IRAMA INDAH

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.

Stories that might seem far away but drifting in your mind for a while.

Ramazan Kilic / Turkey / 2019 / Fiction / 14:01

A female teacher decides to do a school bus driver for her students but there is a small problem!

Awards/Screenings: 42nd Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival / International Competition, France. 2019 Kaohsiung Film Festival / Non-official Competition / Children’s Jury Award / Official Selection, Taiwan.

Agnieszka Chmura / Poland / 2019 / Fiction / 15:00

Summer of 1989. A car with a caravan reaches the Czechoslovakian-Polish border. On the back seat, a little girl is absorbed by the world of nature.

Awards/Screenings: Bihac Avantura Film Festival: Best international short film / World of Film: International Festival Glasgow Best Short Film in the Female Perspective

Daphne van den Blink / Belgium / 2020 / Documentary / 16:23

Kwinten’s father is a naval commander and is often away at sea. Kwinten misses him a lot, but has found ways to deal with that.

Christophe Deram / France / 2019 / Fiction / 16:00

Marco is ready to get inside Crazy Hair, a hair salon owned by his biological mother. He only knows her name

Camille Poirier / Canada / 2019 / Fiction / 13:54

In order to be in her older brother’s music video, Clara, a 13-year-old tomboy, agrees to undergo a radical change of style.

Stories that tug our hearts, souls and minds.

Eric Minh Cuong Castaing / France / 2018 / Documentary, Experimental / 19:46

Children with motor disabilities experiment with various dance techniques and virtual reality glasses to see what dancers see.

Awards/Screenings: – Festival International du Film sur l’Art (Montréal, Canada ; Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2019 (York, Royaume-Uni), Nov. 2019

Daan Groot / Netherlands / 2020 / Fiction / 11:03

As a boy spirals into isolation, it’s getting harder for him to resist the visions of an offered escape.

Andreas Gruetzner / Germany / 2019 / Experimental / 04:36

Footage from 1973, shot in an Institution in Germany, where back then people lived, who were judged to be mentally sick.

Awards/Screenings: Best political shorfilm at the Shorfilmweek Regendburg / GermanyAward for a particularly valuable film – FBW Germany

Daniel Victory / Indonesia / 2019 / Experimental / 05:12

Mawar missed her husband who was kidnapped in 1998. For 21 years, she never realized that he always been with her in another form.

Awards/Screenings: Anugerah Angsa Emas UI Film Festival / In Competition 15th Indonesia Film Festival 2020

Pavel Ruzyak / Russian Federation / 2019 / Documentary / 09:00

How we treat others during our lifetime is how they will treat our memory when we are no longer alive.

Awards/Screenings: Kustendorf Int. Film Festival, Belgrade, Serbia, 2020 Film Selected.

Rebecca Figenschau / Norway / 2019 / Fiction / 16:50

A shocking secret is forced to the surface as a dysfunctional family are struggling to put up a tent.

Awards/Screenings: Encounters short film festival, Bristol, UK. Encounters Grand Prix Award 2019. Kortfilmfestival Leuven, Belgium, International competition Award, 2019

Héloïse Ferlay / France / 2020 / Animation / 12:30

Left alone in the deepest of the summer, Malo and Zoe are trying their best to catch their mother’s elusive eye.

Awards/Screenings: screening in the Annecy International Animation Festival.

Let’s taste the mood lingers in our mind Instead of wondering why they don’t get it right.

Cheong Chi Wai / China, Macau / 2019 / Fiction / 11:26

She is young. She has a son. She falls in love with a married man. Between family and love, there is no way to go.

Awards/Screenings: FIRST International Film Festival

Max Baggermann / Netherlands / 2019 / Documentary / 21:14

Ann absurd portrait of a working day, that makes you wonder what it means to be human in a work-driven society.

Sarah Angelini / France / 2019 / Fiction / 15:59

Louise, 14, keeps a look-out while her sister is having a relationship with a married man.

Awards/Screenings: WORLD PREMIERE at MFW6

Samara Sagynbaeva / Kyrgyzstan / 2019 / Fiction / 20:38

Winter in Kyrgyzstan: not only the school must be heated, at home the granddaughter is cold.

TSANG Hing Weng Eric / Hong Kong / 2019 / Fiction / 15:00

Solitary old lady REN is asked by a disabled neighbour to send some gifts to his son in the city and brought a secret of him back.

Awards/Screenings: Sundance Film Festival 2020 / The 37th Busan International Short Film Festival

A subtle yearning to embrace life, love and relationship.

Moe Myat May Zarchi / Myanmar / 2019 / Experimental / 14:38

An impressionistic state-of-mind piece of a decay of young woman enclosed in a dollhouse, because of her vanity.

Awards/Screenings: WORLD PREMIERE at MFW6

Mohammed Alhamoud / Saudi Arabia / 2019 / / 14:00

A newlywed couple find themselves outside their comfort zones goin’ south.

Awards/Screenings: Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival / Cleveland International Film Festival

Casimir VERSTRAETE, Edgar VERSTRAETE / France / 2019 / Fiction / 18:16

Between Tryphon and Pharaïlde things are not easy. In a forest looking for a stagg, an unexpected event changes everything.

Awards/Screenings: Public Price at the Festival des Courts en Hiver de Porto-Vecchio (France/ Corsica)

Måns Berthas / Sweden / 2019 / Fiction / 08:00

Three women are gathered for an act of vengeance. They spin a bottle to determine who should perform the deed.

Awards/Screenings: El Gouna Film Festival 2019, Egypt / World Premiere DC Shorts Film Festival 2019, USA

Liao Jiekai / Japan / 2019 / Fiction / 14:49

High school-er Tamaki grows a watermelon in her body as she waits for boyfriend Sui to return home from Canada.

Awards/Screenings: Singapore International Film Festival

Yana Chernukha / Russia / 2020 / Fiction / 20:00

A young woman is going to spend six hours, buried in the ground. She asks her younger sister to dig her in.

Awards/Screenings: WORLD PREMIERE at MFW6

Love in a spectrum of colors regardless of society control.

Sreylin Meas / Cambodia / 2019 / Fiction / 16:00

Two women from different backgrounds encounter one another at an oceanfront resort and discover a hidden bond.

Awards/Screenings: Special Mention; Singapore International Film Festival 2019 (Singapore) / Tampere Film Festival 2020 (Finland)

Tung Wei Ye / Taiwan / 2019 / Fiction / 18:15

In 2013 Taipei, a gay couple are forced to separate because one of them who is a Malaysian has HIV and is forced to be deported.

Awards/Screenings: Queer-Streifen Regensburg World Aids Programme / 11th KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival Student Film Competition Official Selection

Josza Anjembe / France / 2019 / Fiction / 20:00

After two years in jail, Issa is about to get out when he mets Gaëtan, a young inmate who has not served his sentence yet.

Awards/Screenings: France Télévisions 2020 Award / European Film festival 2020, Lille

Gwenn Joyaux / Estonia / 2018 / / 16:28

Love defies borders

Awards/Screenings: 1st prize, Best Short Film, Prémio Sophia Estudante, Portugal (2018) & Winner GOLD Best Short – Love is Love, Queenpalm International Film Festival (2019)

Antonio Ledesma Vila, Carmen Kaltchev Soto / Spain / 2019 / Fiction / 19:45

Night falls in Madrid, Eva and María’s eyes cross paths.

Awards/Screenings: Festival de cine de Madrid PNR / Roze FilmDagen Amsterdam LGBTQ Film Festival 2020

Alexandre Dubosc / France / 2019 / 02:15

An audio-visual Pavlovian short film. “Sculpture Cake” or “caketrope” filmed live, with sound as the theme

Michael Shanks / Australia / 2019 / 12:45

An animated skeleton, once a formidable villain of the silver screen, learns the film for which he was created is being rebooted without him.

Nina Heckel / France / 2019 / 03:49

Yuna loves drawing and telling stories. And there’s no shortage of stories to tell about the crazy things that happen to her little sister

Damian Groves, Anton Groves / Romania, France / 2019 / / 17:59

A record-breaking globetrotter and widowed father uses his extraordinary past to teach his young daughter lessons about life

Loïc Bruyère / France / 2019 / / 08:03 An owl schoolmaster tries to present the year-end kindergarten show. But one unforeseen event after another occurs even before the curtain rises.

Fabien Meyran, Otalia Causse, Geoffroy Collin, Louise Grardel, Antoine Marchand, Robin Merle / France / 2019 / / 05:21

In Lisbon, a German couple is riding the legendary tram 28, but the brakes give out, taking them on a harrowing race… with a baby on board.

Nina Bisiarina / France, Switzerland / 2019 / 07:10

A curious lynx gets bored in his forest and decides to go live in town. At night, he finds lots of interesting things to do, but in the morning…

Programmer: Thaiddhi Filmmaker and Program Director for Wathann Film Festival, Myanmar. Focus on Film Education and Independent film development in Myanmar.

This program focus on Young and independet filmmakers from Myanmar and Winning films of Wathann Film Festival 2019

Nyi Zaw Htway / Myanmar / 2019 / / 16:48

An aging woman reconsiders her role in the family in the wake of an incident with her daughter-in-law.

Than Lwin Oo / Myanmar / 2019 / / 07:37

A backyard street. A boy and a girl. A life.

Zaw Bo Bo Hein, Mg Bhone / Myanmar / 2018 / 18:22

During Thingyan Festival, a woman has to struggle between her attachment to her husband and empathy for his loneliness

Myo Thar Khin / Myanmar / 2019 / 17:30

Story of a yound man who no longer wants to know about existing things in the non-existence, and his return to native home

Love worth fighting for and it was nice to see that in the end it wins.

Lasse Linder / Switzerland / 2019 / Documentary / 18:16

As Christian is yearning to become a father, he decides to fertilize his beloved cat Marmelade by an exquisite tomcat from abroad.

Awards/Screenings: Locarno Festival, Toronto International Film Festival (Won: IWC Short Cuts Award For Best Short Film), Tampere Film Festival (Won: Best Documentary)

Atulit Kwatra, Khomthong Rungsawang / Thailand / 2019 / Fiction / 02:48

A couple engage in a talk of personal matters, oblivious to the chaos happening all around them.

Awards/Screenings: 1st Prize, Bangkok ASEAN Film Festival, Purin Roundtable: 48-Hour Film Challenge (Bangkok, Thailand 2019)

Anna Ozar / Russia / 2019 / Fiction / 14:00

Masha has cancer. Though she thinks it’s the end, turns out it’s only the beginning.

Awards/Screenings: Soirées du cinéma russe de Bordeaux, France, Bordeuax: Grand-Prix / Linea d’Ombra Festival, Italy, Salerno: Grand-Prix, Audience Award

Alireza Kazemipour / Iran & Canada / 2019 / Fiction / 14:10

A middle-aged woman uses a temp marriage agency to ensnare an attractive girl.

Awards/Screenings: Short Shorts Film Festival and Asia 2020 (Japan); Official Selection / V ancouver Short Film Festival 2020: Best Director Award

Fabien Ara / France / 2019 / / 13:21

”I want to be a girl, mommy.” Alma freezes. From now on, her 8-year-old son wants to dress up like a fairy to go to school.

Awards/Screenings: Landshut Short Film Festival Moscow Shorts.

Keren Marciano / France / 2019 / Fiction / 11:02

It begins with a woman’s revenge and it ends with a woman’s revenge

Awards/Screenings: Reeling film festival Chicago & Leeds

Programmer: Marcus Manh Cuong Vu is a filmmaker and programmer. Previously, he was the festival director of Yxine Film Fest (2010-2014).

Love, lies and dreams. What drives us in this tough time of confusion and survival? Every year, S-Express Vietnam introduces new young filmmakers of the next generation from the country.

Nguyễn Lê Trung Hải / Vietnam / 2020 / Fiction/ 18:19

Phi dates older women who supposedly follow his advice to buy property in the countryside.

Diệp Chi Viên Viên / Vietnam / 2020 / Fiction/17:47

Young boy Tàu does not accept the new lover of his father

Lê Can Trường / Vietnam / 2020 / Fiction/8:30

A young couple is waiting for a rain, while many Vietnamese are longing for a glorious victory of the national football team.

Đặng Thảo Nguyên / Vietnam / 2020 / Fiction/09:30

A mother and her daughter hide a corpse. The garden where their secret is buried has its own way of being.

Phạm Nguyễn Anh Tú / Vietnam / 2020 / Experimental/03:21

Am I the rain or the sun, a boy or a girl, a dream or a reality, a film or myself?

Stories at the end of fairy tales.

Jorma Kaulanen / Finland / 2019 / Fiction / 06:44

While the parents of an 8-month old assume their baby is sound asleep, a frenzied prison break is taking place.

Awards/Screenings: Official Selection PÖFF Shorts 2019 International Short Film And Animation Festival / Best Foreign Film – Sunny Side Up Film Festival 2020

Natalia Beliaeva / Russian Federation, Slovakia / 2020 / / 15:00

As her sixth birthday approaches, a girl is choosing some presents for favorite doll Sonia, who is waiting for her at the store.

Minori Matsuoka / Japan / 2020 / Animation / 02:40

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

Alessia Pischedda / Italy / 2018 / Fiction / 01:00

Viola, a 6-year-old kid, just lost her baby teeth but she already has her own vision, one which is opposite to her father’s…

Awards/Screenings: Concurso De Cortos Giza Eskubideak Herrira 2019, Spain (Best Short) / Zonta Short Festival 2019, Italy (Best Short)

Lena von Döhren / Switzerland / 2020 / Animation / 04:30

High above, the small bird enjoys the flowers of its maple tree.

Awards/Screenings: Berlinale, 2020

Tomasz Siwiński / France / 2019 / / 18:33

When Olga’s pet cricket die, her father tells her a strange tale about a giant with two diamonds for eyes.

Awards/Screenings: Selection : U n poing c’est court – Vaux-en-Velin – France 2020I FF Zoom Festival – Zblizenia – Poland 2020C inemagic International Film Festival – Irland 2020

Mehmet Nuri Kaya / Turkey / 2019 / Fiction / 07:00

A little girl falls asleep listening to a tale.

Awards/Screenings: Lahore Eurasia Film Festival, First-Time Filmmaker Sessions / Varese International Film Festival, European Cinematography AWARDS (ECA)

Samuel Ruby / Indonesia / 2019 / Fiction / 16:46

A boy is left curious by the death of his father. One day, he meets a forest spirit whom he thinks may know where his father is.

Awards/Screenings: Official selection, 26th Austin Film Festival

Programmer: Sanchai Chotirosseranee is one of the programmers for the Thai Short Film and Video Festival.

The program is consisted of the awarded best Thai short films from the 23rd Thai Short Film and Video Festival. Payawan is a winning film by university students, while The Threshold 1969 is the best Animation and Friends with Benefits, Without Benefits is the best film by general filmmakers.

Supamart Boonnil / Thailand / 2019 / Fiction/29:12

In the morning of Songkran day, Chiangrai everyone in Pan’s family was spending time together.

Twatpong Tangsajjapoj, Kraisit Bhokasawat, Chanon Treenet, Punya Pasukkovitsiri / Thailand / 2019 / Animation/ 20:34

Four stories about the impact of new technology within a transitional period of four generations by four directors.

Sorayos Prapapan / Thailand / 2018 / Fiction/14:27

Nicky is an art school graduate. He requests Koi, one of his best friends, to be the model for his photo shoot in which she has to dress up in a mascot costume

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 / Experimental /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, South Korea, USA / 2019 / Experimental / 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

Programmer:Leong Puiyee is a film programmer and manager based in Singapore.

Experience the essence of nature, complex human  relationships and the bizarreness of life in these short films

Zai Tang / Singapore / 2018 / Experimental, Animation/ 09:45

Escape Velocity II is a synaesthetic experiment in bringing the ethereal voices of the Singaporean wild to life through animation and sound visualisation

Liao Jiekai / Singapore / 2019 / Experimental/ 15:00

While Tamaki’s partner Sui was away for the summer, she consumed a watermelon seed and began growing a watermelon in her body.

Tang Kang Sheng / Singapore / 2019 /Fiction/18:38

After their father is hospitalized, Jun and Ling return home to settle some of his affairs. Amidst it all, they are forced to interact with one another.

Tan Siyou / Singapore / 2019 / Fiction/16:00

Unable to return home to attend Grandma’s funeral because of immigration bureaucracy, a young Singaporean girl new to America searches for Grandma’s reincarnation.

Memory tells us that they’re remembered from the deep silence or when words pour out like rain.

Frédéric Even, Louise Mercadier / France / 2019 / Animation / 14:56

Three sisters are facing the coming flooding by the Sea of their lands. Each sister faces the imminence of death in a various way.

Awards/Screenings: Short Grand Prix at the Warsaw International Film Festival 2019B est Animation Short Film in the International Film Festival of Guayaquil 2019

Claudia Claremi / Cuba / 2018 / Documentary, Experimental / 13:10

José Manuel explains to his granddaughter Malena his world view through deep knowledge of natures’ mysteries.

Awards/Screenings: XX MIDBO. Muestra Internacional Documental de Bogotá. Colombia. 20184 8° ALCINE. Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares. Madrid. España. 2018

Fábio Baldo, Tico Dias / Brazil / 2020 / Fiction / 20:00

An indigenous teacher implements the use of Ayahuasca in her classes in order to connect her students to another reality. During a ritual, one of the children comes upon weird gear in the forest.

Awards/Screenings: 66th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (International Competition)

Mattia Biondi, Segmenta Infiniti / Italy / 2019 / Experimental / 02:50

The film is a backwards journey through the seasons and the units of the language. To change the prose of the world.

Awards/Screenings: 1) Proceso de Error – Festival Internacional de Video Experimental2 ) Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival

Lidia Afrilita, David Darmadi / Indonesia / 2019 / Documentary / 17:32

Diary of Cattle is the story of a 24-hour life cycle of a herd of cows that live and graze on a landfill site in Indonesia.

Awards/Screenings: Best Short Documentary at FFD 2019 / Blencong Award for The Best Asian Short from Light of Asia Program & Jogja Film Student Award at The 14th JogjaNETPAC Asian Film Festival 2019

Achmad Rezi Fahlevie / Indonesia / 2020 / Fiction / 07:10

A man intercourse with a tree to get sexual satisfaction, without realizing it has a magical power called “Kibang Ayok”.

Awards/Screenings: Official Selection Hacker Porn Film Festival 2020 / Official Selection The QTPOC Pride Arts + Film Fest 2020

Programmer: A festival programmer and Film producer based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Women’s voices are emerging in recent Cambodian short films, which has to be noted and praised.

Sreylin Meas / Cambodia / 2020 / Fiction/16:00

Two women from different backgrounds encounter one another at an oceanfront resort.

Thavary Krouch / USA / 2020 / Fiction/25:36

Sophia, a female line cook is tasked with delivering bitter melons to her estranged father

Programmer: Yow Chong Lee Apart from programming for Mini Film Festival, ChongLee is also a film lecturer who makes documentary and picked up scuba diving recently.

Exploring the possibility of cinematic space and time in questioning who we are (and aren’t), these films veer between foreign and local; past, present and future; then back to the most naive, raw and honest adventure of all in rendering what constitute Malaysians seen from the perspective of these young and vibrant filmmakers.

Wei Jie, Lim / USA / 2020 / Documentary / 17:27

‘Rasa’ is a portrait of a Malaysian restaurant in Manhattan, where kitchen workers reminisce about the past they left behind.

Shaiful Yahya, Syaz Zainal & June Wong / Malaysia / 2019 / Fiction/ 14:50

Based on a true story, Peon is told through a delivery rider’s phone screen. Ding! An order comes in to deliver passports

Tan Ce Ding / Malaysia / 2018 / Fiction/ 20:00

In a world where cutting edge robots are coveted, a fledgling human technician is torn between pursuing his feelings towards an outdated android and placating his abusive, android-aversive father.

Ekin Kee Charles / Malaysia / 2019 / Fiction/ 08:57

Yaya and her friends were on their everyday mischievous adventures. As the evening went by, Yaya discover something in her that she longed for.

Francis Oggs Cruz has served as member and jury alike at local and international film festivals. He also writes about cinema for various publications.

Three Filipino films that tackle very real societal issues through exhilerating, dramatic, sometimes comedic, and always absurd situations.

Keith Deligero / Philippines / 2019 / Fiction/20:22

In a time before mobile phones, postmodern Erinyes come to Barangay Babylonia in order to kill a local dictator

Carla Pulido Ocampo / Philippines / 2019 /Fiction/ 20:00

As Limmayug carries firewood back to his home village, something falls from the sky: a 1950s television, with a hysterical showbiz star trapped inside it.

Sonny Calvento / Philippines / 2019 / Fiction/15:43

Excuse Me, Miss, Miss, Miss is a social satire on the plight of contractual workers in the Philippines.