Sapporo Short Fest
Sapporo International Short Film Festival and Market
The Sapporo Short Fest is held every September in the beautiful city of Sapporo, Japan. The festival attracts filmmakers and industry professionals from all over the world. The festival screens about 100 films over the course of one week. The Sapporo Short Fest also provides a market for content buyers and filmmakers interested in selling. The market attracts industry professionals, and has translators on hand to help with communication. For complete details, please visit our website.
3rd edition
2008 | 11 - 15 September
Grand Prize
26
Best Composer
1
Best Cinematography
1
Best Editing
2
Best Actress (Nienke Romer)
1
Best Student Director
1
Best Children's Short Film
12
Best Director
5
Best Screenplay
5
Best Mini Short Film - under 10 min
2
2nd Place - Children's Choice
12
Auf der Strecke
On the Line
Germany | 2007 | 29:45
Director: Reto Caffi
A department store security guard is racked by guilt after not helping the victim of a fight in the subway.
26
Burley!
Australia | Oct 2007 | 8:45
Directors: Gareth Cowen, Dave Edwardz
A young tetra fish, one of a million in her school, just wants some attention. Feeling lonely and bored, she is attracted by the manic antics of a gan...
C'est Dimanche!
It's Sunday!
France | Feb 2008 | 30:00
Director: Samir Guesmi
While he's expelled from school, 13 years old Ibrahim lets his father believe that he has got a diploma...
5
Catching Rats
Ecuador | 2007
Director: Vero Shamo-Garcia
In the midst of the Colombian Civil War, 13 years old Anita joins the guerrilla army with younger brother, but this jeoparadize her entire family…
1
Il Posto Vuoto
The Empty Place
Italy | Apr 2007 | 9:00
Director: Paolo Gaudio
In a fairy-like and magic forest, a young giant loses his most important thing: a little girl who lived inside an old hollow tree.
4
Night Vision
Canada | Jan 2008 | 24:24
Director: Phillip Barker
Images of sublime surrealism conjure places beyond the surface of the natural world. Picture yourself on a boat on a river…
1
Poor Yorick
Russia | Dec 2007 | 18:00
Director: Sergey Gordeev
A skeleton awakening from the coffin makes an effort to search for his "Skull".
1
The Road
United States | 2007
Director: Owen Thomas
Beautiful "Sympathy and Gratitude" invites sarcastic ending... Unexpected!!
2
Road
Netherlands | 2007 | 9:00
Director: Daniel Bruce
A young woman traveling alone. Anxiety arising from a dark lonely night on the road leads her to the tragedy.
1
Rybka
The Tiny Fish
Russia | 2007 | 9:35
Director: Sergei Ryabov
"I want to help small Mr. Fish." feeling of the girl will make a miracle!"
12
1 
Rybka (The Tiny Fish)
C'est Dimanche! (It's Sunday!)
Il Posto Vuoto (The Empty Place)
C'est Dimanche! (It's Sunday!)
Il Posto Vuoto (The Empty Place)
Short film types screened
Fiction / Live action Animation Documentary
Experimental Music videoCompetition and rewards
International competition
No cash awards No screening fees
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Information on this profile is provided by the event and/or compiled from available sources | Profile updated 7 Aug 2010