Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia OSAKA 2016 Program
Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia Osaka 2016 is held for 5 days from Sep 17-19th and 24-25th at Knowledge Capital of Grand Front Osaka.
The festival kicked-off with Award Winning Program from SSFF & ASIA 2016 and the director kenji qurata and actress Yukari Imai from ”EVERY TIME WE SAY GOOD BYE”, Japan Competition Audience Award winner, attended a special talk event following the screening.
The film is about a husband and his wife who is diagnosed with terminal cancer. They cherish their last moments together as they are on a journey to find ‘Tsuchinoko’(Japanese legendary snake). “When Japanese people lost someone they love they tend to cry over and then try to forget, but I thought we could accept the death or disease gently and continue to live with their thoughts and will” said the director. And he also talked about what he thinks about short films “As I directed short films, I realized what required to create great short films are completely different from that for feature films, and it could be more challenging than feature films. I wish people will catch up as many short films as possible on this occasion and discovered new ways to enjoy films.” There will be another screening of his film and kenji will participate in the talk session on 25th with Tetsuya Bessho, the president of SSFF & ASIA.
For the French Film Festival 2016 –Short Film Selection and Academy Awards Program, popular comedian and an actor Takayuki Kinoshita(TKO) appeared as special guest and “Painter” which he was starring in was screened. Takayuki talked about the difference between his performance for comedy and acting and said sometimes it’s difficult not to ‘act’ too much or add how much of essence of humor to add in acting.
The last screening of the day was Maestro & Celebrity Shorts Program with talk and live music session. Audiences enjoyed the combination of a variety of short films along with ‘steel pan’(instrument using drum can) based music performance that they can visualize moving images from every kinds of unique sounds they created, and they even participated by crapping hands or whistling etc.
SSFF & ASIA OSAKA 2016 has just started and it is definitely precious opportunities to enjoy short films from all over the world in unique style plus screenings is for free of charge. We look forward to meeting you at Knowledge Capital of Grand Front Osaka!!
