Films

🇮🇸Iceland

Country: Iceland (produced in 2020)
Screening time: 15 min
Language: Icelandic
Subtitles: Japanese/English
Date: 15th.2 (Sat) venue: Snow theater

『When the Trees Come』

監督：Berglind þrastardóttir

Japanese title: 木々が来るとき / Original title Þegar Trén Koma / Director Berglind þrastardóttir / Iceland / drama / 2020 / 15min / Icelandic / Subtitle: Japanese/English

Þröstur is 8 years old, his older sister Dagný is 13. After hearing the myths of werewolves returning to Iceland, Þröstur has more to worry about than just the elves and trolls. One full-moon night Þröstur wakes with a start and sees Dagný’s bed is empty, he goes to her bedside to find blood spots on her bedsheets. Þröstur believes his sister is becoming a werewolf. This film retells the suffering saga of menstruation as a mythical metamorphosis through the eyes of a reverent younger brother. In Iceland where trees are starting to grow over the barren landscape as the glaciers melt, rumors are spreading over the playground that with the trees the werewolves are coming back! One night young Þröstur wakes to find blood in the bedsheets of his 13 year old sister... could it be, his own sister, a werewolf?

The tale of menstruation as one of magic and fairytales and not of suffering. Telling not only the change she feels in herself but also the burden of an oncoming responsibility: a changing climate reality she did not ask for.
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🇫🇮Finland

Country: Finland (produced in 2024)
Screening time: 8.31 min
Date: 15th.2 (Sat) venue: Snow theater

『Flower show』

監督：Eri Vuorinen

Japanese title: フラワーショー / Iceland / animation / 2024 / 8.31min / non dialoge

Courteous formality, allusive sexuality, and mysterious nature entwine at the annual flower show. During the celebration, wild flowers are stomped to the ground. In the woods, nature and fragile leg hairs continue to grow. The poetic film portrays a fragmented story of how girls have been cultivated like flowers for generations. We need more growing seasons to breed new ways into the system.
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🇳🇴Norway

Country: Norway (produced in 2024)
Screening time: 18 min
Language: Norwegian
Subtitles: Japanese/English
Date: 15th.2 (Sat) venue: Snow theater

『Warrior Heart』

監督：Marianne Olsen Ulrichsen

Japanese title: 戦士の心 / Original title: Smerteterskel / Norway / drama / 2024 / 18min / Norwegian / Subtitle: Japanese/English

Vilja (12) loves wrestling even though she's terrified of pain and loses every match. When her parents separate, Vilja's feelings shut down. Then mum’s new boyfriend’s daughter, Thea, turns out to be a star wrestler. Can Vilja overcome her fear of physical and emotional pain?
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🇫🇮Finland

Country: Finland (produced in 2011)
Screening time: 3.37min
Language: Finnish
Subtitles: English
Date: 15th.2 (Sat) venue: Snow theater

『Fish Story』

監督：Teemu Nikki

Japanese title: 魚の話 / Finland / drama / 2011 / 3.37min / Finnish / Subtitle: Japanese/English

Grab the salmon and run! This film is shot on a cell phone.A rescue of a rare kind, this run has Forrest Gump's attempt to resemble the Kalvinknat. If any animals were harmed during filming? No, the fish get breathing breaks all the time! And the photographer gets to (finally) use his fisheye!
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🇸🇪Sweden

Country: Sweden (produced in 2023)
Screening time:12 min
Language: Swedish
Subtitles: Japanese/English
Date: 15th.2 (Sat) venue: Snow theater

『The Rip』

監督：Anna Furenmo, Ditte Lindroth

Japanese title: 裂け目 / Original title: Revan / Sweden / animation / 2023 / 12min / Swedish / Subtitle: Japanese/English

Eight-year-old Nåmi's greatest wish to get a Tamagotch for Christmas has just come true. This Christmas is absolutely perfect. Apart from father who is in a coma in the hospital, mother whispering on the phone and the vegetables in Nåmi's soup accusing her of murder. It was her cold that got into his brain. To avoid her own feelings of guilt, Nåmi becomes obsessed with keeping her Tamagotch alive. A film directed by Ditte Lindroth and Anna Furenmo in a series of graduation films from the Stockholm Academy of Arts.
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🇳🇴Norway

Country: Norway (produced in 2022)
Screening time: 18 min
Language: Norwegian
Subtitles: Japanese/English
Date: 15th.2 (Sat) venue: Snow theater

『Planet Robin』

監督：Johan Kaos Nåden Dyrstad

Japanese title: ロビンと惑星 / Norway / drama / 2022 / 18min / Norwegian / Subtitle: Japanese/English

Nine-year-old Robin discovers a small planet hovering by itself in the woods. It is damaged and needs help, so Robin takes it home and hides it in the garage with disastrous consequences. Robin's parents no longer have any time for her because they are too busy arguing. Robin takes refuge in the woods, where she finds a planet that has crashed and is badly wounded. She hides it in the garage and nurses it back to health. Will Robin be able to keep her new friend a secret even as her parents begin packing the boxes to move?
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🇩🇰Denmark

Country: Denmark (produced in 2020)
Screening time: 8 min
Language: Danish
Subtitles: Japanese/English
Date: 15th.2 (Sat) venue: Snow theater

『The Man and the Head』

監督：Nilas Røpke Driessen

Japanese title: 男と頭 / Denmark / animation / 2020 / 8min / Danish / Subtitle: Japanese/English

A little man builds a house on a giant floating head. The man and the head develop a friendship, talk about their days and try to figure out what to do with their lives.
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🇸🇪Sami・Sweden

Country: Sapmi/Sweden (produced in 2023)
Screening time: 7 min
Language: North Sami
Subtitles: Japanese/English
Date: 15th.2 (Sat) venue: Snow theater

『MOTHER』

監督：Liselotte Wajstedt

Japanese title: 母 / Director Liselotte Wajstedt / Sweden / Fiction / 2023 / 7min / North Sami / Subtitle: Japanese/English

“Háldi”, a forest creature, she is a part of the egotistical system, that may lure children into the woods. Why? EADNI, which means mother, is a multi-layered visual saga that provokes thought. Focusing on Háldi, the whole story is a creation story with the hope that we will protect nature and ensure that the eternal cycle continues. The never-ending saga of the essence of life.
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🇯🇵Japan

37 minute uncut full version screening">
Country: Japan (produced in 2024)
Screening time: 37 min
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English
Date: 15th.2 (Sat) venue: Snow theater 19:30～20:10
Producer Yuriko Taniguchi will be present and there will be Q&A time after the movie screening.
※The scheduled time may change slightly depending on weather conditions. Thank you for your understanding. Please take appropriate measures to protect yourself from the cold when you visit.

『Like bamboo, like bamboo shoot』37 minute uncut full version screening

監督：Shinya Kawakami

Japanese title: 竹とタケノコ / Japan / drama / 2024 / 37min / Japanese / Subtitle: English

A story of a father and son over the Tezutsu fireworks, which are believed to have originated in Toyohashi. Akira's son Yuto, who is obsessed with handheld fireworks, is handicapped in communicating with others, but has a talent for drawing pictures. However, Akira shows no interest in Yuto's drawings. One day, Akira falls ill and is told he has little time left to live after a check-up at the hospital.

February 15th Snow Theater around 19:00 Screening of 37 minutes uncut version!
Producer Yuriko Taniguchi is here! Q&A time scheduled after the movie screening
【From the film festival office】
Movies are a way to express feelings. In addition to becoming a director and making movies myself, I sometimes start making movies in the position of a ``producer.'' There are times when you can complete a movie by connecting people and things that you can shoot yourself and do without editing. This movie is about Yuriko Taniguchi who meets the people of Toyohashi and says, ``Let's make a movie with these people and this place!'' I worked hard with this passion, and it took shape. Fierce fireworks are set off on a snowy screen to connect the feelings of parents and children. Please come and see it. We have warm drinks ready for you.

We are planning to have hot drinks made over a bonfire at the Snow Theater during the screening.
【menu】
１．Sweet and sour warm Swedish hot berry juice
２．Finnish coffee is made in the forest by putting beans in a kettle and setting it on a bonfire.

※The screening will be held outdoors in a snowy mountain, so it will be held close to nature. We would like to implement this event with the safety of our audience and staff as our top priority. Screening times and drink schedules may change depending on weather conditions. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

Movie “Like bamboo, like bamboo shoot” Official HP
NEWS:“Like bamboo, like bamboo shoot” Grand Prix Winner! @Okinawa NICE Film Festival 3-February 2025　
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🇮🇸Iceland

Country: Iceland (produced in 2023)
Screening time: 6 min
Language: icelandic
Subtitles: Japanese/English
Date: 15th.2 (Sat) venue: Snow theater

『Intrusion』

監督：Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter

Japanese title: 乱入 / Original title: Fár / Iceland / drama / 2023 / 6min / Icelandic / Subtitle: Japanese/English

A bird hits a window of a café and disrupts its customers. A woman faces a decision on whether to ignore nature or to react.
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🇸🇪Sweden

Country: Sweden (produced in 2021)
Screening time: 15 min
Date: 15th.2 (Sat) venue: Snow theater

『The Expected』

監督：Carolina Sandvik

Japanese title: 期待 / Sweden / animation / 2021 /15min / non dialoge / Subtitle: Japanese/English

A father-to-be ends up in a feverish nightmare after a miscarriage, when a strange entity seems to be growing in the mother's blood.
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🇫🇮Finland

Country: Finland (produced in 2024)
Screening time: 12 min
Language: Finnish
Subtitles: Japanese/English
Date: 15th.2 (Sat) venue: Snow theater

『Pena’s Special Hauling』

監督：Anssi Kasitonni

Japanese title: ペナの特別運搬 / Finland / drama / 2024 / 12min / Finnish / Subtitle: Japanese/English
Pena has been a truck driver for five decades. Recently his memory has been causing him problems. And he’s in trouble with the law. Luckily friends and family support him when he is restricted to working only on weekends. The film highlights aging and memory problems, and the importance of play in how society should relate to this. Filmed in the director’s signature Finnish-American country-boy style.
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🇩🇰Denmark

Country: Denmark (produced in 2023)
Screening time: 17 min
Language: Danish
Subtitles: Japanese/English
Date: 15th.2 (Sat) venue: Snow theater

『Ivalu』

監督：Anders Walter and Pipaluk K. Jørgensen

Japanese title: イヴァル / Denmark / drama / 2023 / 17min / Danish / Subtitle: Japanese/English

Ivalu is gone. Her little sister is desperate to find her. Her father does not care. The vast Greenlandic nature holds secrets. The search for Ivalu is on.A melancholic and tragic story of a childhood ended too soon, set amidst the majestic glaciers of Greenland. Here, two sisters, Pipaluk and Ivalu, live with their father in a small, quiet town. One morning, Pipaluk wakes up to find that Ivalu has disappeared without a trace. A girl, led by a mysterious raven, goes looking for her sister. The first film in Northern Lights' history to be nominated for an Oscar.
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🇯🇵Japan・Ainu

Country: Japan (produced in 2023)
Screening time: 6 min
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English
Date: 13th.2 (Thu) Indoor venue: Madarao Kogen Hotel Fuyo no Ma

『Mokor Itak』

監督：Yoshihiro Nishimura

Japanese title: モコﾛイタｸ / Director nincup・Yoshihiro Nishimura / Japan / music / 2023 / 6min / Japanese / Subtitle: English

Music video for "Mokor Itak", an Ainu language rap song.This song is included in ``nincup'''s album ``Tup''.``Nincup'' features traditional Ainu songs and dances, Yukara, the world's five great epic poems, and original songs in the Ainu language.Their musical style is a live performance that unfolds like a story about the forest and the city, their longing for a new world, and their inner conflicts, along with the sound of the [gitamba], which is a combination of guitar and bass."Nincup" means the thinning moon before the new moon in Ainu language.The evening feast before departing for a new world.
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