UMA SEMINYAK

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)

A PAUSE, SPACE IN BETWEEN

A selection of works which was presented in Image Forum Festival 2019 East Asian Competition Section, including the grand-prize winning work NIGHT HORSE. We are now more aware of the distance these days. Distance and space gives a different view and new look on everyday things and relationship.

Jeroen Van Der Stock / Japan, Belgium / 2019 / 18:35

An eyeball reflecting a sleeping horse? A peephole into the black night? A found footage work created out of numerous live surveillance camera feeds.

Takashi Kunimoto / Germany / 2018 / 18:38

A homeless Polish man named Robert only appears during the summer in Brunswick, Germany, where the filmmaker lives. Three summer memories of their encounters.

Chiemi Shimada / Japan, UK / 2019 / / 12:59

The filmmaker, who is living in the UK, comes home to Japan with a 16mm camera to visit her grandmother whom she has not seen in a long time.

Tomotosi / Japan / 2019 / / 18:45

Six different performances by the filmmaker. Through his actions, the temporarily changing behaviors of big city dwellers is recorded.

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: Gina Dellabarca, Festival Director and co-founder of Show Me Shorts in New Zealand.

Vice Chair of the Board for the world-wide Short Film Conference. – This vibrant collection of short films demonstrates the breadth of filmmaking talent in New Zealand. The films offer an insight into the concerns and preoccupations of Kiwis in a modern world. There is laughter and sadness, but most of all the ties of family and friendship that bind us all.

Ian Leaupepe, Samson Rambo / New Zealand / 2018 / / 15:00

MJ is a teenage boy with OCD living in Ōtara, New Zealand. An inspiring story of friendship that connects Pasifika culture, LGBTQI awareness, overcoming bullying and anxiety disorder

Zoe McIntosh / New Zealand / 2017 / 14:55

Eight-year-old Jesse is stuck in a tiny caravan with his grief stricken father, until his accidental friendship with a V8- driving transsexual unlocks the means for their liberation.

Josh Thomson and Robyn Malcolm star in this buddy movie about a grown man, his imaginary friend, and his mum who are all having a particularly challenging day.

Grace must prove that her pray-away-the-gay dog therapy works by trying to ‘cure’ Fergis the pug of his homosexuality.

Grant Lahood / New Zealand / 2017 / / 07:21

In this dark comedy, Con decides that the perfect way to cheer up her depressed and bedridden partner Bella is to call a clairvoyant phone line.

Becs Arahanga / New Zealand / 2017 / 10:07

A happily married woman (Aidee Walker), with a busy family life, struggles to find an intimate moment with her partner. She discovers orgasmic pleasure in an unlikely place.

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 / 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 / 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 / 15:43

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

IF, WHY, IF, Roufy Nasution / Bandung / 2019 / 13:00

Sepasang pemuda pemudi bertemu, kenalan, asyik ngobrol, sampai tiba-tiba seorang pengganggu datang membuat mereka harus berpisah. Sayang, ada satu hal yang mereka lupa tanyakan.

Awards/Screenings: Ganesha Film Festival 2020

NGIRING BELASUNGKAWA (THE ENVELOPE OF GRIEF) Praditha Blifa Rahayu / Bogor / 2018 / 19:47

Bagaimana jika karena kondisi tertentu, seseorang tidak dapat menjalankan laku tradisi yang sudah mengakar di daerahnya? Tuntutan dari tetangga dan saudaranya membuat Iis berada dalam posisi dilematis. Iis diminta untuk membayar semua orang yang mengurusi kematian ayahnya dengan tarif yang telah ditentukan, sementara ia tak punya cukup uang untuk itu.

Awards/Screenings: In Competition Malang Film Festival 2019 / Official Selection Viddsee Juree Indonesia 2019

LIVING FROM THE DEAD Netanya Yemima / Tangerang / 2019 / 15:51

Mereka menamakan dirinya, Palang Hitam. Pekerjaannya mengurusi jenazah, dari mulai mengambil sampai menguburkan. Semua jasad sama di mata Palang Hitam, berhak mendapat perlakuan yang layak.

THE LATE HORSEMAN Sri Buana Mantinu / Bandung / 2020 / 22:30

Seorang lelaki paruh baya mengajukan permintaan tak lazim pada anak-anaknya. Pilihan yang diambil akan menentukan nasib mereka sebagai sebuah keluarga.

JALAN PINTAS Rama Deranau / Jakarta / 2018 / 07:24

Kejahatan tampil dalam berbagai rupa, tidak jarang kita terkecoh dibuatnya.

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.