Animation Division
Award
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Excellence Award
The Case of Hana & Alice
IWAI Shunji
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Excellence Award
Isand (The Master)
Riho UNT
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Excellence Award
My Home
NGUYEN Phuong Mai
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Excellence Award
Yùl and the Snake
Gabriel HAREL
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New Face Award
Typhoon Noruda
ARAI Yojiro
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New Face Award
Chulyen, a Crow's tale
Agnès PATRON / Cerise LOPEZ
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New Face Award
Deux Amis (Two Friends)
Natalia CHERNYSHEVA
Jury Selections
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I Can't Breathe
KIHATA Sayaka
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The Anthem of the Heart
NAGAI Tatsuyuki / OKADA Mari / TANAKA Masayoshi
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Sarusuberi: Miss Hokusai
HARA Keiichi
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Zdravstvuite!
YUKI Yoko
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SUGAR LUMP
OKAWARA Ryo
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Nothing you need to see
ITO Keigo
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The Boy and the Beast
HOSODA Mamoru
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Benches No. 0458
Ivan MAXIMOV
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Chhaya
Debanjan NANDY
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Eclipse
Jacky DE GROEN
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Erlking
Georges SCHWIZGEBEL
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Isle of Seals
Edmunds JANSONS
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Isola del Giglio
Tom SCHROEDER
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Levitation
Marko MESTROVIC
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Meada
Linnea LIDEGRAN
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My Grandfather was a cherry tree
Olga POLIEKTOVA / Tatiana POLIEKTOVA
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Ruben Leaves
Frederic SIEGEL
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Sea Child
Minha KIM / Jacob THOMAS / Islay BELL-WEBB
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SHIROBAKO
SHIROBAKO PROJECT / MIZUSHIMA Tsutomu
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SIGNUM
Witold GIERSZ
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Sonambulo
Theodore USHEV
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The Guardian
Alessandro NOVELLI
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The Poem
CHEN Xi
Jury Critiques
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OHI Fumio
Animation Artist
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Head of the Jury
KOIDE Masashi
Animation Researcher and Professor, Tokyo Zokei University
The Japan Media Arts Festival – Approaching it's 20th Anniversary
This year, we have received a record high of 823 entries in the Animation Division, and in particular, short films showed a marked rise reaching 756. Also, entries from 62 countries and regions marked the largest number among the four divisions. This shows the worldwide popularity of animated short films. Animation is one of the four divisions in the Japan Media Arts Festival, but the words in …
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TAKAHASHI Ryosuke
Animation Director
The Japan Media Arts Festival is Really a Match of Mixed Martial Arts!
This time, it was really difficult to "judge" and "choose" again. After all, we have to endure the ordeal of choosing "Award-winning Works" from over 800 candidates. Asking myself repeatedly whether all works can be judged on the equal footing, I reached a conclusion after writhing in agony that this is like a one-time-only serious match of mixed martial arts. Thus, an evaluation can be different …
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MORIMOTO Koji
Animation Director
Life Itself is the Asset for a Creator
Rhizome is a work in which small pieces of the ecological system on earth are beautifully described. Most creators' ideas are influenced by culture, philosophy, creatures or their relations, and this work incorporates all of them in the short film. It was highly evaluated that the creatures and objects were drawn using a very sublime analog technique. Programmed algorithm was introduced into …
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YAMAMURA Koji
Animation Artist and Professor, Tokyo University of the Arts
Unique Evaluation Criteria for Animation
This year, French works received five awards and did well as a result. Many of these works had solid narratives, a sophisticated sense of graphic as well as color, and we saw signs of maturity from French authors in recent years. It may have been influenced by their education or funding. As an overall evaluation, firstly, short films have increased in numbers, but I felt that the number of …
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Encounter with Characteristic Animated Expression
Reviewing selected animation works in this judgement, I was amazed about the substantial difference between animated feature film and animated series works, and short animated films, regarding the concept of expression, and concerns for the target audience, among others. It was almost impossible to judge works from both categories on an equal footing this time. There were similar tendencies in …