8.17 Wed. 18:00~ ＠Great Hall
8.20 Sat. 15:00~ ＠Yokogawa Cinema
This program can be continued with "Pan-Pacific and Asia Competition(2)”
環太平洋・アジアコンペティションについては、アジアおよび太平洋に面した国・地域で製作された作品を対象に、長編・短編など尺による区別なく、選考・審査を行っていきます。国際的なアニメーション関係者によって構成された審査員が、部門賞を決定します。
A Music Video made for Lucky Old Sun’s song ‘马马虎虎‘ (Ma Ma Hu Hu) from their new album ‘‘うすらい“. A group of young girls and boys having their summer fantasy with a few daydreams, romance and kungfu actions!
Liang-Hsin Huang is a Taiwanese independent animation filmmaker who graduated from Royal College of Art in 2019. She has experiences working with magazines, music videos, and visual poems. With atmospheric scenes and hand-drawn art styles, her shorts often depict intimacy in people’s relationships and explore places, poetry and rhythm.
Two sisters grow up in Vietnam and are separated by the war between North and South. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, Thao, in her teens, must leave the country with her uncle. Her sister Saoi Maï, only a little older, remains with their parents, hoping they will soon be reunited. But their separation will last nearly 20 years, and the letters they exchange are their only way to connect and relieve their loneliness. Thao and Sao Maï write about their everyday lives, their memories, the war, and its ghosts.
Born in 1978, Sandra Desmazieres studied at Duperré l’école Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués in Paris and l’École Nationale des Arts décoratifs also in Paris, there she discovers animation films. Her school movie « Sans queue ni têtee » wins the Gold Cartoon in 2003. She also directer « Le thé de l’oubli » in 2008 and « Bao » in 2011, produced by « Les Films de l’Arlequin ». Sandra also work as an illustrator for the youth.
One night, Seolgi is lying on a grass field with friends. A shooting star falls, and dark and intrusive thoughts hits her. Her melancholy blooms into bright and colorful “flower people”, dancing around and making a wish of METEORITE to end the world.
1996 Born in Seoul 2020 Graduated from RISD of Film/Animation/Video Sasha Lee is an animator based in Seoul, South Korea. In the name of Studio Sleeper, she directs and animates short films that explore the connection between humans, using dramatic motion and vibrant colors. During her free time, she writes idiosyncratic songs which make her happy.
The Darkness Demon has swept over the world, trying to set the ending of Light unlike the earlier promises and prophecies. It is in such an era that a flock of Red birds travel in search of the Red Fire; a Fire that according to the prophecies, wipes out the blackness and puts an end to the constant eclipse and absence of the Sun. But where are they going to find the Red Fire? In such an era that Darkness has shadowed the world, a flock of Red birds are looking for the ""Red Fire"" that according to an old myth is supposed to be the end of Darkness. But where is such fire?
Mona A. Shahi was born in Iran in 1983. She graduated from Sharif University of Technology with a BS in Physics and earned her MA in Directing Animation from Tehran University of Art.
She’s been working professionally in the fields of scriptwriting, directing, animating; and has been teaching animation aesthetics, directing and scriptwriting in various academic levels.
Her animations had the chance of being selected or presented in many well-known festivals like, Atlanta, Hiroshima, Stuttgart, Animamundi, Zinebi and etc.
Red Fire:
Best Animation Directing, Tehran International Film Festival, 2020
Special Jury Award, Amity Film Festival, Turkey, 2020
3rd Prize From Roshd Film Festival, Iran, 2021
Wandering With NONO And PUPU brought you along with their journey of contemplating the serenity and the beauty of the still nature, fluffy clouds, the rich summer vibes and the companionship of two fellows.
Wandering With NONO And PUPU brought you along with their journey of contemplating the serenity and the beauty of the still nature, fluffy clouds, the rich summer vibes and the companionship of two fellows.
Two souls destined to travel together in the hazy summer, creating worthwhile memories that put a cross in their hearts. Clouds with scarlet veneer hovered across the windy plains; shimmering flow of river rushing yet bringing the sense of calm and collect; stations and streets that were supposed to be busy yet extraordinarily ravishing when there were no one there.
The journey reflects the beauty of nature and the golden moments between friends. Serenity brings a completely different vibe to places that were supposed be clustered with loving beings. Take a step out and dive into places that you would like to experience with your close ones, create memories that are unique and worth the remembrance, that once you have lived your life to the fullest, and you did nothing of regret.
Two souls destined to travel together in the hazy summer, creating worthwhile memories that put a cross in their hearts. Clouds with scarlet veneer hovered across the windy plains; shimmering flow of river rushing yet bringing the sense of calm and collect; stations and streets that were supposed to be busy yet extraordinarily ravishing when there were no one there.
The journey reflects the beauty of nature and the golden moments between friends. Serenity brings a completely different vibe to places that were supposed be clustered with loving beings. Take a step out and dive into places that you would like to experience with your close ones, create memories that are unique and worth the remembrance, that once you have lived your life to the fullest, and you did nothing of regret.
23 years old Malaysian Chinese who love making animation since 2018. After watching all Ghibli's movie, he decided to make a animated short every single year since 2020. Other than animation, he love illustration and art too. These skills and interests help him a lot during creating his own short film.
We have many emotions that have not been observed. In this film, "I" has a feeling of fear of being doubted by others because of a cup of coffee that has not been thrown away. The whole film revolves around the observation of this emotion. By depicting four trivial things that are growing up, and tracing the reasons for its formation, "I" finally sees the appearance of this emotion.
Yufei Liu，Born in Zhejiang province of China,1999.Graduated from China Academy of Art with a bachelor's degree in 2021. Working and living in Hangzhou now.
Twenty years ago, New-Zealand-born musician/filmmaker Nigel Braddock aka Broad Oak had a particularly vivid and disturbing dream. "I was dead and buried in the ground, yet somehow conscious," he says. "Lying there in complete darkness, I could feel worms and insects devouring my flesh and crawling through my eye sockets." The next day he was inspired by the experience to record a piece of music but only finished it in early 2021 while recovering from covid in Berlin. "Although I didn't have a severe case, it led to me contemplating my own mortality so it felt appropriate to come back to this piece I'd started so long ago." The mesmerising animated video is a collaboration with an AI called WZRD and represents the cyclic and transformative nature of life and matter from cells to galaxies.
Originally trained as a classical pianist in his native New Zealand, Braddock set up his own record label, Monkey Records, in 2000. Since then he has been involved in producing and directing quite a few of the music videos released by his label. Now based in Berlin, he makes music and video as Broad Oak as well as working on several other projects including Cosmo and the Cosmonaut (a collaboration with his son) and The Mung Beings.
A quaint Goan life hides beneath its touristy facade. A Goa of sleepy balcaos, pushy fish-mongers and of pilot bikes flitting on boiling afternoons; of the blend of traditions and a penchant for slow life. The animated sketchbook film explores this erstwhile Portuguese colony.
Rohit Karandadi is an animation film-maker / illustrator from India. He resides in a quiet sea-side village in Goa, conducive to his love of writing, reading and expressing his love of life through films and comics.
Children are dancing on the music under the supervision of their teacher. A young lady witnesses the scene and disrupts their rituals.
Born in 1980, Atsushi Wada graduated from Osaka kyoiku University, Image Forum Institute of Moving image and Tokyo University of the Arts. He began to create short animated films in 2002. He likes to make comfortable movements and is always thinking about the Japanese traditional concept called “Ma”, the tension produced between movements.
Day of Nose (2005) won the Best Short Film at Norwich International Animation Festival and Well, That’s Glasses (2007) won the Best Film of the Young Jury at Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival. In a Pig’s Eye (2010) has been nominated at Zagreb, Annecy, Hiroshima, and Ottawa, and won the Best Film at Fantoche International Animation Film Festival, and Grand Prix at London International Animation Film Festival. The Mechanism of Spring (2010) premiered at the Venice Film Festival and The Great Rabbit (2012) won the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.
His new film Bird in the Peninsula will premiere in Berlinale 2022.