The 17th Kyoto International Student Film Festival Competition
The 11 films selected for the 17th Kyoto International Student Film Festival Competition were selected from a total of 350 films from 27 countries through a carefully selected jury by the Student Executive Committee. There are many works not only in Japan but also overseas, and the genres of the selected works are varied. Here are the 11 entries that were selected for the competition.
Out of 350 entries from 27 countries around the world, which one will come out on top?
“I noticed his talent before anyone else.”
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Competition Program Introduction
| Program A | (1) Saturday, November 22, 16:30~18:30 (2) November 25 (Tue) 16:30~18:00 |
| 『BERLIN TROIKA』 /Andrej Gontcharov/German Film and Television Academy/Germany | |
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Conrad Gelb, a young interpreter, is caught between two opposing powers and is mentally cornered. The weight of holding the fate of humanity in his hands falls on his shoulders. He has to manipulate each other’s oversized egos to fill the room in a balanced manner. (10min) |
| “Yellow Balloon Toban no Sensei” / Yoko Sachi / Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School / Japan | |
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One day, the homeroom teacher of the next class suddenly shaved his head. A teacher who is bald and cold to his students. One day, such a teacher gets on a balloon and flies away. No one knows what happened after that. (4min) |
| “Why did Komura shed tears with a straight face?” / Keisuke Kondo / Yoshihiro Nagata / Ken Ninomiya / Osaka University of Arts / Japan | |
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Komura, a part-time leader, fell in love with a cute junior at his part-time job, even though he had a girlfriend who was living with him. (63min) |
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| Program B | (1) Saturday, November 22, 19:00~21:00 (2) November 26 (Wed) 16:30~18:30 |
| 『LOTHAR』/ Luca Zuberbühler /Zurich University of the Arts/Switzerland | |
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Rotor, who smashes things with a sneeze, was confined to an isolated basement so as not to pose a danger to the world. He was very careful, but one day he broke the precious toaster that his mother had given him a long time ago. The rotor that was forced to go outside … (13min) |
| Celery / Pedro Collantes / Netherlands Film Academy / Netherlands | |
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What if you have an eternal heartbreak? What if you’ve never had a broken heart? When you do something for the first time, sometimes the smallest trigger can be a big relief. For example, vegetables. (15min) |
| “See you tomorrow” /Toshihiro Mune/Musashino Art University/Japan | |
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The sun never sets. In the city, the procession of demonstrators continues to complain constantly. Natural disasters are also powerless in the face of people’s ability to adapt. Masahiro’s family, which had reached retirement age, had collapsed. In addition to the evaporation of his wife, Tomoko, he is insulated from his daughter Saori, and he is living a strained life with his only son, Toshihiro, who lives with him. In order to regain the form of “family”, Masahiro begins to move. At that time, will the sun set again?—A distorted family rebirth film that depicts through the struggle between truth, fiction, and desire. (49min) |
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| Program C | (1) Sunday, November 23 16:30~18:30 (2) November 26 (Wed) 19:00~21:00 |
| 『Ketchup Kid』 / Patrick Vollrath / Filmacademy Vienna / Austria | |
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Paul, who has an unusual taste for ketchup, was confined to the loss of his father and isolated in elementary school. When he learns that Mr./Ms., who suffers from bullying, is bringing a knife to school, he witnesses the bullying one day. (19min) |
| 『Salvation』 Austria / Mark Gerstorfer / Filmacademy Vienna | |
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The moratorium of three men and women who tumble around in nonsense, disco and curiosity about suicide is depicted through a subjective camera. A genuine, raw, doomed story. (30min) |
| 『Albert』 / Daniel Wawrzyniak / Lodz Film School/Poland | |
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Albert, it’s time to rest. Take a deep breath. (24min) |
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| Program D | (1) November 24 (Mon) 19:00~21:20 (2) Thursday, November 27, 19:00~21:20 |
| “Born” / Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour / New York University / USA | |
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On his first school day in a small town in Japan, a half-black father and a mother of Japan tries to prove to his classmates that his dark skin is not a disease. (17min) |
| “Okinawa / Yamato” / Kenta Higa / Wako University /Japan | |
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People born and raised in Okinawa refer to “Japan outside of Okinawa” as “inland, Yamato, and mainland” and the people who live there as “Naicha, Yamatunchu, and people from the mainland.” This documentary explores the mental line between “Okinawa” and “Yamato” that can be seen from such a single name. Born in Okinawa but living in the interior, Higa’s camera moves back and forth between “the individual and society,” “the parties and the non-parties,” and the “opposing ideologies” with “fiction and reality,” and the “line” is brought to light. (98min) |
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