Japanese Foodie Shorts Program will be screened at Asia Pacific Film Festival Bern on Jan. 29.
Scerening event in which embassies of Asian & Pacific countries participated and introduce each culture through films are going to be held in Bern, Switzerland from Jan. 28 to Feb. 7, 2025.
Feature and short films from Australia, Korea, India, Pakistan, Thai, Philipin, Indonesia, Malaysia and Japan are screened. For the Jpan prgram, 6 short films curaeted with the theme of “Japanese Food” from SSFF & ASIA are screened as “Japanese Foodie Shorts Program”.
Asia Pacific Film Festival Bern
Schedule：Jan. 28 to Feb. 7, 2025
*Japanese Fodie Shorts Program presented by Japan Embassy cooperated by Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia will be screened on Wed, Jan.29, from 6:00pm
Venue：CineClub Bern (Laupenstrasse 17, 3008 Bern, Switzerland）
Admission：Free
Screening Lineup
IZAKAYA DIALOGUE by Hisato Michigami
Swedish student Mark finds himself disillusioned by the conformity around him in Japan. But his life changes when he crosses paths with Yuuka, who works at a quaint izakaya in Akasaka, Tokyo, and who poses him a question about happiness, triggering an unconventional challenge between the two.
O BENTO by Motoyuki Itabashi
Obento (lunch box) are made with the person you are making it for in mind. When you eat obento, you think about the person who made it and eat every last bite. Obento is something that’s eaten by both maker & receiver. This story is about a young man who unconditionally loves his obento.
WISH ON A COCKTAIL by Shinya Kawakami
Hozumi is widower. He meets the Kondos at a bar, and is intrigued when they make a wish before drinking their hoppy cocktails. Hozumi decides to give it a shot. His wish? “I want to meet my wife on more time…”
LIGHT OF INTRICATE PATTERNS by Shoji Yasui
Yuri appreciates her son Kazuma’s passion of figures, but worries about his ability to get along with the group. Yuri, who works as a writer, visits Edo Kiriko glass atelier to cover an article. Through the lessons she learns from the father and son artisans she meets during her interview, she begins to think about respecting Kazuma and developing his potential.
SHABU-SHABU SPIRIT by Yuki Saito
A fiancé goes to meet the family, and Shozo’s secret appraisal begins – a test to see whether this fiancé is worthy or not of marrying his daughter. Trying to reduce the distance between them, the mother prepares a single nabe (cooking pot) for the shabu-shabu. As Shozo’s eyes glint brightly, Keita reaches towards the shabu-shabu.
THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY AND ROW HOUSES by Daisuke Kamijo
Rika is known as a good person at school, almost too good, while Hibiki is more logical and does not like wasting time. One day Rika got a copy of her Family Register in order to submit to the school, she found out that she was adopted and felt in shock. Rika and Hibiki try to find out the truth and visit the address written on Family Register paper. They find an area with several townhouses built closely to each other where unique people are living…