Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival 2016

Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival 2016

映画祭

@ UPLINK, Shibuya 150-0042, Tokyo, Japan

Photos from the 2016 Tokyo Lift-Off Event!

W/C April 11th. Six Feature Films and 30 Shorts screened to a marvelous audeince at the UPLINK Factroy in Shibuya.....

Posted by Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival on Friday, 15 April 2016

Winners, Nominations and Prizes…

Best Feature Live Action Narrative...
Backroad (Japan) Directed by Hiroya Taka

Winning...
Official Selection Las Vegas Lift-Off Film Festival, Palms Casino Resort, USA - June 2016.

Season Award Nominations...
Seasons Best Feature Narrative.
Seasons Best Post Production.
Seasons Best Acting Ensemble.
Seasons Best Actor: Yuna Shigeishi.

Best Feature Documentary...
For the Love of Life: Living for Tomorrow (Japan) Directed by Hanae Uchida

Winning...
Official Selection Las Vegas Lift-Off Film Festival, Palms Casino Resort, USA - June 2016.

Season Award Nominations...
Season Best Feature Documentary.

Best Short Live Action Narrative...
Contrapelo (Mexico/USA) Directed by Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer

Winning...
Official Selections at all proceeding Lift-Off Film Festivals.

Best Short Documentary...
Finding Beauty in the Rubble (Japan) Directed by Matthew T. Burns

Winning...
Official Selections at all proceeding Lift-Off Film Festivals.

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Winner and Special Mention Tokyo Lift-Off Online 2016

Winner: Yellow by Alexander Hankoff & Alexander Maxwell.
Wins Official Selection for the live screenings at Vancouver Lift-Off Film Festival | August 2016

Special Mention Another Life by Javid Rezai.
Wins Official Selection for the live screenings at Las Vegas Lift-Off Film Festival | June 2016

Join the global exchange of independent film and support the best emerging filmmakers from Japan and around the world. Screening short film, feature films, animations, music videos, documentaries and drama.


東京へリフトオッフが初到来!自主映画の国際交流を堪能し、日本や世界のフィルムメーカーを応援しましょう。映画祭は三日に続くショートフィルム、フィーチャフィルム、アニメ、音楽映画、ドキュメンタリーやドラマを放映します。

Monday 11th April

Feature 1:
6.30 - 7.50pm

For the Love of Life: Living for Tomorrow
83 mins, Japan, 2014
Japanese with English subs. | 英語字幕付き日本語音声
Dir. Hanae Uchida
Hiroshi Tsukada was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) at the age 48. He communicates with his wife using movements of his eyes. Hiroshi decides to travel to meet other patients who are battling against ALS.


Feature 2:
8pm - 8.34pm

The Fighter
29 mins, South Africa/Brazil, 2015
Portugese with Japanese & English Subs | 日本語字幕付き英語音声
Dir. Dara Kell & Christopher Nizza
Home for 12-year-old Naomy is the so-called slum area of Rio’s Vila Autódromo, where everything she loves is being ripped apart to make way for the 2016 Olympic Park. Naomy’s wide eyes take in everything, from the cynical, illegal eviction efforts of the Brazilian authorities to her her community’s refusal to go quietly. As the young girl comes of age, in a struggle too familiar to South Africans, Naomy musters the strength of her father, swearing to fight to the end.


Trailers:

Short Programme 1:
8.44pm - 10.30pm

Tokyo Story
13 mins, Japan, 2014
No dialogue | セリフ無し
Dir. Edward Levinson


Electric Town
19 mins, Japan, 2014
Japanese with English subs. | 英語字幕付き日本語音声
Dir. Tony Mullen


Finding Beauty in the Rubble
4 mins, USA, 2015
Japanese with English subs | 英語字幕付き日本語音声
Dir. Matthew T. Burns
In Japan, a tsunami survivor turns beach debris into jewellery.


Tickle the Ivories
15 mins, UK, 2015
English with Japanese Subs | 日本語字幕付き英語音声
Dir. Glenn Hanstock


Sty
10 mins, Hungry, 2015
English & Japanese Subs | 日本語字幕付き英語音声
Dir. Arpad Herman


A complicated way to live
14 mins, UK, 2015
English & Japanese Subs | 日本語字幕付き英語音声
Dir. Ged Hunter


Nine
9 mins, Thailand, 2015
Animation | セリフ無し
Dir. Wanichaya Phraejunya, Chawalit Kaewmanee


Aeris
12 mins, UK, 2015
English with Japanese Subs | 日本語字幕付き英語音声
Dir. Tijmen Veldhuizen


Tuesday 12th April

Feature 3:
6.30 - 8.05pm

Last Summer,
94 mins, Italy, 2014
English, no subs
Dir. Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli
Having lost custody of her six year-old son, a young Japanese woman (Kikuchi) has four days to say goodbye to him on-board a yacht belonging to her western ex-husband's wealthy family. Alone with the crew, who are under direct instruction to keep a watchful eye on her, the woman must try to forge a connection with her son before she has to part from him for many years.


Feature 4:
8.15 - 9.38pm

Blue Desert
94 mins, Japan, 2014
Portuguese, With english & Japanese subs. | 日本語字幕付き英語音声
Dir. Eder Santos
A man who is tormented by his intuitions and by dreams goes away to find answers to his discomfort. Revelations are made to him along his path, until he meets his soul mate and is prepared to the Blue Desert.


Trailers:

Short Programme 2:
9.48pm - 10.30pm

The Ramona Flowers Tokyo
6 mins,UK, 2014
Music video (no dialogue) | セリフ無し
Dir. Bouha Kazmi


Sheun
14 mins, Japan, 2015
Japanese with English subs. | 英語字幕付き日本語音声
Dir. Philippe McKie


A Way of Life
9 mins, UK, Hong Kong, Japan, 2015
Japanese with English subs. | 英語字幕付き日本語音声
Dir. Tian Ji


Trailers:

Wednesday 13th April

Features 5 & 6:
7.00 - 8.20pm


Soil
48 mins, France
English with Japanese Subs | 日本語字幕付き英語音声
Dir. Mathilde Huron & Juilan Feeld
A young filmmaker sets out to document the friendship between a fifteen year old Parisian girl and a homeless alcoholic on the verge of death. What seems at first to be a documentary quickly devolves into a voyeuristic exploration of young Liza's past and an attempt to undermine Adam, who is confined to the addiction ward of the Hopital Fernand Widal, lost in resentment.


Backroad
32 mins, Japan
Japanese with English Subs | 英語字幕付き日本語音声
Dir. Hiroya Taka, Japan


Trailers:

Short Programme 3:
8.30pm - 11.00pm


SHINITOMONA 
4 mins Japan, 2016
Animation | セリフ無し
Dir. Daisuke Horide


Francis B. Griffin 
9 mins, UK, 2015
English with Japanese subs | 英語字幕付き日本語音声
Dir. Paul Griffin


Agravoy 
10 mins, UK, 2015
Dir. Jacob Nizzola


The Apple tree 
19 mins, USA, 2015
Dir. Scott Storm


The Guest 
20 mins, UK, 2015
Dir. Federico Olivetti


The Independent
22 mins, Japan, 2015
Japanese with English Subs | 英語字幕付き日本語音声
Dir. Lisa Kimura


Artist 
30 mins, Japan, 2014
Japanese with English Subs | 英語字幕付き日本語音声
Dir. Nobuaki Itoh


Tokyo Lift-Off Online 2016

Forming part of the festival week is our Lift-Off Online Screenings. Over 80 films from all over the world make up the programme which will be going live from 11th - 17th April.

Rent all of the films for the entire week for just ¥1000, thats less than 12 cents per film.

Watch the amazing work and vote for your favourite film.

Click here and watch the films today!

The top two scoring films will join us and form part of the programmes at either Las Vegas or Vancouver Lift-Off's in the summer!

Here are the films and filmmakers featured in this years online event...

Night Shift by Philipp Andonie
Lilla Vän Jag Vill Bo I En Husvagn (Valsaland) by Goblin Mikkanen
Spirit from the Meadow by Joant Úbeda
girl by Andrea Sand Gustavson
IN GOD WE TRUST by Elefterios Zacharopoulos
Early Birds by Radford Nicholls
Ill Will by Lester Brown
The Way of Tea by Marc Fouchard
IRONIED TYLER by LIONEL PARR
The Surgeons by Siar Sedig
The Diver by Heiko Aufdermauer
Obsolescence by Andrea Cristini
The Optimist by John Mervin
The Prey by Alejandro Alvarez Cadilla
THE GOLDEN RULE by RYAN KRUGER
Sub Rosa by Thora Hilmarsdottir

he theater by Salome Tkebuchava
Redemption by Alessandro Della Villa, Alessandro Moscatt
Memoirs Of A Lost Mind
Tits on a Bull by Tim Worrall
Tony Windberg. A Painter in the Woods by Thomas Schumacher
Restoration by Tim Tsiklauri
Bound for Greatness by Jimmy Gadd
Nali Kit by Bong CHEUNG
JAPANESE GARDENS IN AMERICA - keeping the culture alive by Rie Fukuno
the good boy by A. L. Lee
A thousand nights by Xiaoyu Yang
Mayda by Abhi Kumar
Lost in Stångby by Therese Ahlbeck
HOSS by Christine Boylan
My Brief Eternity: Ar Awyr Le by Clare Sturges
Euxine

Eiffel Tower by Aynsley Bubbico
Middleman by Gamal Istiyanto
The Light Thief by Eva Daoud
The Waitress by Shunsuke Teshima
A nearly perfect blue sky by Quarxx -
Eddie by Brad Golowin
The Other Side by Michael Degani
High Chaparral by David Freid
PreFlexia by Shawn Leister-Frazier
At the End of the Line by Robert Kerr
October Pain by Ethan Daniel Levy
Her Ring by Alessandro Amante
FATUM by RADOSLAW PIETRUCZUK
Aerial Appalachia by Jordan Nelson
Such Morning Songs by James Perry
Between Departures by Jaclyn Bethany

Oliver's Landing by Eugenio Juarez
Ice Cold by Jonathan Gesthuizen
Schoolgirls by Jaclyn Bethany
Ch.1 If These Trees Could Talk by Akhil Khithani
Snaps: The Musical by Jackson Rosenfeld
SUBHUMAN by Jasmin Baumgartner
Saving Love by Roman Olkhovka
10:00 AM by Christopher Lazar
Mia Larva
Across the Tracks by Michael Cooke
As We Say Goodbye by Jhosimar vasquez
Le Collectionneur by Emilija Riviere
15 by Michael Wilson
ENTELECHY by Ariana Delawari
Loveless by Maja Hamplova
The Briefcase by kurt martin

Edo
the Man by Ramzy M. Shuhaiber
VESSEL by Jack Dilday
Another Life by Javid Rezai
depending on traffic by ben cotti
The Day to Choose by Lee Leon
Henry Demos by Raoul Dyssell
Resilient by Cynthia S. Kao
Soul's Mirror by Frode Graadahl
3xLOVE by Olga Chajdas
Yellow by Alexander Hankoff
The Soul of a Tree by Mari Walker
The Kidnapping of a Fish by Philip A Ramos
Life
Hot Chocolate by greg smith
OverAgain by Marc Pannia