The 9th GREEN IMAGE FILM FESTIVAL

GREEN IMAGE FILM FESTIVAL provides an opportunity to think about the environment through film.

Contact: GREEN IMAGE Film Comittee.
03-6451-2411
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ONLINE STREAMING

The GREEN IMAGE FESTIVAL will be held at a hall in Niigata, and also screened through online streaming.

Date: Sat 19th March – Mon 21st March 2022
Price: Price [Online] ¥1,000 1day ticket, ¥2,000 3days ticket
*All the tickets from Peatix are only for the live-streaming through online.
There is no archive streaming.

The GREEN IMAGE FESTIVAL will be held at a hall in Niigata, and also screened through online streaming.

Venue: Tokoharu Hall (Michi no Eki Matsudai Furusato Kaikan, 3816-1 Matsudai, Tokamachi, Nigata 942-1526) Price[Hall] : ¥1,000 1day ticket, ¥500 1day ticket for students, ¥2,000 3days ticket (Children/Youth under age 15 admission free)
tickets: 3 days ticket
Sat 19th March, 1day ticket
Sun 20th March, 1day ticket
Mon 21st March, 1day ticket

SCHEDULE

[Deadline of entry film]: September 30, Thu. 2021 Entry
[The 1st Preliminary]: November 2021
[The 2nd Preliminary]: December 2021

Results of the 1st and 2nd preliminary
Program Mar.19
Program Mar.20
Program Mar.21
Main Festival

The 9th Green Image Film Festival　

The total numbers of films applied for the 9th GREEN IMAGE FILM FESTIVAL were 87 films and 24 films are selected for the 1st preliminary. At the 2nd preliminary, 10 films were selected for the GREEN IMAGE Award.
Those Green IMAGE Award winning films will be screened at the Green Film Festival held on 19th, 20th and 21st, March 2022. (Venue : Tokoharu Hall *3816-1, Matsudai, Tokamachi, Niigata, Japan/Online streaming *domestic broadcasting only)

The Grand Prize GREEN IMAGE Award film will be selected through the 9th Green Image Film Festival and it will be announced on the last day of the festival.

The GREEN IMAGE FILM Committee had to make changes on dates of preliminaries according to COVID situations.
Therefore, we announce the GREEN IMAGE Award winning films and the result of 1st preliminary below.

＜GREEN IMAGE Award winning films＞
*in random order

GREEN IMAGE Award: Trees die standing tall
France, Mexico/62min /2021/Producer : Arnaud KERNEUR/Director : Ronan KERNEUR, Fany FULCHIRON/Production : Tropos Films; I am also a yew
Iran/24min/2021/Producer : Vajiheh RAZAVIAN/ Director : Vajiheh RAZAVIAN/ Production : Vajiheh Razavian; Wild TOKYO *tentative title ワイルド東京
Japan/49min/2021/Producer : Masa HAYAKAWA, Caroline HAWKINS /Director : Harutaka YANO, Steve GOODER/ Production : OSF, NHK, NHK Enterprises, Inc.; Lost Spring *tentative title　失われた春　シイタケの教え
日本 Japan/129min/2019/ Producer : Masami TAJIMA/ Director : Masami TAJIMA; Inasa: Whispers on the Wind　イナサ～風寄せる大地　16年の記録～
Japan/59min/2021/Producer : Jun ITOU, Hidenori FUKUDA/Director : Takao ITOU, Hidenori FUKUDA /Production : NHK; A-frame Carrier Meets Spring Flowers
South Korea/48min/2021/Producer : Jeong-soo Lee/ Director : Kwang-rok Lee/Producer : KBS; HOLGUT
Belgium/75min/2021/Producer : Tomas LEYERS/ Director : Liesbeth De CEULAER/Production : Minds Meet; Climate Exodus
Spain/63min/2020/Producer : Jorge GUIMERA/ Director : David　BAUTE/ Production : Tinglado Film; Waiting for God
Senegal/24min/2021/Producer : Plan B films/ Director : Mamadou Khouma GUEYE/Production : Plan B films; Swanscombe Cyclone
United Kingdom/11min/2021/Producer : George CLOKE/ Director : George CLOKE/Production : GC; The films which weren’t selected for the Award, but we are honored to announce the films selected at the 1st preliminary.
The result is below.

＜Films selected at 1st preliminary＞
*in random order
Films selected at 1st preliminary: Kunashir
France/71min/2019/Producer : David FOUCHERDirector : Kozlov VLADIMIR/ Production : LES FILMS DU TEMPS SCELLÉ; Man Kind Man
Italy/83min/2021/Producer : Iacopo PATIERNO/Director : Iacopo PATIERNO/ Production : Jacopo Fo Film; The Trees of the end of the world
Chile/24min/2020/Producer : Michel TOLEDO/ Director : Santiago SERRANO/Production : Telúrico Films、Totem Producciones; Kind Regards From The Anthropocene
Switzerland/14min/2020/Producer : Edith FLUCKINGER/Director : Lucas ACKERMANN/ Production : HLSU; Sigurimi
Germany/29min/2021/Producer : Luigjina SHKUPA/Director : Luigjina SHKUPA /Production : HFF München; From Trash to Treasure: turning negatives into positives
Lesotho/25min/2020/Producer : Iara LEE/ Director : Iara LEE/ Production : Caipirinha Productions; Colza
France/5min/2020/Producer : Moïra MARGUIN/ Director : Victor CHAGNIOT, Camille BROUTIN, Matthieu DAURES, Victoria DE MILLO GREGORY, Maxime JOUNIOT, Jade KHOO/Production : Gobelins; Fascinating Antarctica
Germany, New Zealand/86min/2021/Producer : Kerstin MEYER-BEETZ、Spencer STONER/ Director : Tuan LAM/Production : Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion、Greenstone TV; Peeling off Tomorrow *tentative title　明日をへぐる
Japan/73min/2021/Producer : Tetsujiro YAMAGAMI/Director : Tomoki Imai /Production : Siglo, Ltd.; Fukushima Monologue　福島モノローグ
Japan/49min/2021/Producer : Sachiko MIYAMOTO, Toru TAJIMA /Director : Naoko FUJIMURA / Production : NHK, NHK Educational Corporation; OSHIKA Winds Of Change　大鹿村から吹くパラム
Japan/88min/2021/Producer : Kim MYOUNGYOON/ Director : Kim MYOUNGYOON; Place I belong *tentative title　僕がいる場所
Japan/5min/2021/Producer : Atsumi SUGAI / Director : Wataru SUGAI; After the Typhoon Hagibis: Reports on Kawasaki City Museum’s Rescue Operation 川崎市市民ミュージアム被災収蔵品レスキューの映像記録　―2019.10.12―
Japan/20min/2019/Director : Kawasaki City Museum; Safflower guardian　紅花の守人
Japan/85min/2021/Producer : Takuya TAKAHASHI /Director : Koichi Sato/Production : “Safflower guardian” Production Committee

Result of The 9th GREEN IMAGE FILM FESTIVAL

Number of Applications　87
Number of Participating　33
Countries
(including Regions)
Screened films　12 films ( 10 award- winning films )

GREEN IMAGE Grand Prize

Trees Die Standing Tall

France, Mexico / 2021 /62min/ Full HD / Spanish with Japanese subtitles
Producer : Arnaud KERNEUR Director : Ronan KERNEUR, Fany FULCHIRON
Production : Tropos Films

Special jury Prize

HOLGUT

Belgium/2021/75min/DPC/ Russian and Yakut with Japanese Subtitles
Producer : Tomas LEYERS Director : Liesbeth De CEULAER
 Production : Minds Meet

Fukushima`s lost spring , seen thought Shiitake mushrooms (Vol.1)

Japan / 2019 / 129 min / FHD 16:9 / Japanese
Producer ・Director・ Production : Masami TAJIMA

GREEN IMAGE Award

Swanscombe Cyclone

United Kingdom/2021 / 11min / Digital/ English with Japanese Subtitles 
Producer ・ Director ・ Production : George CLOKE

I am also a yew

( Iran / 2021 / 24min / MP4 / Persian,English with Japanese Subtitles )
Producer・Director・Production : Vajiheh RAZAVIAN
Distribution : Iranian B2B Film

Wild Tokyo

Japan, UK /2021 / 49min /4K 16:9 / Japanese
Producer : HAYAKAWA Masa, Caroline HAWKINS Director : YANO Harutaka, Steve GOODER
Production : OSF, NHK, NHK Enterprises, Inc.

Inasa: Whispers on the Wind

Japan / 2021 / 59min / HD 16:9 / Japanese
Producer : ITOU Jun, FUKUDA Hidenori (Executive Producer) Director : ITOU Takao, ITOU Jun, FUKUDA Hidenori
Production : NHK

A-frame Carrier Meets Spring Flowers

South Korea/2021/48min / FullHD, Digital / Korean with Japanese Subtitles
Producer : Jeong-soo LEE Director : Kwang-rok LEE
Production : KBS (Korean Broadcating System)
Distribution : KBS Media

Climate Exodus

Spain/2020/63min / 2K / Spanish, Bengali, and Turkana, with English & Japanese Subtitles
Producer : Jorge GUIMERA Director : David BAUTE 
Production : Tinglado Film 
Distribution : Canary Islands Connection

Waiting for God

Senegal / 2021 / 24min/Digital / French and Wolof with Japanese Subtitles
Producer : Plan B films Director : Mamadou Khouma GUEYE
Production : Plan B films

Jurors

Mr. UKAI Satoshi Professor Emeritus of Graduate School of Language and Society, Hitotsubashi University
Mr. OKADA Hidenori Curator of Film, National Film Center, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Ms. YASUKAWA Kasumi IEA Geothermal Chair. Councilor, Geothermal Unit Japan Oil,Gas and Metals National