SKIP CITY Shorts
- Wednesday, May 24, 17:00 Naxoshalle Kino
- VANISH
- by Yusuke HATAI
- Japan 2015, Blu-ray, 18 min, Japanese with English subtitles
- International premiere
- Ping Pang
ピンパン - by Yoichi TANAKA
- Japan 2016, Blu-ray, 15 min, Japanese with English subtitles
- German premiere
- Son of the Bakery
パン屋の息子
Panya no musuko - by Shintaro HIHARA
- Japan 2015, Blu-ray, 22 min, Japanese with English subtitles
- International premiere
- Lies
嘘をついて
Uso o tsuite - by Yuji MITSUHASHI
- Japan 2015, Blu-ray, 25 min, Japanese with English subtitles
- International premiere
- in the presence of the directore Yusuke HATAI and Yoichi TANAKA
Founded in 2004, the SKIP CITY INTERNATIONAL D-Cinema FESTIVAL in Saitama showcases a selection of short films by promising Japanese filmmakers every year. NIPPON CONNECTION introduces four of those short films from the 2016 line-up. Dealing with nothing less than the fundamental questions in life, they are sometimes sober and realistic, sometimes melodramatic and mysterious. In any case they prove a point: It’s not always the length that counts!
