The 23rd ifva Awards – Award Winning Titles
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Even Ants Strive For Survival The Government introduces a law to replace citizens’ names with numbers. Ma Yi, who keeps ants as pets at home, suddenly gets arrested for no reason. He is released the next day, without knowing what offence he has committed. From that day onwards, his name is replaced by a number, and he himself has become as trivial as ants. |
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Silver Award |
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Piled Cloud Ex-sailor Lam Dong has retired and lives alone in the city like an outsider. He sub-lets his apartment to Zheng Yang, a film student from Beijing. Since then, there seems to be a foreigner living in Dong’s apartment. |
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Special Mention |
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Call Me Mrs Chan Cleaner Mrs Chan works in a public housing estate to clear the garbage, 365 days a year except on the first day of the Chinese New Year. For the past ten years, her quiet dedication cleaning the building has brought her no respect, only back pain. She said people despised her job, but she carried on with it. |
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Monkey Business Three young people in the contemporary society get a chance to become rich through an extraordinary experience. In their temporary shelter in an old apartment, they start a dangerous back-alley business. Under the neon light of the dark night, a zero-sum gamble is taking place… |
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Mom Mom is a film about distance and broken relationships. Through documenting a series of unanswered voice messages and misdialled phone calls among a mother, a grandmother, and a young girl, Mom shines light on the working class family. |
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Silver Award |
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RED Markings on the test paper, red traffic light on the road, burning flame, warm blood, red flag… this is a story about “red”. |
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Special Mention |
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Hokkien Dialect This is about the contradicting and delicate relationship between my dad and I. |
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An Exam Result Decides My Fate? When youth’s values are determined by their academic results, the failing ones are doomed. Young souls are lost while public no longer cares. Soulless eyes, grainy world, pale crowds remain disturbing imagination for most of the people; this, however, is the reality for youngsters who suffer from emotional illness. |
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The Number You Have Tried to Reach is Now Busy Living in this city, how many ridiculous happenings pop up because we are too busy to think twice? What are the deeds that we have done without a second thought? And who and what are the important people and things that we have missed all along? |
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Youth Enthusiastic Award HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity |
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Losing Sight of a Longed Place This film depicts a young homosexual who fights for his rights and that of people around him, but the barrier between himself and his father and the lack of progress in society put him in a state of confusion and self-reflection. |
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Silver Award |
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Muteum In a museum, we should behave well, from outer to inner, from shallow to its deepest, seriously and sincerely. |
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Special Mention |
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Stories About Him One day I asked my aunts and uncles about my grandpa while they were playing mahjong. What does he look like? Where did he come from? How was his childhood? What had he been through? The stories they told me are too difficult to imagine. Are those all real? Who is he? |
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Excellence Award |
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Passing Rain After a small turn of fate, a girl studying in the covered playground started to pay attention to a boy. After a sudden shower of rain, they started to get closer. |
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Media Art Category |
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hardworking circuit #1.3 hardworking circuit #1.3 is a realisation of a schema of monotonous, repetitive circuit, using as many units of relay switch as possible to bridge up the sequential extension of cables, merely for the purpose of electricity connection. |
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Silver Award |
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Apart and/or Together The artist collects heartbeat from ten people, and attaches threads to the speakers to represent different rhythms. But they sound in unison in the exhibition space. The phenomenon is similar to today’s society. We try to have sympathy towards others, but also want to establish identities through our differences. We may desire, contradictorily, “apart” and “together” at the same time. |
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Special Mention |
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Undermine The noise of the spinning propeller, which drives the rotation movement, amplifies the uneasiness, tension and fragility of the human depiction. An LED TV is disassembled, modified and backlit by a custom circular light to become semi-transparent to display a stabilised video of a woman taken from overhead. Undermine contrasts and balances a disturbing kinetic movement with the slow pace of a natural body movement. |
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Excellence Award |
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Victoria East Victoria East is a multi-channel video installation. Through four perspectives: mountain, sea, coast and wind, the artwork retraces the urban development of Tseung Kwan O under British colonial rule and urban planning policy in a century’s time. |
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Asian New Force Category |
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Tshweesh The soccer World Cup kicks off today and the people of Beirut are eager for the long-awaited event. |
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Silver Award |
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One More Experiment In the near future all actors have become computer generated characters and human actors are unemployed. This is a story of an aging actor who has come to the small booth where the computer directs his monologue reading. This is the only place he can act. |
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Special Mention |
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Death of the Sound Man Voice of the people are often neglected, same as sound in film that audience don’t care. Two sound recordists are working on final mix of a short film. Will their sound be heard by someone? |
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Gray Umbrella Mr. Maleki has a permanent habit. Until a man with an umbrella enters his life. |
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