UFPFF 2024 Award-winning films screening! December 20-26, Human Trust Cinema Shibuya

The 14th UFPFF 2024 was held on September 16th, and the three award-winning films have been decided.
This year, the award-winning films will be screened at the Human Trust Cinema Shibuya for one week from December 20th! Please take this opportunity to see the International Peace Film Festival 2024 award-winning films in theaters.

Price: 500 yen
Venue: Human Trust Cinema Shibuya (Cocochi Building 7th and 8th floors, 1-23-16 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)
Phone: 03-5468-5551

Films to be screened

UFPFF 2024 Grand Prix

“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.

Profile:
Rahman Burhani
actor
the author
Director of short films

UFPFF 2024 Second Prize

“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.

Profile:
Short film director and photographer continues her film work.

UFPFF 2024 Special Jury Prize

“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.

Profile:
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.

*Click here for the list of finalists.

Report on PEACEDAY × UFPFF2024

In the first part was the PEACE DAY Special Program, in addition to NPO PEACE DAY Representative Director Takashi Inoue, actor/TV personality Sahel Rosa, and United For Peace Film Festival Representative Director Kenji Sekine, broadcaster Tetra Tanizaki will join the opening talk session with a special program. The opening talk session was followed by a screening of “Bouquet” (executive producer: Shunji Iwai, music: SUGIZO), Sahel Rosa’s first film as a director. After the screening, Ms. Sahel Rosa, the producer, and cast members took the stage.

The second part was the United For Peace Film Festival (UFPFF) 2024 began with the projection of video messages arriving from UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Kaoru Nemoto, Director of the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) Tokyo, in commemoration of the International Day of Peace, commonly known as Peace Day, September 21.This was followed by a screening of this year’s nine finalists’ films and a one-minute speech, in which high school and university students from Japan, Germany, and Israel took the stage, and video messages from the finalists from Japan, Taiwan, and Iran were aired.