A Metamorphosis & Temo Re

A Metamorphosis

16min, 2025, Myanmar

Lin Htet Aung

2025 IFFR Tiger Short Competition, Tiger Short Awards

In A Metamorphosis, Lin Htet Aung transforms the uncanny and absurd experiences of what it is like to grow up with state television propaganda into a kind of counter-broadcast, redefining the compositions and narratives that defined them. This distorted, eerie broadcast explores the daily experiences of living in a dictatorship and the imagery you get accustomed to as a child, accompanied by a lullaby that will haunt you afterwards: Yee, lé-lé! Yee, lé-lé-

About the Director

Lin Htet Aung

Lin Htet Aung (1998, Myanmar) is a self-taught filmmaker based in Myanmar. In his earlier days, he wrote avant-garde poems and published underground poetry books. In 2020, his experimental short film Estate won the Silver Screen Award for Best Director at the Southeast Asian Short Film Competition at the 31st Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF). In 2023, his short film Once Upon A Time There Was A Mom won the Silver Screen Award for Best Screenplay at the 34th SGIFF. His same short film won the Principi Award at Lago Film Fest and the Jury Prize at Bangkok ASEAN Film Festival (BAFF). His short films have been selected at International Film Festival Rotterdam, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, LINOLEUM Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival, Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, among others. In 2024, he received a Script Development Fund for his debut feature project, Making A Sea, which won the Fellowship Prize at the Southeast Asian Film Lab at the Singapore International Film Festival 2023. He is one of the directing fellows for the CHANEL X BIFF Asian Film Academy 2023. He has also been nominated twice for SEA AiR Studio Residencies Cycle 1 and Cycle 2. He is also one of the Prince Claus Seed Awardees 2023 and a Locarno Filmmakers Academy 2024 participant.

Temo Re

50min, 2025, Georgia

Anka Gujabidze

2025 IFFR Tiger Short Competition, Tiger Short Awards

Temo is an unemployed actor who drives around 100km a day on a scooter, performing the duty of a delivery man. Based on the novel Courier’s Tales by Temo Rekhviashvili, who plays himself in the film, Anka Gujabidze crafts a poignant but humorous black and white photo adventure, in which a daily ride through the opulently dilapidated Georgian capital Tbilisi morphs into a nightmarish vision of poverty, corruption and estrangement.

About the Director

Anka Gujabidze

Anka Gujabidze is a visual artist based in Tbilisi, Georgia. Prior to moving into filmmaking recently, Anka worked as a professional photographer for 17 years, spe-cialising in documentary, conceptual and portrait photos. In 2024, Anka completed her first film, “Temo Re”, for which she adopted the format of a photo montage, “Temo Re” is comprised entirely of black-and-white photographs. The film tells a poignant story of a poverty-stricken actor, who, in order to make a living, has to work as a delivery man, and is gradually driven to physical and mental breakdown, due to exhaustion and the harsh inequalities he continually encounters on the streets of Georgia’s capital. In previous years, Anka Gujabidze authored several projects, includ-ing “Death to Mosquitoes During Summer Days” (2019), a candid and elegiac photo series depicting life in Georgia’s remote, rural and urban areas, “You Got It Today” (2020), which, with photos and texts, aimed at capturing the COVID pandemic and isolation through women’s eyes, “Bianka” (2015), a multimedia portrait of a transgender woman living a defiant life in the face of societal homophobia and “What the Hell Brought You Here?” (2013), a photo series depicting a Georgian town which, in Soviet times, boomed as an industrial centre, but has turned into a decay-ing and eerie space. Anka Gujabidze has an MA degree in Photography from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), Gent, Belgium (2011-2013), and a BA in Animation from the Theatre and Film University, Tbilisi, Georgia (2006-2010). Anka’s work has been displayed at exhibitions in Tbilisi and abroad and has been published in several in-ternational anthologies.