Film

SHORT CUTS

Over 60 short films from Japan's emerging independent filmmakers, video artists and a special highlight on Naomi Kawase.

Tickets: Free Admission

The Origin of Naomi Kawase

In these short documentaries, Naomi Kawase establishes her own language to express a world filled with isolation that plays a fundamental role in her filmmaking today.

MEET CUTS!
Q&A with director Naomi Kawase after the screening.

Nippon Connection Film Festival on Tour

Since 2000, Nippon Connection has presented new Japanese films to the European community in its film festival in Frankfurt, fast becoming one of the leading festivals devoted to contemporary Japanese films. JAPAN CUTS presents this compilation of digital videos from 2008. Nippon Connection Festival on Tour was compiled by Nippon Connection, the Japanese film festival in Frankfurt, Germany (www.nipponconnection.de.) Thematic screenings include:

	Digista Vol. VI
	Shadow of Sand
	Off Highway 20
	Planet+1 Selection: Immoral Films
	Open Art Animation
	Lazarus--The House of the Rising Sun
	JVC Tokyo Video Festival
	A Permanent Part-Timer in Distress
	Vortex and Others - 5 Short Works by Yoshihiro Ito
	893239 (Yakuza Short Films)

Girl in the Sunset

Based on four early novellas by Noble Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata, this omnibus of four short films are by emerging directors from the second graduating class of the new Graduate School of Film and New Media at Japan’s top art school, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Tokyo Geidai), where famed directors Takeshi Kitano and Kiyoshi Kurosawa teach.