2022 was a great year for Asian short films (and mid-length for that matter) with a number of creators choosing the medium in order to both deal with the financial difficulties the pandemic caused and to have a medium that allows more creative freedom, with the two actually being directly connected. As such, we decided to have a list on short films for the first time on Asian Movie Pulse, in order to highlight this rather neglected (by audiences at least) part of the industry, but also to showcase that brilliance knows no duration.
Without further ado, here are the best Asian short films of 2022, in random order. Some films may have premiered in 2021, but since they mostly circulated in 2022, we decided to include them.
1. The Flight of Banog
The first thing to note about “The Flight of Banog” is just how kinetic the short film is. From the moment Amang...
Without further ado, here are the best Asian short films of 2022, in random order. Some films may have premiered in 2021, but since they mostly circulated in 2022, we decided to include them.
1. The Flight of Banog
The first thing to note about “The Flight of Banog” is just how kinetic the short film is. From the moment Amang...
- 1/13/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
If you’re a fan of short films, the London Film Festival has made access to watching the highlights of their programme this year as accessible as it’s ever been. There’s the option to watch these films, as they should be seen, on the big screen across venues in London but there’s also the option to check them out from home on the BFI Player, for free, from the 5th to the 23rd October. And what a selection there is! What struck me most this year was the experimentation in these short films. Each of them in their own way is in conversation with the form and either deconstructs it or ignores its conventions in favour of charting new territory. If you’re looking to start your watching but not sure where to begin, check out Dn’s list of recommendations below which features ten short films we believe are must-sees.
- 10/11/2022
- by James Maitre
- Directors Notes
Continuing in the same vein as last year’s outing, London Film Festival returns for another year and is once again placing precedence on accessibility. The festival will be taking place from the 5th to the 16th of October across a variety of London-based venues, in addition to a selection of UK-wide cinemas that will be screening a portion of this year’s programme. It’s also worth noting that for those who want to enjoy the festival from the comfort of their sofa there’s also the option to watch some of the work on the BFI Player, with features screening there from the 14th to the 23rd of October and short films from the 5th October through to the 23rd.
Each year the festival adapts to the cultural climate, pushing the boundaries of what it constitutes as cinema with the inclusion of series and immersive storytelling featuring alongside...
Each year the festival adapts to the cultural climate, pushing the boundaries of what it constitutes as cinema with the inclusion of series and immersive storytelling featuring alongside...
- 9/30/2022
- by James Maitre
- Directors Notes
Annecy’s official short film competition is one of the festival’s centerpieces. Many years, at least one ends up snagging an Oscar nomination. Every year, Variety watches the shorts in Annecy’s main competition selection and picks 10 of our favorites. We’re not saying these are the best 10 shorts this year, though four won prizes, but we believe each brings something that shouldn’t be missed.
“Anxious Body,”
Screening at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, Mizushiri’s fourth short and the first project co-produced by Japanese New Deer and France’s Miyu Productions. Employing Mizushiri’s hallmark focus on the senses, non-plot stories and geometric landscapes, a film about touch – “something very hard to do in animation basically because of the lack of a real body on screen,” Annecy Festival Artistic Director Marcel Jean commented. Em
“Amok,” (Balázs Turai, Hungary, Romania)
Annecy’s 2022 best short film Cristal. Taunted, he thinks, by an evil Santa Claus gnome,...
“Anxious Body,”
Screening at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, Mizushiri’s fourth short and the first project co-produced by Japanese New Deer and France’s Miyu Productions. Employing Mizushiri’s hallmark focus on the senses, non-plot stories and geometric landscapes, a film about touch – “something very hard to do in animation basically because of the lack of a real body on screen,” Annecy Festival Artistic Director Marcel Jean commented. Em
“Amok,” (Balázs Turai, Hungary, Romania)
Annecy’s 2022 best short film Cristal. Taunted, he thinks, by an evil Santa Claus gnome,...
- 6/19/2022
- by Ben Croll, Emilio Mayorga, John Hopewell and Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
On May 30, 2022 the 19th edition of the Vienna Shorts Film Festival came to an end with prizes, flowers and champagne for the lucky winners at Stadtkino. Austrian director Mo Harawe celebrated a triumph, receiving not only the Austrian Short Film Award for his haunting film Will My Parents Come to See Me, but also qualifications for the Academy Award®, the European Film Award and the Austrian Film Award. The top prizes in the two international competitions went to the Qatari film And Then They Burn the Sea and the Japanese animation Bird in the Peninsula. Double honored with the new Social Responsibility Award and the Orf.at Audience Award was the essay Invisible Hands by Lia Sudermann and Simon Nagy. The awards in detail:
© And Then They Burn The Sea (Majid Al-Remaihi), Au Revoir Jérôme!, How Do You Measure A Year? (Jay Rosenblatt)
Fido Fiction & Documentary
The main prize in...
© And Then They Burn The Sea (Majid Al-Remaihi), Au Revoir Jérôme!, How Do You Measure A Year? (Jay Rosenblatt)
Fido Fiction & Documentary
The main prize in...
- 6/1/2022
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
Japanese animator Atsushi Wada, France’s Miyu Productions, and Japan’s New Deer’s are behind “Bird in the Peninsula” an animation short that premiered at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival this February, where it won a special mention from the International Short Film Jury.
“Bird in the Peninsula” is screening at Vienna Shorts
The short begins with a bird climbing a bamboo tree, before turning to a kid holding a dog and operating some sort of a heavy machinery, which is connected to a giant man sitting still. As the sound of traditional Japanese organs begins, the scenery transfers to a sort of opening inside the woods, where a group of boys are rehearsing a traditional dance, under the tutelage of their master, who takes notes, uses his whistle to stop them, and corrects their movement, focusing on the hands of one particular boy who does not seem to be particularly good.
“Bird in the Peninsula” is screening at Vienna Shorts
The short begins with a bird climbing a bamboo tree, before turning to a kid holding a dog and operating some sort of a heavy machinery, which is connected to a giant man sitting still. As the sound of traditional Japanese organs begins, the scenery transfers to a sort of opening inside the woods, where a group of boys are rehearsing a traditional dance, under the tutelage of their master, who takes notes, uses his whistle to stop them, and corrects their movement, focusing on the hands of one particular boy who does not seem to be particularly good.
- 5/29/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Bristol short film showcase to host 207 films across competitive strands.
Bristol’s short film and animation festival Encounters (Sept 16-21) will showcase 207 works from 30 countries across its competitive strands.
The festival’s Thicker Than Water programme features Happy Toys, the directorial debut of actress Zawe Ashton, while Billy Connolly’s daughter Cara Connolly’s Sundance selected film, Exchange and Mart, will also feature in competition with a cast including Scottish actor Ewen Bremner.
The Journeys programme will feature The Karman Line by Oscar Sharp starring Olivia Colman and shot by Robbie Ryan and established artist filmmaker and Encounters veteran John Smith presents Dark Light in competition.
Meanwhile, Katarzyna Klimkiewicz’s Hanoi Warsaw plays in the Encounters Retrospective. Klimkiewicz previously collaborated with Bristol-based film producer Alison Stirling, which led to Katarzyna’s first feature Flying Blind.
Other films in competition include Crocodile by Gaelle Denis which was selected in the Critics’ Week in Cannes.
In the Strange...
Bristol’s short film and animation festival Encounters (Sept 16-21) will showcase 207 works from 30 countries across its competitive strands.
The festival’s Thicker Than Water programme features Happy Toys, the directorial debut of actress Zawe Ashton, while Billy Connolly’s daughter Cara Connolly’s Sundance selected film, Exchange and Mart, will also feature in competition with a cast including Scottish actor Ewen Bremner.
The Journeys programme will feature The Karman Line by Oscar Sharp starring Olivia Colman and shot by Robbie Ryan and established artist filmmaker and Encounters veteran John Smith presents Dark Light in competition.
Meanwhile, Katarzyna Klimkiewicz’s Hanoi Warsaw plays in the Encounters Retrospective. Klimkiewicz previously collaborated with Bristol-based film producer Alison Stirling, which led to Katarzyna’s first feature Flying Blind.
Other films in competition include Crocodile by Gaelle Denis which was selected in the Critics’ Week in Cannes.
In the Strange...
- 8/19/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Bristol short film showcase to host 207 films across competitive strands.
Bristol’s short film and animation festival Encounters (Sept 16 – 21) will showcase 207 works from 30 countries across its competitive strands.
The festival’s Thicker Than Water programme features Happy Toys, the directorial debut of actress Zawe Ashton, while Billy Connolly’s daughter Cara Connolly’s Sundance selected film, Exchange and Mart, will also feature in competition with a cast including Scottish actor Ewen Bremner.
The Journeys programme will feature The Karman Line by Oscar Sharp starring Olivia Colman and shot by Robbie Ryan and established artist filmmaker and Encounters veteran John Smith presents Dark Light in competition.
Meanwhile, Katarzyna Klimkiewicz’s Hanoi Warsaw plays in the Encounters Retrospective. Klimkiewicz previously collaborated with Bristol-based film producer Alison Stirling, which led to Katarzyna’s first feature Flying Blind.
Other films in competition include Crocodile by Gaelle Denis which was selected in the Critics’ Week in Cannes.
In the Strange...
Bristol’s short film and animation festival Encounters (Sept 16 – 21) will showcase 207 works from 30 countries across its competitive strands.
The festival’s Thicker Than Water programme features Happy Toys, the directorial debut of actress Zawe Ashton, while Billy Connolly’s daughter Cara Connolly’s Sundance selected film, Exchange and Mart, will also feature in competition with a cast including Scottish actor Ewen Bremner.
The Journeys programme will feature The Karman Line by Oscar Sharp starring Olivia Colman and shot by Robbie Ryan and established artist filmmaker and Encounters veteran John Smith presents Dark Light in competition.
Meanwhile, Katarzyna Klimkiewicz’s Hanoi Warsaw plays in the Encounters Retrospective. Klimkiewicz previously collaborated with Bristol-based film producer Alison Stirling, which led to Katarzyna’s first feature Flying Blind.
Other films in competition include Crocodile by Gaelle Denis which was selected in the Critics’ Week in Cannes.
In the Strange...
- 8/19/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
The 52nd annual Ann Arbor Film Festival will be a jam-packed experimental feature and short film screening event running for six days and nights, this time on March 25-30.
Opening Night will feature a reception and an after-party, and stuffed between those will be a block of nine short films, including new ones by Bryan Boyce, Michael Robinson, Jennifer Reeder and Martha Colburn, as well as a never-before-released work by the legendary Bruce Baillie called Little Girl in which Baillie captured scenes of natural beauty.
Special Events scattered throughout the festival include a retrospective of indie filmmaker Penelope Spheeris that will feature her rock ‘n’ roll-based work, including the original The Decline of Western Civilization, plus The Decline of Western Civilization Part III, her influential punk film Suburbia (screening twice) and a collection of short films.
There will also be several films and presentations by filmmaking scholar Thom Andersen, such...
Opening Night will feature a reception and an after-party, and stuffed between those will be a block of nine short films, including new ones by Bryan Boyce, Michael Robinson, Jennifer Reeder and Martha Colburn, as well as a never-before-released work by the legendary Bruce Baillie called Little Girl in which Baillie captured scenes of natural beauty.
Special Events scattered throughout the festival include a retrospective of indie filmmaker Penelope Spheeris that will feature her rock ‘n’ roll-based work, including the original The Decline of Western Civilization, plus The Decline of Western Civilization Part III, her influential punk film Suburbia (screening twice) and a collection of short films.
There will also be several films and presentations by filmmaking scholar Thom Andersen, such...
- 3/18/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Day five of the 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival promises a smorgasbord of great films and there are still 6 days to go!
Sliff’s main venues are the the Hi-Pointe Theatre, Tivoli Theatre, Plaza Frontenac Cinema, Webster University’s Winifred Moore Auditorium, Washington University’s Brown Hall Auditorium and the Wildey Theatre in Edwardsville, Il
The entire schedule for the 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival be found Here.
http://cinemastlouis.org/sliff-2012
Here is what will be screening at The 21st Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival today, Monday, November 12th
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Doc Shorts – Longevity plays at 5:00pm at the Tivoli Theatre
A quintet of shorts exploring issues of aging and persistence.
Free To Attendees 50 And Older
Bo (Kelly McCoy & Dave Schwep, U.S., 2012, 22 min.): When attorney and Playboy photographer Bo Hitchcock is diagnosed with cancer, he decides to forgo chemo and Western...
Sliff’s main venues are the the Hi-Pointe Theatre, Tivoli Theatre, Plaza Frontenac Cinema, Webster University’s Winifred Moore Auditorium, Washington University’s Brown Hall Auditorium and the Wildey Theatre in Edwardsville, Il
The entire schedule for the 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival be found Here.
http://cinemastlouis.org/sliff-2012
Here is what will be screening at The 21st Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival today, Monday, November 12th
–
Doc Shorts – Longevity plays at 5:00pm at the Tivoli Theatre
A quintet of shorts exploring issues of aging and persistence.
Free To Attendees 50 And Older
Bo (Kelly McCoy & Dave Schwep, U.S., 2012, 22 min.): When attorney and Playboy photographer Bo Hitchcock is diagnosed with cancer, he decides to forgo chemo and Western...
- 11/12/2012
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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