The Nara International Film Festival is a biennial film festival located in one of the most historically rich cities of Japan, Nara. Since the founding year of 2010, the festival has been celebrating emerging filmmakers with the Cannes winning filmmaker Naomi Kawase as an executive director. The festival has presented two film competitions: NARAtive International Competition and NARA-wave Student film Competition (limited to student films. For entries and information for the student film section, please visit the festival website: http://nara-iff.jp/overseas/193/ ).
One of the winners of the Competition programs will receive an opportunity to direct a film in Nara, Japan. Along with the film competitions, many other film screenings and interactive events entertain not only the festival visitors and guests but also locals.
The Nara International Film Festival embraces cultural diversity and up-and-coming talent from all over the world and offers a uniquely intimate experience to showcase new artistic talents surrounded by many world heritage sites.
Awards of the International Competition programme:
1. The Golden SHIKA Award (the first prize award)
2. The Audience Award (the most voted from the audience)
Awards of the NARA-wave (Student Film) Competiton programme:
1. The Golden Kojika Award (the first prize award)
2. The Audience Award (the most voted from the audience)
One of the winners from our two competition programmes will be granted with a privilege to make the next NARAtive 2022 film.
*NARAtive is a project to make an original film in Nara, funded by NIFF.
Previous NARAtive projects are:
“Inori” by Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio from Mexico (2012), “A Midsummer’s Fantasia” by Jang Kun-jae from South Korea (2014), "The Wolves of the East" by Carlos M. Quintela from Cuba (2016),"The Nikados' Fall" by Ida Panahandeh (2018)
The 2020 NARAtive film project is directed by a Chinese filmmaker PengFei and currently in the post-production process.
インターナショナルコンペティション部門受賞内容：
１．ゴールデンSHIKA賞（最高賞）
２．観客賞（観客から最も多く選ばれた賞）
学生部門（NARA-wave) 受賞内容:
１．ゴールデンKOJIKA賞（最高賞）
２．観客賞（観客から最も多く選ばれた賞）
インターナショナルコンペティション、学生部門の受賞者は、NARAtive映画製作プロジェクトへの企画提案の権利が与えられます。（NARAtive詳細はこちら：https://narative.jp）