Basri & Salma in Never-ending Comedy
Basri & Salma in Never-ending Comedy
2023 / Indonesia / 15 minutes / dir. Khozy Rizal
Synopsis
A husband and wife spend their days entertaining and taking care of other people’s children without any of their own. Between meddling relatives, self-doubt and an explosive confrontation, they uncover why they have not been blessed with a child.
Director
Khozy Rizal is a filmmaker based in Makassar, Indonesia. In 2023, he made a short film titled “Basri & Salma in a Never-ending Comedy” which had its world premiere at the 76th Cannes Film Festival.
Chomp It!
Chomp It!
2023 / Singapore / 12 minutes / dir. Mark Chua, Lam Li Shuen
Synopsis
Two crocodilian men go to a swimming pool to cool off. One of them is seemingly of a different and special kind. The other is unable to control his desire.
Director
Mark Chua and Lam Li Shuen are Singaporean filmmakers and artist duo. Their films often employ absurdist imagery, thinking on place, histories and the peculiarity of human desire. Their films have screened at international film festivals.
Cross My Heart and Hope To Die
Cross My Heart and Hope To Die
2023 / The Philippines / 18 minutes / dir. Sam Manacsa
Synopsis
Mila struggles as she remains unpaid at work and a love interest becomes a source of comfort through his constant phone calls. But a promise of hope may also lead to tragedy and sad love songs.
Director
Sam Manacsa worked as Art Director on award-winning films. “Cross My Heart and Hope to Die” (2023) was selected to premiere at the 80th La Biennale Venice International Film Festival in the official Orizzonti Short Films Competition.
ด้วยรักและอาลัย (Dear You)
Dear You
2023 / Thailand / 30 minutes / dir. Muendaw Kamontum
Synopsis
Amid the COVID-19 epidemic, a single mom has to resolve her debt alone due to the economic downturn. She has to choose between doing the right thing and ensuring her survival.
Director
Muendaw Kamontum has been making short films that present the lives of ordinary people in the countryside, reflecting their lifestyle and troubles, no matter how small or big they may be, that affect their choices in life. She captures the real context and atmosphere that city-dwellers may never experience.
หอมสุวรรณ (Did you see the hole that mom dig?)
Did you see the hole that mom dig?
2023 / Thailand / 26 minutes / dir. Pobwarat Maprasob
Synopsis
During Songkran, a holiday in Thailand, Director returns to his grandmother's house with his family. They engage in discussions about Grandpa, a person with whom they had limited interaction until his recent passing. In one night, while everyone was sound asleep, something mysterious unfolded before them.
Director
Pobwarat Maprasob is interested in experimental and avant-garde films that are critical of Thai society and history. Now he is writing a screenplay for funding and making a sense of experimental films for his passion.
Everybody's Gotta Love Sometimes
Everybody's Gotta Love Sometimes
2023 / Myanmar, France, Indonesia / 15 minutes / dir. Sein Lyan Tun
Synopsis
Recovering from an abusive past, a Burmese guy named Phyo is looking for love in Paris. He discovers the excitement of a freedom to dance by the Seine river.
Director
Sein Lyan Tun is an emerging filmmaker from Myanmar, currently residing in Recollets Residency, Paris. “The Beer Girl in Yangon” is his first feature film, which won two Development prizes from CNC and Swiss Films under Locarno Open Doors at Locarno Open Doors 2021.
FIX ANYTHING
FIX ANYTHING
2022 / Vietnam / 15 minutes / dir. Le Lam Vien
Synopsis
One night, Minh's dad shows him a machine he has just created from scraps that he claims has the ability to erase memories. Minh's dad wants to use this machine to erase the debt that he owes the landlord and other troubles from his past. Minh is reluctantly dragged into this, and this is where all troubles start.
Director
Le Lam Vien is a Vietnamese film director. Vien's latest short “Fix Anything” was partially funded through the CJ Short Film Contest and then won the Best Director Award - Southeast Asian Short Film Competition at SGIFF 2022.
Goodnight Baby
Goodnight Baby
2023 / Vietnam / 18 minutes / dir. Le Quynh Anh
Synopsis
In her sleepless nights, Gia Gia watches online videos and finds out why she is afraid to fall asleep.
Director
Anh is an alumni of Locarno Filmmakers Academy, Open Doors and Rotterdam Lab, among others. She likes to explore obsessive feelings in the motion of fragments of dreams, memories, online recordings with her films.
HITO
HITO
2023 / The Philippines / 22 minutes / dir. Stephen Lopez
Synopsis
Between nuclear reactors and military curfews, 14-year-old Jani lives in a dystopian world oppressively devoid of empathy. Together, she and her slippery new friend Kiefer – the talking catfish – gear up to strike a surreal blow for freedom.
Director
Stephen Lopez is an alumnus of the NAFF Fantastic Film School 2023 and he has survived in the dystopian cyberpunk city of Manila as a freelance Production Sound Recordist, Sound Designer and sometimes Writer for various films and commercials.
Once Upon a Time There Was a Mom
Once Upon a Time There Was a Mom
2023 / Myanmar / 29 minutes / dir. Lin Htet Aung
Synopsis
On the day after a mother’s death, the father transforms back into his teenager-self, becoming the same age as his son. The film depicts the dysfunctional story metaphorically representing the insightful history of Burma by juxtaposing it with the Vessantara Jātaka tale.
Director
Lin Htet Aung is a self-learned filmmaker and time-based media artist based in Myanmar. His short films have been selected at International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen and so on.
The Pair of Canaries
The Pair of Canaries
2023 / Vietnam / 15 minutes / dir. Huynh Cong Nho
Synopsis
An old man, while walking at an ancient temple dedicated to Confucius, recalls his love affair with a married woman when he was young. At that time he was also married, so the two had to part and leave a memory of a pair of canaries.
Director
Huynh Cong Nho started his first approach to art through cinema. His works draws inspiration from his films, experimenting how an image could change when transforming from moving to still pictures, while still maintaining a direct link to his thoughts and inner world.
Primetime Mother
Primetime Mother
2023 / The Philippines, Singapore / 15 minutes / dir. Sonny Calvento
Synopsis
The audition process for an exploitative game show becomes the latest test of a long-suffering mother’s fortitude and tenacity in Sonny Calvento’s bold satire.
Director
Sonny Calvento is a director, writer and producer based in Manila, the Philippines. His first short film “Excuse Me, Miss, Miss, Miss (2019)” became the first Filipino short film in Sundance Film Festival.
Season of Rains and Scallops
Season of Rains and Scallops
2022 / Vietnam / 17 minutes / dir. Bui Hoang Tuyet Huong
Synopsis
A story about a pair of mother and daughter contemplating life away from home, discussing their provisions.
Director
Bui Hoang Tuyet Huong is currently a final-year student majoring in film directing, University of Theater and Cinema, HCMC.
A Tale of the Crocodile's Twin
A Tale of the Crocodile's Twin
2022 / Indonesia / 18 minutes / dir. Taufiqurrahman Kifu
Synopsis
Crocodiles and humans must share a living space within the red zone (tsunami-prone zone). There, they live suspiciously of each other.
Director
Taufiqurrahman Kifu is an interdisciplinary artist. In his artistic practice he uses various mediums such as drawing, photography, sound, video, film and performance art. In 2016 he co-founded Forum Sudutpandang, an art collective based in Palu that focuses on reproducing knowledge about the city they live.
walk walk
walk walk
2023 / Singapore / 27 minutes / dir. Tan Pin Pin
Synopsis
The video uses interviews, archival clips and documentation footage to profile a range of women from Singapore who discuss the role of walking in their lives. For them, walking connects closely to freedom and a simple gesture like walking can create space, literally and figuratively.
Director
Tan Pin Pin is a Singapore-based film director and producer known for her works interrogating the idea of Singapore. From traversing Singapore to find out how long it takes to cross the island to traversing the world to speak with her political exiles, her films question gaps in history, memory, and its documentation.
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