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• Awards program 1
• Awards program 2

Have fun with a couple

• Father and Daughter

  Japan / Drama / 2020 / 09:11

  A father feels left out as his daughter and wife share secrets. One day, he receives a present from his daughter. What’s inside reveals a bittersweet story of a father and daughter.

  

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  Miyuki Uehara

  She was born in Ito City, Shizuoka Prefecture and started making films after winning the Scenario Grand Prix at the 2008 Isama Studio Film Festival. She does legal work for game and record companies in Tokyo as a certified administrative scrivener while making films. Her work also focuses on teaching screenwriting and WS.

• Queen Bee

  Italy / Drama / 2019 / 13:25

  Elsa is 70 years old and she has five empty beehives. Only a new queen bee, if accepted, could make the bees come back. One morning she finds Amin hidden in the shed. The police are looking for him. Elsa decides to hide him in exchange for some help with the beehives.

  

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  Nicola Sorcinelli

  Nicola Sorcinelli is a young Italian filmmaker. His works are selected in the most important film festivals: until now he has more than 60 acknowledgments including a Silver Ribbon (Italian Critics’ Choice Movie Awards). Today he is developing his first feature film.

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• BOXBALLET

  Russia / Drama / 2020 / 15:15

  The contrast between rough external and not so obviously sensual internal, setting forms against substance, the power of one thing having influence on another and just the possibility of this influence, all these matters, undeniably bringing us back to one of the most important philosophical problems – “to be and to seem”.

  

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  Anton Dyakov

  Santa Barbara International Film Festival USA

  Anton Dyakov date of birth March 1, 1980 Education SHAR Studio School
  Major: directing Nationality Russian
  Director, animator, screenwriter, designer:Bach 2010,Kostya 2012,Family. Pilot episode of series Yin and Yana 2014,Language of Love 2014,Starry Donkey 2014,Python and Zookeeper 2016,Long Live the Musketeers! 2017

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• A Woman Who Acts

  Japan / Drama / 2020 / 18:30

  Best Actor Award (Japan Competition)

  Akira is an old man with little time left to live due to illness. He has a young and beautiful wife, Yoshiko, who tries to take him outside to enjoy his last days. She looks delighted as Akira gets weaker and weaker. What are her true intentions?

  

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  Toshiyuki Teruya

  Stage name: Gori (member of Garage Sale)
  He was born in Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture on May 22, 1972. After dropping out of the theater course at Nihon University College of Art’s Department of Cinema, he formed the comedy duo Garage Sale with his junior high school classmate Hiroki Kawada.
  He appeared mostly on TV programs, and in 2005, got his big break with the character “”””Gorie.”””” He participated in the 56th edition of the prestigious Kohaku Uta Gassen as a singer. He has since expanded his career as an actor, and played the role of the main character’s older brother in the NHK TV series Churasan. Then in 2006, he made his directorial debut with the short film Detective Bogie.
  His work Born, Bone, Boon (2016) won the Japan Competition Grand Prix at the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia (SSFF & ASIA) 2017 and the Audience Award at the SKIP CITY INTERNATIONAL D-Cinema FESTIVAL 2017.
  His second feature film, Born, Bone, Born (2018) was a record-breaking hit in Okinawa Prefecture and also well received at the Moscow International Film Festival and the Shanghai International Film Festival. The film also won the Audience Award at JAPAN CUTS in New York and numerous other awards at international film festivals.