Before I begin, could you please give me a standing ovation for doing a short films marathon in four days in a row (63 short films in total!!! It was magical, wasn't it? :D) and for finally attending a film festival (I've been wanting to attend a film festival for ages!)?

LOL. Ok. This was my very first experience to ever come visit a film festival. I was SO excited! I brought my camera with me and also my little notebook and a pen (I planned to participate also in the workshops, but due to scheduling issue, I joined 'only' the screenings). The idea to attend this event was actually an unplanned one, because I myself just found out about it the day before! People say the unplanned ones are better than the planned ones, right? :D

All the short films were all mesmerizing! If I wrote down and discussed all of them, it might be a two-hundred-page novel. I'm not joking. To talk about 63 short films, to tell you how I loved them, how they made my heart kicking my chest wall, how they made me laugh and even cry,..... whoa, that would be a long long story! So, I'm just going to list down some of my favorites, the ones that stuck in my head 'till this day.

Day 01, March 13rd. The first section my mom and I saw was Out of Competition, which showed short films from Indonesian filmmakers that were not in the competition. There were nine of them, categories included were narrative fiction, documentary, and also animation. The next section was Finalis Film Pendek Animasi, showing six animated shorts from the competition that made it to the final. Not saying that I didn't have any favorites from those sections, but to shorten this post, I'll have to continue to my most favorites from day one; they were from this section called International Shorts: Variety (it showed seven chosen short films from, as you can see, all around the world. Five of them are a critical success by being nominated several times and even winning some of them).

Day 02, March 14th. Ah, too many great films! I missed the first section though, but I just couldn't be sad cause all the rest of the films were later become my mood-booster. :D The first was Finalis Film Pendek Dokumenter - 2, showing three selected documentaries. My favorite was the second one titled Mana Janjimu? that showed a campaign period in a junior high school to choose the head of student body and also its election process. It broke audiences into laugh by its straightforward lines the students said. One of the students there was even, kind of, 'complaining' about our nation's politic issues (the massive corruption, to be more exact) in a non-harassing tone, it even (again) made us laugh because of its straightforwardness. 

The next section was the one showing four from nine narrative fictions from the finalists; Finalis Film Pendek Fiksi Naratif - 1. There was this film titled A Lady Caddy Who Never Saw A Hole-in-One that I loved the most. The film's creator's usage of the term hole-in-one was actually, as far as I get, a metaphor of a fortune people are continuously looking for but is rarely happen. It depends greatly on your luck, so it may be happening to someone you think doesn't even deserve to have such fortunes. 

I found that film was as interesting to discuss as The Voorman Problem! I have bunch of opinions, speculations, and thoughts about them.

So, a post about them anytime soon, maybe? :D