QCShorts International
QCShorts International is QCinema’s expanded short film competition program—matching QCinema’s annual grantees with Southeast Asia’s most exciting voices and storytellers working within the short film format.
Program 1: Rotten Work
Body Works
Maki Makilan
2026 | Philippines
Et Si Thuy N’existait Pas
If Thuy Didn’t Exist
Carlo Francisco Manatad
2026 | Philippines, France, Indonesia
Is This Desire?
Apa Agbayani
2026 | Philippines, USA
She Said
Ta Shuo
Ivan Tan
2026 | Singapore
Through The Cracks
Lach Cach
Lê Hoàng
2026 | Vietnam
Program 2: A Little Blasphemy Never Hurt Anyone
Bleat!
Ananth Subramaniam
2026 | Malaysia
Fruit
Buah
Jen Nee Lim
2026 | Singapore
Run Shirley Run!
Rodiell Veloso
2026 | Philippines, Japan, Thailand
The Bovine Comedy
Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke
2026 | France
The Dream Is A Snail
Giấc mơ là ốc sên
Thien An Nguyen
2026 | Vietnam, South Korea
Program 3: All Mothers Were Once Girls
Gandang Lola
Grandmothering
Kylechandler Bigay
2026 | Philippines
Maanaa Kanimo
Toni Cañete
2026 | Philippines
Sana'y Nandito Ka
Clister Santos
2026 | Philippines
The 4Ply Clandestine System
Natalie Sin
2026 | Singapore
Program 4: The Mountains Always Ask For More
Agsangit Laeng Ti Al-alia
A Ghost Can Only Howl
Carla Pulido Ocampo
2026 | Philippines
Golden Island
Kota Emas
Arief Budiman
2026 | Indonesia, Singapore
Incident On The Mountain
Oupatevak het tam phnom
Savunthara Seng
2026 | Cambodia
Obscura
Silap Mata Bayang Berbalam
Timoteus Anggawan Kusno
2026 | Indonesia
They Made Monsters
Jaime Morados
2026 | Philippines