國際競賽－短片

Last Men Standing

Ten years after the mass pit closure of 1984 the miners of the Tower Colliery pooled their severance pay and bought their own pit. They believed they were securing the future of their community. What happen to the children and grandchildren of the “last men standing”?

Phantom Limb

The death of the filmmaker's brother when he was 9 remains a painful and haunting memory. His parents did not know how to cope with the loss and the entire family experienced indescribable pain. It uses this personal story as a point of departure for a collection of personal reflections on grief and loss.

Promised Paradise

Indonesia has been disturbed in the last few years by terrorist attacks of Muslim fundamentalists. The confusion in the country is an inspiration source for many Indonesian artists. In Promised Paradise we follow the troubadour-puppeteer Agus who criticizes the turbulence in his country in his performances.

Yellow Box

You can almost see this transparent glasses built vendor selling this special Taiwanese chewing gums everywhere in Taiwan. It’s called the “betel nuts stands”. Then a betel nuts girl is there to match the male customers’ sexual fantasies. In the tiny glasses house, the girls talk about stories of themselves.

Jabe Babe- A Heightened Life

Jade Bade- A Heightened Life transports its audience to the world of 31 year old Jabe Babe, a tall girl with a tall story. This hybrid documentary, which merges fiction and non- fiction forms, inhabits the heightened technicolour world of the tall woman, the outsider, to provoke questions about society's desire for sexual, visual and genetic conformity.

The Gangster's God

Every Lantern Festival in eastern Taiwan, a group of men wearing nothing but red shorts, stands on a sacred palanquin, allowing people to pound their bodies with bottlerockets, singeing their skin. They are believed to be human incarnations of the god Handan. The film enters the heart of these men’s universe lives.

First Lesson in Peace

First Lessons in Peace explores the Jewish –Arab conflict through the eyes of a six year old girl, the director’s daughter when she starts school at the mixed Arab- Jewish primary school - Neveh Shalom, a unique school which provides Jewish and Arab children with an educational frame work for learning together.

Code Name Silence

Code Name Silence is the story of heroes who abused their power and became criminals. At the same time, it reveals the pain of the victims and the scars still borne by thousands of Ethiopian Jews living in Israel today.

Birth/ Mother

Naomi KAWASE's films attempt to fill in the void from her own "losses in life." Now, as the mother of a newborn baby, she embarks upon a new era of her career - A new beginning that goes beyond the barrenness of loss and expresses the primitive power inherent in human nature.

All Kids Are Born Able to See

Sasha lost his sight at the age of 12. As he steps into adulthood, he leads a normal life as everyone else - getting married, having a family, developing a career. His daily life and interactions with his son were captured through the camera lens. This film shows how extraordinary emotions can shine through ordinary routines.