Event Calendar

The programme comprises a selection of films from the last two festivals – it is a broad mix of fictional, documentary, animated and experimental films from 11 different countries. Tina Lange, Programme Director South Asia will introduce the programme.

1. Y not? (Filmmaker lives in Mumbai)
India 2004, Gauri Shinde, 2min

The film celebrates the birth of girl child, a fact that faces a lot of negative bias in India.

2. Saving Mom and Dad
India 2007, Kartik Singh, 14 min

Eight-year-old Ravi learns at school that non-believers in Christ will go to hell. Knowing his parents are not Christian, his challenge is “Saving Mom and Dad”.

3. Sukrit’s Sundays (Filmmaker lives in Mumbai)
India 2008, Vasant Nath, 8min

A simple ritual used to bring him and his grandfather together every Sunday for as long as he can remember.

4. God Only Knows (1st Prize Green Chilies Award 2009)
Philippines/USA 2008, Mark V. Reyes, 17min

A hear-riping story from the slums: forced by economic circumstances a mother has to look for foster parents for her infant son. However, paradise expected in the first world can easily mean hell, too.

5. Hulahoop Soundings (2nd Prize Green Chilies Award 2009)
Indonesia 2008, Edwin, 7 min

It is a story of a girl who hula-hoops to let customers of phone sex hear the noise. It is a remake film of a graduate work by Joel Coen in college.

6. Go Work
Singapore 2007, Jacen Tan, 8 min

This dark comedy on the difficulties of making film and music will leave you wondering about the state of the Arts in Singapore!

7. Lainer (Workshop of Film School (HFF) in Potsdam)
Germany/China 2007, Anna Intemann, 7 min

Out of the heat into the frying pan. Long-term unemployed Rainer from Berlin tries to find a lucky new life in Beijing. However, this culture is completely alien to him.

8. The Trainee
Singapore 2006, Craig Rosenthal, 8min

A first time robber is no match for the unpredictable night shift at a 24 hour convenience store.

9. Eternally Yours
Japan 2006, Atsushi Ogata, 15min

An elderly lady lives alone in the countryside. One day she mistakes a swindler for her childhood friend. For him this seems to be the chance of his life for a big coup. But who is betraying whom?