SEA Short Film Competition 2: The Forest Remembers

A Tree

Director: Mark Wee

When urban development desecrates a sacred tree, a foreman silences the inexplicable afflictions that have taken hold of a migrant worker, only to dig up histories that refuse to be buried.

Golden Island

Director: Arief Budiman

Two videographers, one from Java and the other from Papua, make a film together about Papua. They reflect upon the beautiful images of the island and discuss its ironic reality under the Javanese people.

Habitare

Director: Tanatat Khuttapan

Two women, one Thai and the other Burmese, are mutually bound to a crippling fate. An abandoned house deep within a lush mangrove forest offers them a glimpse of solace.

Incident on the Mountain

Director: Savunthara Seng

A mysterious helicopter crash buried deep in the mountains brings together a journalist and a soldier to make sense of a fragmented, garbled history.

They Made Monsters

Director: Jaime Morados

Joaquin has been raised by his monster-hunting father to kill. But when he hears the eerily humanlike cries of a captured creature, Joaquin begins to question where the true horror lies.