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Snapshots of Today and Tomorrow: Contemporary Japanese Shorts (in cooperation with Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia)

A Woman Who Acts
Akira is an old man with little time left to live due to illness. He has a young and beautiful wife, Yoshiko, who tries to take him outside to enjoy his last days. She looks delighted as Akira gets weaker and weaker. What are her true intentions?

NEO PORTRAITS
A story of rural Japan in the near future. "Cutting-edge technology" and "things that haven't changed" coexist in this depopulated town. Takumi, an eighth-year junior high school student, felt it strange that the adults in his town treated the android made in his mother's image as the real thing. However, only Hana, his homeroom teacher, was different from the other adults.

LET'S MAKE BLUEBERRY JAM
Koichi is forced to inherit father's house and farmland in a countryside which he hated so much.

The Shore of Empathy
A woman betrayed by her fiancé's affair, impulsively murders her unfaithful partner’s lover - her own roommate. She stuffs the lifeless body into a suitcase and sets off by car, determined to cast it to the depths of the sea. But as she drives, the supposedly dead woman crawls out of the suitcase.“Looks like the saying, Dead men tell no tales” doesn’t apply to me.As the two begin to unleash their pent up frustrations, they start untangling threads of memory that twist, clash and converge.

Sweet
Miwa, a second grader, follows various rules, striving to be a "perfect child", as expected by her mother, Mizuho. On the other hand, her piano teacher, Yuko, encourages her to express herself freely. Miwa's heart is torn between the two.

Aufguss
A sauna spa that has been in business for 50 years, is about to reach the very last day but without letting know none of their regular customer. An aufgussmeister Toji is preparing for the last aufguss session. Regular customers are puzzled why he is so fired up. This is a story about the special night of a small sauna business.