UFPFF 2024 Announcing the nine finalists!

UFPFF 2024 Announcing the nine finalists!
The finalist films will be screened at the UFPFF 2024 to be held on September 16 at Human Trust Cinema Shibuya.
Please join us.

“Various”
Director: Shouyou Katou（Takushoku University Daiichi High School/Japan）

I love vegetables, so I created a unique worldview set in the world of vegetables. The message may be mundane, but I hope it will resonate with those who watch it!

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I am a normal high school student. In my own way, I try to create works that are fun to make and that everyone likes. My boom is making omu-rice.

“Goddess Memory”
Director, Writer, Filmer and Editor: Belle Asher（Shenkar College/Israel）
Executive Producer: Laila Piechotka

A short video art film created from research on the prehistoric goddess culture.A culture that consecrated values of peace, female energy and hospitality in nature.This film is influenced by a contemporary movement that encourages a return to the same sources and provides a visual interpretation of the values of the ancient goddess culture.

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I am a graphic motion designer, video editor and director.I am driven by research and concept, love to work with messages that do good for the world.For me, good design is design that does good.

“She became a poet”
Director: Nonoka Koga（Waseda University/Japan）

Threats of atomic bombs are increasing in this world again. Our world is taking a step back from peace day by day. On this movie, Bun-san talks about her experience of victim of the atomic bomb and the war.

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Born in Omuta City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Koga Nonoka is a journalist and a documentary filmmaker. She has produced several documentaries on nuclear issues while researching the history of nuclear technologies in the U.S. She is an assistant producer of the Netflix documentary “Nuclear Weapons and the Cold War” released in February 2024. She is committed to working not only in Japan but also abroad.

“Last Piece of Peace”
2D animation production:Sourin Kou（Shih Hsin University/Taiwan）

In the future, AI had an ego-consciousness and war broke out between it and mankind.As time passed, the traces of the war were covered by nature.Old warriors met again with robots and chose to abandon their hatred, and together they witnessed the peace gained by their sacrifices.

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We are an animation production team from Shih Hsin University in Taiwan, and we spent a year and a half collaborating on this animation about AI, using existing technology and our passion for animation production.

“Home Immigration”
Director: Haruna Inagaki（University of Bergen/Japan）

Home Immigration is the “immigration office” through which objects pass when they enter a human home. The immigration officer always decides whether or not they should enter the house, and tells each one who is welcome and who is not.

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Born in Kanagawa, Japan in 1996, she has been studying in Norway since 2022, where she studied filmmaking at the Master of Design in Visual Communication at the University of Bergen.

“Thinking about sex, as all boys school student”
Director:Ao Yuuki
Co-producer:Kuya Aoyama（Keio University/Japan）

Hongo Junior and Senior High School, a private integrated junior and senior high school for boys, has a club called the Social Club. They face social issues on a daily basis. In the environment of a boys’ school where only those with physical masculinity gather, they try to reconsider what they are and what gender is.

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Born in 2001
Studied at the Faculty of Visual Arts, University of Sydney, 2023
Currently studying at Keio University, Faculty of Policy Studies
Loves to observe and works mainly with photography and video works

“September 21”
Director: Rahman Burhani（Ahvaz Development Senior High School/Iran）

The film is about the effects of war on the soul, body, future and dreams of war children.

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Rahman Burhani
actor
the author
Director of short films

“Grandpa Rolf”
Director: Jakob Ossmann（KASK & Conservatorium/Germany）

What would my dead nazi grandpa say about Gaza today?
German guilt runs deep. And Germanys today being one of the biggest suppliers of weapons to Isreal makes this situation only more complicated. Since my nazi grandpa is dead and i cant talk to him about it anymore, i made this short film.

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Jakob Ossmann is a film student and writer director of documentaries and fiction short films. Hes also invested into street photography and has published a collection of short stories.

“Second Hand”
Director：E. Kemal Mert
Producer：Suleyman Kilic（Hacı Bayram Veli university/Turkey）

A grieving and angry father, who lost a leg and his daughter in the war, sells the shoes that his deceased daughter bought while she was alive but could not wear, in the second-hand market to protest the war.

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Short film director and photographer continues her film work.