Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival Winners 2018

Many thanks to everyone who participated in this year’s Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival. It was great to see so many filmmakers and film enthusiasts filling the screenings in support of both local and international indie films. The judges' votes have been counted and added to the audience's feedback. Huge congratulations to the filmmakers who screened with us, who all did themselves proud. All Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival winners will receive complimentary screenings at future Lift-Off Film Festivals. A special well-done to the following films.

Photos from the event can be seen on the Tokyo Lift-Off Facebook Page.

Festival Winners

Best Short Live Action Narrative

(next screening with Lift-Off in New York)

Silence

Dirs. Leo Cannone, Thibaud Lomenech
Synopsis: For a moment, a strange phenomenon plunges the world In absolute silence. When the sound returns, several people Disappeared, caught up in silence. Lola, 30, will lose her companion Karl in these terrible circumstances.

Best Documentary

(next screening with Lift-Off in Toronto)

Mitaka Sumo School

Dir. Ruben Ventura Camacho
Synopsis: "Mitaka Sumo School" is a Documentary of a school of kids that practise Sumo near of Tokyo. Talks about the opinion of the kids of an millenial sport, that still is practised to transmit some values based in the respect and the no-violence.

Special Mentions

Special Mention

(next screening with Lift-Off in Toronto)

Backstory

Dir. Joschka Laukeninks
Synopsis: As a young child our protagonist is left by his mother and has to live with his violent father. He fights his way through adolescence and falls in love with the woman of his dreams and just as everything seems to be finally working out for him, a sudden event changes the course of his life forever. A story about how everything we love, everything we learn, everything we build, everything we fear, will one day be gone.

Season Award Nominations