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SAPPORO SHORT FEST 2011

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION [FILMMAKERS’ PROGRAMME]

A unique entry system that director can entry some titles at the same time. You can find directors’ style and taste in the programme.
4 directors from UK, Austlaria, and Japan are selected for Filmmakers’ Programme 2011.

directors name

Harold Chapman

UK

Harry started his career as a Production Designer and has since gone on to write and direct music videos, documentaries and short films and has completed two feature length screenplays.


Maestro

A bedraggled stranger awakens beside a railway line clutching the violin case. The case is stolen by the kids, and the 2 strangers give chase.


15:00 / United Kingdom / 2000

Fiction_Drama

Sweep

On a typical day in London, nine street sweepers ruminate on the nature of what they do. "“Everyone has a story to tell.”


10:00 / United Kingdom / 2010

Documentary_Human

Invisible

Victor in London is escaping from memories of a bloody, African civil war. Violence seeks him out once more and he realizes that to regain his humanity he must become “visible” again.


15:00 / United Kingdom / 2010

Fiction_Tragic

directors name

Isamu Hirabayashi

Japan

Born in 1972 in Shizuoka, Japan. After graduating from Musashino Art University, he became a graphic designer for advertising. Became a freelance film director. He began making short films since 2002. His movie was screened at Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Sundance.


HELMUT

A man wearing a strange helmet is driving by motorbike. There are eggs on the carrier of the moterbike.


09:00 / Japan / 2003

Fiction_Drama

aramaki

Wonderful beautiful forest. Descending fog. A small river. A man. A suitcase. A dance. Wild animals are barking.


26:00 / Japan / 2009

Fiction_Drama

Shikasha

There are investigators searching on a wasteland.Imprisoned and bound by rope, a mother and child lay in darkness.


10:00 / Japan / 2010

Fiction_Drama

directors name

Atsushi Wada

Japan

Born in 1980. Graduated from Osaka kyoiku University, Image Forum Institute of Moving image and Tokyo University of the Arts. In a Pig's Eye (2010) won the Best Film in Fantoche International Animation Film Festival, and Silver Jabberwocky at Etiuda and Anima. The Mechanism of Spring (2010) premiered at the Venice Film Festival.


Gentle whistle, bird, and stone

Whistles, birds, stones, and people are gentle.


03:10 / Japan / 2005

Animation_Drama

Day of Nose

I hope every day will be the day of nose.


10:00 / Japan / 2005

Animation_Drama

A manipulated man

Story of a man whose voice come out from mouth.


04:35 / Japan / 2006

Animation_Fantasy

Well, that's glasses

How was this made? For what purpose, and using what materials? What is this anyway? "Well, that's glasses".


03:10 / Japan / 2007

Animation_Fantasy

In a pig's eye

A weird relationship between a pig, a dog, and humans Do we forgive the existence of a gap?


10:00 / Japan / 2010

Animation_Drama

The mechanism of spring

Everybody is excited to see the arrival of spring. This film tries to depict the excitement spring brings.


04:20 / Japan / 2010

Animation_Fantasy

directors name

Dustin Feneley

Australia

Born in Sydney in 1982, Feneley is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts Film School. His short films have screened at over one hundred film festivals, including official selections at Cannes, London, Melbourne, Sydney and Bucharest international film festivals. He is currently developing his debut feature Stray.


NIGHT

An elderly couple prepare for bed.


04:31 / Australia / 2005

Fiction_Drama

Snow

A boy explores the thin line between life and death.


14:58 / Australia / 2006

Fiction_Drama

Hawker

A travelling salesman searches for connection.


13:15 / Australia / 2008

Fiction_Drama

Eskimo Kiss

A young man with a disability experiences intimacy for the first time.


10:20 / Australia / 2009

Fiction_Drama