We are proudly announce our SSF2019 OFFICIAL SELECTION.

14 th Sapporo International Short Film Festival & Market
SAPPORO SHORT FEST 2019

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION PROGRAMMES

INTERNATIONAL Programmes
Australia
THREE STORIES INSIDE A RENTAL VAN | Lewis Attey | Fiction | Australia | 2018 | 0:15:06

Austria
GUY PROPOSES TO HIS GIRLFRIEND ON A MOUNTAIN | Bernhard Wenger | Fiction | Austria | 2019 | 0:13:00 | Student Film

Belgium
PROVENCE | Kato De Boeck | Fiction | Belgium | 2018 | 0:22:00 | Student Film

Canada
LUNAR-ORBIT RENDEZVOUS | Mélanie Charbonneau | Fiction | Canada | 2018 | 0:14:45
FAUVE | Jeremy Comte | Fiction | Canada | 2018 | 0:15:52
JUST ME AND YOU | Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers | Fiction | Canada | 2019 | 0:21:35

Croatia
SLICE OF LIFE | Luka Hrgović & Dino Julius | Fiction | Croatia | 2019 | 0:20:00

Denmark
WELTSCHMERZ | Jesper Dalgaard | Documentary | Denmark | 2018 | 0:29:00 | Student Film

France
SALVATORE GANACCI - HORSE | Vedran Rupic | Experimental | France | 2019 | 0:02:47
À CORPS | Stehr Yoann | Animation | France | 2018 | 0:03:36
MY GENERATION | Ludovic Houplain | Animation | France | 2018 | 0:08:04
TO HELL WITH CODES | Léopold Legrand | Fiction | France | 2018 | 0:13:55
CRYSTAL FROG | Slony Sow | Fiction | France | 2019 | 0:16:41
SWATTED | Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis | Documentary | France | 2018 | 0:21:14 | Student Film

France, UK
MADAME | Garth Jennings | Fiction | France, UK | 2018 | 0:22:43

Germany
FARTA | silvia cannarozzi | Fiction | Germany | 2018 | 0:10:00 | Student Film
THE FEAR OF DYING IN TRANSIT | Ian Purnell | Documentary | Germany | 2018 | 0:28:50 | Student Film

Hungary, Romania
PILLOWFACE | Péter Vácz | Fiction | Hungary, Romania | 2018 | 0:11:26

Israel
MOON DROPS | Yoram Ever-Hadani | Fiction | Israel | 2018 | 0:16:00

Luxembourg
PORTRAITIST | cyrus neshvad | Fiction | Luxembourg | 2019 | 0:15:00

Macedonia, Czech Republic
MI(S)SING DOG | Veljanoski Antonio | Fiction | Macedonia, Czech Republic | 2018 | 0:14:50

Netherlands
SWIPE | Niels Bourgonje | Fiction | Netherlands | 2019 | 0:05:48

Netherlands, China
TRAPPED IN THE CITY OF A THOUSAND MOUNTAINS | David Verbeek | Documentary | Netherlands, China | 2018 | 0:23:32

Russia
THE INTERVIEW | Ivan Sosnin | Fiction | Russia | 2019 | 0:16:40

Singapore
INTERWOVEN | Wee Li Lin | Fiction | Singapore | 2019 | 0:15:27

Spain
BACKGROUND | Toni Bestard | Fiction | Spain | 2018 | 0:14:47
2001 SPARKS IN THE DARK | Pedro | Documentary/Animation | Spain | 2018 | 0:20:00

Switzerland
SELFIES | Claudius Gentinetta | Animation | Switzerland | 2018 | 0:03:40
ALL INCLUSIVE | Corina Schwingruber Ilić | Documentary | Switzerland | 2018 | 0:09:59
SOUSAPHONE | Flo Linus Baumann | Fiction | Switzerland | 2019 | 0:13:34

Taiwan
TAIL END OF THE YEAR | Chieh YANG | Fiction | Taiwan | 2018 | 0:22:50

UK
GOOD INTENTIONS | Anna Mantzaris | Animation | UK | 2018 | 0:08:34

USA
OCTANE | Jeron Braxton | Animation | USA | 2018 | 0:06:04
REMISSION | John Charter | Experimental | USA | 2018 | 0:07:27
THE NARRATOR | Julia Trofimova | Fiction | USA | 2018 | 0:10:38
Take My Hand | Alan J. Levi | Fiction | Drama | USA | 2018 | 0:17:45

FAMILY & CHILDREN Programme
Australia
LOST & FOUND | Andrew Goldsmith, Bradley Slabe | Animation | Australia | 2018 | 0:07:30

Belgium
NOT TODAY | Marine Jacob | Animation | Belgium | 2018 | 0:05:20 | Student Film

Czech Republic
HIDE N SEEK | Bara Halířová | Animation | Czech Republic | 2019 | 0:06:56 | Student Film

France
TAILORED | Léa Cousty, Chloé Astier and others | Animation | France | 2018 | 0:07:12 | Student Film
SAM'S DREAM | Nölwenn Roberts | Animation | France | 2018 | 0:07:18
R.I.S.E PATHFINDER | Chloe Dumoulin, Clementine Dudreuilh and others | Animation | France | 2018 | 0:09:10 | Student Film

Germany
NEST | Sonja Rohleder | Animation | Germany | 2019 | 0:04:20
CAT LAKE CITY | Antje Heyn | Animation | Germany | 2019 | 0:06:41

India
FIND ME MOTHER | Suchana Saha | Animation | India | 2018 | 0:04:11 | Student Film

Korea (south)
SATURDAY'S APARTMENT | Seungbae JEON | Animation | Korea (south) | 2018 | 0:07:00

Spain
MUEDRA | Cesar Diaz Meléndez | Animation | Spain | 2019 | 0:08:54

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SPECIAL PROGRAMMES, OUT OF COMPETITION

///// Mystery Zone

FACE SWAP | David Gidali, Einat Tubi | Fiction | USA | 2018 | 0:05:01
BEDTIME STORY | Lucas Paulino, Ángel Torres | Fiction | Spain | 2019 | 0:09:00
L'ENTRETIEN | Ugo Bienvenu, Félix de Givry | Animation | France | 2018 | 0:09:09
ALTITUDE | Nicole Scherer | Fiction | Austria | 2019 | 0:10:58
JUPITER | Benjamin Pfohl | Fiction | Germany | 2019 | 0:13:58 | Student Film
SLICE OF LIFE | Luka Hrgović, Dino Julius | Fiction | Croatia | 2019 | 0:20:00
2001 SPARKS IN THE DARK | Pedro | Documentary/Animation | Spain | 2018 | 0:20:00

///// SSF-Docs World Documentary

NOBU | Sarah Blok | Documentary | Netherlands | 2019 | 0:09:20
ALL INCLUSIVE | Corina Schwingruber Ilić | Documentary | Switzerland | 2018 | 0:09:59
MOTOMIYA | Alexandra Debricon | Documentary | USA | 2019 | 0:13:06
TRAPPED IN THE CITY OF A THOUSAND MOUNTAINS | David Verbeek | Documentary | Netherlands, China | 2018 | 0:23:32
RIAFN | Hannes Lang | Documentary | Germany | 2019 | 0:29:30

///// Drunken Night

CRAP-MAN | Hikaru TSUKUDA | Fiction | Japan | 2019 | 0:02:43
SALVATORE GANACCI - HORSE | Vedran Rupic | Experimental | France | 2019 | 0:02:47
À CORPS | Stehr Yoann | Animation | France | 2018 | 0:03:36
SCREWED | Tim Schijf | Fiction | Netherlands | 2018 | 0:07:00
A WOMAN WANTS THE BILL | Natalia Sinelnikova | Fiction | Germany | 2019 | 0:07:00 | Student Film
HOT DOG | T.J. Yoshizaki | Fiction | USA | 2018 | 0:07:12
NINE STEPS | Marisa Crespo Abril, Moisés Romera Pérez | Fiction | Spain | 2018 | 0:07:30
THE PLUNGE | Simon Ryninks | Fiction | United kingdom | 2019 | 0:10:00
BUG | Cedric PREVOST | Fiction | France | 2018 | 0:19:04
MADAME | Garth Jennings | Fiction | France, United kingdom | 2018 | 0:22:43

///// Nature/Culture/Adventure

SISTAN & BALOUCHESTAN | Meysam Babaei | Documentary | Iran | 2018 | 0:05:00
WONDER MOUNTAINS 3 | TaQ INOUE | Documentary | Japan | 2019 | 0:05:43
ODYSSEY | Hiroki Ito | Documentary | Japan | 2018 | 0:07:25
GLIMPSES OF ICE | Christian Uhlig | Documentary | Norway | 2018 | 0:07:50
A GIFT OF WINGS: THE PILOTS OF SEBRING | Ted Snow | Documentary | USA | 2018 | 0:08:30
THE TOUGH | Marcin Polar | Documentary | Poland | 2019 | 0:14:00
IKIGAI: THE SHIN BIYAJIMA STORY | Justin Taylor Smith | Documentary | USA | 2018 | 0:15:34
SHINRIN YOKU: THE ART OF FOREST BATHING | Mike Dewey , Kati Hetrick | Documentary | USA | 2019 | 0:18:34

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PROGRAMMER'S DELIGHT

We would like to express thank all the films below that give us great suffer to decide SSF 2019 official selection. The listed films are not selected but we are willing to mention these great films. We are appreciate all the great works and contributions.

///// AMINATION
I Want | Isensee Anne | Animation | Germany | 0:02:00
BusyScreen | XIE,QI-FENG | Animation | Taiwan | 0:02:00
Matter and Motion | Max Hattler | Animation | Germany | 0:02:15
Shattered | Suyoung Jang | Animation | USA | 0:02:31
Iam Twisq | Red Wong, Ray Mok | Animation | China | 0:02:45
Hello Jemima | Peter Baynton | Animation | USA | 0:03:02
YOU ARE THE LIGHT | Sahar Homaeifar | Animation | Iran | 0:03:05
Stealing Sheep "Show Love" | Gyuri Cloe Lee | Animation | UK | 0:03:21
Augenblicke - a blink of an eye | Kiana Naghshineh | Animation | Germany | 0:03:55
Alone Together | Benjamin Marchal | Animation | France | 0:04:00
Red Omen - Ed Roman | Ed Roman, Nelson Diaz and There Be Dragons Creative Media | Animation | USA | 0:04:00
Reer | Francois Vogel | Animation | France | 0:04:10
Thicket | Adrianna Matwiejczuk | Animation | Poland | 0:04:10
Pinchpot | Greg Holfeld | Animation | Australia | 0:04:21
Step by step | Simon Lehembre | Animation | France | 0:04:22
Squaring The Circle | Karolina Specht | Animation | Poland | 0:04:50
Kingdom | Wei Keong Tan | Animation | Singapore | 0:05:12
Anna | Jessica Mountfield | Animation | UK | 0:05:15
Tango of longing | Marta Szymańska | Animation | Poland | 0:05:22
Etreintes | Justine Vuylsteker | Animation | France | 0:05:27
QUIET | Sonja Rohleder | Animation | Germany | 0:05:50
CAT NOIR (dir. O. Bürgi) | O'Neil Bürgi | Animation | Switzerland | 0:06:23
Pulse | Sarah Forest, Cécile Floucat and others | Animation | France | 0:06:38
Under the Canopy | Bastien Dupriez | Animation | France | 0:06:38
The Bolt Connection | Nicolas Lebas, Claire Cartier and others | Animation | France | 0:06:51
O Hunter Heart | Carla MacKinnon | Animation | UK | 0:07:07
Fuse | Shadi Adib | Animation | Germany | 0:07:18
Why?! | Daniel Hernández Torrado | Animation | Spain | 0:07:30
Paper or Plastic | Nata Metlukh | Animation | Ukraine | 0:07:37
The Hunt | Mateusz Jarmulski | Animation | Poland | 0:08:00
Black Bread | Adrien Bourcier, Louise Duveau and others | Animation | France | 0:08:11
The Cat's Regret | Alain Gagnol, Jean-Loup Felicioli | Animation | France | 0:08:37
Fishboy | Anita Bruvere | Animation | UK | 0:08:42
Bolero Station | Rolf Brönnimann | Animation | Switzerland | 0:09:40
Entropia | Flóra Anna Buda | Animation | Hungary | 0:10:30
Not Yet | Varga Timea | Animation | Hungary | 0:10:35
Above All | Lisa Klemenz | Animation | France | 0:10:42
Days Off | Blažek Filip | Animation | Czech republic | 0:10:47
Viacruxis | Ignasi López Fàbregas | Animation | Spain | 0:11:00
Widdershins | Biggs Simon P | Animation | UK | 0:11:12
Piece of Meat | Jerrold Chong, Huang Junxiang | Animation | Singapore | 0:11:52
Imbued Life | Ivana Bosnjak, Thomas Johnson | Animation | Croatia | 0:12:15
Renata | Zhuang Ren Xiang | Animation | Taiwan | 0:12:27
Home Sweet Home | Chaitane Conversat | Animation | France | 0:13:23
Malleus Dei | Krpan Dino | Animation | Croatia | 0:14:04
MAKE IT SOUL | Mbotti-Malolo Jean-Charles | Animation | France | 0:14:39
Anacronte | Raúl Koler, Emiliano Sette | Animation | Argentina | 0:14:58
Le Mans 1955 | Quentin Baillieux | Animation | France | 0:15:00
Where Am I Going? | Huang Yun-Sian, Tsai Yi-Chin | Animation | Taiwan | 0:15:00
The Bridge at the Brogs' | Jerome Boulbes | Animation | France | 0:16:26
Lola the Living Potato | Leonid Shmelkov | Animation | France | 0:17:18
OPINCI | Anton and Damian Groves | Animation | Romania | 0:18:00
THE NIGHT OF THE PLASTIC BAGS | Harel Gabriel | Animation | France | 0:18:34
Death of the Filmmaker | Koch Cornelius | Animation | Germany | 0:19:54
Avarya | Gökalp Gönen | Animation | Turkey | 0:19:58
Snail Man | Jaebeom PARK | Animation | Korea (south) | 0:21:54
Red Hands | Filippi Francesco | Animation | "Italy
France" | 0:30:04

///// DOCUMENTARY
Shaholly | Wojciech Lorenc | Documentary | USA | 0:03:25
4th Wall | Dimitris Gkotsis | Documentary | Greece | 0:10:00
I replay the footage of Abebe Bikila | Maroan el Sani, Nina Fischer | Documentary | Germany | 0:10:30
I Signed the Petition | Mahdi Fleifel | Documentary | United kingdom | 0:11:00
I Want to Go Home | Wesley Leon Aroozoo | Documentary | Singapore | 0:12:10
Otherland | Jan Pieter Tuinstra, Keren Levi | Documentary | Netherlands | 0:13:30
Prisoner of Society | Rati Tsiteladze | Documentary | Georgia | 0:15:00
Horse Riders | Anna Gawlita | Documentary | Poland | 0:20:00
QARLAVAJ | EHSAN KAMALI | Documentary | Iran | 0:20:00
Footstep | Haydar Demirtas | Documentary | Turkey | 0:20:00
THE OLDEN HERALDS | Luis Alejandro Yero | Documentary | Cuba | 0:23:00
Scraps Of Paper | Sven O. Hill | Documentary | Germany | 0:24:00
Now Or Never | MATT SENIOR | Documentary | UK | 0:25:00
The Invisible Sanctuary | Sayaka Mizuno | Documentary | Switzerland | 0:30:00

///// EXPERIMENTAL
Incoming Call | Daniel Hernández Torrado, Juan Ramón Robles | Experimental | Spain | 0:00:59
SONATA | Christine Jezior | Experimental | Germany | 0:03:22
Dawn of the pieces | Daniel Hernández Torrado | Experimental | Spain | 0:03:45
Still Life | Iordanis Theodosiadis | Experimental | Greece | 0:05:05
Still Lives | Vuorinen Elli | Experimental | Finland | 0:06:02
Of Pets & Dinner | Kew Lin | Experimental | UK | 0:06:31
The Return | Komrakova Liudmila | Experimental | Russia | 0:08:50
THE HUMAN FACTOR | Fatmi Mounir | Experimental | France | 0:15:56
Terminally in Love | Emily Jenkins, Justin Black | Experimental | Canada | 0:17:00
The Egg and The Thieving Pie | Lola Blanche Higgins | Experimental | UK | 0:18:55
MOTHER SAINT WHORE | Tirado Jose Luis | Experimental | Spain | 0:24:18
La Cartographe | Nathan Douglas | Experimental | Canada | 0:30:00

///// FICTION
UP DATE | Le Guénédal Sophie | Fiction | France | 0:04:12
From our laundry | Albin Abrahamsson, Jakob Eliasson | Fiction | Sweden | 0:04:14
MAMA | EDUARDO VIEITEZ | Fiction | Spain | 0:09:00
ONE FINE DAY | VIBIN M.R | Fiction | India | 0:10:00
SECOND SKIN | Ismet Ergün, Kerem Ergün | Fiction | Germany | 0:10:03
Boo Boo | Yu Ivan | Fiction | "China
United kingdom" | 0:10:29
Hearth | Sophie B Jacques | Fiction | Canada | 0:10:35
PERILAXIS | Josh Havelka | Fiction | Canada | 0:10:46
Betta | Son Kyeong-su | Fiction | Korea (south) | 0:11:11
Melodi | Michael Kam | Fiction | Singapore | 0:11:43
La Noria | Carlos Baena | Fiction | Spain | 0:12:00
Grand Hotel Barbes | Ben Sliman Ramzi | Fiction | France | 0:12:12
Dalgegno | Go Sungwook | Fiction | Korea (south) | 0:12:30
PLAY | Piotr Sulkowski | Fiction | Poland | 0:13:00
SOLANGE | Pascaline Bellegarde | Fiction | France | 0:13:00
Metronome (in time) | Lochmus Scott Floyd | Fiction | USA | 0:13:02
Salam | Claire Fowler | Fiction | USA | 0:13:36
A YEAR | Jisun Jamie Lee | Fiction | USA | 0:13:47
Da Capo | Ipek Efe | Fiction | Turkey | 0:14:00
ANGEL'S MIRROR | Cheng Chao | Fiction | China | 0:14:00
Tina | Turic Dubravka | Fiction | Croatia | 0:14:20
La gita (The school trip) | Salvatore Allocca | Fiction | Italy | 0:14:35
Azar | d'Audignon Georges , Brouard Rafael | Fiction | France | 0:14:43
Bathtub by the sea | Ronneberg Ole-Andre | Fiction | Norway | 0:14:45
BAILAORA | Rubin Stein | Fiction | Spain | 0:15:00
AMAL | Dilek Ince | Fiction | USA | 0:15:00
The Invisible Hand of Adam Smith | Slobodan Maksimović | Fiction | Slovenia | 0:15:00
American Bull | Fatemeh Tousi | Fiction | Iran | 0:15:00
How To Swim | Noa Gusakov | Fiction | Israel | 0:15:00
THREE STORIES INSIDE A RENTAL VAN | Attey Lewis | Fiction | Australia | 0:15:06
The sea swells | Amir Gholami | Fiction | Iran | 0:16:15
CRAZY HAIR | Deram Christophe | Fiction | France | 0:16:54
ClearSkies | Hagberg Daniel | Fiction | Sweden | 0:16:59
THE BOOGEYWOMAN | Erica Scoggins | Fiction | USA | 0:17:00
Blue Dog | Liatard Fanny, Trouilh Jeremy | Fiction | France | 0:17:00
Andros | Tääker Doris | Fiction | United kingdom, Estonia | 0:17:08
Holestepper | Fernandez Munoz Sergio | Fiction | Peru | 0:17:26
About My Mother | Yumi Otsuka | Fiction | Japan | 0:17:36
Take My Hand | Alan J. Levi | Fiction | USA | 0:17:45
I can stand | Malika Musaeva | Fiction | Germany | 0:17:49
STILL BREATHING | Yilmaz Cana | Fiction | Germany | 0:18:27
Rupture | Yassmina Karajah | Fiction | Canada | 0:18:30
Le Dernier Homme | Poisson Olivier | Fiction | France | 0:18:44
Beyond Her Lens | Tereza Hirsch | Fiction | Czech republic | 0:19:01
The Nixie | Bui Ngoc Julia, Bui Ngoc Mai | Fiction | Poland | 0:19:12
The Silence of the Dying Fish | Kekatos Vasilis | Fiction | Greece, France | 0:19:35
Tracks | Sophie Thouvenin | Fiction | France | 0:19:39
Angel & Alien | Sandrine Béchade | Fiction | Canada | 0:19:45
PLAY | | Fiction | Korea (south) | 0:19:54
River of Oedipus | Yu Daxiong | Fiction | China | 0:19:57
Tremors | Dawid Bodzak | Fiction | Poland | 0:20:00
Kippa | Lukas Nathrath | Fiction | Germany | 0:20:00
Carry My Heart to the Yellow River | Alexis Van Hurkman | Fiction | China | 0:21:30
Ruffians | Jallali Alexandre | Fiction | Belgium | 0:22:25
Zaina46 | Desmazières Laure | Fiction | France | 0:22:30
Diversion | Mathieu Mégemont | Fiction | France | 0:22:33
End Of Season | Zhannat Alshanova | Fiction | United kingdom | 0:23:45
THE ACT OF DEVOURING | Emir Ziyalar | Fiction | Czech republic | 0:24:00
Home Sleep Home | Rybanský Adam Koloman | Fiction | Czech republic | 0:24:18
Fuel | Mikhail Arkhipov | Fiction | Russia | 0:24:27
Mourning Butterfly | couturier joseph | Fiction | France | 0:24:47
Brotherhood | Meryam Joobeur | Fiction | Canada | 0:24:57
Transmissions of Unwanted Pasts | Prabda Yoon | Fiction | Thailand | 0:25:00
Beauty | Nicola Abbatangelo | Fiction | Italy | 0:25:00
MAMA PINGPONG SOCIAL CLUB | CHUANG SHIANG AN | Fiction | Taiwan | 0:25:59
In the Middle of Blue | Qi Ji | Fiction | China | 0:26:01
TILL THE END OF THE WORLD | Florence Bouvy | Fiction | Netherlands | 0:26:33
At her own pace | Dabin Baek | Fiction | Korea (south) | 0:26:36
MAD LORD - Samurai of 1000 Deaths | Samuel Smith | Fiction | United kingdom | 0:27:00
Proxima-b | Stefan Bürkner | Fiction | Germany | 0:27:11
Prophet | Boseung Kang | Fiction | Korea (south) | 0:27:45
Rust | Daniel Drummond | Fiction | USA | 0:28:08
THREE BLADES | Matthieu MAUNIER-ROSSI | Fiction | France | 0:29:21
Any Wednesday | Light Allie, Stark Patrick | Fiction | Canada, USA | 0:29:39
I Grew A Statue | Aaron Arens | Fiction | Germany | 0:29:45
Third Kind | Yorgos Zois | Fiction | Greece | 0:30:00
Horst | Samuel Pleitner | Fiction | Germany | 0:30:00
Ahmed's Song | Foued Mansour | Fiction | France | 0:30:00
Chuhedaani (Mousetrap) | RAVI SHANKAR KAUSHIK | Fiction | India | 0:30:00
A Kiss | Mohaghegh Nima | Fiction | Netherlands | 0:32:36

///// MUSIC VIDEO
ODDKO - Disobey | Giovanni Bucci | USA | 0:03:58
Reer | Francois Vogel | France | 0:04:10
THIRSTY EYES - 838 (dir. I. Gavriel) | Ioan Gavriel | Austria | 0:05:48

///// TV / WEB NEW MEDIA
SWITCH | Stavroula Toska, Cady McClain and others | Fiction | Drama | USA

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14th Sapporo International Short Film Festival & Market
SAPPORO SHORT FEST 2019
Oct, 16-20, 2019