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Director:Ban Hyonjun

Cast: Ann Hiju  Pak Chunhyon

(Korea/Japanese Subtitles/11 mins.)

This is an excellent film shows the psychology of women through trivial events. The Korean landscape is also a highlight, bringing to light unbalanced emotions.

Story: Hee-joo breaks up with her boyfriend. After her boyfriend leaves, Hee-joo is left alone in the room with her memories. A picture of her boyfriend's face is left behind. Hee-joo tries to part with the picture and the memories of her ex-boyfriend that still remain in her heart.

NOW

Director: Kaori Okita

Cast: Ami Hirose  Kosuke Hoshi

(Japan / 7 mins)

The queue at a pancake shop changes dramatically depending on whether you have a smartphone or not. While watching this film as if you were monitoring the situation, you are unexpectedly confronted with the "present" of Japan. Director Kaori Okita's artistic sensibility shines through in this socially conscious film.

Story: A world without smartphones, a world with smartphones, and a world beyond. Which world is it now?

Today is　someone's birthday

Director: Rena Kizuki

Cast: Kannon Nawata  Rena Kizuki

(Japan / 14 mins)

The 2 stars of the film are single mothers and real pregnant women. This is a film by women for women, created out of sincere feelings.

Story: Yuki, an expectant mother in the last month of pregnancy, is performing her daily tasks until the day of her expected delivery. Yuki, who seems to have lived a strong life, has been secretly carrying her anxieties and struggles about childbirth and raising a child for the first time. On the day of her due date, she returns home to find a birthday cake and a strange woman. Yuki doesn't take kindly to the woman, but...

Inbou Planet

Director: Koko Oniki

Cast: Kosuke Hoshi  Saya Ishikawa

(Japan / 6 mins)

Director Koji Oniki's nonsensical and bizarre nightmare sequences will empty your brain as well!

Story: The cheerful Mr. Hoshino skips around with a smile on his face. Friends gathered for him. Oden and a boom box. What is the extraordinary fate that awaits the easygoing Hoshino-kun?

Usagi Sisters

Director: Daisuke Endo

Cast: Miyu Takao  Kaori Matsuhima

(Japan / 21 mins)

Former my♪ Miyu Takao stars in and writes the screenplay for this human drama about two sisters with a history of their own. The wailing of lamentations in the last scene is heartbreaking.

Story: A newcomer to the office of a hot spring companion, To, is her younger sister, Yui, who went missing six years ago. The sisters are bewildered by their sudden reunion, and begin a conversation to fill in the blanks... What future awaits the sisters who have lived at the mercy of their parents?

Private

Director: Peter Clay

Cast: Peter Clay

(Japan / 9 mins)

Directed by Peter Clay, who won the Runner-up Grand Prix at the 2022 Festival, the film is a masterpiece in its imaginative use of the toilet as a social networking site and its light-hearted storytelling!

Story: As an aspiring origami artist, Wright is tired of the worldwide popularity of his best friend from junior high school, Joe. In a desperate bid for recognition, Wright posts Joe's dark past on social networking sites and becomes the center of attention...

Tokyo Man & Woman

Director: Daichi Mikasa

Cast: Saki Owada  Kuni Hoshino

(Japan / 10 mins)

This J-horror film is filled with a disturbing atmosphere from the very beginning. Can you stand the repartee of malice that makes you feel uncomfortable just watching it?

Story: Shiori, a beautiful widow living in the city, has a problem. She is haunted by the spirit of her husband Keisuke, who is supposed to be dead. Then suddenly, Misako, her mother-in-law, comes to visit her. You killed my son, didn't you! Shiori is surprised. Keisuke's spirit begins to move. However, the story takes an unexpected turn.

Word (3'00" ver.)

Director: tama-style

Cast: RINA

(Japan / 3 mins)

The delicate emotions of a junior high school girl are portrayed with animation. The monologue, in which a series of words with hidden meanings are spoken, pierces the heart.

Story: That morning, the back of my left eye was hurting so badly that I took the day off from school and lay on the bed in my room, and the mean little man who lived in the ceiling blamed me for my inability to stay on my back, so I ended up not being able to do anything for the rest of the day.

Don't doubt my love.

Director: Wakana Asada

Cast: Yukino Takahashi  Kaede Fujimoto

(Japan / 29 mins)

Two women living together. They are neither family nor lovers, but friends. The up-and-coming young actors give a realistic performance of their "love" that is hurt by common sense and misunderstandings!

Story: Enna Ikushima (25) and Asayo Demizu (25), who live together, are neither family nor lovers, but friends. However, they are considered lovers by those around them, or they are considered to be in a limited-time relationship, saying, "This is the time we can have fun. They are angered and hurt by the words of those who doubt and belittle their relationship. This is a story about proving their existence.

Sounds of them

Director: Akane Fukuda

Cast: Yuu Matsuhara

(Japan / 8 mins)

The elaborate sound design is effective and unsettling from start to finish, and although it is a J-horror film, it has a refreshing aftertaste⁉

Story:Yori Takigawa, who left her hometown to work in the city, was spending her days in depression due to her daily hard work, loneliness, and a vague sense of anxiety about her life. One night around 2:00 a.m., she saw "someone with an invisible face" standing at her feet. After that, he began to hear "inaudible sounds"...

Resistance to Revelation

Director: Minato Honma

Cast: Sui Kurasawa  Rino Shimazaki

(Japan / 18 mins)

An avant-garde problem film that looks into the inner life of a man who feels guilty about his wealth. Director Minato Honma's sharp vision will destroy your thinking!

Story: The main character is a man who feels guilty and ugly for being a bourgeoisie. One day, he finds the corpse of a dead worker, feels a humanity in him that he does not have, and tries to switch places with him. After replacing himself with the worker, the man goes to the worker's wife and sees the life of the proletariat. ......

GAIGYO

Director: Kenya Okubo

Cast: Toshikazu Kobayashi

(Japan / 3D screening / 23 mins)

Selected for the second consecutive year! Director Kenya Okubo takes on the challenge of creating a shocking violent drama with a 3D camera that further sharpens his unique sense of imagery!

Story:Ochiai, a town not far from Shinjuku, Tokyo. Keiji runs a small secondhand clothing store, but he is not making a good living. Then his brother Keiichi, who disappeared several years ago, reappears before his eyes. The memories of the two erode reality, eventually breaking through the screen and attacking the viewer. This is an astonishing, completely self-produced 3D (stereoscopic) coming-of-age entertainment film.

FALLEN ANGEL

Director:Annoa Verbruggen

Cast: Oumar Diolo Lynn Lenoir

(Belgium / Japanese Subtitles / 13 mins)

Life and death are depicted against the backdrop of some of Europe's most evocative locations in Annoa Verbruggen's first directorial effort, which, as the director says, "is a film of my nightmares and fears.

Story:One night, Maurice was wandering the streets. There he meets a strange girl. This encounter leads him to a waltz of hope between life and death.

The Sorrow of Ginza

Director: Minato Honma

Cast: Miwa Ochi  Kiyoko Ochi

(Belgium / Japanese Subtitles / 3 mins)

Beautiful waves breathe life into me." Belgian director Pieter-Jan Van Haecke creates a collage of "now" in the declining shopping district of Imabari City. What do you think of the poetic monologue spun by the director?

Story: Imabari's Ginza shopping district wants to talk. Are you ready to listen to the truth about the shopping district?

Is this Dream?

Director:Nao Ooishi

Cast: Nao Ooishi  Hanae Momoyama

(Japan / 3 mins)

Three girls having a lazy, lazy, lazy chat. They don't care about missile launch notifications, they just talk nonsense! Please enjoy their idle chatter. You will surely see the "now" of Japan and the "now" of you.

Story:Three women chatting side by side one Saturday.The three are friends, and one of them, Rachel, apparently works for a black company. When a missile launch notification comes in, or when someone with what looks like a gun shows up, the three of them are somewhat unconcerned...