The Asian representation in Vienna Shorts this year was quite restricted with just 8 movies in the program. However, among those, there are definitely a couple of gems, while the diversity is impressive, since experimental, animation, comedy, horror, drama are just some of the elements that appear in the film. Without further ado, here is a list of all the Asian entries, in random order.
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Hito (2023) by Stephen Lopez
Stephen Lopez can easily be described as one of Khavn's “students”, since his chaotic style of filmmaking with the many, absurd vignettes, the constant mocking of a number of concepts including the title and his filmmaking itself, the music video aesthetics and the sociopolitical commentary are all elements found in Khavn's cinema. At the same time though, Lopez is somewhat more grounded in terms of his script,...
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Hito (2023) by Stephen Lopez
Stephen Lopez can easily be described as one of Khavn's “students”, since his chaotic style of filmmaking with the many, absurd vignettes, the constant mocking of a number of concepts including the title and his filmmaking itself, the music video aesthetics and the sociopolitical commentary are all elements found in Khavn's cinema. At the same time though, Lopez is somewhat more grounded in terms of his script,...
- 6/7/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
“Tank Fairy,” the latest short film from director Erich Rettstadt, opens with a definition for workers known in Taiwan as “song wa di se.” Their job is to deliver gas tanks door-to-door, and the definition comes with a reminder that they are “usually male, pot-belied, and lacking in glamour.”
“Tank Fairy” is screening at Vienna Shorts
Immediately, this gendered expectation is subverted with the introduction of the titular Tank Fairy (Marian Mesula), a larger-than-life woman who delivers her propane with the unapologetic swagger of a drag performer. Her bright red lipstick and flamboyant nails come as a shock to those who encounter her, including a ten-year-old boy named Jojo (Ryan Lin) who undergoes a personal awakening after she comes to his house for a routine delivery. Soon, Jojo begins to explore his own forms of self-expression, but his defiance of gender norms worries his stern mother (Danielle Yen).
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“Tank Fairy” is screening at Vienna Shorts
Immediately, this gendered expectation is subverted with the introduction of the titular Tank Fairy (Marian Mesula), a larger-than-life woman who delivers her propane with the unapologetic swagger of a drag performer. Her bright red lipstick and flamboyant nails come as a shock to those who encounter her, including a ten-year-old boy named Jojo (Ryan Lin) who undergoes a personal awakening after she comes to his house for a routine delivery. Soon, Jojo begins to explore his own forms of self-expression, but his defiance of gender norms worries his stern mother (Danielle Yen).
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- 6/4/2023
- by Henry McKeand
- AsianMoviePulse
“Tank Fairy,” the latest short film from director Erich Rettstadt, opens with a definition for workers known in Taiwan as “song wa di se.” Their job is to deliver gas tanks door-to-door, and the definition comes with a reminder that they are “usually male, pot-belied, and lacking in glamour.”
“Tank Fairy” is screening at New Filmmakers Los Angeles
Immediately, this gendered expectation is subverted with the introduction of the titular Tank Fairy (Marian Mesula), a larger-than-life woman who delivers her propane with the unapologetic swagger of a drag performer. Her bright red lipstick and flamboyant nails come as a shock to those who encounter her, including a ten-year-old boy named Jojo (Ryan Lin) who undergoes a personal awakening after she comes to his house for a routine delivery. Soon, Jojo begins to explore his own forms of self-expression, but his defiance of gender norms worries his stern mother (Danielle Yen...
“Tank Fairy” is screening at New Filmmakers Los Angeles
Immediately, this gendered expectation is subverted with the introduction of the titular Tank Fairy (Marian Mesula), a larger-than-life woman who delivers her propane with the unapologetic swagger of a drag performer. Her bright red lipstick and flamboyant nails come as a shock to those who encounter her, including a ten-year-old boy named Jojo (Ryan Lin) who undergoes a personal awakening after she comes to his house for a routine delivery. Soon, Jojo begins to explore his own forms of self-expression, but his defiance of gender norms worries his stern mother (Danielle Yen...
- 5/15/2023
- by Henry McKeand
- AsianMoviePulse
Interfilm International Short Film Festival Berlin is back with its 38th edition, running from the 15th to the 20th of November 2022. This year the regional focus will be on the cinematography of the Philippines, while the thematic focus Ghosts of Europe looks towards the EU. Interfilm dedicates also a spotlight program to Belarusian filmmaking, which courageously takes on the current regime.
To use the organisers’ words: “The competitions present themselves as usual politically, combative and at the same time empathetic and full of confidence. Great stories meet abstract animation, essayistic forms meet concrete narration. (…) Interforum is the place to discuss and learn, and various special programs and events round off the week dedicated to short film.“
You can find the full programme on the official website here.
Here are all the Asian titles:
International Competition
Anxious Body by Yoriko Mizushiri // France – Japan 2021
A Guitar in the Bucket by Boyoung Kim...
To use the organisers’ words: “The competitions present themselves as usual politically, combative and at the same time empathetic and full of confidence. Great stories meet abstract animation, essayistic forms meet concrete narration. (…) Interforum is the place to discuss and learn, and various special programs and events round off the week dedicated to short film.“
You can find the full programme on the official website here.
Here are all the Asian titles:
International Competition
Anxious Body by Yoriko Mizushiri // France – Japan 2021
A Guitar in the Bucket by Boyoung Kim...
- 11/4/2022
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
The 20th anniversary Nyaff boasts a handful of this year’s most innovative and important films about the LGBTQ+ experience from all around Asia. Nyaff is proud to say that three of them have been selected for their Uncaged Competition for Best Film.
Angry Son by Kasho Iizuka, Japan, Uncaged Competition
7/28/2022 9:30pm
An intensely moving, gently comedic coming-of-age tale about overcoming otherness and oppression through unconditional compassion, this charming film by a transgender director focuses on a gay, biracial teen who was raised by a Filipina bar hostess mother in the countryside of Japan, and has endured a full spectrum of prejudices.
Big Night! by Jun Robles Lana, Philippines
7/27/2022 6:15pm
A biting satire about a gay hairdresser (a superlative Christian Bables) and model citizen who learns that he has been added to a government kill list, and sets out on a harrowing — and sometimes hilarious — odyssey to clear his name and stay alive.
Angry Son by Kasho Iizuka, Japan, Uncaged Competition
7/28/2022 9:30pm
An intensely moving, gently comedic coming-of-age tale about overcoming otherness and oppression through unconditional compassion, this charming film by a transgender director focuses on a gay, biracial teen who was raised by a Filipina bar hostess mother in the countryside of Japan, and has endured a full spectrum of prejudices.
Big Night! by Jun Robles Lana, Philippines
7/27/2022 6:15pm
A biting satire about a gay hairdresser (a superlative Christian Bables) and model citizen who learns that he has been added to a government kill list, and sets out on a harrowing — and sometimes hilarious — odyssey to clear his name and stay alive.
- 7/6/2022
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
This year’s edition of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (30th April – 9th May) comes to a close today. After three years of the pandemic, the 68th edition of the festival finally got back to the small city in the Western part of Germany. The oldest short film festival in the world has long been known as a place where more experimental, video art pieces, can sit side by side with more conventional short films. This year, Oberhausen gathered around 800 guests and screened around 600 short films, with panels and workshops running on the side. Though after the pandemic, the festival decided to have a hybrid edition, running the online competition before the physical start, as the film industry was inevitably affected by the changing habits of cinema-watching. Here’s a personal list of the best films that were screened at the festival.
Tank Fairy – Erich Rettstadt
SXSW 2022 – Winner *Midnight...
Tank Fairy – Erich Rettstadt
SXSW 2022 – Winner *Midnight...
- 5/9/2022
- by Ieva Šukytė
- Directors Notes
The Seattle International Film Festival returned to its in-person format for the first time since 2019 this year, with many of the indie film world’s finest making their way to the Emerald City. The 11-day festival, which concluded this weekend, screened 263 films, including 28 world premieres, and ultimately honored a combination of domestic and foreign films with its awards.
The timely Ukrainian war drama “Klondike” from Maryna Er Gorbach won the Grand Jury Prize, with Zia Mohajerjasbi’s Seattle-set drama “Know Your Place” earning rave reviews from audiences and winning the festival’s New American Cinema Competition.
“As we celebrated our first in-person festival in three years, we were so thrilled to bring great films and new voices from across the globe,” said Beth Barrett, Siff Artistic Director. “Creating those experiences that bring audiences around film, both in cinema and hybrid, allowed us all to connect, to learn, and to make...
The timely Ukrainian war drama “Klondike” from Maryna Er Gorbach won the Grand Jury Prize, with Zia Mohajerjasbi’s Seattle-set drama “Know Your Place” earning rave reviews from audiences and winning the festival’s New American Cinema Competition.
“As we celebrated our first in-person festival in three years, we were so thrilled to bring great films and new voices from across the globe,” said Beth Barrett, Siff Artistic Director. “Creating those experiences that bring audiences around film, both in cinema and hybrid, allowed us all to connect, to learn, and to make...
- 4/24/2022
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
The Seattle International Film Festival closed its 48th edition on Sunday by announcing its top honors, presenting awards at a ceremony at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Seattle.
“Klondike,” a film following a family that lives on the tumultuous border of Russia and Ukraine in 2014, was awarded the grand jury prize within the festival’s official competition.
“For a work both tragically prophetic and universal in its impact, a ferocious and formalist vision of war that fuses humanism, black comedy and horror into a searing and original vision, we award the Grand Jury Prize to Maryna Er Gorbach’s ‘Klondike,'” said the jury, composed of Angel An, senior director of acquisitions at Roadside Attraction; David Ansen, lead programmer at the Palm Spring International Film Festival; and Matthew Campbell, artistic director of the Denver Film Society and the Denver Film Festival.
“Know Your Place,” a drama following two teenage...
“Klondike,” a film following a family that lives on the tumultuous border of Russia and Ukraine in 2014, was awarded the grand jury prize within the festival’s official competition.
“For a work both tragically prophetic and universal in its impact, a ferocious and formalist vision of war that fuses humanism, black comedy and horror into a searing and original vision, we award the Grand Jury Prize to Maryna Er Gorbach’s ‘Klondike,'” said the jury, composed of Angel An, senior director of acquisitions at Roadside Attraction; David Ansen, lead programmer at the Palm Spring International Film Festival; and Matthew Campbell, artistic director of the Denver Film Society and the Denver Film Festival.
“Know Your Place,” a drama following two teenage...
- 4/24/2022
- by J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
Updated, 12:23 Pm: South by Southwest Conference and Festivals today announced the Audience Award winners for the 29th SXSW Film Festival, with the Patton Oswalt comedy I Love My Dad, FX’s comedy series Atlanta, Sony Pictures Classics’ music doc The Return of Tanya Tucker – Featuring Brandi Carlile and AMC’s drama series 61st Street coming in as notable recipients.
I Love My Dad was previously awarded the Narrative Feature Competition Grand Jury Award, and today took home the Narrative Feature Competition Audience Award. Atlanta won out in the Headliners section, with The Return of Tanya Tucker prevailing in 24 Beats Per Second, and 61st Street taking the Audience Award for Episodic Premieres.
The SXSW Audience Awards follow the previously-announced 2022 Jury Awards, as well as the 40 Years of Massive Talent Award, which was presented to Nicolas Cage at the festival screening of his Lionsgate pic The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent on Saturday night.
I Love My Dad was previously awarded the Narrative Feature Competition Grand Jury Award, and today took home the Narrative Feature Competition Audience Award. Atlanta won out in the Headliners section, with The Return of Tanya Tucker prevailing in 24 Beats Per Second, and 61st Street taking the Audience Award for Episodic Premieres.
The SXSW Audience Awards follow the previously-announced 2022 Jury Awards, as well as the 40 Years of Massive Talent Award, which was presented to Nicolas Cage at the festival screening of his Lionsgate pic The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent on Saturday night.
- 3/23/2022
- by Valerie Complex and Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The showcase of four immersive titles from Taiwan at this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) festival symbolizes a strong boost to the island’s confidence in developing Xr (extended reality) content among a new generation of curators, according to the industry insiders behind some of the featured works.
“[The selection] shows that the new generation of Taiwan’s creatives and storytellers are willing to try and use new ways to create their art,” says Estela Valdivieso Chen, CEO of Serendipity Films, one of the producers of the 17-minute featured short “Madame Pirate: Becoming a Legend,” which will be making its international premiere at SXSW Ex Experience Spotlight.
“They are both utilizing the local resources the island has, like its tech, and working with international partners all over the globe to break the boundary of classic storytelling and bring to life, their creative visions,” Chen says.
Based on the story of pirate queen Zheng Yi Sao,...
“[The selection] shows that the new generation of Taiwan’s creatives and storytellers are willing to try and use new ways to create their art,” says Estela Valdivieso Chen, CEO of Serendipity Films, one of the producers of the 17-minute featured short “Madame Pirate: Becoming a Legend,” which will be making its international premiere at SXSW Ex Experience Spotlight.
“They are both utilizing the local resources the island has, like its tech, and working with international partners all over the globe to break the boundary of classic storytelling and bring to life, their creative visions,” Chen says.
Based on the story of pirate queen Zheng Yi Sao,...
- 3/10/2022
- by Vivienne Chow
- Variety Film + TV
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