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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…

It’s the time to take a ride into the dark and see the light at the end.

David Mair / United States / 2020 / Fiction / 07:38

A dying man with a dark past seeks to repair the relationship with his estranged daughter.

Awards/Screenings: Z-Fest Film Festival 2020: Audience Award, Nominated for Best Film

Eden Junjung / Indonesia / 2019 / Fiction / 12:07

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

Awards/Screenings: Light of Asia Competition – Jogja NETPAC Asian Film Festival 2019 / In Competition – SGIFF 2019

Eileen Cabiling / Philippines / 2019 / / 17:00

A fisherman, desperate for cash, dumps bodies into the sea for the current Philippine Administration’s “Drug War”.

Awards/Screenings: Busan International Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Official Selection at Cinemalaya-Phillipines.

Alan King / Australia / 2019 / Fiction / 12:57

A neighbourhood dogcatcher found wandering the streets, turns a police station into hell on earth.

Awards/Screenings: Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival: Official Selection Lab Competition / B risbane International Film Festival – Winner Jury Award Innovation In Form

Vikster Chew / Malaysia / 2019 / / 13:06

Following the journey of a girl going home in a quiet night on her birthday.

Awards/Screenings: BMW Shorties 2019. Winners of Best Cinematography / WORLD PREMIERE at MFW6

Andrew T. Betzer / United States of America / 2019 / Fiction / 12:18

A group of police cadets are mercilessly hazed as they suffer through the worst day of their training, their hell day.

Awards/Screenings: 2020 Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival

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 / / 18:19

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

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

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

Lê Can Trường / Vietnam / 2020 / 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 / 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 / 03:21

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

Beyond sharing time together, they bond.

CHENG Thim Kian / Malaysia / 2020 / Fiction / 22:30

Self-redemption can be done by influencing and inspiring one’s life.

Awards/Screenings: Osaka Asian Film Festival

Chen Liangyu / Taiwan / 2019 / Animation / 03:09

Girl & boy try to do a little magic to fight for peaceful and sweet life.

Seonhwa YEO / Korea (south) / 2019 / Fiction / 18:55

A hearing-impaired girl, Yeon-hee transfers to the new school in the countryside.

Awards/Screenings: 15th Lago Film Festival – International Festival of Independent Cinema: Best Unicef Film / 27th KINEKO International Children’s Film Festival: Jury special award/ 18th Dhaka International Film Festival /13th Glasgow Short Film Festival

Nicolas Durand / France / 2019 / Fiction / 09:59

Pennilless, whimsical street musician Boïko is delighted when two blind passer-by’s make a striking encounter…

Awards/Screenings: REMI award @ 53rd Worldfest Houston / 16 (and counting) International Festival official selections across 3 continents (2020)

Abdenoure Ziane / France / 2020 / Fiction / 18:00

Kader, 11, tries for the first time to make ramadan whith his friend Rudy who just sees it as a game.

Awards/Screenings: Clermont Ferrand Film Festival 2020

Katyayan Shivpuri / India / 2019 / Fiction / 08:26

Inspired by true events, ‘hunger’ is about a homeless man and his love for food.

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

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)

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: Berlinale International Film Festival, Germany (7 – 17 February, 2019) Generation 14PLUS2 Glas Animation Festival, United States (21 – 24 March, 2019) Official Selection

Ordinary human in extraordinary circumstances.

Céleste Vidal–Ayrinhac / France / 2020 / Animation, Experimental / 06:57

What if we’re only represented by our accumulations of objects, how could we tell ourselves ? Here’s 3 months in a hoarder’s life

Valéry Carnoy / Belgium / 2018 / Fiction / 24:10

Henri, a baker in his fifties, suffers from his failed marriage. One morning he meets Anita, a young contemporary photographer.

Awards/Screenings: (2019) Brussels Short Film Festival Compétition Next Generation (Belgium) – National Audience Award / (2019) Thess International Short Film Festival (Greece): Cinematic Achievement.

Vlad Bolgarin / Moldova / 2019 / Animation / 15:00

A grey man, living in a grey city, covered in smog, keeps on sighing until he dries out and becomes skin and bones.

Awards/Screenings: Busan International Short Film Festival 2019 / Sarajevo Film Festival 2019

Faris Alrjoob / Jordan, Germany / 2020 / Fiction / 21:00

A raw and intimate portrayal of a man in grief, and a city on fire, doomed and in exile, and sinking to hit rock bottom.

Awards/Screenings: World Premiere at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.

Matthieu Vigneau / France / 2019 / Fiction / 20:00

Summer is ending in Douglas’ campsite, and during his morning swim in the river, he’ll find a human tongue.

Awards/Screenings: Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, 2020

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

Let’s get inspired by the dreamers.

Celine Lochmeier / Switzerland / 2020 / Animation, Experimental / 03:05

Stop motion music video created with 20000 pictures

Awards/Screenings: JellyFest Los Angeles

Florian Grolig / Germany / 2019 / Animation / 07:50

The ‘small’ one is, well, small, and the ‘big’ one definitely very very big. They are friends.

Awards/Screenings: Tribeca, Interfilm Berlin

Aitor Herrero, Raúl Colomer / Spain / 2019 / Animation / 05:27

An alien and his abused pet coexist as they can on a distant planet, arid and dry.

Awards/Screenings: 2019 ANIM’EST Romania 2019 Baixada Animada – Mostra Ibero-americana De Cinema De Animação

Tihoni Brcic / Croatia / 2020 / Animation / 06:47

Spikiney is a hedgehog who runs a soup kitchen for his needy friends. They search for a selfish monster who steals their food.

Cristóbal LEÓN & Cristina SITJA / Chile / 2019 / Animation / 15:00

The animals of the forest decide to go in search of their homes, when these are mysteriously stolen by strange creatures.

Awards/Screenings: Fantasia International Film Festival Montreal (2019)F ID Marseille (2019)

Have a heart to win a lover, a friend, or a family.

Rodrigo Sopeña Costales, Joana Solnado / Spain / 2019 / Fiction / 04:10

Milagros is obliged to install a fire extinguisher in her chapel. But first she will have to ask someone’s permission.

Awards/Screenings: Best Actress: Hanford International Film Festival (California, USA) / Best Comedy: Kosice International Monthly Film Festival (Slovakia)

Trevor Zhou / United States / 2019 / Fiction / 12:04

When a man awakens in a hotel room and realizes he cheated on his wife, a sinister stairwell forces him to tell the truth or risk everything.

Awards/Screenings: WORLD PREMIERE at MFW6

Kang Sheng Tang / United States / 2019 / Fiction / 08:43

A professor is threatened by an ex-student to expose the their relationship to the university.

Awards/Screenings: WORLD PREMIERE at MFW6

Vincent Sparreboom / Netherlands / 2019 / Documentary / 13:00

During a manic episode, the mother of the director gets involved in a dating scam. He decides to intervene.

Awards/Screenings: DOK Leipzig International Documentary and Animation Film Festival (2019) | Go Short International Short Film Festival Nijmegen (2019)

Leandro Goddinho, Paulo Menezes / Germany / 2019 / Fiction / 13:40

Lolo is an openly gay 11-year-old boy trying to finally convince Max, his first love, to go public with their relationship.

Putri Sarah Amelia / Indonesia / 2019 / Fiction / 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.

Kaveh Mazaheri / Iran / 2019 / Fiction / 14:55

Majid a young financially struggling man comes up with a ploy in order to better the life of his wife Sarah.

Awards/Screenings: Best International Short Film at “Foyle Film Festival” (Qualified for Academy Awards 2021)