Apart from the competition section, the 13^th Thai Short Film and Festival supported by Office of Contemporary Art and Culture has the exclusively authorized from the biggest international short film festival Clermont Ferrand in France to show its best selected shorts, selected by the programmer Roger Gonin from more than 5,000 shorts around the world.

 

This year the selection contains 13 shorts, divided to be 2 programs; international and French shorts. The selection also includes the International Grand Prize awarded Everyday Everyday, Malaysian short by Tan Chui Mui, the French Grand Prize awarded Forbach and LABO Grand Prize awarded Muto.

   

The festival will be held from 13^th – 23^rd August at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (except Monday). The admission is free of charge.

Alter ego  

The encounter in a Parisian park between Nadir and Ester, a young man and woman with seemingly nothing in common, at least at first glance.

 

Martin Laugero , Sylvain Kauffmann , Nicolas Dufresne , Philippe Desfretier / France / 2008 / Animation / 04'50 

On a rainy afternoon, a little boy plays with snails. He topples over with them into a dream-like snail circus.

 

Bif / France, United Kingdom, England / 2008 / Fiction / 07'00 

Marc needs the paving stones on which he walks in order to get around, for he is afraid of stepping on the lines. With the help of Mr X, he begins a treatment to overcome his phobia.

Claire Burger / France / 2007 / Fiction / 35'00 

Samuel is a young gifted actor, living in Paris. He comes back to Forbach, the place where he grew up and where his father worked in the coal mines. Here, he receives a distinction from the mayor, an occasion which reunites him with  his mother and brother and they all three celebrate.

 

Lila   

This must be the wood, she said thoughtfully to herself, where things have no names.

A French television crew breaks into a Taiwanese family in Taipei to make a reality TV programme. Little by little, the camera becomes a new way of communication in his family.

A story about a six-year-old boy's obsession, family dynamics and the real value of a hard fought twenty pesos.

 

In the cold woods of Kiruna, Sweden, a blind woman and a lumberjack live an erotic story of passion and betrayal in which a bear finally discovers the betrayal.

 

Sook Chen is a corporate worker. She works in an office day in day out.

 

René Hernandez / Australia / 2008 / Fiction / 20'00 

Kaden's encounters with friends and enemies propel him on a journey of self-discovery.

 

A young boy and a very unordinary duck.

 

An ambiguous surrealistic animation painted on public walls in Baden and Buenos Aires.

 

Benedikt Erlingsson / Iceland / 2008 / Fiction / 15'30 

Robert is an important man with big responsibilities. One day he has an accident that blurs the border between the man and the beast within.