This yr’s Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, beginning subsequent week, is highlighting tales of variety and dystopia amid the backdrop of a fractured post-pandemic world.
With the theme “creative active generative,” organizers stated they hope the two-week pageant from Wednesday might be a “catalyst” to spark new relationships between audiences and movies, and creators and companies.
The pageant, based by Japanese actor Tetsuya Bessho in 1999, is the one worldwide brief movie pageant in Asia that includes 5 competitions whose winners will obtain a prize of 600,000 yen ($4,200) every and are eligible for the next yr’s Academy Awards.
This yr’s movies embody French manufacturing “Find The Boy,” wherein a bunch of pals lay one in every of their very own — Charly, a younger transgender man — to relaxation. As they pay their respects, Charly’s brother Victor remembers him in another way, underneath a distinct title.
In a particular program exploring the connection between synthetic intelligence and filmmaking, German movie “Transformation” follows the story of beings generally known as Drakzuls, who within the distant future are seeking a brand new house after their planet has been destroyed.
In “One Day I Will Hug You,” a joint Swedish, Qatari and Palestinian manufacturing, a father returns to Gaza after 10 years in Norway, earlier than which he spent 20 years in Israeli prisons. He exhibits his emotionally distant daughter, Mai, letters he wrote to her whereas he was incarcerated.
Taking place in hybrid kind with each on-line and in-person screenings at a number of venues in Tokyo by means of June 11, the pageant will showcase about 250 movies chosen from 4,592 submissions in 108 completely different nations and areas.
This yr will see the debut of the “Horror and Suspense” class, which options brief movies by 11 Japanese administrators who’re within the operating for a 500,000 yen money prize.
Other options embody Japanese movie “Nigemizu” by Akiko Isobe, wherein a girl’s plot to homicide her home visitor is interrupted when the potential sufferer arrives too early, and “Marion,” produced by Hollywood actor Cate Blanchett, which follows the story of France’s solely feminine bull-jumper.
Some movies are already out there to observe on-line till June 30.
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