*** IMPORTANT NOTICE: BEFORE SUBMITTING YOUR WORK, MAKE SURE YOUR FILM FITS REQUIREMENTS ACCORDING TO RULES & TERMS (Kindly pay attention to Country of origin).
JSFF (Japanese Serbian Film Festival) is annual event in Tokyo and Belgrade to promote short films from Japan and Serbia by bringing comparative value on art and social phenomena from these countries.
Festival started in 2014 as Japanese Short Film festival with agenda to enhance Japanese cultural promotion to Serbia and other countries as well. Later in 2015, festival transformed into cultural exchange event where visitors had unique comparative learning experience of seeing works of Serbian and Japanese directors responding on same issue.
Through previous events we have witnessed more common influence of filming crews from both countries which are identifying similar problems in our societies.
Today its growing interconnecting multicultural event, supported by recognized institutions and a respectable jury, which focuses the film industry, and explores a theme in various methods open to artists and audiences.
JSFF 2019 Theme: “CREATORS AND CREATIONS ”
A controversy of intensive development in artificial intelligence is bringing up new questions based on big data analysis and social impact on modern society. CREATOR and CREATION relation has transformed from religious to scientific, where human-machine become more obvious as nearly as a parent-child cycle.
JSFF 2019 will deepen the nature of this relationship in 3 possible aspects:
- HUMAN and PRODUCT (art piece, industrial, theoretical etc.)
- HUMAN and MACHINE
- PARENT and CHILD
Important notice: There are no categories for award, contexts are provided only as theme guideline only.
JSFF2019 will have 3 AWARDS
- Best Movie Award
- Creation Award to Serbian Creator (by Japanese Jury)
- Creation Award to Japanese Creator (By Serbian Jury)
JSFF Jury keeps the right to add special awards or to change the list of Awards before the official Festival. Except the Best Movie Overall