Silk Road International Film Festival Programme 2020

Yijob’s Birthday Party
Director: Chaeyoon BAE
Republic of Korea // Live Action // 24mins
Yijob is a young man who came from Eritrea, now living in
Korea. His birthday is something different comparing to
other’s. His factory colleagues, Changcheong and Samir,
are planning to have a birthday party for him at midnight
in December 31.
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Director: Samir Syriani
Lebanon // Live Action // 21mins
A sniper, living alone on a country’s border, shoots
refugees attempting to cross and collects their items for
survival. One day, he finds a tape of his victim’s war diary
and begins to listen to it.
Big Wok Chef
Director: Hoi Wong
Hong Kong // Live Action // 17mins
Chef Aaron’s clay pot rice is excellent, but is never popular.
He is very depressed. He drowns his sorrows in booze
every day, which eventually leads to the loss of his sense
of taste. He then only continues to cook heartlessly.
Magic Dream
Director: Tomás Welss
Chile // Animation // 11mins
“Magic Dream” is a painted stop-motion full animation
film that tells the story of a magician on stage trying to
perform his show. As his magic goes wrong, he loses
control and gets weak. The wizard timidly reintegrates
to the set and tries to extract a rabbit from his hat. The
rabbit rejects the magician and his environment. As he
keeps crumbling down, the rabbit offers him help, to deal
with the misleading and confusing magic and to confront
his life.