SAPPORO SHORT FEST 2023

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME

"Guardian of the sea" Seaweed Fisherman

A sea where fishing continues to be poor. However, there are things that only people who know the field can convey. You can change things by telling them. A story depicting the challenges of Futoshi Aizawa, who lives as a seaweed fisherman.

Naohiro Sawada

Documentary | Japan | 0:03:30

FATA MORGANA

Truck driver Abu Husain, like many guest workers in Qatar, spends endless hours in a self-contained world of standing, waiting, and tenaciously moving trucks on the fringes of society.

Daood Alabdulaa

Documentary, Social | Syrian Arab Republic | 2023 | 0:29:00 | Student

花と、想う | EAT FLOWERS

When photographer and writer Cig Harvey found out her best friend Mary was diagnosed with terminal leukemia, she did what she knew best: made photographs. Through images of beauty, and love letters to the world and the ones we love, Cig and Mary find a way through an unspeakable tragedy and loss. Eat Flowers is a call to LIVE.

River Autumn Finlay

Documentary, Portrait | United States | 2023 | 0:15:00

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

DEAR MICHAEL

On June 25th 2009, Michael Jackson died in Los Angeles. 10 years later, the filmmaker Marcos Cabotá writes him a letter to tell him everything he could not in life.

Joan Bover

Documentary, Portrait | Spain | 2022 | 0:13:42

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