards/Screenings: RIDM / Ambulante / Oberhausen

Nelson Yeo / Singapore / 2019 / Fiction / 15:00

Repurposing and manipulating footage from two classic films, “Mary, Mary So Contrary” weaves together a phantasmagoric narrative

Bobby Zarkasih / Indonesia / 2019 / Documentary / 12:04

The unspoken truth about the genocide in Depok in 1945

Awards/Screenings: Winner of HP Mentorship Project 2019

Cécile Brun / Switzerland / 2019 / Animation / 06:33

A dive into sunny childhood memories and emotional depths of loss and disappearance, trying to grasp what is not tangible.

Awards/Screenings: Tricky Women Tricky Realities, A, 2020 – Jury’s Special Mention Animateka Int. Animated Film Festival, SI, 2019 – Jury’s Special Mention

Stelios Koupetoris / Greece / 2019 / 06:00

A teacher is set to do his daily routine classroom at the school he works, during one of the most difficult days to teach.

Awards/Screenings: 12th Corti a Ponte International Film Festival (Official Selection, Venice, Italy)/ 4th Aaretaler Kurzfilmtage (Official Selection, Switzerland)

Pham Thien An / Viet Nam / 2019 / / 14:00

On a street corner a mysterious conversation among three young men at a street stalls.

Awards/Screenings: Quinzaine des Réalisateurs – Cannes 2019, France / World Premiere, Illy Award L ocarno Film Festival 2019, Switzerland

Benjamin Hujawa / Germany / 2019 / Fiction / 03:00

A family discussion on Christmas can only be brought to an end by extreme measures.

Awards/Screenings: International Short Film Festival Berlin 2019 / Independent Days Internationale Filmfestspiele Karlsruhe 2020

Vytautas Katkus / Lithuania / 2019 / Fiction / 15:00

Patriarchal masculinity seems to catch its last breath in the sun. A story about a cold relationship between a father and his son.

Awards/Screenings: Semaine de la Critique du Festival de Cannes 2019, France – World Premiere, Sarajevo Film Festival 2019, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sensibility streaming in a flow of sound and images even without spoken poetic words.

Thorsten Fleisch / Germany / 2019 / Experimental / 07:20

When you stare at a screen for long, the screen stares back at you. – Awards/Screenings: Special Jury Mention at Animatou, Switzerland e: totz@gmx.de

Frédéric Astruc / France / 2019 / Fiction / 14:59

Lucy does her jog in a city park. As she approaches a river that runs alongside the park, an unknown sensation overwhelms her…

Awards/Screenings: WORLD PREMIERE at MFW6

Yang LIU / France / 2020 / Fiction, Animation / 06:35

Corpseland is an amusement park.

Anaë Bilodeau, Louis-Pierre Cossette / Canada / 2019 / Animation / 04:20

The repetitive gestures of three individuals remind us of the simple pleasures of awakening the senses.

Awards/Screenings: Best Regional Creation’s Award, Saguenay International Short Film Festival 2019

Sergio H. Martín / Spain / 2019 / Experimental, Documentary / 20:07

Welcome to the world of the high-performance sport.

Awards/Screenings: 2019 International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography CAMERIMAGE / 2019 FICUNAM – Festival Internacional de Cine de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Special Jury Mention

Agnès Patron / France / 2019 / Animation / 13:52

Hordes of children will come together and howl as they dance alone on the ashes like wild bears.

Awards/Screenings: 2019 Gold Hugo, Chicago International Children’s Film Festival / 2019 World Animation Short Film Award – Leeds International Film Festival

Simone Hooymans / Norway / 2019 / Animation, Experimental / 06:32

A disaster threatens to destroy everything in its way, but from chaos emerges a glimpse of a new, unknown beginning.

Awards/Screenings: Bergen International Film Festival/Tricky Women-Tricky realities

Grace Wang / Canada / 2019 / Experimental / 12:52

A woman enters the forest and encounters a stranger, or does she?

Awards/Screenings: 2020 Queens World Film Festival, Official Selection (in competition) / 2019 Catacumba Film Festival, Official Selection (International Competition)

Programmer: Fransiska Prihadi Program director of Minikino, based in Bali.

There is a sense of subtle urgency to make these stories from Indonesia visible in 2020. We are glad to see it in the selected short films as we would hope it will open inspiring discussion.

Riani Singgih / Indonesia / 2018 / / 15:54

With the increasing tension of political discussion about human rights violations, the risk is higher for an Indonesian street mime artist, Wanggi.

I Kadek Jaya Wiguna / Indonesia / 2019 / / 14:30

Two grandfathers act in a film as Joko and Bowo. The director and crew lose control when these actors unwittingly cloud of the script and reality.

Gelora Yudhaswara / Indonesia / 2019 / / 24:59

Today, the Omah Njero living room will witness more than a brother-sister quarrel.

Putri Sarah Amelia / Indonesia / 2019 / / 16:22

A mortuary cosmetologist has to face a dilemma when she receives a call from a mother who had lost her child in an accident.

Eden Junjung / Indonesia / 2019 / / 12:07

A guard leaves his post despite rumours of ninjas terrorising the town at night, to meet with his lover.

The odds seemed like going against them, yet you feel their love.

Riyadi Prabowo / Indonesia / 2019 / Fiction / 15:51

On a rooftop, Nayla & Gema jokingly sought ways to interfaith marriage in Indonesia

Awards/Screenings: Ganfest 2019, Cirebon Film Festival 2019

Gal Rosenbluth / Israel / 2019 / Fiction / 04:01

Naomi (Israeli) and Marwan (Palestinian) are a couple that has a custom: On Fridays, they speak Arabic only. No Hebrew allowed.

Awards/Screenings: Haifa International Film Festival | OtherIsrael Film Festival (NYC)

Latifa Said / France / 2019 / / 17:29

Anne must come and pick up her father’s stuff at his household room. An Algerian emigrant she barely knew, he just passed away.

Awards/Screenings: Jury Prize at JCK – Journées Cinématographiques de Kairouan – West Med (Tunisia) / Best Director at Copper Coast International Film Festival (Wales)

Joan Bentosela / France / 2019 / Fiction / 13:00

A bickering family on a road trip stops at a gas station. Murielle, the mother, insists on having the car washed.

Awards/Screenings: 18th Sacramento French Film Festival, USA Birmingham Film Festival, UK

Matthew Victor Pastor / Australia / 2020 / Fiction / 07:40

Sammy is a teenager with violent men all around him. Kate is his neighbour. This is the story of their inevitable demise

Benjamin BUSNEL / France / 2019 / Fiction, Experimental / 09:10

A director and his actress go to the Cannes Film Festival, looking for money for a film. An incident will disturb their quest…

Awards/Screenings: JEJU French Film Festival / BARCELONA MecalPro Festival