This year marks the 6th edition of the Japan Student Film Festival. The festival is a celebration of student film. Five shorts (totaling 111 minutes) will be shown, including the top award-winning films from three prestigious Japanese college film festivals. Please come and enjoy these exciting films by promising young talent. The festival would like to thank everyone for their continuing support.
My Sister Is Whale
2015|56min.|color|Japan
Natsu has been leading an uneventful life in a quiet port town. One day her sister Izumi returns. She is always too much for Natsu… This is a movie about a girl who confronts her own small existence.
Look at Me Only
2016|8min.|Color|Japan
He just cherishes "guinea pig" and his girlfriend is very jealous. One day, he meets a beautiful flower girl who understands why he adores the guinea pig. Now, he is attracted to the flower girl…
Toilet Hazard ~Let's eat together~
2015|15min.|Color|Japan
At the classroom of 9th grade, one girl excused with her lunchbox.
The Bad Old Us
2014|28min.|B&W|Germany
This is a story of the village where a lottery is held each year. The closed village seems peaceful on the surface but Adrian witnesses an unbearable truth in the “forbidden forest”.
A Place to Name
2015|4min.|color|Japan
This is the place where my grandparents, parents, and I used to live. Even the memories and emotions are getting disappeared, the space certainly exists there and will stay in the future.
©2016 Tomoki Misato ©2015 Ataru Sakagami/Tokyo University of the Arts