SEA Short Film Competition 5

Before the Sea Forgets (2025) Lê Ngọc Duy | Singapore | 2025 | 17 min | R21 (Homosexual Theme) Two gay travellers hunt for a lost soldier’s burial site on Da Nang’s war-scarred peninsula. Meanwhile, a group of skateboarders weave through the landscape, rewriting old stories. Monkey (2025) Aries C. Ferrer | Philippines | 2025 | 20 min | PG13 (Brief Coarse Language) Using footage from his family archives, a filmmaker weaves together fragments of joy, calm and loss. In these ordinary moments, past and present merge and echo each other. a flower not a flower (2025) Tanakit Kitsanayunyong | Thailand | 2025 | 18 min | PG In the liminal space between dreams and memory, hazy fragments of a middle-aged man’s past fade away against an immersive sonic atmosphere. A Metamorphosis Lin Htet Aung | Myanmar | 2025 | 16 min | Rating To Be Advised Using distinct visual and sonic elements from state propaganda television, Myanmar’s dictatorship is refracted through the lens of distorted Burmese memories. Elenita Elena Elaine (2025) Gabriela Serrano | Philippines | 2025 | 20 min | PG13 (Some Coarse Language) In sleepless Manila, where dreaming is outsourced to call centres, a fallen star appears on the eve of a woman’s departure to help her and her mother say goodbye.