Festival Archives


2004 Festival

Feature Length Competition

Grand Prize

Willbur Wants to Kill Himself (Denmark)
Director: Lone Scherfig
Sony D-Cinema Award: 10,000,000yen

Best Picture

Eddie (Poland)
Director: Piotr Trzaskalski
Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen

Best New Director

Bradley Rust Gray (Salt/Iceland-USA)
Sony D-Cinema Award: 2,000,000yen

Short Length Competition (International)

Best Picture

Classmates (Sweden)
Directors: Bjorn Carlstrom/Stefan Thunberg
Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen

Excellence

Cowardly Vicious (Korea)
Director: Kwan Lee
Sony D-Cinema Award: 500,000yen

Excellence

Eternal Gaze (USA)
Director: Sam Chen
Sony D-Cinema Award: 500,000yen

Kawaguchi Special Screenings (Domestic)

Grand Prize

Vaudevillian Dolls Don't & Not
Director: Aki Funabik
Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 1,000,000yen

Encouragement Award

Walking with the Dog
Director: Makoto Shinozaki
Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen

Canned Beauties
Director: Masaya Kakehi
Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen

2005 Festival

Feature Length Competition

Grand Prize

Me and You and Everyone We Know (U.S.A.)
Director: Miranda July

Brothers (Denmark)
Director: Sussane Bier
Sony D-Cinema Award: each 5,500,000yen

Best New Director

Marina Caba Rall (Last Minute/Germany)
Sony D-Cinema Award: 2,000,000yen

Best Technology

Silver Ornaments (China)
Director: Jian Zhong Huang
Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen

Special Jury Prize

Angel (Japan)
Director: Mayumi Miyasaka
Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen

Short Length Competition (Domestic)

Best Picture

Coffee & Milk
Director: Izuru Kumasaka
Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 1,000,000yen

Honorable Mention

Your Secret & My Heart
Director: Takashi Kubota
Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen

Fly Bubble Fly
Director: Katsunori Sato
Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen

Special Jury Prize

Natchan in Summer
Director: Kotaro Sengoku

Turn Left on the Next Traffic Light
Director: Takeshi Shimojo

2006 Festival

Feature Length Competition

Grand Prize

Contract (China)
Director: Lu Xuechang
Sony D-Cinema Award: 10,000,000yen

Best New Director

Alicia Scherson (Play/Chile-France-Argentina)
Sony D-Cinema Award: 2,000,000yen

Best Screenplay

Schnitzel Paradise (The Netherlands)
Director: Martin Koolhoven
Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen

Best Technology

Skritek (Czech Republic)
Director: Tomas Vorel
Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen

Special Jury Prize

Boats Out of Watermelon Rinds (Turkey)
Director: Ahmet Ulucay
Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen

Short Length Competition (Domestic)

Honorable Mention

tough guy ! 2005
Director: Shintaro Kishimoto
Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen

Hana-Mushiro
Director: Shingo Yoshimura
Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen

Bluebottle
Director: Mamiko Hiwatari
Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen

Special Jury Prize

Catchball with Nicole
Director: Yukiyasu Asano

Monsieur Greenpeas
Director: Yasuo Kurita

2007 Festival

Feature Length Competition

Grand Prize

Climates (Turkey, France)
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Sony D-Cinema Award: 10,000,000yen

Best New Director

Manuela Stacke (Children of the Moon/Germany)
Sony D-Cinema Award: 2,000,000yen

Best Screenplay

Skies above the Landscape (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Director: Nenad Djuric
Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen

Best Technology

Skymaster, A Flying Family Fairytale (Denmark)
Directors: Michael Wikke & Steen Rasmussen
Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen

Special Jury Prize

Heartlines (South Africa)
Director: Angus Gibson
Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen

Short Length Competition (Domestic)

Best Picture

Let's Go Bang-Chow Dead or Alive complete edition
Director: Atsushi Suzuki
Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 1,000,000yen

Honorable Mention

Stardust Serenade
Director: Bunji Sotoyama
Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen

Twilight Clouds-First Love-
Directors: Akanemaru (Tazuko Aso& Tetsuya Kawaguchi)
Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen

2008 Festival

Feature Length Competition

Grand Prize

Arranged (USA)
Directors: Stephan Schaefer, Diane Crespo
Sony D-Cinema Award: 10,000,000yen

Best Director

Listening to Gabriel(Spain)
Director: Jose Enrique March
Sony D-Cinema Award: 2,000,000yen

Best Screenplay

The Class (Estonia)
Director / Screenplay: Ilmar Raag
Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen

Special Jury Prize

Echo (Denmark)
Director: Anders Morgenthaler
Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen

Special Jury Prize

Lino (France)
Director: Jean Louis Milesi
Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen

Short Length Competition (Domestic)

Best Picture

Elephant Mado
Director: HAMU (Shigeaki Kobayashi & Masato Honda)
Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 1,000,000yen

Honorable Mention

A Day of Black Long-Sleeved Kimono
Director: Kenji Shibayama
Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen

Honorable Mention

Nozoki
Director: Kazuyuki Yoshii
Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen


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