2009 Awards

A future master filmmaker will be born here.

This year 2 Grand Prix and 19 Jury Awards, Audience Awards, and Film Festival Special Awards were won by films selected from among 3,411 entriesfrom 97 countries. 103 films were selected for the international competition to be judged by the film festival committee and international jury.

The Möbius

Film category and film maker category.
2 Grand Prix trophies were awarded. The trophy comprises an infinite loop of film or Möbius strip.

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Filmmakers' Section

A film director programs more than 3 of own films within 45min. This is unusual entry system in the world! In this way, style and characteristics of filmmaker are obvious. While One Title Section is like a "Single cut", you can enjoy Filmmakers' Section as "Album". This year 8 directors, 33 works are screened.

  • Filmmakers' Section Grand Prix
  • Reiko Yokosuka
  • Japan
  • Born in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture. She started create a black and white brush animation for her graduation work and still producing the art works. Her works screened numerous film festival around the world. Lives in Sapporo.

One Title Section

The short films under 30 minutes and non-genre competition. The films produced from 2006 to newest production in 2008 completion for Grand Prix.

  • One title section Grand Prix
  • Best Original Score
  • Varmints
  • Marc Craste / 24:05 / Animation / 2008 / UK
  • Composer : Jo´hann Jo´hannsson
  • Small, winsome creatures struggle to preserve the beauty of nature against those who would fill the sky with grime and a cacophony of noise.
  • Fantasy
  • ECO

AWARDS

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  • Best Director
  • Best Actor
  • 2 Birds
  • Runar Runarsson / 15:16 / Fiction / 2008 / Iceland
  • Actor:Atli O´skar Fjalarsson
  • A coming of age story, following a group of teenagers on a summer's night as they journey from innocence to adulthood.
  • Drama
  • !

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  • Best National Short
  • Best Animation
  • The song of red forest
  • Akihito izuhara / 05:33 / Animation / 2008 / Japan
  • In the deep forest two woodland creatures, Nini and Nana, sing a folk song.
  • Fantasy

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  • Best Hokkaido Short
  • cencoroll
  • Atsuya Uki / 30:00 / Animation / 2009 / Japan
  • Yuki, a schoolgirl encounters a mysterious boy and his shape-shifting monster, Cenco.
  • Action

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  • Best Screen play
  • Paradise cafe
  • Alonso Ruizpalacios / 10:29 / Fiction / 2008 / Mexico
  • Two Mexican immigrants working at the Paradise Cafe have had enough. But things aren't completely as they seem.
  • Humour

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  • Best Cinematography
  • The Fading Light
  • Thien Do / 22:45 / Fiction / 2008 / Vietnam
  • Returning from America to his childhood home in Saigon, a former refugee is confronted with memories of his boat escape from Vietnam.
  • Drama

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  • Best Editing
  • Best Contemporary / Experimental Short
  • Danse Macabre
  • Pedro Pires / 08:32 / Experimental / 2009 / Canada
  • In the contortions and spasms that mark the border between life and death, the body performs its final macabre ballet. (Contains adult themes and nudity)
  • Stylish
  • !

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  • Best Actress
  • Premature
  • Rashaad Ernesto Green / 14:49 / Fiction / 2008 / USA
  • Actress:Zora Howard
  • After Tisha, a streetwise teenager discovers she's pregnant she is faced with the most difficult decision she will ever have to make.
  • Drama
  • School

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  • Best Students Director
  • The 8th Samurai
  • Justin Ambrosino / 28:27 / Fiction / 2008 / USA
  • In 1953, a small time actor lands a lead role in Kurosawa's next big period epic, but how many samurai does the director really need.
  • Humour
  • School

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  • Best Children Actor & Actress
  • Robin
  • Hanno Olderdissen/ 20:31 / Fiction / 2008 / Germany
  • Children Actress:Mateo Wansing Lorrio
  • 8-year-old Robin returns to the unpleasantness of his dysfunctional family and abusive stepfather after 3 months in a foster home.
  • Tragedy
  • !
  • School

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  • Best Children Short
  • LOST AND FOUND
  • Philip Hunt / 24:01 / Animation / 2008 / UK
  • An enchanting tale of loneliness and friendship based on the award-winning book by Oliver Jeffers. One day, a boy finds a penguin on his doorstep.
  • Heart warming

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  • Best Mini Short (Around 10min)
  • Muto
  • blu / 06:53 / Animation / 2008 / Italy
  • Using the urban landscape as his canvas, Blu has created a unique and visually stunning art film.
  • Art

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  • Best Very Short (Around 3min)
  • Atlantic
  • Conor Ferguson / 03:45 / Fiction / 2008 / Ireland
  • A lonely old farmer in the rugged countryside receives a letter from a woman he once loved.
  • Humour

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  • Best Non Dialogue
  • Morana
  • Simon Bogojevic Narath / 12:27 / Animation / 2008 / Croatia
  • A lone hunter in a desolate environment shelters for the night on a cliff-top and begins to dream. Or does he?
  • Fantasy
  • ECO

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  • Best Documentary
  • Passages
  • Marie-Josee Saint-Pierre / 24:32 / Animation / 2008 / Canada
  • The joy of childbirth descends into a bitter nightmare and near tragedy in this moving and deeply personal account of one woman’s experience.
  • Social
  • !

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  • Best Production Design
  • NEXT FLOOR
  • Denis Villeneuve / 11:35 / Fiction / 2008 / Canada
  • During an opulent and luxurious banquet, 11 pampered guestsparticipate in ritualistic gastronomic carnage.
  • Fantasy

SAPPORO Short Fest Special Awards

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  • SSF Environment Award
  • Round
  • Kirk Hendry / 05:28 / Experimental / 2008 / UK
  • This ingenious short film features the work of Argentinean magician Serpico, and examines man's position as a chapter in earth's long story, told entirely through the medium of hand shadows.
  • Music
  • ECO

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  • Children's Choice Award: GOLD Award
  • Audience Award
  • LOST AND FOUND
  • Philip Hunt / 24:01 / Animation / 2008 / UK
  • An enchanting tale of loneliness and friendship based on the award-winning book by Oliver Jeffers. One day, a boy finds a penguin on his doorstep.
  • Heart warming

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  • Children's Choice Award: SILVER Award
  • Humming Bird
  • Paolo Zucca / 01:02 / Animation / 2008 / Italy
  • A little humming bird faces the mighty King of the Jungle and his gang.
  • ECO
  • ECO

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  • Children's Choice Award: SILVER Award
  • JOSUE E O PE DE MACAXEIRA
  • Diogo Pereira Viegas / 11:55 / Animation / 2009 / Brazil
  • Josue trades his donkey for a "magic macaxeira" (a type of plant); an act that leads to a fantastic adventure.
  • Fantasy

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  • Sapporo Peace Award
  • THE SCARECROW GIRL
  • Cassio Pereira dos Santos / 12:11 / Fiction / 2008 / Brazil
  • A girl from a rural farm in Brazil, works to convince her father that she should be allowed to go to school, and in doing so, brings her family closer together.
  • Heart warming

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  • CRYPTON Best Sound Award
  • THE CONTROL MASTE
  • Run Wrake/ 06:54 / Animation / 2008 / UK
  • The story of a mysterious heroine and her unknown ally attempting to prevent the evil Dr. Moire destroying Halftone City, USA.
  • Stylish