SAPPORO SHORT FEST 2023

AWARD PROGRAMME

PLSTC

Welcome to the world of PLSTC, an undersea dystopia that submerges you in the disturbing reality of plastic pollution. Through a series of graphically confronting AI-generated and hand-composited images, this animated film confronts you with the devastating consequences of our habits on marine life and leaves you gasping for breath.

Laen Sanches

Experimental, AI | France | 2022 | 0:01:37

NEIGHBOUR ABDI

How can you understand a violent past? Somali-born Abdi is furniture designer and support worker. He reenacts his life, marked by war and criminality, with the help of his neighbour and filmmaker Douwe. Through playful reconstructions in a special effects studio, Abdi and Douwe embark on a candid and investigative journey through a painful history.

Douwe Dijkstra

Documentary, Portrait | Netherlands | 2022 | 0:29:00

UPROOTED

Displacement crisis has reached 100 million people globally. 60+ Ukrainian refugees were involved in making the film, sending a message of support to all refugees. The film focuses on the PTSD that people experience after fleeing the war.

Andzej Gavriss

Fiction, Social | Ukraine | 2022 | 0:02:40

A JOURNEY WITH MY DAD

For the first time, Tamar (5 years old), accompanies her dad in a hotel where vacationers look a bit strange... Through the eyes of the child then begins a journey tinged with surrealism. Tamar will eventually discover the hidden story of her father, a part of his life that she does not know.

Mor Israeli

Animation | France | 2022 | 0:10:00

SYNCOPE

After Whim makes it through the unconventional audition for the dance piece SYNCOPE, the choreographer finds himself unsatisfied with her full commitment. But what she and the other dancers experience in the rehearsals is just a glimpse of what his dark vision will demand of them.

Linus von Stumberg

Fiction, Thriller | Switzerland | 2023 | 0:15:39 | Student

STING

After a broken engagement, Mizuki returns to her mother’s home, where she would live a self-indulgent life, unbothered by her mother’s cold stare. One day out of the blue, she receives a wedding gift from her distant father, who had left Mizuki and her mother long ago. Amidst her growing frustration, Mizuki visits the town where her father lives to return this useless gift…

Kohei Ogane

Fiction, Drama | Japan | 2022 | 0:29:57

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