MOVIE DETAILS Title: Okinamai / Forest This Flower BloomCountry: Japan 2014-2015Duration 11:05Synopsis: 1st episode in a series themed after The Great East Japan Earthquake – “Travel through Memories about Life & Death.” An amnesiac wolf traces his past and escapes from hunters who are after him. Okina appears as a narrator who speaks of the […]
MOVIE DETAILS Title: Family Deck vol. 1/2/3/5/6Country: Japan 2007Duration 21:56Synopsis: The Takadas run a barber shop in east Tokyo. This family of four includes the parents, a boy in elementary school, and a girl in junior high. As the Seven Lucky Gods (or kami, meaning both “hair” and “gods”) living in the shop play tricks on […]
MOVIE DETAILS Title: A Branch of a Pine Is Tied upCountry: Japan 2017Duration 16:32Synopsis: 3rd episode in a series themed after The Great East Japan Earthquake – “Travel through Memories about Life & Death.” Twins are separated by a tsunami. A snow globe connects the present and past. While traversing between these two periods, one […]
MOVIE DETAILS Title: La chuteCountry: FranceDuration: 14:22Awards: Grand PrizeSynopsis: A short animated film inspired by Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy Inferno. As the celestial beings descend to the Earth and begin destroying the activities there, disturbing the world’s order and creating chaos. Initiated by these terms, a tragic fall leads to the parturition of the crucial […]
MOVIE DETAILS Title: InvisibleCountry: JapanDuration: 13:14Awards: New Face AwardSynopsis: Depicting waning presence and invisibility: A nameless, forgotten man has turned invisible and is fading from existence. Can the effervescence of life be restored to this invisible man in a single animated short film? Those around him take no notice of him… No longer able to […]
MOVIE DETAILS Title: Am I a wolf?Country: IranDuration: 8:13Awards: New Face AwardSynopsis: The students are performing a theater called “The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats”. Everybody has a role. They are totally taken in by their roles in a way that the boundary between reality and acting rarely can be distinguished. Meanwhile, the child […]
MOVIE DETAILS Title: The Girl Without HandsCountry: FranceDuration: 1:30Awards: Excellence AwardSynopsis: The Girl Without Hands is a feature-length animated film that breathes new life into the Brothers Grimm fairy tale of the same title published in the very first edition of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, which the Grimm Brothers compiled in the beginning of the 19th […]
MOVIE DETAILS Title: Discrete figures Country: JapanDuration: 3:00Awards: Excellence AwardSynopsis: Dance performance generating bodily expression through mathematical / collective intelligence-based methodology. With AI and machine learning offering new insights into the body schema and movement, numeric data and analytical results derived from it inform the choreography. CREDITS Author(s): Manabe Daito / Ishibashi Motoi / Mikiko […]
MOVIE DETAILS Title: Doragon Pilot – Hisone&Masotan –Country: JapanDuration: 1:25Awards: Excellence AwardSynopsis: “I will fly with you through the sky.” Hisone Amakasu is a rookie stationed at the Air Self-Defense Force’s Gifu base. Throughout her life, Hisone felt as if her honest personality continually led her to hurt the feelings of the people around her. […]
