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

Save the Earth!

• Migrants

  France / Animation / 2020 / 08:17

  J-WAVE Award

  Two polar bears are driven into exile due to global warming. They will encounter brown bears along their journey, with whom they will try to cohabitate.

  

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  Hugo Caby, Antoine Dupriez, Aubin Kubiak, Lucas Lermytte & Zoé Devise

  Best Animated Short Film @ China International New Media Short Film Festival 2020 / Shenzhen / CHINA
  Best Student Project Award @ SIGGRAPH ASIA 2020 / Daegu / SOUTH KOREA
  VIEW Award for Best Short Film @ VIEW Conference 2020 / Turin / ITALY

  Hugo Caby, Antoine Dupriez, Aubin Kubiak, Lucas Lermytte and Zoé Devise have graduated from the Pôle 3D school (Roubaix, France). In 2020, they co-directed the short film “Migrants”.

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• Hawaiian Soul

  USA / Drama / 2020 / 20:09

  Amidst the 1970s native rights movement, George Helm, a Hawaiian activist and musician must gain the support of kūpuna (community elders) from Maui to aid in the fight of protecting the precious neighboring island of Kahoʻolawe from military bombing.

  

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  Āina Paikai

  Hawaii International Film Festival
  Maui Film Festival
  Seattle Asian American Film Festival

  Āina Paikai is a native Hawaiian filmmaker that aims to amplify Pacific and indigenous voices in media. A Sundance Native Lab Fellow, Paikai wrote and acted in the award-winning short-film, Down on the Sidewalk in Waikīkī (2019) and has now taken the lead on Hawaiian Soul (2020) with writing, producing, and directing.

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• Sad Beauty

  The Netherlands / Animation / 2020 / 09:50

  Save the Earth! Minister’s Award, the Ministry of the Environment

  In a heavily polluted world, a young woman mourns the disappearance of animal species. When she falls ill due to a bacterial infection, nature appears to send her a message in her hallucinations.

  

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  Arjan Brentjes

  Shortcutz Amsterdam, Annual Awards 2021 (Netherlands) – Best Animation Award
  Rome International Film Festival 2020 (USA) – Best animation Film Award
  Miami Short Film Festival 2020 (USA) – Nominated for Best Animation Short
  Raindance Film Festival 2020 (UK) – Nominated for Best Animation Short

  In 2010 Arjan Brentjes switched from painting to making short films, the last years mostly animation. He often takes the viewer back to a visual style from the past, to look at our present, or future from there.

• Twin Trees

  France / Animation / 2020 / 04:14

  A brother and sister walk along, each carrying a tree in a small pot. When they come accross a parrot and a fallen statue, they each have to choose their own journey.

  

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  Emmanuel Ollivier

  I’m self taught and learned how to make movies on set. I started a career as an Assistant Director. This enabled me to direct my first short film in 2015.
  I’ve been wanting to do animation for a long time, and Twin Trees is my first fully animated short.