Nippon Visions Jury Award

The NIPPON VISIONS JURY AWARD will be given out for the seventh time to one of the 17 directors participating in the competition with their films from the NIPPON VISIONS section. The winner will receive a free subtitling for his or her next film, sponsored by Japan Visualmedia Translation Academy (JVTA) from Tokyo.

Jury: Gunter Deller (filmmaker), Shozo ICHIYAMA (producer for OFFICE KITANO, program director at FILMeX Festival), Yuka KIMBARA (flim critic)

Competition films
ANOHITO – THE ONE by Ichiro YAMAMOTO
THE ARK IN THE MIRAGE by Yasutomo CHIKUMA
DEAR DEER by Takeo KIKUCHI
DOGLEGS by Heath Cozens
DRYADS IN A SNOW VALLEY by Kobayashi SHIGERU
GOOD STRIPES by Yukiko SODE
HAKODATE COFFEE by Hiroshi NISHIO
HER FATHER, MY LOVER by Kenji YAMAUCHI
KATABUI – IN THE HEART OF OKINAWA by Daniel López
KEN AND KAZU by Hiroshi SHOJI
LIVE FASHIONABLY OR DIE by Yukio TANAKA
THE LOOK by Atsushi URABE
THE MAN WHO WAS EATEN by Keisuke KONDO
MY TECHNICOLOR GIRL by Rei SAKAMOTO
OYSTER FACTORY by Kazuhiro SODA
THE SHEEP STORY by Ken KAWAI
UNDER THE CHERRY TREE by Kei TANAKA