Film List
International Competition
Love Alone Can’t Make A Child
Director: Judith BEUTH
2024 / Germany, Norway / 105min.
Japan Premiere
Japanese Film Competition (Feature Length)
Japanese Film Competition (Short Length)
【Short①】Life Is Snow, Loudness, Stand Up and Roll, Tulip-chan／【Short②】Dango, Matsuzaka-san, Look at Me, Hana and Koto
Opening Gala
This year’s festival will open with Acting for Beginners, directed by Takeshi Kushida, who won the 2020 Skip City Award for Woman of the Photographs, the nomination of which for the International Competition was followed last year by Kushida’s film My Mother’s Eyes, which also screened in that category. Katsuya Maiguma, from 2011 Short Length Competition Honorable Mention Ken and Kazu, also stars in the film, with Ayaka Onishi, from the 2014 Short Length Competition nominee A Piece of Dogu, in a supporting role. We know you’ll love this film, which weaves together strands of the festival’s history.
Special Feature: Pathways to Directing Commercial Films
We are pleased to welcome Kazuya Shiraishi and Satoko Yokohama—presidents of the International Competition Jury and Japanese Film Competition Jury, respectively—to screen their films and share with young filmmakers their experience as directors of commercial films.
Bare Essence of Life
Director: Satoko YOKOHAMA
2009 / Japan / 120min.
The film will be screened in 35mm print.
Films You Love
We carried out a survey to select four classics that have deeply moved you, for these special screenings. Whether they are among your favorites, or this will be your first time, you are sure to enjoy viewing them on the big screen.
Related Event: Camera Crayon
Related Event: Outdoor Screenings!
This year, two popular animated films produced by Illumination Entertainment will be screened. Please enjoy with your family and friends under the summer night sky.
