Films/Events

Live Action / Animation: 12 nominees + 3 special screenings

  • 1How To Get Your Man Pregnant
  • 2Meet Again (JAEHOE)
  • 3Refuge
  • 4KITSUNETSUKI
  • 5Habitat
  • 6Eden
  • 7 If you say
  • 8Keiko-san and I
  • 9The Banners
  • 10Kanro
  • 11Triangle
  • 12Double Role
  • 13Final Deathtination
17 Sep. Sun. 10:00 Large Conference Room
1

How To Get Your Man Pregnant

How To Get Your Man Pregnant

  • Animation
  • Korea/2023/30min./Color
  • Director: Noh Gyeongmu
  • Voice: Um Sang-hyun, Jeong Yujeong
  • Japanese Subtitles: Shisun Hwang

Story

In South Korea in the year 2030. Jeonghwan Choi and Yujin Kang have been married for ten years. Yujin is worn out after failing to conceive through IVF treatment. The genius medical doctor, Dr. Samsin Kim, has been researching male pregnancy technology, which is now available publicly. Yujin convinces Jeonghwan to visit Dr. Samsin Kim and he is sucked into the male pregnancy project.

2

Meet Again (JAEHOE)

Meet Again (JAEHOE)

©KIAFA AniSEED

  • Animation
  • Korea/2022/5min./Color
  • Director: Kang Ap-sol

Story

On her 14th birthday, “Hanbyeol”, a young girl who was upset at her mother for not even sending a single text message to celebrate, ran away from home in the evening. She inadvertently entered a mysterious alley and came across a girl leading a group of goblins. At that moment, Hanbyeol saw a familiar memory.

3

Refuge

Refuge

©2023 HARUO SAKI/Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media

  • Animation
  • Japan/2023/7min./Color
  • Director: Saki Haruo
  • Voice: Saki Araki

Story

A young girl is on a quiet lake, troubled by threats from home and noises from the outside world. In the suffocating situation, she confronts her own trauma, breathing and calmly facing reality.

4

KITSUNETSUKI

KITSUNETSUKI

  • Animation
  • Japan/2022/7min./Color
  • Director: Nanami Fujii
  • Voice: Shunsuke Ikezono

Story

The three good friends go to the candy store again today. They always steal sweets when the old woman is not looking. But then there is a little child who secretly leaves money. This is a story about real intentions and true feelings in a small world.

5

Habitat

Habitat

  • Drama
  • Spain/2023/18min./Color
  • Director: Elena Escura
  • Cast: Isabel Rocatti, Abdelatiff Hwidar
  • Japanese Subtitles: Naruki Kobayashi

Story

Every day, Marisa observes that house from the street: the building, the balcony, the life that goes on behind the window. One day, Marisa decides to do what she was not allowed to do: say goodbye.

6

Eden

Eden

  • Drama
  • China/2023/22min./Color
  • Director: Xiao Mengqing
  • Cast: Ma Ximan, Jin Jing
  • Japanese Subtitles: Sakurako Yoshimura

Story

A group of young girls grow up in a secluded school. They share a carefree life together, waiting for their happily-ever-after – to get married in a pretty dress when they turn 17. Two of the girls accidentally find out the truth of their assigned fate and plan to escape from the school.

7

If you say

If you say

  • Drama
  • Japan/2023/25min./Color
  • Director: Yuri Yagihashi
  • Cast: Asami Hamada, Takaaki Matsuki

Story

"Have you ever loved someone you shouldn't love?" A late-night radio phone-in. A girl and a middle-aged radio personality begin a telephone conversation about love. What sounds like an ordinary conversation about love becomes less and less "ordinary" as the show goes on.

8

Keiko-san and I

Keiko-san and I

©Yuriko Yamamoto

  • Drama
  • Japan/2023/23min./Color
  • Director: Yuriko Yamamoto
  • Cast: Minami Urushibata, Hono Miyabe

Story

Due to the spread of an infectious disease, the use of humanoid AI has become common in Japan. Keiko Nogami is the AI who has been living with the Koyama family for a long time, educating their daughter Airi and taking care of the household. Lately Keiko has been making more and more mistakes, and mother Riko plans to replace her with an upgraded version, but Airi rebels against the idea.

9

The Banners

The Banners

©The Banners/YOON Haesung

  • Drama
  • Korea/2022/24min./Color
  • Director: Yoon Haesung
  • Cast: Kim Jooa, Sung lyoung
  • Japanese Subtitles: Misora Ochiai

Story

Shortly after her father passes away, Jiho’s missing sister comes back after 15 years. Now Jiho, along with her mother and her sister, travels all over Seoul to take down the missing person banners her family had put up.

10

Kanro

Kanro

  • Drama
  • Japan/2023/12min./Color
  • Director: Haruna Tanaka
  • Cast: Keigo Oka, Ippei Tanaka

Story

Their late grandfather's candy store and home are to be demolished, and Daigo is sorting through the belongings when his younger brother Soma, who rarely returns home, arrives. Soma does not even attend his grandfather's funeral, which was held during the state of emergency, and there is a rift between the two.

11

Triangle

Triangle

  • Drama
  • Kurdistan/2023/15min./Color
  • Director: Zhino Hadi Hassan
  • Cast: Didar Omar, Rebwar Hawrami
  • Japanese Subtitles: Koharu Yokoyama

Story

Two women are sexually harassed in two separate incidents, but an incident they face each other, and it makes their problems complicate.

12

Double Role

Double Role

  • Documentary
  • Japan/2022/43min./Color
  • Director: Kaoru Kawanishi
  • Cast: Sayuri Matsuhashi, Kanamu Matsuhashi

Story

This documentary follows deaf curling athlete Sayuri Matsuhashi for one year. Delving into her roots, the film is a close look at this energetic individual as she raises her CODA* daughter with her deaf husband while training in various locations around Japan.
*Acronym for "child of deaf adult(s).

Film Competition After screening of nominated films
13

Final Deathtination

Final Deathtination

  • Animation
  • USA/2021/2min./Color
  • Director: Marika Tamura
  • Voice: Dean Scheske, Arthur Tisseront

Story

A suicidal man who is about to hang himself encounters Death who is a "travel agent" to find the best place to die and goes on a world tour.

The Voice Actress

The Voice Actress

  • Drama
  • Japan/2022/15min./Color
  • Director: Anna Takayama
  • Cast: Urara Takano

Story

Kingyo, a veteran voice actress working in Tokyo, possesses a unique ability to see the soul in all things, living and inanimate. The voice acting world is changing and she must find a way to reconcile her way of living with the modern industry.

Living While Black, in Japan

Living While Black, in Japan

  • Documentary
  • Japan/2021/15min./Color
  • Director: Shiho Fukada, Keith Bedford
  • Cast: Latanya Whitaker, Henry Morales
  • Screening Supported by Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia

Story

African Americans in Japan discuss how racial issues in the U.S. affected their decision to live abroad.

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