SAPPORO SHORT FEST 2020

INTERNATIONAL FILMS

POLYFONATURA

Can one make music with nature as the instruments? The eccentric sound artist Eirik Havnes is preparing his most ambitious project ever: A symphonic masterpiece with the nature as his orchestra.

Jon Vatne

Documentary | Portrait | Norway | 2019 | 0:20:09

THE GROUP OF EIGHT

An ordinary hard-worker Ivan works on improving the city that will soon host the SUMMIT. One day he finds out that the city authorities decided to clean up the streets from stray dogs. Ivan makes a decision to help his four-footed friends.

Ivan Sosnin

Fiction | Drama | Russia | 2020 | 0:21:03

DOWNS OF THE DEAD

You wouldn't wanna be stuck at work when the Zombie Apocalypse breaks out. Especially if you work at a housing for the mentally challenged. When the zombie- apocalypse breaks out at “Soltoppen” housing for the mentally challenged it’s up to nurse Morten and resident Arvid to save them.

Even Husby Grødahl

Fiction | Comedy | Norway | 2019 | 0:23:02 | Student Film

THE FANTASTIC

The Fantastic is a film about imagination and encountering the unknown. North Korean exiles describe their experiences of watching forbidden foreign films. What did they imagine the world outside to be like on the basis of smuggled fiction films?

Maija Blafield

Documentary | Video Art | Finland | 2020 | 0:30:00

STARS IN THE SKY

A retired astrophysicist has invented a special machine that can turn people's materialistic memories into stars in the sky. The story takes place on a day in this man's life where he is dealing with the loss of someone, who were special for other people.(45 words)

Casper Lind

Fiction | Drama | Denmark | 2019 | 0:08:52

NAKED

Somewhere in Eastern Europe due to an accident in a laboratory, the hero gains superpowers that he does not want. The hero does not want to be a superhero, to save the world from villains, he wants to live as before without changing anything. The situation is complicated by the fact that while he gains the awareness of his power, it causes problems in his everyday life. While he is stuck in the elevator, he meets a girl who likes him and wants to help him.

Kirill Khachaturov

Animation | Fantasy | Russia | 2019 | 0:14:40 | Student Film

THE KICKSLED CHOIR

Ten-year-old Gabriel loves to sing and has one desire: to sing in the local choir. The group rides kick-sled through the snowy landscape of Northern-Norway and is known for their kindness and charity towards the village refugees. But when Gabriel's father gets into a fight with one of the local refugees, Gabriel's quest to join The Kicksled Choir becomes challenging.

Torfinn Iversen

Fiction | Drama | Norway | 2020 | 0:18:00

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