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

Kids program

• Picnic

  Japan / Animation / 2021 / 03:12

  U-25 Project Best Short Award

  Beautiful weather is the best for having a picnic outside in the open field. Bunny, the rabbit, came to have a picnic on this invitingly warm and beautiful day. Let’s have lunch here. And so Bunny’s disastrous day began.

  

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  Yuki Kusama

  Musashino Art University Graduation Exhibition 2021 (Japan)

  Mesmerized by Disney’s movies, Yuki wanted to learn how to breathe life into characters as an animator and enrolled into Musashino Art University, Faculty of Imaging Arts and Sciences. He polished his skills as an animator through online classes and created the short film Picnic as his graduation piece.

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• Tsumurin, presenting a gift to Master Funkoro.

  Japan / Animation / 2021 / 07:50

  Tsumurin is going to present his friend, Master Funkoro, with the treasure he found the other day!

  

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  Shigeru Motoki

  Worked as a product designer at a major home appliance manufacturer.
  After that, he joined a 3DCG production team of a video production company and was involved in video production.
  He is currently working as a freelance (artist name: room 29-Q).

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• Expedition Under my Bed

  France / Comedy / 2020 / 01:24

  A quarantined Parisian leads an expedition under his bed in search of his missing sock.

  

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  Gérome Barry

  SF3 Smartfone Flick Fest 2020 (Sydney, Australia) – Best Iso Film International
  Soria International Film Festival 2020 (Spain) – nomination
  Chaniartoon 4th 2020 (Greece) – nomination
  New Generation Film Festival 2020 (Serbia) – semi finalist
  Festival International de Cine La Perla 2020 (Equator) – semi finalist

  Gérome Barry studied cinema at Fémis, where he graduated from the Production department. Gérome Barry has directed several short films: “Séraphin”, “Le Grand Nombre” and “Suicide Expres”, before his first feature “Swing Rendez-vous”. “Expedition Under My Bed” marks Gérome Barry’s return to short films through small form made during the confinement.

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• Just For The Record

  Serbia, Canada / Animation / 2020 / 07:10

  The small recording device named REC lives alone in an abandoned attic when a bird appears at the window and he wants to talk to it. But when the bird hears REC’s “voice” it flies away in terror. Now REC tries everything to record the bird’s song, but its battery will soon be exhausted.

  

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  Vojin Vasovic

  Canada Shorts 2020 (Canada)- Best Short / Grand Prize Winner, Best Canadian Short, Best Family, Best Director
  Mumbai International Cult FF-2020 (India) Best Animation Short
  Anchorage FF 2020 (U.S.A.) 2. runner up-Best Animated Short-Jurry Award, 1. runner up- Best Animated- Audience Award
  Short Sounds 2021 (U.K.) Best Sound, Best Score

  Vojin is a film and theatre director, scriptwriter and producer, teaching animation at The Academy of Arts in Belgrade. His films (5 Minutes Each, Twice Upon a Time, Breathtaking) were enrolled in more than 150 international film festivals for which he won over 50 awards. He runs To Blink Animation studio in Belgrade and Toronto.

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• Your grass is greener

  Japan / Animation / 2021 / 05:43

  A boy living in a garbage dump extracts memories of other people’s beautiful days from newly arrived garbage and collects them in marbles. One day, he meets a girl, and his marbles begin to transform as they get closer.

  

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  Itsuki Kamei

  Born in Tokyo, Kamei is a fourth year student at Nihon University College of Art’s Visual Expression and Theory Course. In his sophomore year, he made his first animation and won the Excellence Award at GEMSTONE’s 4th Shinjuku Animator Audition. Since then, he decided to pursue a career in animation and is currently working on his graduation project.

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• Umbrellas

  France, Spain / Animation / 2020 / 12:09

  In a faraway land where the rain never stops, six-year-old Kyna spends her days playing carelessly under the protective “umbrella-beard” of her father, Din. One night, Kyna’s beloved dog Nana disappears.To find her, Kyna will embark on an adventure of self-discovery and face her great fear, the Rain.

  

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  Jose Prats

  Jose Prats is a filmmaker, storyboarder and illustrator, and works for Aardman Studios. He studied Fine Arts at the universities of Murcia, Valencia and Accademia Albertina and then began his career as a Concept Artist in Spanish, Mexican and Finnish studios. In 2015, he collaborated on the animated feature film “”Capture the Flag”” (Lightbox Animation Studio) and studied filmmaking and sceenwriting at the Metropolis Film School. In 2017, he participated in the animation laboratory Animation Sans Frontières.
  Alvaro Robles graduated at the Metropolis Film School with a Screenwriting/Directing Degree. He then pursued a professional career as an editor in several advertising agencies in Madrid. He codirected and wrote the short film “”Mara, Maravillas”” with José Prats.

• Sunset – HIGURE

  Japan / Animation / 2021 / 09:50

  Miel is a lonely robot. Without any friend time was just passing by slowly. When Miel finds a batch of photos nostalgic memories rush into it.

  

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  Ryo Murakawa

  Digital Animation Festival Nagoya 2021 Best Award (Japan)

  Ryo Murakawa is a CG animator from Hyogo, born in 1998. He made Sunset – HIGURE as his graduation project.

• In the right side of the hair

  France / Comedy / 2020 / 03:28

  A little cat loves to be the center of attention but her first day at school doesn’t go as expected…

  

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  Bertille Rondard

  Festival court mais bon 2020

  Born in 1997 in France, Bertille Rondard has study illustration during 2 years in Paris before started an animation cursus at EMCA in Angoulême. She is now in the last year of her formation.

• Mishou

  Germany, Bulgaria / Animation / 2020 / 07:50

  The lives of four lively arctic hares take a turn after discovering a strange new creature.

  

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  Milen Vitanov

  Grand Prize for our Best Children’s Animation at Rhode Island Film Festival 2020 USA
  Gryphon Award – Best Short Film Elements+3 at Giffoni Film Festival 2020 Italy
  FRIESE Award at Mo&Friese Film Festival Hamburg 2021 Germany

  Milen was born 1978 in Prague (Czech Republic) and raised in Sofia (Bulgaria). He spent many days and nights drawing on his first self-made light box. He graduated Animation from the University of Film and Television HFF “Konrad Wolf” in Potsdam (Germany) in 2007. He committed himself to the alchemy of 2D/3D mixtures.

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