During its post-festival tour to Jakarta, Bali’s celebrated Minikino Film Week screened its award-winning shorts to a limited audience at Goethe-Institut Jakarta on Wednesday evening.

The six shorts presented by the short film festival organization were Work It Class! from Spain, Mora Mora from Lithuania, Eyes and Horns from South Korea, Angle Mort from France, The Sound of the Time from Colombia, and Warsha from Lebanon.

Winning The Programmer’s Choice category, Work It Class! presents a meta-commentary about the struggle of indie filmmakers in a faux-error situation that prevents the filmmaker from using a licensed song for the short. Meanwhile, the Best Children Short winner Mora Mora tells a tale of how music helps a little girl survive on a deserted island.

The screening continued with experimental shorts like the ever-transforming sketch of two lovers (or minotaurs) in Eyes and Horns, which won the festival’s Best Animation Short, and the fragmented stills of a sound man recording the cry of a war victim beyond the grave in The Sound of the Time as the Best Documentary Short.

But the screening highlights went to Angle Mort and Warsha, crowned Best Audiovisual Experimental Short and Best Short Film of the Year, respectively. The former narrates the story of a man who died in the authoritarian regime of Tunisian dictator Ben Ali, with a chilling recount that left the audience holding their breath after the short was over. On the other hand, the latter was a joyful representation of a crane operator’s deep longing to express himself as a drag queen, being able to do so only in the highest possible place in the city.

The strictly invitees audience clapped and cheered as the Minikino Film Week ended and promised to come back soon.

“We’ve all made it through the bad times of the pandemic. And with all the incredible short films presented this year, we witness hopes begin to bloom again like flowers in spring, all these stories of hope and encouragement we receive from around the world,” festival director Edo Wulia stated in the festival report.

Started in 2015, Minikino Film Week is an annual Bali international film festival specializing in short films. The festival’s eighth edition ran from Sept. 2 to 10 this year. The post-festival roadshow will visit Aceh next on Nov. 11 and will be open to the public.

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