Program E 19:25~21:15

While the Mom and the Dad try to put their baby to sleep, a competition arises between them: who will manage to get the baby to say the first word?

Genre: Drama
Year of Production: 2024
Running time: 3 minutes
Country of Production： France

Directed and written by： Lyna Tadount & Sofian Chouaib
Cast： Norlhoda Dali、Omar Salem、Hicham Hamdaoui、Bilal-Amine Bachir

Director　Lyna Tadount

Born in Tizi Ouzou (Algeria), Lyna Tadount grew up around Paris and became a passionate, self-taught artist in several fields. She graduated from the Faculty of Letters at Sorbonne University. From October 2023 to February 2024, she co-wrote and co-directed Ya Hanouni within the framework of the Nikon Film Festival, allowing her to anchor herself in socially engaged cinema. Currently, Lyna is enrolled in a series screenwriting program at Nouvelles Écritures, where she is developing her series project.

Director　Sofian Chouaib

Born in the south of France, Sofian Chouaib debuted as a content creator on YouTube during his high school years but quickly found his vocation in cinema. He then decided to pursue his studies at the University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne where he graduated in 2021 in the cinema section. Currently, Sofian is a director and screenwriter based in Paris.

After a mass procession of people in Mexico, a mysterious incident causes them to suffer from amnesia. The effects of this event escalate and lead to a deadly conflict between aliens.

Genre: SF/ Action/ Comedy
Year of Production: 2024
Running time: 19 minutes
Country of Production： Japan

Directed by： Ichikawa Yuto
Cinematography: Toranosuke Yamada
Art: Kimiyu Chiba
Music: Hono Kubochi

Takumi Fujiwara, Miya Sato, Hono Kuboji, Ryoko Takami, Miki Tachiwa, Kota Uechi, Yuka Nishimura

Director Ichikawa Yuto

Graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Comparative Arts. Entered the Film School of Tokyo in the fourth year and is currently enrolled in its advanced course. This work was selected as a screening piece for the Film School’s introductory course.

Bound by his job and by his own identity, a man loses sight of his purpose in life—until a single painting falls before him.
As he picks it up, he realizes it’s a piece he himself painted long ago. At that moment, memories of a place—neither fully real nor entirely dream—begin to resurface.
This is Chapter One: a confrontation with the director’s own fixed ideas.

Genre: Experimental
Year of Production: 2025
Running time: 17 minutes
Country of Production： Japan
Cinematography: Daiki Arai
Editing: Daiki Arai
Production Designer: Daiki Arai
CG & VFX Design: Daiki Arai

Daiki Arai

監督　荒井 大輝　Daiki Arai

Born in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture in 1999.
In the summer of his third year of high school, he watched David Lynch’s feature film, Eraserhead, for the first time and was profoundly impacted.
Since then, he has immersed himself in the bizarre film genre known as “cult movies.” Using materials like stone clay, small light bulbs, matchsticks, and doorknobs, he creates works with the theme of “turning points in life.”
STEREOTYPE is his first film production.

Monsieur Figaro is a lazy, haughty, and even disdainful creature who tricks, deceives, and lies to his two loving owners. When Monsieur Figaro shares his secret with his two owners, they make an unexpected decision that no one expected.

Genre: Stop-motion Animation Drama Comedy
Year of Production: 2025
Running time: 4 minutes
Country of Production： France
Directed and Written by： Sarah Benhammou-Lionnard

Benoît Allemane
Diane Davina Grauzam
Clara Hertz

Director　Sarah Benhammou-Lionnard

Sarah Benhammou-Lionnard is a young freshly arrived French director inviting spectators to question their vision of the world through mixed arts, poetry and know-how. She is a fully accomplished artist as she directs movies from writting to post-production, including drawing, storybording, sewing, crafting, filming, editing, producing, and diffusing. Thanks to her movies, spectators of all ages and from all over the world can question their existence in a society that constantly evolves. Sarah Benhammou-Lionnard is the founder of a French fresh-starting studio named after her : Maison Lionnard. She wrote 5 long-length movies ready to be produced. “Maison Lionnard, engaging art, because to act, one must first know”

The buying company Tsukumo goes on a business trip to Frankfurt, Germany, and is entrusted by the president to sell a precious teapot in the resale market. While happily going out with the local employees, they suddenly lose the teapot that they had put in their bag. They desperately search around the city but cannot find it, and reluctantly end up going to a flea market to buy a replacement. However, when faced with the president, they can no longer lie due to their guilt.

Genre: Comedy
Year of Production: 2024
Running time: 8 minutes
Country of Production： Japan

Direction, Writing, Editing: Shikano Yohei
Cinematography: Shikano Yohei
Recording: Shikano Yohei
Production: Tsukasa Watanabe, Maria Krusanova

Naoya Watanabe、Tobias Wolf、Sayumi Wujanz、Jakob Dusse、Benjamin Laghchioua、Qasim Syed

Director Shikano Yohei

Born in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture in 1992. In 2017, after finishing his graduate study at Department of New Media, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts, he was employed as a trainee assistant director by Toei Company, Ltd. He joined the directing section of many movies and TV dramas at Toei Movie Studios and Toei Studios Kyoto. He left the company in April 2020 to start his own business as a freelance video creator and assistant director.

Tokyo. It is a city where fiction and reality are intertwined. The protagonist, Koichi, walks on today, trying to get through the present.
One day, he meets a Chinese exchange student, Ou, who works as an actor in a small theater. Influenced by Ou, who came to Japan with ambition, Koichi begins to change. The two young men desperately try to survive in the neon-lit fictional city as they race through Tokyo.
When Ou’s hidden secret is revealed, the world of theater merges with reality.

Genre: Fiction
Year of Production: 2025
Running time: 18 minutes
Country of Production： Japan

Direction, Writing, Editing： ItazuGen
Production： NakamuraMiyu, ZhangYuZhuo
Cinematography：FuWenJin, OsawaYoshiki
Lighting： NishiyamaKaisei
Recording： HayasakaAyane
Music： Masamitsu
Art： QinHaiRuo
Stage art： SunYue

MaedaHaruki
HuangYuCong
NatsuAnna, TanigishiYota, HiguchiFutaba, TanakaDaichi, Airi, HondaYuji, ZhangXinNi, Nini, ShiokawaDaichi, TakemuraKouki, KiyomiyaRyohei

Pic Pic is an experimental animated film that metaphorically and conceptually reveals an erotic and exhilarating dimension of touching. The haptic relationship with the pin screen reveals forms and a primitive language that evoke a sensual relationship with the device.

Genre: Animation, Experimental
Year of Production： 2024
Running time: 6 minutes
Country of Production： Canada
Directed by：Carol-Ann Belzil-Normand
Co-prod：La Bande Vidéo

Director　Carol-Ann Belzil-Normand

Carol-Ann Belzil-Normand lives and works in Quebec. She is currently studying for a PhD in littérature et arts de la scène et de l’écran at Université Laval. In her research, she is interested in the concept of frivolity as a sensitive and humorous methodological approach through animated cinema. Belzil-Normand has completed creative residencies and participated in collective exhibitions in several artist-run centers in Quebec.

Once, there was a lump of meat in Kobayashi Sara’s classroom. That classmate, who was harmless yet out of place, was someone Sara couldn’t fully stand by. Even in college, that sense of guilt remained. One day, after a chance encounter at the cafeteria, Sara goes to confirm the past she had revisited countless times with her own eyes.

Director　Mizuki Doi

In high school, directed and starred in a short film that received an Honorable Mention at a film festival. Now studying film production at university.

A fictional mythological movie about the birth and death of our planet. The movie shows things happening on the planet through the eyes of two naive god figures; a wild girl who has the power of creation, and a shy boy who has the power of destruction. This is not a fight between “bad” and “good”, but a game between two equal parts to find harmony, which seems to work well until a new issue enters the story: the human race.

Running time: 11 minutes
Country of Production： Hungary
Director: Julia Tudisco

Julia Tudisco

My name is Julia Tudisco. I’m a half-Hungarian, half-Italian animation filmmaker and illustrator, based in Budapest. I completed my Master’s in Animation at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in 2023, with my graduation short film, ‘Children of the Bird.’ I directed three other short films before: ‘Sirens,’ ‘Oh Droplet,’ and ‘Baby Steps.’ My creative inspiration mainly comes from the intuitive sketches in my sketchbook. I love folk art, folktales, mythological stories from different cultures, naive art, and I especially admire how children can draw. I am a fan of any artwork that feels very pure and honest. This is my guiding principle in all my films.