SHORT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL & ASIA 2020
（NEW）BORDERLESS

Director: Edward Andrews
Production: Skin and Bones Film Company Inc.

Director: Toshiyuki Yagi
Agency: Dentsu Inc.
Production: GEEK PICTURES INC.

A young woman suffering from heroin addiction and living in one of downtown Los Angeles' many low-income residential hotels, receives an invite to her estranged 4-year-old daughter's birthday party later that day.

Three high school students at the Robocon Research Club, who learned that UFO will destroy the earth from Akane, a mysterious new student who suddenly appeared in the area of Hayama and Iijima. They gather junk to save the Earth by building a three-body-combined robot and stand up to the enemies.

People of different ethnic groups crowd a house in the suburbs. At night everyone plays its own music, trying to overcome the other. They will learn that to live together they have to play together.

Takashi, who studies abroad in Taiwan, finds every day is full of fun in friendship and love that he can't find in Japan. However, he feels the difficulty of conveying his feelings frankly while the time goes by.

Special Crime Squad from Seoul pays a visit to Sojin's house. Sojin is a prime suspect of an arson murder case.

LACOSTE Agency: BETC Production: ICONOCLAST

A young woman struggles to provide for her son while waiting to receive money from her husband. When she hears that a neighbor's husband has returned from abroad with gifts, she undertakes the long, humbling journey to visit them.

The video for The One and Only is a declaration of love for the culture of skateboarding. A forties goes on vacation in Tokyo and does not take his skateboard with him. The latter will take revenge for having been "abandoned".

Did you know puberty lasts forever? On Hold is an experimental documentary short film contemplating around the themes of intergenerationality and socially constructed masculinity. The film is based on anonymous phone calls dialed for a helpline for boys and young men under 20-years of age.

Looking at an x-ray image a young handsome man is horrified to learn that the weird, tumor-like lump on his chest is the top of a tiny plump man`s head. Nested in his body, he is waiting to be born… ’Mr. Mare’ is a surreal animated chamber play, set in a ‘haunted’ claustrophobic space, in which we witness the dynamics of unrequited love as we follow the relationship of an oddly codependent pair.

Somewhere in the Ukrainian hills, near the Romanian border, Gigi celebrates Malanka, a pagan festival where bears are heroes.

A bedridden old man who spends every day on the bed. One winter night, the old man is looking at the snow falling outside the window and remembers the last time he spent with his late wife.

A woman enlists the help of a removalist and his reluctant son to move a piano at the last minute.

After two tours in Fallujah during the Iraq War, US Marine Roman Baca came home ravaged with depression, anxiety, and anger. He turned to his first passion, dance, and ultimately formed Exit 12 — a dance company led by Veterans and military families who use dance to cope with the complex effects of war.

In Virago village where no man has lived long enough to see his fortieth birthday, Tõnu is about to turn forty.

A mortuary cosmetologist has to face a dilemma when she receives a call from a mother who had lost her child in an accident. A film with no dialog.

Inherited Memories explores the notion that traumatic experiences can be passed on to future generations. In 1941, a young Estonian railway worker was nearly executed for attempting to escape conscription by the occupying forces. Seventy-seven years later, his granddaughter revisits the places from his stories to gain deeper insight into the connections between them.

On his morning bike ride, Scott grapples with the memories of a trauma he experienced with his husband Todd. When his route suddenly takes an unexpected turn, Scott finds himself on the doorstep of a stranger intimately connected to the past he can’t shake.