KYOTO INTERNATIONAL STUDENT FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL 2016
Discovering Tomorrow’s Talent Today
Venue(s): KYOTO CINEMANov. 26 to Dec. 2
Language: Japanese with English subtitles
Official website: www.kisfvf.com/program/
Theater website: kyotocinema.jp
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VauifppXTy8&feature=youtu.be
Tariff: ¥500 for one progam, ¥1,500 for free pass
Advance tickets: ¥1,000 for free pass
Talk event: Visit official site for details: www.kisfvf.com
Title: 第19回京都国際学生映画祭 (Dai 19 kai Kyoto Kokusai Gakusei Eigasai)
Those of you in the Kansai region may be interested in discovering the Japanese (and other) filmmakers of tomorrow by watching their first works today, with English subs.
The Kyoto International Student Film and Video Festival bills itself as the largest international student film festival in Japan, and it is organized and run entirely by university students in Kyoto. But it encompasses the world, with films coming from Austria, Australia, Cuba, Germany, Hungary, India, Mongolia, Poland, Taiwan, the UK, the US, Venezuela and other far-flung locations.
Kyoto is the birthplace of Japanese film, and it happens to have one of the largest student populations — 10% of the total — in the nation. It’s a potent combination, and it’s helped the festival become a powerful forum for cultural and international exchange.
Students are competing for several prizes, including the Grand Prix for Live-action Film
(¥100,000), the Grand Prix for Animated Film (¥100,000), the Audience Award and others.
Among the highlights this year are the Cannes Cinefondation award-winning Oh Lucy! By Atsuko Hirayanagi, made while she was at NYU’s Tisch Singapore campus. The film stars the inimitable Kaori Momoi as the titular character, who gets caught up in an English-language school scam that brings out latent desires she didn’t know existed. Hirayanagi is currently in preproduction on the feature-length version.
There is also a Tetsuya Mariko retrospective, encompassing the student work he did before making his feature debut with Yellow Kid (2009) and this year, Destruction Babies, which won an award at the Locarno International Film Festival. Mariko himself will appear at a talk event with movie critic, Takeo Matsuzaki as a guest after the screening, and will conduct a talk show.
Below are other Japanese must-sees.
■ Competition A
The Fake of Red Army
Ambitious journalist Takasu goes to cover the Poporo Dorm, famous for its student activists. He discovers they’re not what they seem…
FEED
This dialog-free animated film focuses on systems moving automatically: the flow of time and the numbers of things consumed each day.
■ Competition C
Passing Shower
A college student hopes to become a manga artist. He meets a housewife who spends her time painting on the walls of her house. He goes to look at the paintings every day and learns she is going to erase upon completion.
4 stories
You can hear three stories, and see one story. That makes four different stories occurring at the same time.
■ Competition D
I have the future.
This is a slice-of-life anime about "me” and what I call myself.
TO HEEL
In this dialog-free animated film, girls live by the law of heels. As painful as the codes may be, they're also the source of so many of their secret pleasures.
■ Studying Abroad for Film: Learn Filmmaking Abroad
Oh Lucy!
2014 Cannes Film Festival Cinefondation Second Prize
Setsuko, a 55-year- old single office lady in Tokyo, is given a blonde wig and a new name, “Lucy,” by her unconventional English instructor. This awakens desires Setsuko never knew she had. When the instructor suddenly disappears, Setsuko must come to terms with what remains – herself.
A Warm Spell
32nd Tehran International Short Film Festival Grand Prize
Nao gave up his dream of painting to take over the family-run post office. His older brother, Masanobu, left home to become a doctor. When their mother’s funeral brings the two brothers together again, they are forced to confront their old conflicts and resentments.
■ Screening Schedule
■ Official Trailer: https://goo.gl/o1aoQF
Kyoto Cinema
Those of you in the Kansai region may be interested in discovering the Japanese (and other) filmmakers of tomorrow by watching their first works today, with English subs.
The Kyoto International Student Film and Video Festival bills itself as the largest international student film festival in Japan, and it is organized and run entirely by university students in Kyoto. But it encompasses the world, with films coming from Austria, Australia, Cuba, Germany, Hungary, India, Mongolia, Poland, Taiwan, the UK, the US, Venezuela and other far-flung locations.
Kyoto is the birthplace of Japanese film, and it happens to have one of the largest student populations — 10% of the total — in the nation. It’s a potent combination, and it’s helped the festival become a powerful forum for cultural and international exchange.
Students are competing for several prizes, including the Grand Prix for Live-action Film
(¥100,000), the Grand Prix for Animated Film (¥100,000), the Audience Award and others.
Among the highlights this year are the Cannes Cinefondation award-winning Oh Lucy! By Atsuko Hirayanagi, made while she was at NYU’s Tisch Singapore campus. The film stars the inimitable Kaori Momoi as the titular character, who gets caught up in an English-language school scam that brings out latent desires she didn’t know existed. Hirayanagi is currently in preproduction on the feature-length version.
There is also a Tetsuya Mariko retrospective, encompassing the student work he did before making his feature debut with Yellow Kid (2009) and this year, Destruction Babies, which won an award at the Locarno International Film Festival. Mariko himself will appear at a talk event with movie critic, Takeo Matsuzaki as a guest after the screening, and will conduct a talk show.
Below are other Japanese must-sees.
■ Competition A
The Fake of Red Army
Ambitious journalist Takasu goes to cover the Poporo Dorm, famous for its student activists. He discovers they’re not what they seem…
FEED
This dialog-free animated film focuses on systems moving automatically: the flow of time and the numbers of things consumed each day.
■ Competition C
Passing Shower
A college student hopes to become a manga artist. He meets a housewife who spends her time painting on the walls of her house. He goes to look at the paintings every day and learns she is going to erase upon completion.
4 stories
You can hear three stories, and see one story. That makes four different stories occurring at the same time.
■ Competition D
I have the future.
This is a slice-of-life anime about "me” and what I call myself.
TO HEEL
In this dialog-free animated film, girls live by the law of heels. As painful as the codes may be, they're also the source of so many of their secret pleasures.
■ Studying Abroad for Film: Learn Filmmaking Abroad
Oh Lucy!
2014 Cannes Film Festival Cinefondation Second Prize
Setsuko, a 55-year- old single office lady in Tokyo, is given a blonde wig and a new name, “Lucy,” by her unconventional English instructor. This awakens desires Setsuko never knew she had. When the instructor suddenly disappears, Setsuko must come to terms with what remains – herself.
A Warm Spell
32nd Tehran International Short Film Festival Grand Prize
Nao gave up his dream of painting to take over the family-run post office. His older brother, Masanobu, left home to become a doctor. When their mother’s funeral brings the two brothers together again, they are forced to confront their old conflicts and resentments.
■ Screening Schedule
■ Official Trailer: https://goo.gl/o1aoQF
Kyoto Cinema
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