Nippon Docs

Should documentary be considered its own genre? Is there a clearly-defined boundary between documentary and fiction film? Among film scholars, questions like these can be discussed almost without end. In any case, documentary films broaden our horizon, they take us to foreign cultures or to social environments that we hardly ever get to see. Yet, they can also bring us closer to people like the ones we meet daily, so that we will discover something new in the familiar or start reflecting on old habits. The NIPPON DOCS section gathers a series of Japanese documentaries on various topics of high social relevance.

For the first time, the NIPPON DOCS section will have its own audience award this year. The NIPPON DOCS AWARD is endowed with 1,000 €.