This afternoon, Our Brillia Short Shorts Theater in Yokohama have started to play short films!
We had several people waiting for doors to open, and that told the great beginning of our film festival.
Our first program for the first day was a special program from Cannes.
We chose works from Cannes Film Festival, one of the world’s top 3 film festivals, which is also known for its market, a key place for the creation of new business opportunities. We introduced 6 shorts, including those from Australia, Spain, London, etc., and was a great program to start the first day.
In our Music Program 2, we welcomed 3 directors.
Director Aya Shiroi from “We Hold Nothing in our Hands”, which depicts life of mother sheep and child sheep with animations.
Director Hayato Honma from “Akari from HERE”, is about reunifying son and father.
Director Ryota Takahashi from “The Forest of Yamato”, a mysterious love story taking place in Yamato-city of Kanagawa prefecture.
An audience asked Director Shiroi, about each sheep holding an item that means something important to them, and why one sheep was holding a bag of potato chips.
First, the director thanked the audience for noticing such small details and said,
“I don’t know. Maybe because, I like potato chips”.
And Director Takahashi was asked about the meanings of fireballs that appear at the end of the short.
He answered, there is no specific meaning to them, because he wanted each audience to decide.
There was an interesting episode about Director Honma.
His model of the short was a person he hated in the past, but instead of depicting the character as a cruel person, he wanted to show one’s struggling life. And I felt his kind mind and heart from that.
(Director Honma with his school friends after screening. )
Our second program was “Future City Yokohama”.
As Yokohama is working toward an eco-friendly and high-tech future city, we introduced 10 shorts that offer a glimpse of future ways of living.
I thought, as the audience go home from this theater tonight, they will see the city different.
I asked the audience about how many of them are from Yokohama, and it was about half of all.
I just wonder how Yokohama will be, after 10, 20, or 100 years.
“French Film Festival 2016 ~Short Film Selection” was the last program of the day.
We specially selected five shorts provided by French Film Festival 2016, with young up-coming French directors.
I hope this gave an opportunity to think about the future of French Films.
As we close our first day with a success, I thank the audience for a great cooperation.
We will be screening more shorts until 26th, so please come and enjoy with us!
Lisa