Past Winners
2012（9th）
【Entries】
Feature Length: 571entries from 814countries and regions
Short Length: 159 entries ／Total: 730 entries
Feature Length Competition
- ・ Grand Prize
- "Kuma"（Austria）
Director: Umut Dağ
Cash Prize：Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,500,000 yen - ・Best Director
- "Capturing Dad"（Japan）
Director: Ryota Nakano
Cash Prize：Sony D-Cinema Award: 500,000 yen - ・Best Screenplay
- "Bon Voyage"（Netherlands）
Director: Margien Rogaar
Cash Prize：Sony D-Cinema Award: 500,000 yen - ・Special Jury Prize
- "Nono"（Philippines）
Director: Rommel Tolentino
Cash Prize：Sony D-Cinema Award: 500,000 yen - ・SKIP CITY AWARD
- "Capturing Dad"（Japan）
Director: Ryota Nakano
Short Length Competition
- ・Best Picture
- "Dream Notebook"（Japan）
Director: Hiroaki Kakukawa
Cash Prize：Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000 yen - ・Honorable Mention
- "With Little Yuri Episode.1 Sunset 30 min"（Japan）
Director: Kotaro Wajima
Cash Prize：Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 300,000 yen - "Trubow"（Japan）
Director: Shohei Tada
Cash Prize：Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 300,000 yen
2011（8th）
【Entries】
Feature Length: 494 entries from 81 countries and regions
Short Length: 189 entries ／Total: 683 entries
Feature Length Competition (International)
- ・Grand Prize
- “Kinyarwanda” (Rwanda, USA)
- Director: Alrick Brown
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,500,000yen
- ・Best Director Director
- Vanja d’Alcantara
- “Beyond The Steppes” (Belgium, Poland)
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 500,000yen
- ・ Best Screenplay
- “Chance” (Columbia, Panama)
- Director: Abner Benaim
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 500,000yen
- ・Special Jury Prize
- “Simple Simon” (Sweden)
- Director: Andreas Öhman
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 500,000yen
- ・SKIP City Award
- “Don’t Stop!” (Japan)
- Director: Kenji Kohashi
Short Length Competition (Domestic)
- ・Best Picture
- “A Drop of Memories”
- Director: Daisuke Hatanaka
- Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen
- ・Honorable Mention
- “List”
- Director: Tomofumi Tanaka
- Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 300,000yen
- “Ken and Kazu”
- Director: Hiroshi Shoji
- Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 300,000yen
2010（7th）
【Entries】
Feature Length: 648 entries from 85 countries and regions
Short Length: 162 entries ／Total: 810 entries
Feature Length Competition (International)
- ・Grand Prize
- “The Man Who Will Come” (Italy)
- Director: Giorgio Diritti
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 3,000,000yen
- ・Best Director Director
- Liu Jie
- “Judge” (China)
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen
- ・Best Screenplay
- “Children Metal Divers” (Philippines)
- Director: Ralston G. Jover
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 500,000yen
- ・Special Jury Prize
- “Tehroun” (Iran, France)
- Director: Nader T. Homayoun
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 500,000yen
- ・SKIP City Award
- “Seesaw” (Japan)
- Director: Keihiro Kanyama
Short Length Competition (Domestic)
- ・Best Picture
- “Ressentiment”
- Director: Takuma Dan
- Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen
- ・Honorable Mention
- “Family Deck”
- Director: Tomoyasu Murata
- Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 300,000yen
- “Lie of the Gorilla”
- Director: Isao Kusakari
- Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 300,000yen
2009（6th）
【Entries】
Feature Length:723 entries from 77 countries and regions
Short Length: 281 entries ／Total: 1,004 entries
Feature Length Competition (International)
- ・Grand Prize
- “No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti” (Taiwan)
- Director: Leon Dai
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 6,000,000yen
- ・Best Director Director
- Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
- “Johnny Mad Dog” (France, Belgium)
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 2,000,000yen
- ・Best Screenplay
- “Nora's Will” (Mexico)
- Director: Mariana Chenillo
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen
- ・Special Jury Prize
- “Here and There” (Serbia, Germany, USA)
- Director: Darko Lungulov
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen
- ・SKIP City Award
- “Lost Paradise in Tokyo” (Japan)
- Director: Kazuya Shiraishi
Short Length Competition (Domestic)
- ・Best Picture
- “A Stone of the Sun”
- Director: Kiyoshi Endo
- Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 1,000,000yen
- ・Honorable Mention
- “Elemi”
- Director: Hideto Nakata
- Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen
- “Goldfish”
- Director: Shigeru Okada
- Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen
- ・Special Jury Prize
- “Disposing Your Relic - Mirai-do –“
- Director: Gosuke Tsuchida
- “Mmmo Cmmo”
- Director: Hiroaki Mimii
2008（5th）
【Entries】
Feature Length: 283 entries from 52 countries and regions
Short Length: 301 entries ／Total: 584 entries
Feature Length Competition (International)
- ・Grand Prize
- “Arranged” (USA)
- Directors: Stephan Schaefer, Diane Crespo
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 10,000,000yen
- ・Best Director
- Jose Enrique March
- “Listening to Gabriel” (Spain)
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 2,000,000yen
- ・Best Screenplay
- “The Class” (Estonia)
- Director / Screenplay: Ilmar Raag
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen
- ・Special Jury
- “Prize Echo” (Denmark)
- Director: Anders Morgenthaler
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen
- ・Special Jury Prize
- “Lino” (France)
- Director: Jean Louis Milesi
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen
Short Length Competition (Domestic)
- ・Best Picture
- “Elephant Mado”
- Director: HAMU (Shigeaki Kobayashi & Masato Honda)
- Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 1,000,000yen
- ・Honorable Mention
- “A Day of Black Long-Sleeved Kimono”
- Director: Kenji Shibayama
- Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen
- “Nozoki”
- Director: Kazuyuki Yoshii
- Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen
2007（4th）
【Entries】
Feature Length: 433 entries from 69 countries and regions
Short Length: 328 entries ／Total: 761 entries
Feature Length Competition (International)
- ・Grand Prize
- “Climates” (Turkey, France)
- Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 10,000,000yen
- ・Best New Director
- Director: Nenad Djuric
- “Skies above the Landscape” (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen
- ・Best Screenplay
- “Children of the Moon” (Germany)
- Director: Manuela Stacke
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 2,000,000yen
- ・Best Technology
- “Skymaster, A Flying Family Fairytale” (Denmark)
- Directors: Michael Wikke & Steen Rasmussen
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen
- ・Special Jury Prize
- “Heartlines” (South Africa)
- Director: Angus Gibson
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen
Short Length Competition (Domestic)
- ・Best Picture
- “Let's Go Bang-Chow Dead or Alive complete edition”
- Director: Atsushi Suzuki
- Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 1,000,000yen
- ・Honorable Mention
- “Stardust Serenade”
- Director: Bunji Sotoyama
- Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen
- “Twilight Clouds-First Love-”
- Directors: Akanemaru (Tazuko Aso& Tetsuya Kawaguchi)
- Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen
2006（3rd）
【Entries】
Feature Length: 283 entries from 52 countries and regions
Short Length: 301 entries ／Total: 584 entries
Feature Length Competition (International)
- ・Grand Prize
- “Contract” (China)
- Director: Lu Xuechang
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 10,000,000yen
- ・ Best New Director
- Alicia Scherson
- “Play” (Chile-France-Argentina)
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 2,000,000yen
- ・Best Screenplay
- “Schnitzel Paradise” (The Netherlands)
- Director: Martin Koolhoven
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen
- ・Best Technology
- “Skritek” (Czech Republic)
- Director: Tomas Vorel
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen
- ・Special Jury Prize
- “Boats Out of Watermelon Rinds” (Turkey)
- Director: Ahmet Ulucay
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen
Short Length Competition (Domestic)
- ・Honorable Mention
- “tough guy ! 2005”
- Director: Shintaro Kishimoto
- Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen
- “Hana-Mushiro”
- Director: Shingo Yoshimura
- Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen
- “Bluebottle”
- Director: Mamiko Hiwatari
- Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen
- ・Special Jury Prize
- “Catchball with Nicole”
- Director: Yukiyasu Asano
- “Monsieur Greenpeas”
- Director: Yasuo Kurita
2005（2nd）
【Entries】
Feature Length: 194 entries from 25 countries and regions
Short Length: 264 entries ／Total: 458 entries
Feature Length Competition (International)
- ・Grand Prize
- “Me and You and Everyone We Know” (U.S.A.)
- Director: Miranda July
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 5,500,000yen
- “Brothers” (Denmark)
- Director: Sussane Bier
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 5,500,000yen
- ・Best New Director
- Marina Caba Rall
- “Last Minute” (Germany)
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 2,000,000yen
- ・Best Technology
- “Silver Ornaments” (China)
- Director: Jian Zhong Huang
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen
- ・Special Jury Prize
- “Angel” (Japan)
- Director: Mayumi Miyasaka
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen
Short Length Competition (Domestic)
- ・Best Picture
- “Coffee & Milk”
- Director: Izuru Kumasaka
- Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 1,000,000yen
- ・Honorable Mention
- “Your Secret & My Heart”
- Director: Takashi Kubota
- Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen
- “Fly Bubble Fly”
- Director: Katsunori Sato
- Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen
- ・Special Jury Prize
- “Natchan in Summer”
- Director: Kotaro Sengoku
- “Turn Left on the Next Traffic Light”
- Director: Takeshi Shimojo
2004（1st）
【Entries】
Feature Length: 494 entries from 81 countries and regions
Short Length: 477 entries from 31 countries and regions ／Total: 599 entries
Feature Length Competition (International)
- ・Grand Prize
- “Willbur Wants to Kill Himself” (Denmark)
- Director: Lone Scherfig
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 10,000,000yen
- ・Best Picture
- “Eddie” (Poland)
- Director: Piotr Trzaskalski
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen
- ・Best New Director
- Bradley Rust Gray
- “Salt” (Iceland-USA)
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 2,000,000yen
Short Length Competition (International)
- ・Best Picture
- “Classmates” (Sweden)
- Directors: Bjorn Carlstrom/Stefan Thunberg
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen
- ・Excellence
- “Cowardly Vicious” (Korea)
- Director: Kwan Lee
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 500,000yen
- “Eternal Gaze” (USA)
- Director: Sam Chen
- Sony D-Cinema Award: 500,000yen
Kawaguchi Special Screenings (Domestic)
- ・Grand Prize
- “Vaudevillian Dolls Don't & Not”
- Director: Aki Funabik
- Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 1,000,000yen
- ・Encouragement Award
- “Walking with the Dog”
- Director: Makoto Shinozaki
- Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen
- “Canned Beauties”
- Director: Masaya Kakehi
- Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen
