Asian Short Film & Video Competition

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The only competition section of IWFFIS which awards the USD 17,000 prizes in total and the Mary Kay Award to winners. This year, valuable 17 films among 344 entries from 22 countries have been selected to be in the competition for Awards.

 
 
Film List (17)
 
Turtle and Tears
 Director : CHOU She-wei
 Taiwan | 2011 | 27' | Digi-beta | color | Drama

Synopsis The fifteen-year-old Xiao Yu comes from a family suffered with domestic violence. Her family is constantly occupied by fear and terror. One day, her mother disappears, and Xiao Yu has to meet another challenge of ..

Dinner
 Director : Kaz CAI
 Singapore | 2011 | 30' | HD | color | Drama

Synopsis Dinner starts with the friendship of an old lady and a young ex-convict. Due to his working hours, the ex-convict encounters the old lady every night, sitting in front of a church and seemingly waiting for someone. ..

Today's Headline
 Director : Jude JUNG
 Korea | 2011 | 19' | HD | color | Drama

Synopsis Amy is the only Western alien who works among the Asian coworkwers. She has troubles to get along with her colleagues. One day, she finds a magical hose under her colleague’s desk and suddenly falls into broadcast ..

Seventeen in Summer
 Director : JO Seul-yeah
 Korea | 2011 | 29' | HD | color | Drama

Synopsis 17-year-old Mi-jin, being sick and tired of her young and egocentric mother, dreams of a different life than mother's. However, her mother comes back home in seven months, becoming pregnant. Working a part-time job ..

Swimming Pool
 Director : Puangsoi AKSORNSAWANG
 Thailand | 2011 | 28' | Beta | color | Drama

Synopsis Unrelenting relationships of Mung, Ploy, and Pan that cycle through a gentle roar of the waves in a swimming pool. For them, this swimming pool is an escape; a new world where they can let go, and seize slight hap ..

Kung Fu Grandma
 Director : PARK Jeong-one
 UK | 2012 | 27' | HD | color | Documentary

Synopsis Korogocho; a Kenyan slum in which the older women have become vulnerable to attack from younger men, fuelled by rumours that intercourse with an elderly woman can be a cure for AIDS. Now, a group of grandmothers co ..

Lights in the Dusk
 Director : YU Eun-jeong
 Korea | 2012 | 16' | HD | color | Drama

Synopsis Hyun-young moves into the cheap and shabby neighborhood in Seoul with her broken bicycle. She asks her neighborhood to find a bicycle shop. Getting to the bycicle shop, she finds a bicycle repairman Min-woo.

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Intimacy
 Director : SHEK Wai Man Ada
 Hong Kong, China | 2011 | 24` | HD | color | Drama

Synopsis Nicole KWAN has been in hospital for years. Dealing with the dieses is painful but, at the same time, it has been the largest and most familiar part for her life. A boy, little Hung, keeps staying around her.

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Alley behind Our House
 Director : Shilan SAADI
 Iran | 2011 | 12' | DV | color | Drama

Synopsis This short film tries to shed light on a very inhuman and ugly tradition between Kurdish families in Kurdistan and particularly in Mahabad. The story of the film is about two young girls who are friends for many ye ..

There Is Something in the Air
 Director : Iram GHUFRAN
 India | 2011 | 29' | DV | color/b&w | Documentary

Synopsis This documentary is a call from the periphery of sanity. It depicts is a series of dream narratives, and accounts of spiritual possession as experienced by women ‘petitioners’ at the shrine of a Sufi saint in nor ..

Cultivating Happiness
 Director : LEE Hyun-kyung
 Korea | 2011 | 28' | HD | color | Drama

Synopsis A middle-aged woman works as a domestic helper. Being tired of her incompetent husband who even has a delusional jealousy, she hopes to get comforts from a man she met in the trekking club. Then she only gets hurts ..

Anesthesia
 Director : KIM Souk-young
 Korea | 2011 | 23' | HD | color | Drama

Synopsis This film is based on a true event. Ji-hyun, a nurse, comes to know that the physician in her hospital uses anesthetic to take advantages of female patients. At first all the other nurses shed doubtful looks at he ..

Communique'
 Director : LEE Min-ah
 Korea | 2011 | 5' | HD | color | Drama

Synopsis A man and a woman are talking to each other. Their conversation is audible but inaudible. Once their conversation is heading to the climax, her tears are going up. The situation is reversed. Did he hear, or did she ..

Here, Where We Meet
 Director : KIM Min
 Korea | 2012 | 46' | HD | color | Documentary

Synopsis One day, all of a sudden, ‘I’ wonder how a human being has to live. ‘I’ start paying attention to people around her. And then, ‘I’ gradually find out tiny tragedies embedded in life one by one.

Tidy Up
 Director : OKAWA Satsuki
 Japan, USA | 2011 | 15' | HD | color | Drama

Synopsis Akira enlists professional support to clear up the house that his deceased mother turned into a hoarder's castle, but finds himself in a situation that he wasn’t prepared for. The problem is his elder sister Moe, ..

Cheung
 Director : KIM Jung-in
 Korea | 2012 | 17' | HD | color | Drama

Synopsis One exciting afternoon, Hong can’t help pretending not to see her blind father.

Program Note Hong, an elementary school child who lives only with her f ..

Time of Me with Myself
 Director : CHOI Rin
 Korea | 2011 | 15' | HD | color | Drama

Synopsis Song-yeon, dreaming of being an actress, wakes up in the morning with hangover. She can barely remember what happened last night. It’s not a work day nor a day off.

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