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Shorts: Being Alone Together

Sat 15 October / 8.45pm / Summerhall / tickets £8 (£6 concession)

Shorts: Being Alone Together programme is inspired by the famous quote from the British poet John Donne: “no man is an island”. What if, in fact, everyone is an island?
A heart-warming and witty programme of shorts from Taiwan, Japan and South Korea, Being Along Together showcases the distance (physical and psychological) between people who will, maybe, just maybe, one day re-connect again.

Where am I going?

2018 / Taiwan / Animation / UK Premiere / 15 mins / 15+
Taiwanese with English subtitles
Director: HUANG, Yun-sian, TSAI, Yi-chin

An old man lives alone in a small hut by the railway which is soon to be demolished. He spends his days cycling and looking for work mending windows until one day his routine is interrupted by figures that appear to be different to everyone else…

A beautiful stop-motion animation from director Huang, who uses the traditional dough-made figurines to bring this heart-warming tale to life.

Can You Hear Me?

2021 / Taiwan / drama / UK Premiere / 36 mins / 15+
Taiwanese, Mandarin with English subtitles
Director: LI Nien-Hsiu

Jhong wakes up and finds himself dead. He watches his family dealing with his death over breakfast. Although his wife can’t hear him, she can somehow comprehend what is on his mind.

Director Li follows her debut documentary film ‘Hebei, Taipei’, which focuses on her father, with this short film inspired by her family and real-life conversations they had following her father’s death.

Siren

2017 / Japan / Drama / 17 mins / 15+
Japanese and Arabic with English subtitles
Director: Nobuyuki Miyake

Sirens are blaring outside, Abbas breaks into the room of an old Japanese man named Toyoshige. He lifts Toyoshige and carries him out the door. As they go down the stairs, the last few days of bias and misjudgement become clear…

Kyoto-born Miyake started his career working in an advertising agency, before moving to the United States to become a film director. He founded Gazebo Film Inc. in Japan while his shorts films enjoy critical acclaim around the world.

A Taxi of Coldness

2017 / South Korea / Drama / 20 mins / 15+
Korean with English subtitles
Director: Joonha Kim

Late at night, a taxi passenger is offered a chewing gum by the driver. As he reminds himself of the ‘drugged gum’ story told him by his mother, the driver asks whether he heard about all those criminal taxi drivers… after several persistent offers, the man reluctantly accepts the chewing gum.
Joonha Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1979 and graduated from Sungkyunkwan University in 2005 with Major in Philosophy. Since then, he has been making films and commercials, and has been the producer and director of Mento Films since 2013.