• Overview of the business
• Outline of the event
• Programs held
• Implementation Report
• Pre-Event and Collaborative Planning

Overview of the business

　The Kyoto International Student Film Festival is the largest international student film festival in the Japan, which is mainly planned and operated by university students from the Kansai region, mainly in Kyoto. The purpose of this program is to gather independent films produced by students from all over the world, review them by the executive committee, create opportunities for students to screen them, and discover human resources and talents who will lead future films.
Historically Japan Kyoto is a "city of movies" that still inherits the cultural heritage of the early days of cinema, and it is also a "city of universities and students" where students account for 10% of the population of Kyoto City. This festival aims to revitalize Kyoto by discovering and introducing talents who can add new fields to cinema from among the many possibilities of the world, thereby creating a place for international exchange and mutual understanding.

Outline of the event

23rd Kyoto International Student Film Festival

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Dates:

Friday, February 26, 2021 ~ Friday, March 5, 2021

Co-organizers:

The Museum of Kyoto

Planning and management:

23rd Kyoto International Student Film Festival Executive Committee

Operational support:

Kyoto International Student Film Festival Planning Committee

Supported by:

Arts and Culture Promotion Fund, Nissha Printing Culture Promotion Foundation

Supported by:

Kyoto Prefecture, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefectural Board of Education, Kyoto City Board of Education, The Japan Foundation, NPO Image Industry Promotion Organization, Cineaste Organization Osaka, Cooperatives Japan Directors Guild, UNIJAPAN, Asahi Shimbun Kyoto General Bureau, Kyoto Shimbun, NHK Kyoto Broadcasting Station, KBS Kyoto,

α-STATION FM Kyoto

Sponsors:

Director's Univ Co., Ltd., Graduate School of Film and New Media, Ritsumeikan University, J:COM Kyoto Miyabijon, Nitto Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Yamako Co.,
Ltd.,
Kyoto Prefectural Federation of Consumers' Co-operative Associations

Programs held

Screenings (15 films with permission for online screening)

Winners of the competition (16 works in total)

Program A

Masel Tov Cocktail by Arkadij Khaet, Mickey Paatzsch Germany / 2020 / 30min / Live-action Filmacademy Baden-Württemberg	OFFBEAT, Myrte Ouwerkerk Netherlands / 2020 / 20min / Live-Action Netherlands Film Academy
"From this broadcast room to Major Tom" Takuya Chisaka Japan / 2019 / 10min / Live-action Japan University	Cargo, Christina Tournatzés GERMANY / 2020 / 15min / Live-Action Macromedia University of Applied Science
"Signature" SeungHui HYUN KOREA / 2020 / 28min / Live-action Seoul Institute of the arts	Home, Marcjanna Urbańska Poland / 2019 / 5min / Animation Lodz Film School
BONBON, Daniel Meier GERMANY / 2019 / 22min / Live-action Technische Hochschule Ostwestfalen-lippe fachbereich Medienproduktion	"GROWING PAINS" LIN, PO-YU Taiwan / 2020 / 25min / Live-action National Taiwan University of Arts

Program B

Young, Fragile, by Joscha Bongard GERMANY / 2020 / 25min / Live-action Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg	Empty Spaces by Clara Stephanie Schieber Lorenesi UK / 2019 / 20min / Live-action University of Warwick
"Wonderful Staggered Foot in Wonderland" Okada Shika Japan/2019/2min/Animation Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School	"We bloom" by KIM Yul-hee KOREA / 2020 / 28min / Live-action Korea National University of Arts
"Pick-up" Roh Dohyeon KOREA / 2019 / 13min / Live-action Chung-Ang University	The Coral Guardian, David Dincer GERMANY / 2020 / 10min / Animation Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg
『sweep.』 Takuya Miyahara Japan/2019/42min/Live-Action ENBU Seminar	Talker, Mehrshad Ranjbar Iran / 2020 / 13min / Live-action Pars University

Special Events

"Screening Project by Akiko Ohku"

"Unexpectedly Not Dead"
1999 / Japan / 42min / 16mm
(Film School Fiction Course 1st Term High School Film)

Tsukiko, an elementary school teacher who is more sensitive to pain than anyone else. It's too much for that daily life. Less-than-ideal students, parents, insensitive colleagues, and a stalker who relentlessly follows her. Her best friend Mayu enjoys a cheap "made-up marriage". La?　Tetetetete…… There was only one way for Tsukiko to go!　Is it?　This is the directorial debut of Akiko Ohku of "Shake It Yourself" and "Hold Me Down" as a director, writer, and star.

Final Jury

Akiko Ohku (Director, Script)	Hayato Kawai (Film Director, TV Drama Director, CM Director)	Tatsuo Kobayashi (Film Director)

Program Fees

ALL Program ￥1,500（15Films+Special program）

Results of Submission

Implementation Report

The 23rd Kyoto International Student Film Festival discovers young talents who will lead the film industry of the future. It was distributed on the video sharing site "Vimeo" for 8 days from February 26 (Friday) to 3/5 (Friday).
This year's competition received 372 entries from 22 countries and regions, and out of 16 films carefully selected by the Student Executive Committee, 15 films were screened for which permission was granted.
At the award ceremony, the final judges, Ms. Akiko Ohku, Ms. Hayato Kawai, and Ms. Tatsuo Kobayashi, announced the Grand Prix, Semi-Grand Prix, and the final Jury Awards by video message, and received their comments.
In addition to the selected films, various contents such as talk sessions were distributed on the Kyoto International Student Film Festival official Youtube channel.
The award-winning works are as follows: I wish the young coach all the best for his future success.
This was the first time the program was held online, but we would like to express our sincere gratitude to everyone who watched and supported and cooperated with us for successfully completing all the programs.

Announcement of Competition Results

Grand Prix Grand-Prix

Talker, Mehrshad Ranjbar
Iran / 2020 / 13min / Pars University

≪Synopsis≫ The story of an elderly woman who nursed her sick husband for many years until he died.

Second Prize

"We bloom" KIM Yul-hee
KOREA / 2020 / 28min / Korea National University of Arts

≪Synopsis≫ Every day after school, Sanghyun visits Jung-woo. Jung-woo is blind and always "listens" to movies at home. Sang-hyun starts recording movies before moving.

The Coral Guardian, David Dincer
GERMANY / 2020 / 10min / Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg

≪Synopsis≫ A diver died at sea 100 years ago. Revived by the coral on his helmet, he tried to escape from the sea, but the diver found it in a hidden place on the seabed and decided to stay there and take care of it. Decades passed, and changes in the sea environment affected not only the coral reef, but also him. Before he dies again, he tells them that there was a wonderful coral reef in this place.

Final Jury Prize
Daiku Akiko Award　

"Wonderful Staggered Foot in Wonderland" Okada Shika
Japan / 2019 / 2min / Animation / Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School

≪Synopsis≫ "One day when I was coming home from school, I came across a man I liked with my lover. I was so shocked that I couldn't go home, so I decided to walk home on foot, which would take more than an hour to walk. While drinking sake bought at the supermarket. A self-documentary that fuses the "waying" of rakugo techniques with pop culture to follow you as you stroll through the wonderland of Tokyo while being swallowed up by sake and the city. "

Hayato Kawai Award

"Pick-up" Roh Dohyeon
KOREA / 2019 / 13min / Live Action / Chung-Ang University

≪Synopsis≫ Joohyun, a rookie film crew, picks up the actress, who is a car. However, she mistook her for an actress and took a prostitute named Hila on board.

Tatsuo Kobayashi Award

Young, Fragile, by Joscha Bongard
GERMANY / 2020 / 25min / Live Action / Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg

≪Synopsis≫ In today's changing sexual roles, a young man is inspired by a date he met through Tinder and decides to live according to his "masculinity". You can feel the delicate and unstable young man through conversations with his best friends. Also, the encounter between the confident older Leili and the young man who went to meet fearfully gives us a sharp message. This work reflects the shape of recent love, sexuality, and role models.

Other Selected Entries

Pre-Event and Collaborative Planning

Pre

Guerrilla Screening in Campus Plaza Kyoto November 21 (Sat), November 28 (Sat)

An outdoor screening was held in front of Campus Plaza Kyoto. Based on the concept of "Encountering student films from around the world on the streets of Kyoto," we screened films produced by students at local venues. It was a play event held while giving as much consideration as possible to measures against the new coronavirus infection, and although we ran into difficult situations, it was a good experience for our future activities.

Collaborative Planning

Photo Contest Date: December 3rd (Thu) ~ January 15th (Fri) We held a photo contest on our official Instagram and Twitter. We have set up two categories related to films, "#映画メシ" and "#映画のようなワンショット," and invited works. Through the use of social media, we took on the challenge of creating a place where the younger generation could take an interest in films directed by students.	Kyoto University Hospital Video distribution Delivery date January 6 (Saturday) ~ Past selected works were distributed so that they could be viewed from monitors in each bed of inpatients at Kyoto University Hospital. I think it was a good opportunity for hospitalized patients to change their mood and let a wide range of people know about the existence of the film festival.

Special site

@kisfvf	official website