SAPPORO SHORT FEST 2020

INTERNATIONAL FILMS

LILIANA

Liliana is a beautiful girl and dedicated hard worker. But she does have a secret that keeps her going… A poetic narrative from another time and place with a touch of nostalgic past. 

Milanka Fabjancic

Animation | Musical | Slovenia | 2019 | 0:06:53

BANALITY

The anatomy of a terror attack – and its turning to an everyday banality.
One, uninterrupted long sequence shot without any digital trick.

Balazs Simonyi

Fiction | Thriller | Hungary | 2019 | 0:11:57

DAUGHTER

In a hospital room, the Daughter recalls a childhood moment when as a little girl she tried to share her experience with an injured bird with her Father. A moment of misunderstanding and a lost embrace has stretched into many years all the way to this hospital room, until the moment when a window pane breaks under the impact of a little bird.

Daria Kashcheeva

Animation | Fantasy | Czech republic | 2019 | 0:14:43 | Student Film

THE VAN

The Van finally stops, the doors open and the Son comes out alive. A few more fights and he will be able to pay his way out of Albania, and hopefully, take his Father with him.

Erenik Beqiri

Fiction | Drama | France, Albania | 2019 | 0:15:08

HOW TO DISAPPEAR

Is it possible to desert in a shooter game? Along this question, "How to Disappear" reflects on war and game, discipline and disobedience. For the history of defiance is as old as the history of war - and yet the act of desertion goes beyond the game's space of action.Shot in the martial yet picturesque war landscapes of the online shooter "Battlefield V", the hyperreal graphics become the backdrop for an essay-like narrative. The narrator's voice creates a crack through which physical-real realities penetrate the depoliticized fun stage of the game. Using performances and interventions in the digital battlefield, "How to Disappear" explores the scope and limits of the audiovisual entertainment machine.

Total Refusal (Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf, Robin Klengel)

Animation | Mix-Medias | Austria | 2020 | 0:21:06

ONE NIGHT STAND

Peter’s thirty now, but he’s still avoiding adulthood and everything associated with it. He fills his life with partying and one-night stands, competing with his best friend, Krzysztof, to see who can score the most notches on the bedpost. Peter is under the impression that he’s in control of time. He has a tried and tested strategy for girls; none of them gets to stay the night. Until the night he picks Wendy up and everything slips out of his control... Wendy... and time.

Mally Yina

Fiction | Drama | Poland | 2020 | 0:29:57

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