Red Dot Cinema Panama vol.2
Teatro Amador, Panama City 15th Feb 2016, 7:00pm
Tickets at $5 each and receive a Chinese snack for Chinese New Year!
Purchase tickets at the door.
Red Dot Cinema Panama vol.1, 16th Nov 2015 Spanish page
Red Dot Cinema Vol.2 global screening is launched in October 2015. Check out our program for 2015 vol.2, and be the first to organize a screening in your city for your community.
Our Program for Red Dot Cinema 2015 vol.2
Clock Work
-Drama
Director: Yukihiro Morigaki
Country: Japan
Length: 12min 23secs
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English
Completed date: 2013
As a husband and wife spend their ordinary days together, their love has grown a little cold. Both have wind-up keys on their backs. They exist in their own world, and they cannot wind their own springs. They have made it through their lives only by turning each other’s keys. Amidst their daily life, the wife Yumi starts to grow suspicious of her husband’s love for her. Turning his key and having hers turned, she no longer understands what true love means. And the distance between them grows.
Film Festival Awards:
2nd Fox Movie Premium Short Film Festival_ Grand Prix
17th Ozu Memorial Tateshina Film Festival_Runner-up
7th Omoigawa Film festival Special July Prize
18th Mito Short Film Festival Short List
8th Nasu Short Film Festival Nasu Award Nominee
Offline Exposure:
Forest Movie Festival Screening
Sanuki Film Festival Screening
Hentak Kaki (march in place)
-Drama
Director: James Khoo
Country: Singapore
Length: 12mins 10secs
Language: Singlish
Subtitle: English
Completed date: 2011
2nd Warrant Officer Teck Hong has served his entire life in the army. Now 38, he finds himself needing to make a pivotal decision, should he continue serving in the army or leave and face the harsh reality of life outside. He knows that if he continues serving, his past injuries limits his roles in the army to administrative positions, something he loathes. However, upon meeting a certain detainee at the Detention Barracks in the army, his life takes a turn.
*In Singapore, there are full time military personnels, and male civilians who go for
reservists about once a year for regular military training.
Film Festival Awards:
24th Singapore International Film Festival, Best Film - Short Film Category
4th Singapore Short Film Awards, Best Actor - Michael Chua
Film Festivals Appearances:
24th Singapore Internation Film Festival 4th Singapore Short Film Awards
10th Singapore Short Cuts
WEYA Nottingham
I, Profess
-Drama
Director: Dae Ryun Chang
Country: Korea
Length: 7min 38secs
Language: Korean
Subtitle: -
Completed date: 2013
A young teacher must overcome his fear of speaking in public to truly become
the teacher he wants to be and find the joy and warmth in his work.
Offical selection: KOSMA International Film Festival 2014
On Happiness Road （幸福路上）
-Animation
Director: Hsin-Yin Sung
Country: Taiwan
Length: 12min 28sec
Language: Taiwanese
Subtitle: English
Completed date: 2013
Chichi is a six-year-old little girl who lives at Happiness Road with her family. Chichi has recently started school but she finds the teacher very demanding. She has to speak Mandarin instead of her Taiwanese mother tongue in order to be a good student in class…
Film Awards:
Taipei Film Festival, 2013, Best Animation
Kaohsiung Film Festival, 2013, Best Selection in Short Film Competition
Film Festivals Appearances:
2014 human rights film festival BARCELONA / NYC / PARIS
Consider (พิจารณา)
-Documentary
Director: Panu Saeng-Xuto
Country: Thailand
Length: 20min
Language: Thai
Subtitle: English
Completed date: 2013
Tay is a teenage ladyboy, or “kathoey” which is a relatively well-tolerated transgender
group in Thailand. These are males who take on traditional female roles, and some
describe them as the “third gender”. In the film, he was asked “Do you think you made
a mistake by appearing in the media?” Tay answered, “I kind of do.” “If you could go
back in time, what would you have changed or fixed?” Tay replied, “I would not try to
kill myself again.” Interviews with sympathetic fellow students and a teacher his is
also a “kathoey” demonstrated the level of acceptance of Tay’s gender orientation
at his Christian school, Saint Joseph Mueang-Ake. This becomes most triumphantly
clear when Tay appeared at a school Christmas party in a beautiful red dress. But as
his tearful mother explained, a single intolerant and violent teacher drove him to
attempt suicide. Elsewhere in the film, we see Tay going about his daily life, traveling
to and from school, and silently touching up his makeup in front of the mirror.
Film Festival Awards:
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2013 The Winner of The Equality Award in the FreedomFilmFest 2013 Competition Awarded on December 14th 2013 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
About the filmmaker
Panu Saeng-xuto
on-air production | Thailand
Documentary Filmmaker – director – Lecturer
Born: April 29, 1987 | Bangkok, Thailand.
Replace （替生）
-Drama
Director: Mark Ang
Country: Taiwan
Length: 15min
Language: Mandarin
Subtitle: English
Completed date: 2014
After having been married for many years, the wife, Phoebe, is finally pregnant.
Since Phoebe has a rare blood type and the possibilities of death while laboring are
quite high, the doctors recommend abortion. However, Phoebe decides to ignore
the doctors' advice and continues on with the pregnancy.
Eight months into her pregnancy, tragedy strikes. During one of the couple's routine walk,
they encounters a person who tries to commit suicide. The person jumps off a building
and accidentally lands on top of Phoebe, killing both her and the baby.
Matou
- Experimental
Director: Isamu Hirabayashi
Country: Japan
Length: 4min 7sec
Language: -
Subtitle: -
Completed date: 2011
Life is short.
Film Festival Awards:
Sapporo Short Fest, Best Experimental Award
