Short Length Competition
Schedule 
…Audio Visual Hall 
…Convention Hall
＜Year／Country or Region／Duration＞
— Short1・Short２・Short３・Short４ —
Short１ （Total 72min.）
Noise／Hikari／Point of the Love
７.14(Sun) 10：30 7.17(Wed) 14：30
Noise
＜2013／Japan／18min.＞
Ayumi is a studious high school girl with good grades. She informs Kengo, her boyfriend of one year, that she is pregnant. Without consulting anyone else, she decides to take on responsibility and make her own decisions.
Director：Miyuki Uehara
Cast：Meiku Harukawa, Taiga, Mayumi Yokoyama, Akio Nakadai
Director／Miyuki Uehara
In 2008, Uehara’s script Hyoutan kara kona won the Best Short Screenplay at the Isama Studio Film Festival. It was subsequently made into a short and won the Best Director at Shimizu Film Festival in 2010. In 2012, she directed Your Inside, which screened in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and Hamburg and won the Special Jury Award at Fukui Film Festival. Soul Flower Train (2013), which she co-wrote, is set to open theatrically in Japan.
Hikari
＜2013／Japan／29min.＞
A younger brother takes over the noodle shop that his now deceased father had run for 59 years. He and his disabled elder brother try their best to keep the shop afloat, but when its 60th anniversary arrives, they make a decision.
Director：Nobuyasu Uchida
Cast：Nobunao Katagiri, Yukihide Tonegawa, Dai Nagasawa, Hideki Ebisawa
Director／Nobuyasu Uchida
Born 1978, Uchida worked on various commercial and film sets. He established his own production company and started making films. He made his first short film Otegami in 2009 and this is his second short.
Point of the Love
＜2012／Japan／25min.＞
Takashi abandons his wife Sawako who is suffering from mental illness and leaves the house. Her sister Kanako tries her best to take care of her sister, but Sawako doesn’t get any better. On the day Sawako is hospitalized, Takashi shows up.
Director：Kazuomi Makita
Cast：Emi Negishi, Hirokazu Kai, Sae Tokuhiro, Sadaharu Matsushita
Director／Kazuomi Makita
Born in Tottori, Makita graduated from the Japan Academy of Moving Images and started working at a commercial production company. After he left, he formed a theatrical troupe “elePHANTMoon” and wrote and directed all the shows. He’s written screenplays for films that have screened domestically and abroad.
