For the eleventh time, the NIPPON VISIONS JURY AWARD will be given to the director of one of the competing films in the NIPPON VISIONS section. The winner will receive a free subtitling for their next film, sponsored by Japan Visualmedia Translation Academy (JVTA) in Tokyo.

Jury

Ellen Harrington (director of DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum)
Thomas Ash (film maker)
Toshiyuki HASEGAWA (director of programming for SKIP CITY INTERNATIONAL D-CINEMA FESTIVAL)

The winner of the Nippon Visions Jury Award 2021 is Along The Sea by Akio FUJIMOTO!

Films in Competition for Nippon Visions Jury Award

Ainu Mosir by Takeshi FUKUNAGA

Along The Sea by Akio FUJIMOTO

Beyond The Infinite Two Minutes by Junta YAMAGUCHI

Company Retreat by Atsushi FUNAHASHI

Daughters by Hajime TSUDA

Extraneous Matter-Complete Edition by Kenichi UGANA

I’m Really Good by Hirobumi WATANABE

It’s A Summer Film! by Soshi MATSUMOTO

Kamata Prelude by Ryutaro NAKAGAWA, Mayu AKIYAMA, Yuka YASUKAWA, Hirobumi WATANABE

Kontora by Anshul CHAUHAN

Nosari: Impermanent Eternity by Tatsuya YAMAMOTO

Sasaki In My Mind by Takuya UCHIYAMA

The Town Of Headcounts by Shinji ARAKI

yes, yes, yes by Akihiko YANO