SHORTS! KOREA / JAPAN

Program SHORTS! Korea / Japan
31 March - 22.00 hours - Filmmuseum Vondelpark Amsterdam

Wake
Park Keun-Pyo, Korea 2004, 17 min.
Korean with English subtitles

A heartbreaking story about a 5-year-old girl who spends four days alone in a small apartment when her mother does not wake up.

Birthday Boy - animation
Sejong Park, Australia 2004, 10 min.
Korean with English subtitles

Korean War, 1951
Little Manuk is playing and dreaming of life at the front where his father is a soldier. He returns home to find a parcel on the doorstep and, thinking it is a birthday present, he opens it. But its contents will change his life forever.

Dance Mania Fantastic
Sasie Sealy, US 2004, 12 min.
Japanese with English subtitles

Takeshi, a young Japanese banker, lives a worry free life at home with his parents - until he gets sacked. Unable to the truth, he puts on his suit and tie each morning and heads to the local arcade, working up a sweat on the seductive Dance Mania Fantastic machine. 

The Fucking Family
Sooyoung Park & Jaeyoung Park, Korea 2004, 21 min.
Korean with English subtitles

Suddenly, a nuclear bomb drops on a peaceful family. What is the limit of the unfairness that a mother goes through in a normal family?

Public Bath - animation
Tak Hoon Kim & In Pyo Hong, US/Korea 2005, 8.26 min.
No dialogues

A little boy goes to a bathhouse with his father, playing around in the water. Suddenly, he sees the future of himself and his father through a mirror.

Homesick Blues
Junko Kajino & Ed M. Koziarski, US/ Japan 2005, 15 min.
Japanese with English subtitles

18-year-old Hiroko is driven by her passion for the blues, a passion incomprehensible to her protective single mother or her oblivious convenience store co-workers in Osaka.

Nihon
Guillaume Tauveron, Japan/France 2005, 6.30 min.
No dialogues

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