CHANCE ENCOUNTERS
Chance Encounters
Sun, Aug 22, PROG – 4
Call it coincidence, destiny, fate, kismet — in one moment, lives can collide and change forever. Yet chance encounters aren’t necessarily accidental; in fact, you can make your own luck by opening yourself to the world. This package of five short films is about all those crazy, casual, unexpected, or brief encounters!!
BEER! BEER!
Dir: Popo Fan | 17 min | 2019 | Germany | English | Narrative Short
Tao, a Chinese guy, meets Sebastian, a local German; they begin exchanging a few common pick-up lines. Soon they move on to some ridiculous and emotional moments with each other, a mattress on the street suddenly changes everything.
TONE OF THE CITY (Tônica da cidade)
Dir: Viviane Rodrigues | 18 min | 2019 | Brazil | Portuguese | Narrative Short
Two women, a hot night in Brazil and dangerous shots of gin, memories and hurts! Tone of the City is a movie about emotional dysrhythmia in the usual space of big cities.
Note: This film is available only for audiences in India.
UNDERCURRENT
Dir: Weng Yu-Tong | 20 min | 2019 | Taiwan | Chinese | Narrative Short
In a winter evening of 1979, the arrest of anti-government protesters involved in the Formosa Incident is underway. The city is under curfew, but a teenage student, out of curiosity, follows a mysterious young man from a riverside path into an abandoned hut.
ESCAPING THE FRAGILE PLANET (Απόδραση από τον εύθραυστο πλανήτη)
Dir: Thanasis Tsimpinis | 18 min | 2020 | Greece | Modern Greek | Narrative Short
A boy-meets-boy tale, a few hours before the world ends.
DISCLAIMER
This is a work of fiction, as shot on July 2019. Any resemblance to actual events surrounding the COVID‑19 pandemic is purely coincidental.
AND WE COLLIDE (潮汐平行时)
Dir: Dongni Lanca Li | 19 min | 2021 | China | Chinese | Narrative Short
A story about two men, two worlds and one real rocket! Inspired by the local rocket launch site, And We Collide depicts an unexpected tropical encounter.
