NIPPON VISIONS JURY AWARD

The NIPPON VISIONS JURY AWARD will be given out for the fifth time to one of the seventeen directors participating in the competition with their films from the NIPPON VISIONS section. An international expert jury will choose the winner, who will receive a free subtitling for his next film, sponsored by Japan Visualmedia Translation Academy (JVTA) from Tokyo.

Jury
Dr. Alexander Zahlten - Assistant Professor, Harvard University
Alex Oost - director of Camera Japan Festival, Rotterdam
Mark Schilling - film critic

Winner of the NIPPON VISIONS JURY AWARD 2014: Antonym by Natsuka KUSANO
Special Mention: Friendship by Mikihiro ENDO

Competition films

And the Mud Ship Sails Away by Hirobumi WATANABE
Antonym by Natsuka KUSANO
Bon Lin by Keiichi KOBAYASHI
Broken Pieces by Yuji TAJIRI
The Connecting Bridge by Ayako IMAMURA
The End of the Special Time We Were Allowed by Shingo OTA
Firecracker Ideals by Moe OKI
Friendship by Mikihiro ENDO
The Frivolous by Toshimichi FUJIOKA
Fukushima by Hiroshi KANNO
The Horses of Fukushima by Yoju MATSUBAYASHI
Kanagawa University of Fine Arts, Office of Film Research by Yuichiro SAKASHITA
Sunk into the Womb by Takaomi OGATA
Tale of a Butcher Shop by Aya HANABUSA
The Tale of Iya by Tetsuichiro TSUTA
Unlucky Woman’s Blues by Shinji IMAOKA
Zentai by Ryosuke HASHIGUCHI