SHORTSHORTS is a comprehensive short film brand. It's film festival, "Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia" (SSFF & ASIA) held since 1999, is accredited by the Academy Awards® and is one of the largest international short film festival in Asia. SHORTSHORTS leads the film culture through various means such as its screening events, film distribution, production and collaboration work with companies and administrative offices.

The arrival of the new 5G era allows communication with greater data capacity. This means that people are able to enjoy high-quality video content and movies on their mobile devises such as smartphones. On the other hand, realistic film experiences, beyond the idea of a cinema, is increasingly emphasised. While supporting young creators through various activities and events, SHORTSHORTS broadens the field of short films.

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JEONJU Project supports all visual contents from different genres and formats and aims to improve the expertise in JEONJU IFF thereby enhancing the identity of the industrial program.
JEONJU lab, K-DOC CLASS, JEONJU Cinema Project: Next Edition, and Business Meetings are the venues to discover unique and potential projects and directors, contributing to the development of the Korean film industry.

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Cinema has evolved and changed at a dizzying pace since its birth in 1895 in Paris, France. Cinema, the first art form which had a clearly recorded moment of birth, has undergone numerous transformations throughout the years in an attempt to find a unique image that distinguishes it from other mediums such as literature, dance, theater, and painting. Through its distinctive narratives, original images, and sounds, cinema recreated individuals and society, as well as the world and the universe, on the screen. Through numerous changes, cinema has achieved remarkable accomplishments and achievements in a short time span of over 100 years. And even at this moment, cinema is changing.

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Cambodia International Film Festival is Cambodia's largest international film and cultural event. Initiated in 2010, it acts as a catalyst for the film sector initiative gathering more than 20,000 participants each year.

The 11th edition will present a total of 140 high-quality films from over 40 countries on six continents, including feature-length films, short films, documentaries and animated films.

The festival provides visitors with a unique cultural experience. In addition to screenings and special events, CIFF also includes workshops that offer participants the chance to learn about filmmaking as well as networking sessions where they can collaborate with other creative professionals and make new acquaintances from around the globe.

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Nepal International Film Festival (NIFF) is Nepal's premier annual film and cultural event. Started in 2018, NIFF was established to celebrate diverse forms of storytelling and narratives from across the world. The event is an initiative conceived out of a desire to conduct exchange in film and culture between Nepal and rest of the world, and to create a conscious, capable and appreciative film culture in the country.

Celebrating film and art

The main gist of NIFF is to appreciate films and talk about it with the audience and the people in the industry. The festival is an attempt to uplift the standards of Nepali films and bring out more diverse stories and technical expertise through exhibitions and intensive discourse. NIFF is also a common ground for aspiring film makers, artists and people from the film industries around the world to come together and celebrate their love for film and cinema art, celebrating the spirit of cinema through screening a curated catalogue of feature length fiction and non-fiction works, and a comprehensive short film program in a competitive environment (i.e. awards). NIFF also organizes a gala and ceremony as to distribute awards and facilitate meetings and exchanges between artists and filmmakers in the industry.

Creating conversation through films

NIFF also features the 'Forum', a collection of discourses and related programs, to promote the exchange of ideas and provide commentary on films, and it has grown to be very popular over the years. At the forum we invite guests from the film, media and entertainment sectors, including a lot of independent actors, where we have conversations on multi-dimensional issues on art, cinema and society.

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In its 19th year, POV XIX remains bold and proactive with the theme Bagong S19Io: Atin and Kwento. With the easing of pandemic-related restrictions, POV XIX is bringing the annual film festival competition back home, at UPFI Film Center's Cine Adarna. As we redeem this space for cinematic discourse, POV also aims to reclaim the narrative of the people by giving a platform for the Filipino youth to share their films and untold stories that are yet to be delivered to the big screen. For the first time ever, POV will be opening the film competition not only to college students, but also to senior high school students to further amplify the voice of the youth.

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Seoul International Senior Film Festival (SISFF) is a part of the most important program of the Seoul, Senior Welfare Center, which aims to encourage audiences to know the senior citizens' rights and senior director or audience make their cultural contents direct.

SISFF helps to understand the complexity of the senior generation. SISFF introduce the various aspects of refining senior at the same time, including the perspective of the youth generation. Also SISFF has programs that combine family issue and local societal problem related in senior life.

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Located in a verdant, rolling valley far north of Tokyo, Yamagata City is the site for Asia's first international documentary film festival. The first Film Festival (in 1989) was an event to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Yamagata City, the sponsor of the festival at the time, and has been held biennially ever since in Yamagata's best season, October.

The atmosphere of the festival is intimate, and affords Asian filmmakers a prime opportunity to meet with their Western counterparts. The reasons for it being a magnet for independent filmmakers are simple.

Until recently, the week-long YIDFF was one of the few film festivals in Asia devoted exclusively to the documentary form. Its scope, however, reaches beyond simply screening recent, ground-breaking work in the International Competition. New Asian Currents, the competition program introducing emerging filmmakers from across Asia, has over the years become one of the Festival's vibrant centers of attention as a meeting place of raw youthful energy. By featuring special events and programs shedding light on the history and diversity of filmmaking, the YIDFF is working hard to create a new forum for the production of alternative, independent, non-fiction film and the discussion of documentary as a form of expression.

It was in this spirit that the documentarist Ogawa Shinsuke, who passed away in 1992, spearheaded the organization of the first Festival. From the time of his earliest films about the Narita Airport protests in the 1960s to 70s, to his last works produced in Yamagata, Ogawa encouraged filmmakers around Asia to devote their energy to making meaningful documentaries. In honor of this dedicated filmmaker, the Ogawa Shinsuke Prize was established in 1993 to provide encouragement to young Asian documentarists.

We hope the YIDFF will always provide a fruitful and enjoyable gathering place for filmmakers from abroad and for the citizens of Yamagata City.

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Need improvement of Tourism Films for Future Tourism
 
Our festival has just stared in this year, and we call for film for next year edition. Our venue is located in Osaka, one of the biggest commerce cities in Japan and will be the most important city for international tourism. Our mission is to find great tourism films in world, give award to them and contribute to future tourism by means of achivement in Tourism film.
Our film festival associates with "ART&TUR" (Portugal) and "TERRES TRAVEL FESTIVAL" (Spain), historical international tourism film festivals. Thanks to this connection, not only  Japanese current tourism films but also cutting edges of the world's tourism films gather in our festival. Through screening these films,  professionals of communication technologies such as tourism, films and 5Gs discuss and ponder the future of tourism films. That is Japan World's Tourism Film Festival.


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The Osaka Asian Film Festival aims to facilitate human resources development and exchange, to invigorate the Osaka economy, and to increase the city's appeal, through providing opportunities to watch excellent Asian films, supporting filmmaking in Osaka and attracting filmmakers from Asian countries and regions to Osaka. Promoting Osaka worldwide as a gateway city for Asian films, and engaging with many people from the fields of culture, art, education, tourism and business, from Osaka and all of Asia, OAFF works as an open platform to contribute to the development of Osaka and cinema.

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Producers Guild of America will be recognizing Tom Cruise for his continued work as producer. While most people only know Tom Cruise as an actor he has also produced several successful films. The PGA said that Cruise will be honored with the 2023 David O. Selznick Achievement Award, its highest honor in film. Congratulations to Tom Cruise on the award and his contribution to films.

The Selznick Achievement Award recognizes a producer or producing team for their extraordinary body of work in motion pictures. Past recipients include Steven Spielberg, Barbara Broccoli, Mary Parent, Brian Grazer, David Heyman and Kevin Feige.

"Beginning with Mission: Impossible, Tom Cruise has developed a talent for producing to match his extraordinary talent as an actor," Producers Guild Presidents Donald De Line and Stephanie Allain said in a statement. "Tom approaches producing with the same meticulous attention to detail he brings to all of his professional endeavors. His commitment to telling bold, cinematic and entertaining stories has elevated the global theatrical experience and has resulted in some of the most popular motion pictures in history."

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Previous winners of the David O. Selznick Achievement Award

Tampere Film Festival is an international short film festival that gathers filmmakers, students and film lovers together annually in March.

The festival is founded in 1968 and it's organized by the association called Tampereen elokuvajuhlat – Tampere Film Festival ry. The festival's main sponsors are the City of Tampere, the Finnish Film Foundation (SES) Yleisradio (YLE) and AVEK

Tampere Film Festival is one of the three largest short film festivals in Europe, alongside Clermont-Ferrand (France) and Oberhausen (Germany). Festival is a recognised festival by International Federation of Film Producers Associations FIAPF and member of Short Film Conference ISFC.

Festival's screenings and events attracting approx. 30,000 visitors. Nearly 800 accredited film industry professionals attend the festival, it has around 40 staff and over a hundred volunteers. The festival screens roughly 400 films in more than a hundred screenings.

The five day festival takes place every year in Tampere, Finland. The main venues in 2023 are Cine Atlas, Arthouse Cinema Niagara and Finlayson area.

The Tampere 53rd International Short Film Festival takes place between 8–12 March, 2023.

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The exclusive free preview screening brings to you The Fabelmans, the latest work by Steven Spielberg, who will be honoured with lifetime achievement award by the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival. This semi-autobiographic film tells an affecting story of a young man aspiring to be a filmmaker, and how the power of films helps him see the truth of his family secrets. Starring Michelle Williams, Paul Dano and Seth Rogen, and featuring David Lynch's cameo as legendary filmmaker John Ford, The Fabelmans, winner of the Toronto International Film Festival's People's Choice award, is also hailed as an Oscar frontrunner.

Online registration starts from 11:00am on 9 December (Fri). See below for screening details.

The Fabelmans
Date: 14.12.2022 (Wed)
Time: 7:10pm
Venue: K11 Art House

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The Berlinale is one of the largest public film festivals in the world and a unique venue for artistic debate and entertainment. It attracts cineastes and film professionals from all over the world to Berlin every year.

Every year, around 400 films of all genres, lengths and formats are screened in the Berlinale's various sections and special series. The big stars of international cinema and new talents are drawn to Berlin every February for the Berlinale. For the film industry, the festival is an indispensable networking and trading center.

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Film director Steven Spielberg will be honored with a lifetime achievement award at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2023. Spielberg's latest film THE FABLEMANS which tells his story of how he came to become one of the most successful filmmakers of all time.

Hong Kong's CineClub will be holding an exclusive free preview screening of THE FABELMANS at 14 December 2022, 7:10 pm at the K11 Art House in Hong Kong. Registration for the event starts online 11:00 am 9 December (Friday), for details contact this address: info@hkiff.org.hk

We congratulate Director Spielberg for his lifetime award!

 

Hong Kong International Film Festival Society Executive Director Albert Lee confirms that the 47th edition of the long-running festival will return to its traditional slot and take place from 30 March to 10 April 2023 for 12 days.

The Society is committed to making world cinema accessible and affordable to the public. It organizes the annual flagship the Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) and the Hong Kong – Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) in March and April. Another annual highlight is the Summer International Film Festival (SummerIFF) held every August. The repertory HKIFF Cine Fan Programme was launched in April 2013 with the aim to enrich and deepen the experience of Hong Kong moviegoers through a monthly programme of contemporary, retrospective and thematic showcases. The Industry Office (HKIFF Industry) was set up in 2021 to coordinate the HKIFF Society's film industry activities. Promoting the development of non-mainstream film industry through co-production and providing support on festival strategies and overseas distribution (HKIFF Collection).

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Short film is still the most important source of film renewal, the experimental field on which future film languages are formed. Today, the diversity of forms, themes and approaches is greater than ever. Feature film or essay, installation, thesis film or artist's film, music video, animation, documentary and all conceivable hybrid forms are emerging all over the world and increasingly online on numerous platforms.

The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen has been moving in this field of tension for over 60 years; it is a catalyst and showcase for current developments, a forum for often controversial discussions, a discoverer of new trends and talents and, last but not least, one of the most important short film institutions worldwide. Oberhausen is the oldest short film festival in the world and the largest festival in North Rhine-Westphalia, with around 7,000 films submitted each year, approximately 500 films in the festival programme and over 1,100 accredited professional visitors annually.

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The MACAU INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL is an annual worldwide audio-visual festival, that aims to motivate overseas and Macau short film and music video productions to compete in this FESTIVAL.

The FESTIVAL is following on the success achieved by the first edition of AUDIO-VISUAL COMPETITION which was launched in 2010. In 2015, it turned into a festival for the very first time.

The FESTIVAL added a sense of celebration shared by film lovers, producers, directors, technicians, and actors, who come to an idyllic city for cinema that is Macau, for exchanging professional experiences. The FESTIVAL invites all professionals of the audiovisual industry to submit their most recent short films and music videos, giving the world enormous contribution to this creative industry.

The FESTIVAL will be from 1 to 8 December 2022 in Macau. It will be the bright result of previous experiences, making it more and more significant.

Altogether, we contribute to the creative cinema industry.

Promote your film and music video in Macau!

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Nicholas Tse will star in the upcoming action thriller 'Hai Guan Zhan Xian' (literally "in front of the customs") from director Herman Yau. The film is officially titled CUSTOMS FRONTLINE which will feature custom agents working in the frontline of Hong Kong customs. The film is currently in post production and scheduled to be released sometime in 2023 but no exact date has been given yet.

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Currently in post production, Andy Lau and Tony Leung will appear in the Felix Chong directed new film ONCE UPON A TIME IN HONG KONG (aka GOLDFINGER). The film is based on the Hong Kong corporation called Carrian Group which rose rapidly before collapsing shortly due to a corruption scandal.

When a stock market crash causes the sudden collapse of a multi-billion-dollar company, an ICAC investigator (Andy Lau) uncovers a criminal conspiracy involving the company's founder, Ching Yat-yin (Tony Leung) and becomes entangled in a long-running investigation.

More info and additional images on our ONCE UPON A TIME IN HONG KONG movie page