We present the list of short films that will compete at the International Short Film Competition at the Kaohsiung Film Festival (Taiwan) which will take place from October 16th – November 1st, 2020.

87 films were selected for the “International”, “Taiwan” and “VR” Sections. These productions will compete for 15 awards with prize money up to 1.3 million Taiwan dollars in total. All the nominated films will be judged by the juries during the film festival and the winners will be announced on 24 October.

The KFF International Short Film Competition has been running for ten years and become the third largest international short film competition in Asia, next to the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia in Japan and the Busan International Short Film Festival in Korea. In the past ten years, the KFF discovered many rising directors from Taiwan and abroad.

International Section:
– 10 000 Ugly Inkblots, by Dmitry GELLER – Russia, China – 2020
– 3 Generations 3 Days, by CHU Hoi-Ying – Hong Kong – 2019
– A Thousand Sails, by Hing-Weng Eric TSANG – Hong Kong – 2019
– Airhead! (Tête de linotte!), by Gaspar CHABAUD – Belgium – 2019
– Ali’s Circle (Le Cercle d’Ali), by Antoine BEAUVOIS-BOETTI – France – 2019
– All Cats are Grey in the Dark (Nachts sind alle Katzen grau), by Lasse LINDER – Switzerland – 2019
– Boriya, by MIN Sung-ah – France, South Korea – 2019
– Ceuta’s Gate (Bab Sebta), by Randa MAROUFI – France, Morocco – 2019
– Communal (Communautaire), by Marina SMORODINOVA – France – 2019
– Crew 3,14 (Ekipazh 3,14), by Denis PAVLOV – Russia – 2020
– Da Yie, by Anthony NTI – Belgium, Ghana – 2019
– Exam (Emtehan), by Sonia K. HADAD – Iran – 2019
– Filipiñana, by Rafael MANUEL – Philippines, UK – 2020
– Genius Loci, by Adrien MERIGEAU – France – 2019
– He Can’t Live without Cosmos (Он не может жить без космоса), by Konstantin BRONZIT – Russia – 2019
– Heart of Gold (Un Cœur d’Or), by Simon FILLIOT – France – 2020
– Hell (El infierno), by Raúl De la FUENTE – Spain – 2019
– Henet Ward, by Morad MOSTAFA – Egypt – 2019
– jù rén, by Harry ZHUANG, Henry ZHUANG – Singapore – 2019
– Just a Guy, by HARA Shoko – Germany – 2020
– Microcassette – The Smallest Cassette I’ve Ever Seen (Mikrokazeta – najmanja kazeta koju zam ikad vidio), by Igor BEZINOVIC, Ivana PIPAL – Croatia, Serbia – 2020
– Mother Rain (Mamapara), by Alberto FLORES VILCA – Peru, Argentina, Bolivia – 2019
– Night is Young, by KWOK Zune – Hong Kong – 2020
– No Crying at the Dinner Table, by Carol NGUYEN – Canada – 2019
– November 1st, by Charlie MANTON – UK – 2019
– Perpetual Night (Noite Perpétua), by Pedro PERALTA – Portugal, France – 2020
– Pipo and Blinded Love (Pipo et l’amour aveugle), by Hugo Le GOURRIEREC – France -2019
– Recoding Art, by Bruno MORESCHI, Gabriel PEREIRA – Brazil – 2019
– Seemed (Pokazalos), by Baibulat BATULLIN – Russia – 2020
– Serial Parallels, by Max HATTLER – Hong Kong, Germany – 2019
– Sing for Us (Zazpívej), by Tereza HALAMOVÁ – Czech Republic – 2020
– Sinking Ships (Sinkende Schiffe), by Andreas KESSLER – Germany – 2020
– Sticker, by Georgi M. UNKOVSKI – Macedonia – 2020
– Sweet, Salty, by Linh DUONG – Vietnam – 2019
– The Kites (Bad Badakha), by Seyed Payam HOSSEINI – Iran – 2020
– The Other (Digari), by Saman HOSSEINPUOR, Ako ZANDKARIMI – Iran – 2020
– The Son, by CHEONG Chi-Wai – China, Macau – 2019
– The Visit, by Azadeh MOUSSAVI – Iran – 2020
– Under the Skin (Onderhuids), by Emma BRANDERHORST – Netherlands – 2019
– White Eye (Ayn Levana), by Tomer SHUSHAN – Israel – 2019

Taiwan Section
– A Cat May Look at a King, by CHENG Chih-Ming – Taiwan – 2020
– A Cockerel’s Tale, by HSIEH Pei-Ju – Taiwan – 2019
– A Girl Who’s Afraid of Touching People, by HUANG Liang-Hsin – Taiwan, UK – 2019
– A Lock with No Key, by Rain SUN – Taiwan – 2020
– A-Tien, by Robby SUN – Taiwan – 2020
– Blüte, by Raito LOW – Taiwan, Malaysia – 2020
– Father, Son, and the Beach, by HSU Chieh-Huei – Taiwan – 2020
– Fire at Forest, by MYO Aung – Myanmar, Taiwan – 2020
– Growing Pains, by LIN Po-Yu – Taiwan – 2020
– Home Sick, by SUN Chieh-Heng – Taiwan – 2019
– In this Land We’re Briefly Ghosts, by LO Chen-Wen – Taiwan, Myanmar, USA – 2019
– Like Father, Like Daughter, by LEONG Siew-Hong – Taiwan – 2019
– Little Hilly, by HUANG Yun-Hsien, LIAO Pei-Yu – Taiwan – 2020
– Lucky Draw, by CHIN Chia-Hua – Taiwan – 2019
– Night Bus, by Joe HSIEH – Taiwan – 2019
– See You, Sir, by LIN Ya-Yu – Taiwan – 2019
– The Darkest Night, by TOH Tze-Wei – Malaysia, Taiwan – 2019
– The Weather is Lovely, by LIEN Chun-Chien – Taiwan, China – 2020
– There, by WU Yu-Fen – Taiwan – 2020
– Tilapia, by HUNG Jing-An – Taiwan – 2019

Children’s Jury Award
– Airhead! (Tête de linotte!), by Gaspar CHABAUD – Belgium – 2019
– Blanket Talk, by LI Ji-Tian, CHANG Shan-Man, PANG Chia-Wei – Taiwan – 2019
– Ceremony, by CHANG Yu-Ting, HUANG Tsai-Chuan – Taiwan – 2020
– He Can’t Live without Cosmos (Он не может жить без космоса), by Konstantin BRONZIT – Russia – 2019
– How My Grandmother Became a Chair!, by Nicolas FATTOUH – Germany, Lebanon, Qatar – 2020
– Men Killer, by Rachel CHEN – Taiwan – 2019
– Mutts (Clebs), by Halima OUARDIRI – Canada, Morocco – 2019
– Tadpole (Têtard), by Jean-Claude ROZEC – France – 2019
– This is Not a Suitcase (Ceci n’est pas une valise), by Lou DU PONTAVICE – Belgium – 2020
– Why Slugs Have No Legs (Warum Schnecken Keine Beine Haben), by Aline HÖCHLI -Switzerland – 2019

VR Section
– 1st Step, by Jörg COURTIAL, Maria COURTIAL – Germany – 2020
– Animalia Sum, by Bianca KENNEDY, The Swan Collective – Germany – 2019
– A Fire at Chernobyl, by Ash KHATIBI – Denmark – 2020
– Closet, by LEE Hsin-Tien – Taiwan – 2020
– Feather, by ITOH Keisuke – Japan – 2019
– Ferenj: A Graphic Memoir in VR, by Ainslee Alem ROBSON – USA, Ethiopia – 2020
– Gravity VR, by Fabito RYCHTER, Amir ADMONI – Brazil – 2019
– Hominidae, by Brian ANDREWS – USA – 2019
– Legends of the Brush, by Stuart ‘Sutu’ CAMPBELL – USA – 2020
– Man Under Bridge, by Hanna VÄSTINSALO – Finland – 2019
– Mirror: The Signal, by Pierre ZANDROWICZ – France – 2020
– Missing Pictures: Birds of Prey, by Clement DENEUX – France – 2019
– MOWB, by YUHARA Kazuki – Japan – 2019
– Passenger, by Isobel KNOWLES, Van SOWERWINE – Australia – 2019
– Rain Fruits, by SONG Youngyoon, LEE Sngmoo – South Korea – 2020
– Saturnism, by Mihai GRECU – France – 2020
– Scarecrow, by JUNG Jihyun, LEE Sngmoo – South Korea – 2020
– The Book of Distance, by Randall OKITA – Canada – 2020
– VR Free, by Milad TANGSHIR – Italy – 2019

We would like to remind readers that the Kaohsiung Film Festival will take place from October 16th until November 1st (2020) in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. For more information about the festival and the programme please visit the next link: https://www.kff.tw/