A massive thank you to everyone who participated in the Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival 2022. It's been absolutely fantastic having so many filmmakers involved and seeing the global support for true indie film...
The judges' votes have been counted and added to the audience's feedback. Huge congratulations to the filmmakers who screened with us! A particular well done to the following films...
Festival Winners
Best Film
(next screening with Lift-Off in Los Angeles 2022)
Last Words
Dir. Joaquín González
Synopsis: A young woman receives a phone call and a mysterious man informs her she is going to die. They embark in a long conversation. The night unfolds in a desperate attempt to prolongue the call, in a need to understand and in a poetic search of last words.
Best Film
(next screening with Lift-Off in London 2022)
The little prodigy (Le Petit prodige)
Dir. Xavier Diskeuve
Synopsis: A young pianist finds himself drawn more or less willingly into a scheme of football players' agents...
Season Award Nominations
The Lift-Off Season Awards is an annual event that celebrates the very best of indie film. Following each Lift-Off film festival, films that have excelled in their respective category are nominated and invited to attend the prestigious Lift-Off Season Awards, culminating at the end of the Lift-Off season. Click here for more information about the Lift-Off Season Awards.
Of Fish and Men
Dir. Stefanie Klemm
Synopsis:" Happiness seems complete when Judith, her 6-year-old daughter Milla and her assistant, former drug addict Gabriel, get together on the remote fish farm in the Bernese Jura. But then Milla tragically dies in a robbery and the idyll is shattered."
Best Feature Live Action Narrative
Ground Control
Dir. Thor Zing Lodberg
Synopsis: On a night out in Copenhagen, Louie has a mental breakdown and wakes up in a psychiatric ward. It’s not the first time he has lost control but now his girlfriend Ville can’t take it anymore. Louie doesn’t understand that and sets out to save his broken relationship.
Nominated for Best First-Time Film
Lie Still
Dir. Ida Marie Meurs-Gerken
Synopsis: The film revolves around siblings Johanne and Simon who are enjoying their youth in Copenhagen with shared parties, shared friends and a shared apartment. Everything changes one night when Simon brings a girl home, believing that Johanne will sleep over at a friend’s house, and then ends up raping her with Johanne as a witness on the other side of the wall. This sends Johanne into the biggest dilemma of her life in which she must choose between helping and ‘saving’ one of the people she loves the most or standing up for the girl whose rape she unwillingly became the key witness of.
Nominated for Best First-Time Film
Audience Choice
The Audience Choice award is given to the filmmakers whose film received the most votes during the festival. The filmmakers will be invited to join us on the Lift-Off YouTube channel for a directors commentary roundtable. Join in the conversation as we delve deeper into each film.
Bad Luck
Dir. Jean-Louis Uzan
Synopsis: A trip around the world could be any one's dream, right? Except when one is a fugitive in the midst of an existential crisis,like me.
A schizophrenic Hollywood screenwriter who has seen to many movies is searching me for murder.
Ground Control
Dir. Thor Zing Lodberg
Synopsis: On a night out in Copenhagen, Louie has a mental breakdown and wakes up in a psychiatric ward. It’s not the first time he has lost control but now his girlfriend Ville can’t take it anymore. Louie doesn’t understand that and sets out to save his broken relationship.
Download My Heart In The Metaverse
Dir. Mo Rebec
Synopsis: It is the world's first music film based on the first global song about the Metaverse. The film takes the audience on a grand musical tour of the Metaverse. It's apart of the "Download My Heart" Series by, Hashtag Queens