SAPPORO SHORT FEST 2023

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME

Take it easy

Kobanyan is an LGBTQ person and also works as an influencer on SNS. How exactly does Kobanyan carry out her influencer activities?

Shota Inagaki

Documentary | Japan | 0:02:42

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

CHERRIES

A recently retired father invites his son to help him with the cherry picking in the garden. The father is in no hurry to finish the cherry job though, as he tries to catch up with his son. The cherries remain in the background.

Vytautas Katkus

Fiction, Drama | Lithuania | 2022 | 0:15:00

LA MOUCHE

During an interrogation in a police station, Max needs to hide the reason of his car crash. Under the threat, he keeps lying. Nobody is ready to believe him !

Hugo PRUNET, Maël JOANAS, Christopher GROS, Manon BENNATI

Fiction, Animation | France | 2022 | 0:05:37 | Student

SQUID FLEET

On any given night, tens of thousands of fishermen in China's distant-water squid fleet perform an industrial ballet thousands of miles out on the high seas. SQUID FLEET is based on two years of rigorous investigative journalism from the Pulitzer Prize-winning team of The Outlaw Ocean Project.

Ed Ou, Will N. Miller

Documentary, Social | United States | 2023 | 0:10:50

THINGS UNHEARD OF

A little Kurdish girl tries to put a smile back on her grandmother’s face after the disappearance of her television, her only window into the world.

Ramazan Kilic

Fiction, Drama | Turkey | 2023 | 0:15:36

ELEGY OF LIVING VOICES

A short documentary Elegy of living voices, filmed on location in Ukraine, follows life in villages as residents adapt to a new reality after liberation from Russian occupation.

Liliya Syvytska

Documentary, Social | Ukraine | 2023 | 0:15:38 | Student

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

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