Kyoto International Student Film Festival, Competition

Japan’s largest international student film festival is celebrating its 17th year this year. Films and video works are solicited and judged from students in Japan and around the world, and the winning films are screened at the festival held every autumn.
This year, 350 entries from all over the world have gathered. The winning works were decided based on a rigorous examination by the executive committee. We will be announcing 5 selected works in the feature film category and 6 films in the short film category!

There are winning Films that are showing on our festival !

Number of entries in 2014
―The number of the films submitted to the competition2014 ―

	JAPAN	OVERSEAS	Total Total
Short	79	137	216
Feature Length Feature	84	50	134
Total Total	163	187	350

Submission period

Monday, March 10, 2014 ~ Friday, May 16, 2014

List of Selected Films (11 Films) -Introduction of the winning films-

■Feature Film Section: 5 films in total -Feature Film Section-

“See you tomorrow” (49min)
Directed by : Toshihiro Soh
(Japan : Musashino Art University)


“Why did Komura shed tears with a straight face?” (63min)
Directed by : Keisuke Kondo , Yoshihiro Nagata , Ken Ninomiya
(Japan : Osaka University of Arts)


“Okinawa/Yamato” (98min)
Directed by : Kenta Higa
(Japan : Wako University)

“Albert” (27min)
Directed by : Daniel Wawrzyniak
(Poland : The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School)

“Salvation” (30min)
Directed by : Mark Gerstorfer
(Austria : Filmacademy Vienna)

■Short Film Section-

“Yellow Balloon and Ban no Sensei” (4min)
Directed by : Yoko Yuki
(Japan : Tokyo University of the Arts)


“BERLIN TROIKA” (10min)
Directed by : Andrej Gontcharo
(Germany : German Film and Television Academy)


“LOTHAR” (13min)
Directed by : Luca Zuberbühler
(Germany : Zürcher Hochschule der Künste ZHdK Bachelor Of Arts in Film)


“Born with it” (14min)
Directed by : Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour
(USA : New York University)


“Celery” (15min)
Directed by : Pedro Collantes
(Spain : Nederlandse Filmacademie)


“Ketchup Kid” (19min)
Directed by : Patrick Vollrath
(Poland : Filmacademy Vienna)

The 2014 Grand Prize winner will be decided from these 11 works!
The Grand Prize winner is the final film of the 17th Kyoto International Student Film FestivalIt’s
the dayAnnounced at the award ceremony at Kyoto Cinema on Friday, November 28th!
Please look forward to!

Information on the festival will be released on the official website at any time.

Contact us

The 17th Kyoto International Student Film Festival Executive Committee
〒600-8216 Kyoto-shi, Shimogyo-ku, Nishitoin-dori, Shiokoji Shimoru Campus Plaza Kyoto 6F
TEL：075-353-9430 FAX：075-353-9101
MAIL: info.2014 at kisfvf.com
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