NIPPON VISIONS AWARD

The NIPPON VISIONS AWARD will be handed out for the fourth time by an international expert jury. 12 feature films by new-coming Japan-based directors from the NIPPON VISIONS and the NIPPON ANIMATION sections will participate in the competition. The award, which consists of a free subtitling for the winning director's next film, is sponsored by Japan Visualmedia Translation Academy from Tokyo.

Jury
Keiko ARAKI – director of PIA Film Festival, Tokio / Tokyo
Tetsuaki MATSUE - director, winner of NIPPON VISIONS AWARD 2010
Ken OKUBO – film critic, curator and professor at Tama Art University, Tokio / Tokyo

A2 by Ian Thomas Ash 
The Burning Buddha Man (Moeru butsuzo ningen) by Ujicha
Japan Lies by Saburo HASEGAWA
Nice to Meet You (Tekisetsu na kyori) by Takamasa OE
Nowhere to Go (Doko ni mo ikenai) by Ryuichi SHIMADA
Ochiki by Kota YOSHIDA
Soul Flower Train by Hiroshi NISHIO
There Is Light (Kurayami kara te wo nobase) by Yukihiro TODA
Traveling with Misemonoyasan (Nippon no misemonoyasan) by Yoichiro OKUTANI
Utopia Sounds by Akihiro MIMA
Uzumasa Jacopetti von Moriro Miyamoto
Where Does Love Go? (Ai no yukue kari) by Bunyo KIMURA