NIPPON VISIONS AWARD

For the third time, the winner of the NIPPON VISIONS AWARD will be selected by an international expert jury. All feature films longer than 60 minutes of the NIPPON VISIONS section can partake in the competition if they are not older than one year and are shown at least as a German premiere. The award brings about a subtitling for the winning director’s next film, sponsored by Japan Visualmedia Translation Academy (JVTA) from Tokyo.

The winner of the NIPPON VISIONS AWARD 2012 is THE SOUND OF LIGHT (Hikari no oto) by Jyuichiro YAMASAKI. Special mention: FUKUSHIMA: MEMORIES OF LOST LANDSCAPE (Souma kanka : Dai ichi bu - Ubawareta tochi no kioku) by Yojyu MATSUBAYASHI.

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The Jury

Yonghi YANG – Director (OUR HOMELAND)

Chris MaGee–Festival director (Shinsedai Cinema Festival) and journalist (Toronto J-Film Pow-Wow)

Andreas Platthaus – Journalist and author (F.A.Z.)

 

NVA Wettbewerbsfilme

 

About the Pink Sky (Momoiro sora wo)
by Keiichi KOBAYASHI

Die! Directors, Die! (Shine! Shine! Shinema)
by Makoto SHINOZAKI

Coming Out Story by Kei UMEZAWA

Dressing Up by Yuka YASUKAWA

Fukushima: Memories of a Lost Landscape 
(Souma kanka : Dai ichi bu - Ubawareta tochi no kioku)
by Yojyu MATSUBAYASHI

Goodbye (or Not!) (Moshikashitara Bye, Bye)
by Quanah TAKAHATA & Hirohito TAKINO

Intimacy (Shinmitsusa)
by Ryusuke HAMAGUCHI

Shing Shing Shing 
by Kouhei SANADA

The Sketch of Mujo (Mujo sobyo)
by Koichi OMIYA

The Sound of Light (Hikari no oto)
by Jyuichiro YAMASAKI

Come as you are 
(Soro nante kudaranai)
by Kouta YOSHIDA

Zero Man vs. Half Virgin 
(Hanbun shojyo to zero otoko)
by Sakichi SATO