Asian Short Films

This week I have added a new page of Asian Short Films to my short films website.


The first of the new films is Two Solutions For One Problem by Abbas Kiarostami, Iran's most illustrious filmmaker. Kiarostami wrote and directed a whole heap of short films in the 1970s and 1980s, starting at the Centre for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (I kid you not!). Two Solutions For One Problem is a simple story of right and wrong that still resonates today (and Ahmadinejad should watch it!). 


The next new film is Strangers by Eraz Tadmor. Ezra, a filmmaker from Tel Aviv, suggested I use one of his short films and I was happy to oblige. Strangers is a vignette from his feature film of the same name, but it works very well as a stand alone short and won several awards on the short film festival circuit. Two strangers exchange glances on the Tel Aviv underground but are then joined by an unwanted mob. 


The tension rises as they approach the next station... can they escape the situation?


Another new Asian film is Little Terrorist by Ashvin Kumar. Little Terrorist was nominated for an Oscar in 2005. Set on the border between Pakistan and India, where a village has been split in two during the partition, it follows the travails of a Pakistani boy who is caught on the wrong side of the fence when he goes to retrieve a cricket ball. An Indian father and daughter disguise him and shelter him for the day but their deep-rooted suspicion of Muslims is impossible to disguise.


I'll leave the rest for you to watch. Enjoy!