SAPPORO SHORT FEST 2020

HOKKAIDO SELECTION

| SOUND OF THE SEA

A girl who has never seen the sea. Her childhood friend gives her the shell. "When you put your ear on the shell, you can hear the sound of waves.

Kenichiro Ashitaka/Toshinori Watanabe

Fiction | Drama | Japan | 2019 | 0:03:00

FLIPPED ALL THINGS

Everything is always changing. What was taken for granted until yesterday turns into something completely different. An abstract animation film using woodblock printing technique with the theme of impermanence.

Yuka Sato

Animation | Music Video | Japan | 2019 | 0:03:53

TUNA-KAI

In Sibecha town, Hokkaido,
Picking flowers and collecting leaves draws together a tale of natural crayons.

Michito Tanaka

Documentary | Other | Japan | 2019 | 0:05:09

RAMETOKKOR YAN

In 2009, UNESCO said that Ainu Language is critically endangered. Today, none speaks Ainu as a mother language. Kenji SEKINE tries to make Ainu language alive and teaches it to the children in Nibutani, Hokkaido. However, he is not Ainu. 20 years ago, he just happened to visit Nibutani on the way of traveling. He met Maki there and got married with her next year. He became one of the most important people for the revival of Ainu language now.

Yuichiro Yamada

Documentary | Portrait | Japan | 2019 | 0:09:59

VAMPIRE BUS STOP

The novelist was reading a book at the bus stop in search of material. There was a woman walking towards him. talking on the phone angrily.. Whenthe battery ran out and she couldn't call, she asked the tree, "Do you have a mobile battery?"

Yuta Katsuyama

Fiction | Comedy | Japan | 2020 | 0:14:19

LOSING HEAVEN - WHAT KIND OF PLANET WILL WE COME BACK TO NEXT LIFE?

A man is psychically sent to the future to witness the condition of our planet. What he sees and experiences forever changes his life.

Ethan Wearn

Documentary | Environmental | USA | 2020 | 0:16:10

PLEASE GIVE ME POCKET TISSUES

She is "Sachiko", a single woman aged around 50 and has a boring life, and he is a young man who gives out tissues she sees on the way to work. This is the struggle of tissues between the two.
It is an action-comedy in which the unexpected truth and conclusion are continuously unfolded from the intention of both sides hidden in the struggle.

Kaoru Tanabe

Fiction | Comedy | Japan | 2020 | 0:17:44

THE CAMERA HAS STOPPED

Shinpei is aspired to be a film director, but his camera is still on his desk today again. Yori wants to be an actress and it was her dream to be in Shinpei's film. Shinpei only dreams about film making, and frustrated Yori starts her own projects.

Yui Wakita

Fiction | Drama | Japan | 2020 | 0:18:13

THE WAY OF THE HERO

In the middle of the "Soran Dragon" show, a real monster suddenly appears at the site. Soran Dragon actors in hero suits cuts in the way when the monster attempts to attach the audience by his evil beam. In the ray of beam, the actor realized that he was in a different world. This is a story to question the philosophy behind local mascot culture, the fandom, or even the real definition of being a hero. Can be you a hero on your own?

Tomoki Kuroda / Takumi Shimada

Fiction | Action / Adventure | Japan | 2020 | 0:18:20

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