SHORT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL & ASIA 2020
（NEW）BORDERLESS

Sally, who is determined to make money by live-streaming, comes to Tokyo and meets a foreign student, Kanja, in Nishi-Shinjuku. One day, Kanja starts saying that she wants to work like Sally.

Trains, escalators, elevators. Tokyo is a city of movement, and its modernity moves to the sound of Koto music.

Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House Is Black juxtaposes “ugliness,” of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude. The film was restored by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and Ecran Noir productions, in collaboration with Ebrahim Golestan. Additional support was generously provided by Genoma Films and Mahrokh Eshaghian. Restoration work was carried out at L’Immaginie Ritrovata laboratory in 2019.

An optician grows tired of seeing the world too clearly and understands her inevitable involvement in its faults.

The Shimuras, mother Fukumi and daughter Yoko, devote their daily lives in a lifelong pursuit to understanding and preserving the national treasure that is Japanese textiles,

When Dunya decides to accompany her father on his wine delivery route, an unexpected encounter with her father’s old love confronts her with the inaccessible, inescapable mystery of who her father is and more mysteriously - who he used to be.

A tale of first love. While waiting for their parents, two boys and a girl meet in the carpark of a rural pub. What at first seems to be a relationship based on rivalry soon develops into a close friendship. We learn that love can be found in the most unlikely of places.

The Black Ghiandola is a story about a young man risking his life to save a girl he has grown to love, after his family has been 'killed' in an Apocalyptic world of Zombies.

On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his young daughter set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift. Between soldiers, segregated roads and checkpoints, how easy would it be to go shopping?

A story about Alli, a mother of young children who has grown frustrated with her daily routine and her husband. When two twenty-somethings move in across the street, she discovers that she can see into their apartment and develops a Rear Window-style obsession with their free-spirited lives.

An older couple experience a blip in an otherwise pretty uneventful marriage when the husband, Fred, avoids embracing retirement , and drifts purposeless around the house with an increasing resentful wife, Doreen. However, when a leaflet lands on his doormat promising to bring joy into his life again, he embarks on a mission to find himself, and put the much-needed magic - and music - back into their marriage. But she’s terrified that his ‘ridiculous’ behaviour will show them both up…

When a luxurious family touring train halts in a pitch black tunnel, the conductor tries to pacify the passengers, not knowing an uninvited creature quietly sneaks on board...

Director: Megaforce
Agency: BETC
Production: ICONOCLAST

A story about a singer-songwriter who works many part-time jobs to devote to her dream, and a hot-dog-bun girl. The theme of "Life = Musical" to pursue kawaii. It’s a film that is pop, colorful and makes your mind and body want to dance.

Portrays the growth of a woman who carves out her future through the journey. The traveler is Rie Kayano of Ainu. Born in Ainu with a mission, she visits a Native American tribe, Seminole, which builds its own culture. She tries to find a path she should take and move forward.

Director: Ryo Takebayashi
Agency: CHOCOLATE Inc.
Production: CHOCOLATE Inc.

Director: Takeshi Izumida
Production: TAIYO KIKAKU Co., Ltd.

Sara, an eight-year-old girl, lives alone in Raqqa, a city ravaged by war. While society tries to cope with the consequences of extreme violence, she gathers grenades from the rubbles to trade for food and clothing. The exchange of a grenade for a pair of gloves leads to a dramatic situation when the night falls.

The fox who wants to be a mascot for the city goes to a mascot training academy. He lives in a very tiny house and works many part-time jobs. He is still getting many Mascot auditions with taking loans at a high-interest rates for undergoing plastic surgery.