Nippon Visions Jury Award

The NIPPON VISIONS JURY AWARD will be given out for the eighth time to one of the 17 directors participating in the competition with their films from the NIPPON VISIONS section. The winner will receive a free subtitling for his or her next film, sponsored by Japan Visualmedia Translation Academy (JVTA) from Tokyo.

Jury: Bastian Meiresonne (Film curator, Festival International des Cinémas d’Asie de Vesoul), Yuka SAKANO (Kawakita Memorial Film Institute, Tokio), Nobuhiro YAMASHITA (Director MY UNCLE und OVER THE FENCE)

Winner of the NIPPON VISIONS JURY AWARD 2017 is POOLSIDEMAN by Hirobumi WATANABE. 
Special mention of the NIPPON VISIONS JURY: GOING THE DISTANCE by Yujiro HARUMOTO 

Competition films
95 AND 6 TO GO by Kimi TAKESUE
BOYS FOR SALE by Itako
DYNAMITE WOLF by Kohei TANIGUCHI
ERIKO, PRETENDED by Akiyo FUJIMURA
GOING THE DISTANCE by Yujiro HARUMOTO
GOOD/BYE by Izumi MATSUNO
GUI AIUEO:S A STONE FROM ANOTHER MOUNTAIN TO POLISH YOUR OWN STONE by Go SHIBATA
INNOCENT 15 by Hirokazu KAI
LOVE AND GOODBYE AND HAWAII by Shingo MATSUMURA
MIFUNE: THE LAST SAMURAI by Steven OKAZAKI
PARKS by Natsuki SETA
POOLSIDEMAN by Hirobumi WATANABE
RAISE YOUR ARMS AND TWIST! DOCUMENTARY OF NMB48 by Atsushi FUNAHASHI
THE SOWER by Yosuke TAKEUCHI
START LINE by Ayako IMAMURA
LA TERRE ABANDONNÉE by Gilles Laurent
YAMATO (CALIFORNIA) by Daisuke MIYAZAKI