Japan Student Film Festival in Kyoto
The Japan Student Film Festival is a film festival where you can enjoy the best student films by collecting and screening the Grand Prix films of the three student film festivals held in Japan: the Tokyo Student Film Festival, the TOHO Cinemas Student Film Festival, and the Kyoto International Student Film Festival. This year marks the 4th year of the Japan International Film Festival, and following the recent “4th Japan Student Film Festival in Tokyo” held within the 27th Tokyo International Film Festival (October 26, 2014), it has been decided to hold the festival in Kyoto! In the talk show after the screening, the student executive committee will introduce the behind-the-scenes of the festival’s management.
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Outline of the event
The 4th Japan Student Film Festival in Kyoto
| schedule | Sunday, November 9, 2014 13:30~16:00 【About the Tokyo event】  |
| place | The Museum of Kyoto Film Theater [MAP] Sanjo Kamiru, Takakura-dori, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto tel.075-222-0888 |
| fee | Admission to the Museum of Kyoto Adults 500 yen / University students 400 yen / High school students and younger free (same-day tickets only, non-reserved seats) |
| Website | Japan Student Film Festival Official Website |
Films *In no particular order
■The 16th Kyoto International Student Film Festival (2013)
The Scrapman Before Summer Rain
| Awards | Title of work / time of work | Director’s Name | Name of School/Country |
| Grand Prize in the Short Film Category | The Scrapman / 10 min. | Fabian Driehorst | Academy of Media Arts/Germany |
| As the three children secretly play in Scrapman’s garden, they discover something much more interesting than they had imagined: a movie that they can get into. | |||
| Grand Prix in the Feature Film Category | Before Summer Rain/25 min. | CHEN Hong-Ren | National Taiwan University of Arts/Taiwan |
| A young girl has an older brother who has only a few years left to live. The story moves back and forth between the real and spiritual worlds as the two revisit the secret place where they spent a summer night. All of this is like a sad but warm dream. | |||
■The 26th Tokyo Student Film Festival (2014)
Don’t
play around with the calf in the cup 
| Awards | Title of work / time of work | Director’s Name | Schools at the time of the award |
| Anime Division Grand Prix | Calf in a glass / 11 minutes | Chu Yen Tong | Tokyo University of the Arts / Japan |
| The father lied to his four-year-old daughter, Nunu, that there was a cow in the milk cup. Nunu believed it and drank all the milk, but there was no cow. A father who tells various lies and a daughter who believes lies, a story set in the Jiangnan region of China. | |||
| Live-Action Grand Prix | Don’t be silly / 41 minutes | Shunpei Shimizu | Tama Art University / Japan |
| Kim, a man who says he hates Zainichi, is a third-generation Korean resident in Japan and a former professional boxer with Korean nationality. He bought a woman today with welfare money. Sakura, a woman bought by money, is a Japan woman who receives domestic violence from her husband. A rebellious melodrama written by a ruinous man and woman. | |||
■The 8th TOHO Cinemas Student Film Festival (2014)
Bocchi Decorations
| Awards | Title of work / time of work | Director’s Name | Schools at the time of the award |
| Grand Prix of Short Film Competition | Bocchi / 15 minutes | Satoshi Toyama | Film School / Japan |
| Yuko, who has no friends and is eating lunch in the bathroom, is seen eating in the toilet by Tokie, who always comes to the toilet to smoke. Tokie takes an interest in Yuko and invites her to eat lunch with her. | |||
| Short Anime Division Grand Prix | Decorations/6 min. | Mari Miyazawa | Tokyo University of the Arts / Japan |
| Old-fashioned kitchen in a secluded house in the suburbs. As preparations for the regular banquet unfold, the birth of a new life brings turmoil and innovation. And then I departed. The person who sees them off also remembers the day when he once left in the same way. | |||
[The 17th Kyoto International Student Film Festival]
November 22–28, 2014@京都シネマ
For more information, check out the official website!
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
twitter：@kisfvf
Web： http://www.kisfvf.com
