Short Shorts Festival

Time for this year’s edition of the Short Shorts Festival.

The Short Shorts Film Festival in Tokyo returns for its second year with another 90 new short films by young filmmakers across the world. The special screenings include Open Road (A-I), a new piece by Hong Kong auteur Johnny To, a program of Korean music clips and four shorts from Vietnam. The festival is divided into five sections: five programs of International shorts from Europe, Australia and America, four programs of Asia shorts, three of Japanese shorts and extra programs of shorts by Alfonso and Carlos Cuaron (B&C) and the Tokyo Film Center School of Arts. Among the short animations, dramas and comedies, ranging from 3-minute micro-shorts to 30-minute mini-features, check out Oh My God, a gore-fest comedy (I-A), The Porcelain Pussy, a film noir with an homme fatale (I-B), Elephant Boy, a drama about a Mumbai beggar (AI-D), Murder Obliquely, a star-studded love-triangle drama by Alfonso Cuaron (B&C), and Nature Calls Me, a comedy about a heavenly toilet seat (N-A). The great thing about short film festivals is that no matter how bad the current film is, another one will be along in a minute. (Tokyo Q)

It takes place at the Laforet Museum, June 29 to July 4. Also, remember that this weekend sees the Flashback/Flashforward event — classic Japanese films with English subs for only 600 yen!