JVTA Meets PIA Film Festival: Shorts
The Global Universities Subtitling Project, initiated by Japan Visualmedia Translation Academy (JVTA), provides students with first experiences in subtitling films. NIPPON CONNECTION presents two short films from PIA Film Festival, which were subtitled by students of the University of Gent.
- Friday, May 31, 14:00 Naxoshalle Kino
- The Cheering Squad: Breaking Through The Limits
限界突破応援団 - Director: So WATANABE
- Japan 2016, 30 min, Japanese with English subtitles
- Cast: Shoya KOBAYAKAWA, Takao OKAMOTO, Satoshi TAKABATAKE, Masayuki MATONO, Miku SHINOHARA
- International premiere
With only one third-year and one second-year student left as members, Maikeru High’s Cheerleading Squad has fallen on hard times. The task of cheering for their baseball team through Koshien eliminations rests with the new recruits, three young men. One of them trains on his own striving to surpass the legendary cheerleader from their rival school – Jinku, the King of Cheerleading.
- A Japanese Boy Who Draws
ある日本の絵描き少年 - Director: Masanao KAWAJIRI
- Japan 2018, 20 min, Japanese with English subtitles
- Voice actors: Takeshi UEHARA, Yasumi YASHIMA, Kenta ABE, Keiko ISHII, Sota SUZUKI
- International premiere
Shinji is an aspiring manga artist struggling to succeed in his career, and when he accidentally discovers an old drawing by his childhood friend Masaru, a magical journey begins that helps him discover a new inspiration for his art.revenge. The film unfolds a psychological analysis of a social environment characterized by hypocrisy and secrecy, skillfully playing with genre formulas of thrillers and ghost stories.
In cooperation with Japan Visualmedia Translation Academy and PIA Film Festival.
