INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME
![](https://sapporoshortfest.jp/23/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/MicroDocs-Guardian-of-the-Sea_640-2.jpg)
"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
![](https://sapporoshortfest.jp/23/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/MicroDocs-Guardian-of-the-Sea-Naohiro_Sawada-300-2.jpg)
![](https://sapporoshortfest.jp/23/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/IC_01_Fata_Morgana_01_640-1.jpg)
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
![](https://sapporoshortfest.jp/23/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/IC_01_dir_DaoodAlabdulaa_300-1.jpg)
![](https://sapporoshortfest.jp/23/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/IC_02_Eat_Flowers_06_640-1.jpg)
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
![](https://sapporoshortfest.jp/23/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/IC_02_dir_RiverAutumnFinlay_300-1.jpg)
![](https://sapporoshortfest.jp/23/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/IC_03_Neighbour_Abdi_04_640-2.jpg)
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
![](https://sapporoshortfest.jp/23/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/IC_03_dir_DouweDijkstra_300-2.jpg)
![](https://sapporoshortfest.jp/23/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/IC_04_Dear_michael_01_640-1.jpg)
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
![](https://sapporoshortfest.jp/23/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/IC_04_dir_JoanBover_300-1.jpg)