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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 / 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 / 20:34

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

Sorayos Prapapan / Thailand / 2018 / 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

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.

Be inspired by their high touch work, pouring all their passion and love into their art.

Ingrid Guldenaar / Netherlands / 2019 / Documentary / 10:04

A Dutch artist takes a closer look at her Asian roots. Does her work give enough answers or does she have to broaden her horizon?

Awards/Screenings: CinemAsia Film Festival 2019 – screening / Short Film Factory 2020 – Award Winner

Ibrahim Hanif / Indonesia / 2019 / Documentary / 16:38

Irama Betawi group goes around the city performing the iconic ondel-ondel art performance, despite harsh conditions on the streets.

Awards/Screenings: Festival Film Dokumenter 2019 – Nominee Short Documentary / Out Of Competition UCIFEST 11 (UMN – Animation and Film Festival 2020)

Bahram Azimi / Iran / 2019 / Animation / 14:33

In 1926 in Tehran, a tar player is inspired by the mechanism of the early automobile which was imported to Iran those days.

Kenji Hayasaki / United States / 2019 / Documentary / 19:15

An intimate look at how Navajos from different generations strive to pass their traditional values on to the future.

María Lorenzo / Spain / 2020 / Animation, Experimental / 04:53

In URBAN SPHINX are animated these pieces of ephemeral art, connecting each image in continuity like the frames of a film.

Awards/Screenings: Annecy, France Anifilm, Czech Republic

Fanny Laure Bovet / Switzerland / 2019 / Documentary, Experimental / 19:16

A young filmmaker documents an external and an internal journey in her family, trying to go behind words.

Awards/Screenings: WORLD PREMIERE at MFW6

Stay positive with our hopes and dreams, life sometimes bitter but short and sweet indeed.

David Feagan, Brian Elliott / United States / 2019 / Fiction / 09:50

Smothered by an adoring, over-protective mom, 12-year old Bryce Yancy Paul (Bip) is pushed to the brink of pubescent revolution.

Awards/Screenings: Best Comedy Short – Garden State Film Festival / Special Jury Prize – Oxford Film Festival

Yavuz Akyıldız / Turkey / 2020 / / 19:10

There are highly valid reasons for being where everyone is in life … probably!

Awards/Screenings: KFYD Short Film Festival (Turkey, Top Shorts) / El Ojo cojo Film Festival (Spain)

Dina Velikovskaya / Germany & Russia / 2019 / Animation / 07:35

A young woman leaves the parental home to see the world. By leaving, she puts it at risk.

Awards/Screenings: Dok Leipzig 2019 – Mephisto 97.6 audience award (Best animation film in the Official selection)I nterfilm – Best Film

Imam Syafii / Indonesia / 2019 / Fiction / 15:08

Losing is painful, but loss is normal in life. then what if the loss is present when the figure of Lilis must be happy.

Valérie Leroy / France / 2019 / Fiction / 20:00

After her parent’s divorce, Tania, 14 years old, starts a new life when she arrives during the year in a new French middle school.

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

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

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

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.

POT Gandhi Bramayusa / Indonesia / 2020 / 03:54

Sebuah kisah tentang pot yang mempertemukan seorang laki-laki dan perempuan A story about a vase that brings a man and a woman together – Awards/Screenings: Nominated

MEROKOK MEMBUNUHMU Hare Kurniawan / Indonesia / 2020 / 05:16

Mama ingin berkumpul dengan anak-anaknya sebelum ia menghirup rokok terakhirnya. Mama wants to hang out with her children before she breathes in her last cigarette.

MIDNIGHT GLITCH Azalia Muchransyah / Indonesia / 2020 / 03:00

Ada sedikit error dalam system. Dan terjadi malam hari. There is a glitch in the system. And it happens at midnight. – Awards/Screenings: Nominated

DOMPET? DOMPET! DOMPET. Steven Vicky Sumbodo / Indonesia / 2020 / 04:24

Seorang pemuda yang melihat sebuah dompet jatuh dan berniat mencurinya. A young man who saw a wallet fell and intends to steal it. – Awards/Screenings: Nominated

KURSI Kinan Ghifari Ramayulis / Indonesia / 2020 / 02:02

Seorang figur misogini, yang sedang menyekap seorang wanita menggunakan sebuah kursi. A misogyny is tied up a woman in a chair.

HAI GUYS BALIK LAGI SAMA GUE, TUHAN! Winner Wijaya / Indonesia / 2020 / 04:30

Bagaimana jika netizen adalah Tuhan? What if netizens are God? – Awards/Screenings: Nominated

HOSTAGE Robby Saputra / Indonesia / 2020 / 05:00

Penyanderaan ahli virologi muda oleh agen mercenary untuk mendapatkan vaksin dengan tujuan bisnis. Hostage of young virologists by mercenary agents to get vaccines for business purposes.

BIPOLAR Putri Sri Aryana / Indonesia / 2020 / 05:35

Galih didiagnosa memiliki gangguan afektif bipolar. Sejak itu, ia selalu mencari bagian lain dirinya. Galih was diagnosed as bipolar affective disorder. He has always been looking for other parts of himself.

NGITUNG DINA Daku Aditya / Indonesia / 2020 / 05:17

Beberapa warga mencari solusi dari pasangan muda yang ingin menikah namun terhalang dengan perhitungan weton A community sought solutions from young couples who wanted to get married, but were burdened by a Weton calculation

SHIT HAPPENS Conrad Pamungkas / Indonesia / 2020 / 05:15

Seorang ayah berusaha membeli televisi baru untuk putrinya yang masih kecil A father wants to get a new television for his young daughter

FRIDAY NIGHT SHIFT Agung Aksara Putra / Indonesia / 2020 / 03:48

Seorang karyawan datang ke kantornya untuk bekerja di shift malam. Dirinya mungkin tidak sendirian. An employee work on the night shift. He might not be alone.

IKAN-IKAN MASA LALU Wayan Martino / Indonesia / 2020 / 04:57

Percakapan Seorang pemancing dan Seseorang Pemuda yang berkeluh kesah tentang masa lalu pembantaian 65. Conversation of a fishermen and a young man who complained about the 65 massacre.

MOMO Angelico Dominic, Qiu Mattane Lao / Indonesia / 2020 / 03:36

Momo, seekor anjing yang mendambakan kebebasan Momo, a dog that cry out for freedom

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

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 / 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 / / 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 /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 / 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.

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?

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 / / 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 / / 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 / / 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 / / 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.

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 / 16:00

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

Thavary Krouch / USA / 2020 / 25:36

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

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.