Event Report
The Kyoto International Student Film Festival, which discovers young talent who will lead the film industry of the future, was held at Kyoto Cinema from Saturday, November 26 and concluded on Friday, December 2.
The 19th Film Festival Competition (Live-Action and Animation Divisions) received 539 entries from 43 countries and regions, the highest in the history of the festival, and 16 films carefully selected by the Student Executive Committee were screened at the festival.
At the award ceremony on Friday 2nd, the winning directors and the final judges, Yasumi Sakamoto, Nobuaki Doi, and Kunihiko Tomioka were invited as guests to announce the Grand Prix, Final Jury Prize, and Audience Award in the Live Action and Animation Categories.
The award-winning works are as follows: I hope that this film festival will be an opportunity for young directors to play an even more active role in the future.
We would like to express our gratitude and gratitude once again for the successful completion of all the programs of the film festival, as well as those who came to the festival and those who supported and cooperated with us.
Outline of the event
| Would you like to | ■Program Screening2016/11/26(Sat)~12/1(Thu)16:45~21:20(*26th~21:30)■Award Ceremony/Grand Prix Screening /Talk Show December 2, 2016 (Fri) 18:00~21:00 |
| Venue | Kyoto Cinema (COCON Karasuma 3F) |
| Hosted | Consortium of Universities Kyoto |
| Planning and Operation | 19th Kyoto International Student Film Festival Executive Committee |
| Operational support | Kyoto International Student Film Festival Planning Committee |
Programs held
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Results of Submission
We received 539 entries from 43 countries and regions. Thank you very much for your submissions.
19th Kyoto International Studies Film Festival Competition Entry guidelines are here.
| Domestic | Overseas | Meter | |
| FY2016 | 167 | 372 | 539 |
| FY2015 | 123 | 94 | 217 |
| FY2014 | 163 | 187. | 350 |
| FY2013 | 212 | 145 | 357 |
| FY2012 | 235 | 127 | 362 |
Competition Section Results
Grand-Prix for Live-action Film
Darling,
directed by Sebastian Schmidl
School: Filmacademy Vienna
2015/42min/Austria
Tamara's decision to divorce is changing the lives of those around her. Hans has to give up the house, and Tamara's beloved father-in-law also has to move into a nursing home. Away from the outside world, they spend their last weekend together covered in sentimentality.
Grand-Prix for Animated Film
EDMOND
Director: Nina Gantz
School : National Film and Television School
2015/9min/UK
Edmund's desire to love others is probably too strong. He stands alone by the lake and reminisces about his life up to that point. He evokes intense memories and searches for the origin of his desires.
Final Jury Prize
Yasumi Sakamoto Award The Final Judge, Abi Sakamoto Award
"Toori Rain"
Director: Masami Inada
School: Osaka University of Arts
2015/61min/Japan
A young man who aspires to become a manga artist meets a housewife who is drawing pictures on the walls of his house. The young man began to go to see the painting every day, but she intended to erase it when it was finished. A story of just the two of them, drawn with long turns and improvisational direction.
The Final Judge, Nobuaki Doi Award
"I have a future"
Director: Rieko Ouchi
School : Hokkaido University of Education Graduate School
2016/15min/Japan
A daily anime that depicts the life of "me". This work is just a jumble of elements. I myself am just a collection of elements.
Final Jury Prize
Kunihiko Tomioka Award The Final Judge, Kunihiko Tomioka Award
Film
and Television Institute of India, Pune
2015/15min/India
An 80-year-old woman is digging a well with a horse. When she starts hallucinating from thirst, a girl appears. Eventually, water gushes out from a well dug deep, greenery sprouts in the desert, and the horse's throat is watered.
Audience Award
The Grand Prix "Darling" in the live-action category also won the Audience Award!
Darling
Director: Sebastian Schmidl
School: Filmacademy Vienna
2015/42min/Austria
*The Audience Award will be selected from a questionnaire from customers who viewed the works during the festival.
・Other Selected Works
| category | Name of the work | Director | Name of University | Year of production, length, country |
| Live | 『America』 | Aleksandra Terpińska | University of Silesia – Krzysztof Kieslowski Faculty of Radio and Television | 2015/30min /Poland |
| 『Under the Sun』 | QIU Yang | Victorian College of the Arts, School of Film and Television | 2015/19min /Australia |
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| 『The guilt, probably』 | Michael Labarca | The School of Audio-Visual Media, University of Los Andes | 2016/14min /Venezuela |
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| "Tiger Hole ni Irazumba" | Sadato Takenaka | Osaka University of Arts | 2016/65min /Japan |
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| 『Sweeper’s Pride』 | Matthias Koßmehl | Hamburg Media School | 2015/7min /Germany |
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| 『The Road』 | Tsevelmaa Densmaa | Mongolian State University of Arts & Culture | 2016/13min /Mongolia |
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| animation | "Heel of Love" | Maruka | Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School | 2016/10min /Japan |
| 『The Noise of Licking』 | Nadja Andrasev | Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design | 2016/9min /Hungary |
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| 『FEED』 | Eri Okazaki | Tama Art University | 2016/7min /Japan |
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| 『Pokey Pokey』 | Junjie “Jake” Zhang | University of Southern California | 2015/6min /USA |
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| "To the Stories" | Mio Yamanaka | Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School | 2016/6min /Japan |
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