Interfilm International Short Film Festival Berlin is back with its 38th edition, running from the 15th to the 20th of November 2022. This year the regional focus will be on the cinematography of the Philippines, while the thematic focus Ghosts of Europe looks towards the EU. INTERFILM dedicates also a spotlight program to Belarusian filmmaking, which courageously takes on the current regime.
To use the organisers’ words: “The competitions present themselves as usual politically, combative and at the same time empathetic and full of confidence. Great stories meet abstract animation, essayistic forms meet concrete narration. (…) INTERFORUM is the place to discuss and learn, and various special programs and events round off the week dedicated to short film.“
You can find the full programme on the official website here.
Here are all the Asian titles:
International Competition
Anxious Body by Yoriko Mizushiri // France – Japan 2021
A Guitar in the Bucket by Boyoung Kim // Denmark – South Korea 2021
Murder Tongue by Ali Sohail Jaura // Pakistan 2022
Holy Holocaust by Osi Wald // Noa Berman-Herzberg, Israel 2021
Tatbiq by Mehrdad Hassani // Iran 2021
Warsha by Dania Bdeir // France / Lebanon 2021
Mulaqat by Seemab Gul // Pakistan 2021
The Sun Sets on Beirut by Daniela Stephan // Lebanon – England 2022
Jadeh 99 by Nesar Zarifi // France / Germany – Afghanistan 2022
Sound of the Night by Chanrado Sok, Kongkea Vann // Cambodia 2021
Documentary Competition
A Day’s Work by Max Kerkhoff // Germany – Myanmar 2021
Green Film Competition
Aralkum by Mila Zhluktenko – Daniel Asadi Faezi // Germany – Uzbekistan 2022
To Calm the Pig Inside by Joanna Vasquez Arong // Philippines 2020
Focus: Philippines
#Deepexpression by Lusito Ignacio // 2021
The Criminals by Jon Olarte // 2017
Babylon by Keith Deligero // 2020
Clairvoyant by John Luke Miraflor // 2021
Excuse Me, Miss, Miss, Miss by Sonny Calvento // 2020
From The Dark Depths by Kiri Dalena // 201
The Guardians by Carlo Valenzona / Arvin Belarmino // 2021
It’s Raining Frogs Outside by Maria Estela Paiso // 2021
Jodilerks Dela Cruz, Employee of the Month by Carlo Francisco Manatad // 2017
Girly is in Control of His Life by Gilb Baldoza // 2020
Maria by Jaime Habac Jr. // 2016
A Country in Moving Pictures by Arjanmar Rebeta // 2018
Juan Tamad Goes To The Moon by Khavn de la Cruz // 2018
How to Die Young in Manila by Petersen Vargas // 2020
Coiling by Sita Valenzuela / Yvonne Salazar // 2021
Manila is Full of Men Named Boy by Andrew Lee // 2021
Mighty Robo V by Miko Livelo / Mihk Vergara // 2021
Reminiscences Of The Green Revolution by Dean Colin Marcial // 2019
Special programs
Tank Fairy by Erich Rettstadt // Taiwan – United States 2021
Happy Birthday by Da-young YOON // South Korea 2022
Rooster by Myo Aung, Myanmar // Taiwan 2021
