We are delighted to announce this year’s official selection for international competition programmes and our of competition programme.

We spent so many hours to preview all the submitted films and had difficult time to decide. Congratulations to all the selected film directors, producers!

18th Sapporo International Short film Festival and Market, Official Selection.

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME

Listed as screening programmes.

I-A
GHOSTS | (LA)HORDE – BRUTTI, DEBROUWER, HAREL | Fiction, Dance | France | 2022 | 0:08:12
PLEASE HOLD THE LINE | Tan Ce Ding | Fiction, Drama | Malaysia | 2022 | 0:18:30
FURRIE | Lucie Grannec | Animation | France | 2022 | 0:08:36 | Student film
WHAT IF WOMEN RULED THE WORLD? | Giulia Magno | Documentary, Social | Italy | 2022 | 0:07:00
UPROOTED | Andzej Gavriss | Fiction, Social | Ukraine | 2022 | 0:02:40
CHRISTOPHER AT SEA | Tom CJ Brown | Animation, LGBTQ | United Kingdom | 2022 | 0:20:17
ALIEN0089 | Valeria Hofmann | Fiction, Drama | Chile | 2023 | 0:21:00

I-B
PLSTC | Laen Sanches | Experimental, AI | France | 2022 | 0:01:37
CHERRIES | Vytautas Katkus | Fiction, Drama | Lithuania | 2022 | 0:15:00
LA MOUCHE | Hugo PRUNET, Maël JOANAS, Christopher GROS, Manon BENNATI | Fiction, Animation | France | 2022 | 0:05:37 | Student film
SQUID FLEET | Ed Ou, Will N. Miller | Documentary, Social | United States | 2023 | 0:10:50
THINGS UNHEARD OF | Ramazan Kilic | Fiction, Drama | Turkey | 2023 | 0:15:36
ELEGY OF LIVING VOICES | Liliya Syvytska | Documentary, Social | Ukraine | 2023 | 0:15:38 | Student film
SYNCOPE | Linus von Stumberg | Fiction, Thriller | Switzerland | 2023 | 0:15:39 | Student film

I-C
FATA MORGANA | Daood Alabdulaa | Documentary, Social | Syrian Arab Republic | 2023 | 0:29:00 | Student film
EAT FLOWERS | River Autumn Finlay | Documentary, Portrait | United States | 2023 | 0:15:00
NEIGHBOUR ABDI | Douwe Dijkstra | Documentary, Portrait | Netherlands | 2022 | 0:29:00
DEAR MICHAEL | Joan Bover | Documentary, Portrait | Spain | 2022 | 0:13:42

I-D
EGER, 1552 | Attila Szász | Fiction, Adventure | Hungary | 2022 | 0:17:00
DEAD CAT | Annie-Claude Caron, Danick Audet | Fiction, Comedy | Canada | 2022 | 0:12:30
THE RED SUITCASE | CYRUS NESHVAD | Fiction, Drama | Luxembourg | 2022 | 0:15:00
THE WINNER | ALI KEYVAN | Fiction, Drama | Iran, Islamic Republic of | 2022 | 0:14:53
SIMO | Aziz Zoromba | Fiction, Drama | Canada | 2022 | 0:22:00

I-E
FUNDAMENTAL SHAPES | Colin Alistair Campbell | Fiction, Romance | United States | 2023 | 0:14:55
HEADPRICKLES | Katarzyna Miechowicz | Animation | Poland | 2022 | 0:08:00 | Student film
SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES | Alvin Lee | Fiction, Drama | Singapore | 2022 | 0:19:11
MAKING BABIES | Éric K. Boulianne | Fiction, Comedy | Canada | 2023 | 0:19:30
THE FIREFIGHTER’S BALL | Baptiste Drapeau | Fiction, Comedy | France | 2022 | 0:18:32

OUT OF COMPETITION
Drunken Night
DEADLINE | Idan Gilboa | Fiction, Comedy | Israel | 2023 | 0:12:49
PHOTO THAT CAME TO LIFE | Mikk Mägi | Animation, comedy | Estonia | 2023 | 0:12:47