EuroAsia Shorts Festival 2015

A fiancé, Keita, goes to meet the family, the father, Shozo, begins his secret appraisal – a test to see whether this fiancé is worthy or not of marrying his daughter. Trying to reduce the distance between them, the mother prepares a single nabe (cooking pot) for the shabu-shabu meal. As Shozo’s eyes glint brightly, Keita reaches towards the shabu-shabu.

Bento is Japanese style lunchbox. The man loves the bentos which made by a wife. He thinks that the bento made by a wife is the only genuine bento. He goes out for a ‘job’ with those lunchboxes. The story is based on a true story.

On New Year’s Eve, Shiho and her husband, Junpei, receive a whole Buri (yellowtail fish) as a year-end gift but they don’t know how to fillet it. They call around people to find someone who can take it. But nobody wants it. After all, they decide to bring it to her uncle (once a cook) she hasn’t seen for so long and is living alone.

Mamadu, a boy born in Italy by Senagalese parents, fights daily with his own personal battle to be recognized as an Italian citizen. Yet neither first generation immigrants or his old landlady want to help him.

Said (Amine Slimane) is a 17 years old irregular immigrant from Morocco. Arrived in Italy a short time ago, Said has an arduous life, obliged by his brother Hassan (Aymen Mabrouk) to beg to make some money. The young boy quickly learns the hardness of life also with Assim (Mohamad Mamod) urging Said to rob, demonstrating his courage. During a clunky robbery in a restaurant, Said knows Carmen, the chef (Liliana Marchesi). After the cautious starting, a strange complicity arises between Carmen and Said, with food at its center. Food will play an important role, connecting two lives scarred by loneliness.

A short documentary film on the mile-high pies at Ed & Kay’s Restaurant in Benton, Arkansas.

Dragon Yinglong stays in the Antarctic, hence the long prevalent drought. The chief priest erects the statue of the Dragon, binds people to it and offer human blood as sacrifices, and prays to Dragon Yinglong for rain. The severe drought, however, continues, and the blood sacrifice gets more and more tense…

As a spotted egg is being x-rayed, a dark spot gradually emerges and starts moving and shaking the egg. The spots on the egg’s exterior reform into a mouth and eyes that observe the growing spot inside. A fight for life and death breaks out between the shell and its interior.

Seoyeon goes to a restaurant alone during her lunch break for cold naengmyeon noodles, but ends up $1 short. Her options are running out…

A day will come when irresponsible exploitation of resources will make Earth unproductive, and people will need to ask for help. Maybe they’ll ask people of a faraway galaxy who, unlike Terrestrians, have never disrespected the ground on which they walk.

Fine Dining is a short film about poverty, dignity, and the unconquerable nature of the human soul.

Armand works in a pasta factory and every night for dinner he opens a box of ravioli. One evening, an enormous genie appears from the box. Armand will have two (and not three) wishes to fulfill.

A mother is making a traditional New Year’s vegetable dish for the family, and her child is watching.  The ingredients are animals of peas, carrots, burdock root and konjak. Enjoy the dish!

Four centuries ago, Yi Sam Pyeong discovered the kaolin deposits (china clay) that lead to the first artisan workshops in the Japanese town of Arita. 350 years later, the real-life restaurant Mugaritz in Spain develops a culinary performance where the game of the table is one of its main creations. Chef Andoni Luis Aduriz, characterized by his sense culinary evolution and interdisciplinary approach, finds something special in this handmade tradition, while the La Fura dels Baus theater group explores in visual language an eternal debate: “Do not play with/without your food.”