Countries: "Japan"

Call for Papers | FilmAsia 2013

Call for Papers | FilmAsia 2013

Asia, Japan

Deadline: 01/07/2013

The International Academic Forum, in conjunction with its global partners announces the Second Annual Asian Conference on Film and Documentary 2013, to be held in Osaka, Japan, from 8-10 November [...]

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BIFF supporting 'Berlinale in Sendai'

BIFF supporting ‘Berlinale in Sendai’

Germany, Japan
13/02/2013 | Comments (0)
The Berlin International Film Festival is supporting the “Berlinale in Sendai” event, which will take place in Japan from March 28 to 31, 2013. The event will be held in Sendai City, [...]

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Nippon in Motion | Extra Short Film Awards

Nippon in Motion | Extra Short Film Awards

Germany, INTERNATIONAL, Japan

Deadline: 31/01/2013

Japanese Film Festival Nippon Connection in Frankfurt is looking for Extra Short Movies, less than 12 Seconds in duration,  for its competition ‘Nippon in Motion’, a collaboration with Frankfurt’s [...]

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Submit at Short Shorts Film Festival 2013

Submit at Short Shorts Film Festival 2013

INTERNATIONAL, Japan

Deadline: 20/12/2012

The Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2013 (SSFF & ASIA) is calling for submissions to its Official Competition, Save the Earth!, Music Shorts and CG Animation Competition. The [...]

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Hong Kong 2012 Diary: Tribute - The Irreverent Genre-Buster: Kurahara Koreyoshi

Hong Kong 2012 Diary: Tribute – The Irreverent Genre-Buster: Kurahara Koreyoshi

From noir crime dramas to New Wave beatnik sagas to popular blockbusters about animals and Antarctica, Kurahara’s cinema can be called anything but boring.

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The Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate

Hong Kong 2012 Diary: Tribute – The Aesthetics of Discordance: Kawashima Yuzo

The Kawashima Yuzo retrospective, shown on exquisitely restored prints, aims to correct that and introduce new audiences to the delights of this auteur’s world.

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Hong Kong 2012 Diary: Specials - Ito Takashi, Architecture of the Mind

Hong Kong 2012 Diary: Specials – Ito Takashi, Architecture of the Mind

Takashi’s signature aesthetic of illusory movement, a blend of animation, still photography and live action, was borne out of a fascination with the ability of cinema to animate the [...]

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Young Dudes

Hong Kong 2012 Diary: World Cinema – Competition

A total of sixteen full-lengths and twenty shorts compete in the World Cinema Awards of the 36th Hong Kong International Film Festival.

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