PROGRAM

• Japan Cultural Expo Special Program
• Couple & Family
• Kids program
• Animation program
• Sports program
• Save the Earth!
• Have fun with a couple
• Family fun
• Awards program 1
• Awards program 2

Couple & Family

• ASTRAL

  Japan / Sci-Fi / 2021 / 06:43

  A solitary robot looks through a huge telescope inside an observatory and is inspired by the changes in the stars. He begins to seek change within himself.

  

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  Yuta Hanawa

  DIGITAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL NAGOYA 2021 (Japan) Nominated

  Graduated from HAL Osaka in 2021.Currently working as an animator.

• Trumpet

  Switzerland / Comedy / 2020 / 17:00

  Audience Award (International Competition)

  A Japanese trumpet player on a cultural pilgrimage to discover New York City jazz experiences a hell of a night after being lost in Brooklyn.

  

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  Kevin Haefelin

  42nd Max Ophuls Pries, AUDIENCE AWARD
  2020 BAFTA Student Film Awards Shortlist
  24th Rhode Island Int. FF, BEST COMEDY SHORT & AMBASSADOR AWARD
  Woodstock FF, BEST NARRATIVE SHORT
  Calgary Int. FF, HONORABLE MENTION BEST STUDENT FILM
  Japan Connects Hollywood, BEST SHORT & BEST DIRECTOR

  Kevin is a Swiss filmmaker based in New York. He graduated from Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD) with a BFA in film and is finishing an MFA in Directing at Columbia University. His award-winning short films have been invited to over 200 film festivals worldwide and nominated for the BAFTA Student film Awards.

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• Canaria

  Japan / Animation / 2020 / 04:18

  The aged Canaria longs for the Sun and sets off into outer space.
  Wrapped in fire, Canaria sings a song of revival as he makes a comeback.

  

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  Kazuki Yuhara

  Japan Media Arts Festival Entertainment Division New Face Award
  Asia Digital Art Award FUKUOKA Entertainment Division Best Award

  Born in Japan in 1996. Currently enrolled in the animation department at Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Film and New Media, Yuhara graduated from Tama Art University’s Department of Information Design, Art & Media Course.
  His fundamental motivation for creation comes from emotional experiences of being embraced in warmth and tenderness. All of his work reflects his ideas of love in the narrative and visuals.”

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• Cuckoo!

  The Netherlands / Comedy / 2019 / 07:00

  Inside a cuckoo clock lives a lonely man. Every hour he is catapulted out of his tiny house to yell ‘Cuckoo!’

  

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  Jörgen Scholtens

  Edmonton International Film festival
  Best Lunchbox Short
  Imagine Film Festival
  Méliès d’argent – Best European fantastic film short
  And for about 23 more awards in different country’s

  Jörgen Scholtens (Leeuwarden, 15-10-1986) is an actor and movie director from the Netherlands.

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• Crunch

  USA / Animation / 2019 / 09:33

  “Crunch” is an animated sci-fi comedy short created by five graduate students. The story is about Bob who just started his job in the space agency. While watching a spaceship launching, Bob was hit by a bolt of mysterious lightning and began to grow bigger. But there seemed to be no way to stop…

  

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  Liukaidi Peng

  Student Academy Awards 2019(USA) Finalist
  Nashville Film Festival 2020(USA) Best Animated Short
  GSA BAFTA Student Film Awards 2020(USA) Shortlist
  Norwich Film Festival 2020(USA) Finalist
  Bengaluru International Short Film Festival 2020(India) Finalist
  ENFOQUE International Film Festival 2020(Puerto Rico) Official Selection
  Sapporo International Short Film Festival 2020(Japan) Official Selection
  etc.

  Liukaidi Peng started his 3D animation creation in college. He worked as a story artist after graduation. In 2017, he came to the US. During his graduate study, he directed two short films. He was a story intern at Blue Sky Studios in 2018, and a Layout Trainee at Walt Disney Animation Studios in 2020.

• Tsurezure Kankan

  Japan / Drama / 2021 / 16:10

  HOPPY HAPPY AWARD

  “I’m pretty sure my brother won’t show up at the wedding,” says Kaho to her fiancé Noboru as they head to her house. He brushes it off with confidence, but when they arrive, Kaho’s brother Seitaro turns out to be much quieter than he imagined. On top off that, the siblings suddenly get into an argument.

  

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  Takashi Okado, Kedoin Yuki

  Takashi Okado was born in 1988. Actor based in Tokyo,Japan. He studied acting at Watanabe Entertainment College
  He`s also working as a director, and in 2018, his short film “”COCKROACH”” won the top prize at SSFF & ASIA, an Academy Award-accredited film festival, and was selected and awarded at many film festivals in Japan and abroad.
  Kedoin was born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1987. In 2011, he was selected to play the role of a person with gender identity disorder who falls in love with a boy he grew up with in the stage production of Poolside Story. The performance received acclaim. He went on to act in Nueteki’s production of Defile the Devil featuring Satoru Jitsunashi, where he played one of the three siblings. It won the Best Group Award. In film, he has acted in Moe Oki’s The Manga Master which was selected for the Tokyo International Film Festival’s Splash category. In the Netflix series The Naked Director by Masaharu Take, he played a porn actor. He also played the role of Momotaro in the DHC “”Kibi Kibi Sanpo”” commercial. Kedoin was selected as an overseas trainee for budding artists by the Agency for Cultural Affairs in 2020 and is preparing for a one-year acting training program in Canada

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