Animation Division
Award
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Excellence Award
Crayon Shin-chan: Serious Battle! Robot Dad Strikes Back
TAKAHASHI Wataru
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Excellence Award
Giovanni's Island
NISHIKUBO Mizuho
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Excellence Award
PADRE
Santiago 'Bou' GRASSO
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Excellence Award
The Sense of touch
Jean-Charles MBOTTI MALOLO
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New Face Award
My Milk Cup Cow
ZHU Yantong
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New Face Award
Tamako love story
YAMADA Naoko
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New Face Award
Man on the chair
JEONG Dahee
Jury Selections
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a reflection of one's mind
NAKAYA Kohei
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Boundary Line
NAKATA Ayaka
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KILL la KILL
IMAISHI Hiroyuki / NAKASHIMA Kazuki
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Terror in Resonance
WATANABE Shinichiro
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PING PONG
YUASA Masaaki
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Rio
Carlos SALDANHA
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MUSHI-SHI – Next Passage –
NAGAHAMA Hiroshi
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Legend of the Forest Part 2
TEZKA Macoto
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Between Times
Ru KUWAHATA / Max PORTER
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Blue Eyes – in HARBOR TALE –
ITO Yuichi
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Boles
Špela ĈADEŽ
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Canis
Marc RIBA / Anna SOLANAS
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Decorations
MIYAZAWA Mari
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Goodbye Rabbit, Hop Hop
Caleb WOOD
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Poker
MIZUE Mirai / NAKAUCHI Yukie
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Portrait
Donato SANSONE
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Rainy Days
Vladimir LESCHIOV
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Something Impor tant
LIU Naiwei
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STAND BY ME Doraemon
YAGI Ryuichi / YAMAZAKI Takashi
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The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead
Elliot COWAN
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The Swallow
CHEN Xi / AN Xu
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Waiter
YAMADA Ryoji
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ZACK and QUACK – ‛Pop-up-A-Saurus Rex'
Gili DOLEV / Yvette KAPLAN
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Zepo
César DÍAZ MELÉNDEZ
Jury Critiques
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OHI Fumio
Animation Artist
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KOIDE Masashi
Animation Researcher and Professor, Tokyo Zokei University
Towards a New Era
This is my second year serving on the Jury for the Japan Media Arts Festival's Animation Division. This year I was the main judge and I feel I got a good sense of the judging process. In this division we judge, appraise, and decide the awards for all the entries that fall under the banner of "animation" - animated short films and animated feature films, independent works and commercial releases, …
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TAKAHASHI Ryosuke
Animation Director
Devoting Yourself to a Rich Fatigue
This was something that obsessed me during the judging and still now, after it is over. What is the role for television animation in Japan? And also, what does it contribute? This was caused by my being in charge of judging this year's animated feature film/animated TV series/original video animation category, but it seemed that many of the entries had their origins in animated TV series. In my …
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MORIMOTO Koji
Animation Director
The Evolution of Animation Technology and Reflections on Individual Expression
This year's festival brought together rich talent in animated feature films, TV series, and short films, reconfirming the depth of animation expression, while also reminding us of the difficulty of forging new ground in the medium. With the Japanese works the difference between professional and amateur was evenly balanced, and they shared a somewhat similar character. I felt that this is related …
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WADA Toshikatsu
Animation Artist
The Power of Young Creators of Animated Shorts
The judging started with viewing all 371 animated short films. Last year there were over 500, so I had anticipated things to be smoother this year, but actually we had trouble. There was an increase in the must-see works and the works we wanted to introduce. In general, this year student works were an elite minority. What stood out the most were the energetic works of younger artists in their …
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Differences in Gravity between Artworks
What was somewhat disappointing this year was how the animated short film entries from Japan seemed to lack punch. This was a shame, considering how last year there was such an abundance of youthful and strikingly individual works. By contrast, as we can see in the Grand Prize-winner The Wound, and Excellence Award-winners PADRE and The Sense of touch, the animated short films from overseas were …