SSFFA 2017 Autumn Screening
Encores and New Works for Fall
Venue(s): Andaz and Tokyo Photographic Art MuseumOctober 16, 2017 (Mon) - October 22, 2017 (Sun)
Language: Multilanguages, all with English subs
Official website: shortshorts.org/2017/autumn/index-en.php
Theater website: shortshorts.org/2017/autumn/en/access/
Tariff: Free to ￥2,500
Advance tickets: Visit ticket information: http://shortshorts.org/2017/autumn/en/howto/index.php
Talk event: Many — visit the official site for details
Title: SSFF & ASIA 2017 秋の上映会 (SSFF & ASIA 2017 Aki no Joeikai)
Asia’s largest international festival of short-form cinema, the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia (SSFFA), is back for a new Autumn event, with encore screenings of the winners from its annual June cornucopia (selected from over 250 films), as well as brand-new highlights.
Considering how popular short films are, and that SSFFA has its own theater in Yokohama, it’s not hard to imagine that the festival will soon be running new programs year round.
The Autumn Screening 2017 event is being held in association with the 30th edition of the Tokyo International Film Festival, and was co-organized by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. All screenings are free, as usual, but have already sold out online. However, it’s still worthwhile to head to Andaz and/or the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography on playdays, since there are always last-minute seats available.
The full lineup includes 31 short films 12 countries, organized into 90-minute sets, as well as other events, including a workshop for creators led by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
Date: October 22 (Sun) 15:00~18:30
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Capacity: 200
Admission: Free *Reservation available on the website.
Speaker: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
For Tokyo Filmgoer, the highlights begin with a rare screening of Juzo Itami’s first film, from 1962, Rubber Band Pistol. Billed as “Ichizo Itami” at the time, the great actor-director would go on to make the greatest comedies of the 80s: The Funeral, Tampopo and A Taxing Woman. This documentary short portrays a group of privileged young folks playing games with rubber-band pistols.
Rubber Band Pistol, ゴムデッポウ①
Director: Ichizo (Juzo) Itami / Japan / 32:00 / Documentary / 1962
Among the encores, don’t miss the SSFFA 2017 Grand Prix winner Sugar and Spice, a documentary by Mi Mi Lwin from Myanmar. With an unflinching but loving eye, she films her own parents, who just barely eke out a living making sweets from the fruit of palm trees, which her father must clamber up and down collecting.
Sugar & Spice
Mi Mi Lwin / Myanmar / 16:04 / Documentary / 2016
Also re-screening is director Gori’s Best Actor-winning Born, Bone, Boon, about a dysfunctional family gathering for the traditional bone-washing ceremony on Aguni Island. Cinematic Tokyo Competition Best Short Award-winner Tokyo Ondo: Beats and Temperatures, features Office Ladies shaking and shimmering to the rhythm of the Neo Tokyo-Ondo. The magical Home Away from Home is a joint project of the government and the festival, and draws clever VFX connections between the city and visitors from Africa, Europe and Southeast Asia.
Born, Bone, Boon
Director: Gori/ Japan / 25:00 / Comedy / 2016
TOKYO ONDO –BEATS AND TEMPERATURES–, 東京音℃
Director: Shuichi Bamba / Japan / 3:37 / Drama / 2016
Home Away From Home
Director: Yukinori Makabe / Japan / 12:36 / Drama / 2017
Tokyo Filmgoer is also thrilled about the new short from LA-based Ken Ochiai (Saigon Bodyguards, Uzumasa Limelight), who returns to his love of song in Juliet Juliet - The Sound of Love Musical. During the annual musical held at all-girl high school, a male transfer student arrives and sends two rivals into a tizzy of competition.
Juliet Juliet - The Sound of Love Musical, ジュリエット×２ ～恋音ミュージカル～
Director: Ken Ochiai / Japan / 15:00 / Musical Comedy / 2014
Also exciting is a short by Japanese Girls Never Die director Daigo Matsui, Yukotopia. It follows unemployed musician Yusuke as he goes to a "pink salon" and falls in love with Hitomi, who may or may not become his muse.
Yukotopia, ゆーことぴあ
Director: Daigo Matsui / Japan / 22:29 / Drama / 2016
Among other Japanese films being featured are new shorts from Cannes favorite Naomi Kawase, Masaaki Yuasa (of The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl fame) and Kentaro Hagiwara, whose first feature, Tokyo Ghoul, came out earlier this year.
Andaz
Tokyo Photographic Art Museumz
Asia’s largest international festival of short-form cinema, the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia (SSFFA), is back for a new Autumn event, with encore screenings of the winners from its annual June cornucopia (selected from over 250 films), as well as brand-new highlights.
Considering how popular short films are, and that SSFFA has its own theater in Yokohama, it’s not hard to imagine that the festival will soon be running new programs year round.
The Autumn Screening 2017 event is being held in association with the 30th edition of the Tokyo International Film Festival, and was co-organized by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. All screenings are free, as usual, but have already sold out online. However, it’s still worthwhile to head to Andaz and/or the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography on playdays, since there are always last-minute seats available.
The full lineup includes 31 short films 12 countries, organized into 90-minute sets, as well as other events, including a workshop for creators led by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
Date: October 22 (Sun) 15:00~18:30
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Capacity: 200
Admission: Free *Reservation available on the website.
Speaker: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
For Tokyo Filmgoer, the highlights begin with a rare screening of Juzo Itami’s first film, from 1962, Rubber Band Pistol. Billed as “Ichizo Itami” at the time, the great actor-director would go on to make the greatest comedies of the 80s: The Funeral, Tampopo and A Taxing Woman. This documentary short portrays a group of privileged young folks playing games with rubber-band pistols.
Rubber Band Pistol, ゴムデッポウ①
Director: Ichizo (Juzo) Itami / Japan / 32:00 / Documentary / 1962
Among the encores, don’t miss the SSFFA 2017 Grand Prix winner Sugar and Spice, a documentary by Mi Mi Lwin from Myanmar. With an unflinching but loving eye, she films her own parents, who just barely eke out a living making sweets from the fruit of palm trees, which her father must clamber up and down collecting.
Sugar & Spice
Mi Mi Lwin / Myanmar / 16:04 / Documentary / 2016
Also re-screening is director Gori’s Best Actor-winning Born, Bone, Boon, about a dysfunctional family gathering for the traditional bone-washing ceremony on Aguni Island. Cinematic Tokyo Competition Best Short Award-winner Tokyo Ondo: Beats and Temperatures, features Office Ladies shaking and shimmering to the rhythm of the Neo Tokyo-Ondo. The magical Home Away from Home is a joint project of the government and the festival, and draws clever VFX connections between the city and visitors from Africa, Europe and Southeast Asia.
Born, Bone, Boon
Director: Gori/ Japan / 25:00 / Comedy / 2016
TOKYO ONDO –BEATS AND TEMPERATURES–, 東京音℃
Director: Shuichi Bamba / Japan / 3:37 / Drama / 2016
Home Away From Home
Director: Yukinori Makabe / Japan / 12:36 / Drama / 2017
Tokyo Filmgoer is also thrilled about the new short from LA-based Ken Ochiai (Saigon Bodyguards, Uzumasa Limelight), who returns to his love of song in Juliet Juliet - The Sound of Love Musical. During the annual musical held at all-girl high school, a male transfer student arrives and sends two rivals into a tizzy of competition.
Juliet Juliet - The Sound of Love Musical, ジュリエット×２ ～恋音ミュージカル～
Director: Ken Ochiai / Japan / 15:00 / Musical Comedy / 2014
Also exciting is a short by Japanese Girls Never Die director Daigo Matsui, Yukotopia. It follows unemployed musician Yusuke as he goes to a "pink salon" and falls in love with Hitomi, who may or may not become his muse.
Yukotopia, ゆーことぴあ
Director: Daigo Matsui / Japan / 22:29 / Drama / 2016
Among other Japanese films being featured are new shorts from Cannes favorite Naomi Kawase, Masaaki Yuasa (of The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl fame) and Kentaro Hagiwara, whose first feature, Tokyo Ghoul, came out earlier this year.
Andaz
Tokyo Photographic Art Museumz
Please be sure to check with the theater before going.