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

Awards program 2

• Return to Toyama

  France, Japan / Drama / 2020 / 24:34

  Japan Competition Best Short Award
  Governor of Tokyo Award

  Takumi left Japan for France despite his father’s disapproval. After a long absence, he returns to Toyama, his hometown, a small and declining port on the northern coast of Japan.

  

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  Atsushi Hirai

  Born in Toyama, Japan, Atsushi Hirai studied filmmaking in Tokyo and then in Paris where he settled in 2015 and worked as an assistant directo, in particular on Damien Manivel’s films. His first film Retour à Toyama was selected and presented in international competition at the Locarno Film Festival.

• I, Barnabé

  Canada / Animation / 2020 / 15:06

  CG Animation Competition Best Short Award

  During a night of stormy drunkenness, a man receives a visit from a mysterious bird and is forced to reconsider his life.

  

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  Jean-François Lévesque

  Silver Spike- Valladolid Film Festival
  Craft Award for Best Technique- Ottawa International Animation Festival

  Jean-François Lévesque was born in Saint-Gabriel-de-Rimouski, Quebec, in 1978. He studied traditional animation at Capilano College in Vancouver and was subsequently hired by Atomic Cartoons. In 2000, he moved to Montreal, where he worked in advertising (Productions Pascal Blais), directed his first independent film (La cigarette, 2003), and created animation for the television series Toupie et Binou (Spectra Animation). In October 2004, he won the NFB French Animation Studio’s 17th Cinéaste recherché(e) Competition. That creative residency allowed him to complete Le nœud cravate (The Necktie, 2008), which would go on to win 15 awards, including the Jutra Prize for best animated film and the Fabrizio Bellocchio de I Castelli Animati Prize (Genzano, Italy). With The Necktie, Lévesque achieved his goal of mastering a wide range of animation techniques, including traditional animation, stop-motion, and 3D. As an independent filmmaker he was involved in one project after another, notably in collaboration with Valérie Dupras on two music videos, Entre deux taxis for the band Les Cowboys Fringants and Ficelles for singer-songwriter Ingrid St-Pierre. He also worked as an animator on the 2010 short film Citrouilles et vieilles dentelles (Pumpkins and Old Lace) by Juliette Loubières. In I, Barnabé, his second project with the National Film Board, he continues the exploration of hybrid animation techniques he began with The Necktie.

• Shut Up

  Israel / Drama / 2020 / 16:17

  Shibuya Diversity Award

  Roni (12) is ashamed of her Tourette Syndrome. After acting violently towards a classmate who picks on her, she’s suspended from school. She stays home alone and her suffering from the tics, leads her to take an extreme and dangerous act.

  

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  Noa Aharoni Maor

  November 2020 – Torino Film Festival
  December 2020 – Jerusalem International Film Festival May 2021 – Festival du cinéma israélien de Paris
  2021 – Cinequest film festival
  2021 – Atlanta Film Festival

  Noa graduated her studies in TV and Cinema from Sapir College in 1994. She is the recipient of the prestigious “”Aliza Shagrir Prize”” for her student film “”Seret Bruto””. In the first stages of her career Noa worked as first director’s assistant in feature films and TV drama series. In 2000 Noa began her journey as a director on TV productions. Since 2000 she has directed many documentary’s journal articles, films and series. On 2011 she directed her first feature film “”By Summer’s End””.
  Won the “”Distribution Award)”” Haifa International Film Festival, 2011. Awarded “”Honorable mention”” Rehovot Women Film Festival, 2011. “”By Summer’s End”” has been selected for many festivals around the world.
  In 2017 her documentary movie “”Shadow”” about the abuse second generation of the Holocaust by their survivor parents, was selected for the prestigious “”Doc aviv”” and “”Idfa”” most important documentary film festival and wan the best movie award of the Israeli documentary guild.