Prize money: 100,000 Japanese Yen

Prize money: 30,000 Japanese Yen

Prize money: 20,000 Japanese Yen

Date: September 20, 2025, 12:00-19:30(TBD)
Place: Human Trust Cinema Shibuya (1-23-16 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)
Organizer: UNITED FOR PEACE FILM FESTIVAL
Cooperation:Theatres Cinema Group, Sapporo International Short Film Festival（No Maps | FILM）, Think the Earth, Yokohama Community Design Lab, SLOTH

Theme: Films of 5 minutes or less on the theme of peace or SDGs
Eligibility: All students from around the world
Duration: Within 5 minutes (films produced after 2024) , up to 2 films
Language: Japanese or English (English subtitles required for non-English/Japanese entries. If in a language other than Japanese, please include Japanese subtitles if possible.)
Entry period: Submit your film to UFPFF 2025 from March 21 to June 30.
Entry fee: Free
Finalists: 10 Finalists will be announced by the end of July. Finalists will be invited to join the ceremony and to screen their works at venue in Tokyo on September 20th. * Please note that we can not cover traveling cost to the venue.
Genre: All genres of film are accepted.
Format: Films submitted in the following formats MOV, MP4, AVI, or MPEG are accepted. We recommend that you finalize your work at the aspect ratio of 16:9.

Takashi Inoue(Representative Director and Chairperson, LIFULL, Co., Ltd. )
Katsuzo Takahashi (Director, UFPFF)
Kouki Tange(Filmmaker, Professor at Kyoto University of the Arts)
Akihiro Nishizawa (Executive Officer, Tokyo Theatres Co., Ltd.)

・ The selected films of finalists will be uploaded and viewable on the UFPFF YouTube channel.
・ When your work includes any individual or faces, please confirm the permissions for use before submitting your film.
・ When your work includes any music or other artwork for which you do not own the copyright, please get the clearance from the persons or parties concerned (the copyright owners) before you submit your work.
・ When your work includes a third person or third party’s artwork (writing, music etc.), please include the confirmation of this agreement by the artist to our office.
・ UFPFF will not accept any responsibility or liability in cases where any personal rights, or copyright infringement should occur.
・ We will not be able to return any data or tapes of your work after submission.
・ The copyright of each work belongs to the filmmakers, though UFPFF may reserve the right to use some part of your work in order to promote and announce this festival on their website, or in associated sites, within promotions and PR documents, or within certain media like brochures, programs, flyers etc. UFPFF would like to request the complimentary use of your film and work, including the title, your name, profile and portrait for promotion, and at no cost. We reserve the right to edit your work for the same promotional reasons, so please confirm and agree that the moral rights for your work(s) will be permitted for festival promotion related activities.
・Even if certain rights for publicity and promotional use (broadcasting rights, publishing rights, etc.) and the secondary copyrights of your work are transferred to a third party, UFPFF will maintain the same original conditions outlined in the preceding clause.
Therefore, when an award-winning filmmaker transfers or sells the rights of the work to a third party, please make sure to include the conditions of the preceding clause in the contract.
・ You may submit a total of two(2) individual films.
・ UFPFF may not be able to screen your film if there are any rights-related issues.