SAPPORO SHORT FEST 2024

NATIONAL PROGRAMME

MIND REPLACER BY TOTO HOSHIMIYA

Music Video for Electronica music "Mind Replacer".
HOSHIMIYA TOTO is a VR singer without a physical body.

Tarafu Otani

Animation, MV | Japan | 2024 | 0:01:55

ORDINARY DAYS

Shota wakes up to find his wife, Sachiko, packing her belongings. On the table lies a signed divorce paper. The night before, Sachiko suddenly told him she wanted a divorce. Shota asked her repeatedly why, but he couldn’t understand her reasons at all. It all seemed like a joke. Sachiko is unusually cheerful as she packs, Shota can’t see what she’s really feeling inside.

Kazuki Watanabe

Fiction, Drama | Japan | 2025 | 0:23:00

EVEN THOUGH NO ONE IS TO BLAME

A son decides to come out to his parents before graduating from university. Having no idea how his parents would react, he is incredibly nervous. The coming out ends rather anticlimactically, yet the tense atmosphere changes even the limited amount of words exchanged into daggers. Both the son and parents cannot contain their brewing emotions hidden behind their calm expressions.

Ayumi Omori

Fiction, Drama | Japan | 2025 | 0:10:18

FIND ME

Their unstable childhoods, their longing for their mothers' love, their endless search for belonging, and wounds that refuse to heal. They want to grow up but can't. I am here to give voice to their cries, speaking through their own words.

Akari Maru

Animation | Japan | 2025 | 0:09:08 | Student Film

A COLOR I NAMED BLUE

Driven by the memory of a deep shade of indigo he cannot forget, Watanabe dedicates his life to the pursuit of creating Japan’s most perfect blue. One day, fate introduces him to Kato, who is colorblind. Kato too stands at a crossroads—How can he use his ability to see color like no one else can?

Sybilla Patrizia

Documentary | Japan | 2024 | 0:16:25
🏆 SSF2025 Best National Short

ROUTE 7

Yong-ho and his mother closed down the pachinko parlor they ran along National Route 7 in Akita Prefecture. When he invites his mother on a trip, she wants to go to Niigata where his aunt had left to go to North Korea. After his mother passed away, Young-ho travels on National Route 7 in Japan and Korea to reconnect his divided family.

JIN-RUNG CHUN

Fiction, Drama | Japan, South Korea | 2024 | 0:30:00

  • Mature
  • Mature/Nudity
  • Student Director

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