Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia’s U-30 Japanese Filmmakers are Focused at The 49th Jugend Film Tage（Swiss Youth Film Days）
The Talent Camp will invite SSFF & ASIA 2024 U-25 Competition Best Short Award Winner, Izumo Kawabe
Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia (SSFF & ASIA), one of Asia‘s largest international short film festivals accredited by the US Academy Awards®, is pleased to announce that SSFF & ASIA’s Japanese directors are featured at the Jugend Film Tage, the 49th edition of the international film festival in Zurich, Switzerland, which is dedicated to films by young filmmakers under 30 years old.
https://jugendfilmtage.ch/events/cafune/?book=1&s_id=1ebdd239-423e-455f-ac8d-e65bb7ee2771
The Jugend Film Tage’s focus program, the festival puts the spotlight on the young filmmaking of a selected country and work together with internationally renowned film festivals.
This 2025, Japan is the focus country with a program of short films curated by SSFF & ASIA and the Pia Film Festival.
SSFF & ASIA‘s special feature program titled “Heartbeat of Japan”, will include “cafune” (dir. Sara Masuda), winner of the Audience Award in 2024, “DOCOOK” (dir. Solami Habu), winner of the 2023 U-25 Excellence Award, ”Origami” (Director: Kei Kanamori), which won the Silver Award at the Student Academy Awards and made this year’s Oscar shortlist, “Teleporting” (dir. Arum Nam, Chifumi Tanzawa, Nana Noka & Ohyeon Kwon), as well as “what YOU eat” (Director: Ryo Sena) and “Warmth in a Puddle” (Director: Sorao Sakimura), which were born from the Kodansha Cinema Creators Lab project, and the 2024 U-25 Best Short Award winner “Mother’s Recipe” (dir. Izumo Kawabe).
The program «Heartbeat of Japan» presents seven remarkable short films by emerging Japanese filmmakers. From deeply emotional dramas to nostalgic animations, as well as thought-provoking and unconventional works, you will feel the strong heartbeat of each filmmaker and be captivated by their talents.
In addition, the Jugend Film Tage will invite a director Izumo Kawabe as a recommended filmmaker by SSFF & ASIA to the four-day ‘Talent Camp’ during the festival, where he will learn about filmmaking with filmmakers from around the world.
Focus Japan I: Heartbeat of Japan (SSFF & ASIA Feature Program）
Thu, March 13, 18.00– @ blue Cinema Abaton 4
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Jugend Film Tage（Swiss Youth Film Days）
The Swiss Youth Film Days are the oldest and largest national festival, which mainly shows films by young filmmakers. The heart of the festival is the short film competition, to which over 3,000 young participants submit their films every year. The competition is complemented by a diverse program that celebrates young filmmakers from all over the world and at the same time intensively promotes young Swiss filmmakers. The main goal
of the Swiss Youth Film Days is to get as many young people as possible to actively and reflectively engage with the medium of the moving image. That is why most of the Swiss Youth Film Days’ offerings are free or inexpensive and are designed to be as accessible and low-threshold as possible.
The 49th Swiss Youth Film Days will take place from March 12 to 16, 2025 at the blue Cinema Abaton in Zurich and Planet5.