Competition - American independent short films
The Chicken
Neo Sora
Drama | United States | 2020 | 13min13
The Chicken
Neo Sora
Drama | United States | 2020 | 13min13
The Chicken (Trailer) from ZAKKUBALAN on Vimeo.
Trailer
SYNOPSIS
After mishandling a medical emergency he witnesses on the streets of New York City, Hiro, a young Japanese immigrant, cannot bring himself to butcher the live chicken he bought for dinner.
CAST
Junshin Soga, Taiju Nakane, Sandra Maren Schneider
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Raised in New York and Tokyo, Neo Sora is a filmmaker and translator living between the two cities.
Neo wrote and directed a short film, The Chicken (Locarno Film Festival 2020), which was written up in Variety and Cahiers Du Cinema. Recently, Filmmaker Magazine has named Neo one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film.
Neo is in development for his debut feature as a writer-director, Earthquake.
FILM INFO
Year : 2020
Country : United States
Runtime : 13min13
Language : Japanese & English (with French subtitles)
Colour : -
