SAPPORO SHORT FEST 2019

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME

SELFIES

A fireworks display of grinning people who lose themselves in the abysses of human existence. A selfie race around the world.

Claudius Gentinetta

Animation | Switzerland | 2018 | 0:03:40

Prize & Screenings

71st Locarno Festival, Switzerland
Annecy 2019, Short films Competition
Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival, USA - PRIX DU CINEMA SUISSE

THE FEAR OF DYING IN TRANSIT

In a replica of a segment of the new Gotthard Tunnel in Switzerland, the underground landscape becomes a site for filmic and sensory experimentation in which we are immersed for a hypnotic and ironic journey.

Ian Purnell

Documentary, Experimental | Germany, Switzerland | 2018 | 0:28:50

Prize & Screenings

Documentamadrid 2019, Madrid, Spain
Ann Arbor Film Festival 2018, USA
Go Short 2019 - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, Netherlands

SWIPE

A girl finds out that she has a match on a dating app with a stranger, despite swiping him to the left moments ago. She starts to fear that the man is dangerously close to her.

Niels Bourgonje

Fiction, Thriller | Netherlands | 2019 | 0:05:48

FARTA

Theresa has documented all of her daughter Marta’s childhood on social media without considering the full consequences.

Silvia Cannarozzi

Fiction, Drama | Germany | 2018 | 0:10:00

Prize & Screenings

David di donatello, 2019, Italy, official selection
Independent Days International Filmfestival, 2018, Germany, Official Selection
ASFF As Film Festival, Italy, Best short Under 35

TAKE MY HAND

A woman is heartbroken and grieving after suffering the loss of her only child when her closest friends come to her aid. Original Song “Believe” Co-Written by Cherie Currie (The Runaways) and Jake Hays (Maudlin Strangers). Song performed by Cherie Currie.

Alan J. Levi

Fiction, Drama | USA | 2018 | 0:17:45

SWATTED

Online players describe their struggles with "swatting", a life-threatening cyber-harassment phenomenon that looms over them whenever they play. The events take shape through youtube videos and wireframe images from a video game.

Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis

Documentary, Video Art | France | 2018 | 0:21:14

Prize & Screenings

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland(2018) 
International Competition

Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France (2019)
 Labo Competition Won: Special Jury Award

Tampere Film Festival, Finland (2019)
 International Competition

  • ショッキング・暴力的描写などを含む作品
  • 性的描写などを含む作品
  • 学生監督作品

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