A fresh batch of international short films will be screened this month in both Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City by Future Shorts ONE, the monthly global film festival.

A diverse range of dramas, comedies and music videos from 15 countries - Australia, Austria, Cambodia, Finland, Georgia, Iceland, Indonesia, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Turkey, UK and Vietnam - will be shown this month.

The selected films include Path Lights, Traffic Jam, A Perm, One Minute Puberty, and music videos of New York band Cults' Go Outside and Paolo Sassanelli's War.

In Path Lights, a voice actor famed for his work on detective audiobooks and the automated answering service of a tree cutting company is propelled into a real-life investigation after a mysterious bottle falls from the sky.

Two Finnish truck drivers make confessions while waiting for the lights to change in Traffic Jam whereas Korean haircuts are portrayed in A Perm.

The screenings will take place in Hanoi on Sep 17 and Ho Chi Minh City on Sep 25.

Hanoi: Chez Xuan 41, alley 76, An Duonng, Dist Ba Dinh, Hanoi (near Sofitel Plaza Hotel)

Music 7-8p.m.

Vietnamese films 8-9p.m.

International films 9-10p.m.

Music 10p.m. til late

HCMC: Yoko Bar, 22 Nguyen Thi Dieu, Dist. 3.

Doors open from 7p.m. and films start at 7.30p.m.

Tickets, ranging from VND30,000 to VND60,000, are available at the venues.