Asia International & Japan Program 7
A&J 7
The 33rd Sundance Film Festival Short Film Grand Jury Prize
Special Screening
And so we put goldfish in the pool.
Makoto Nagahisa/27:39/Japan/Drama/2016
One summer day, 400 goldfish are found in the swimming pool at a junior high school. This story is about the 4 15-year-old girls who were the culprits. It's set in the near deserted small city of Sayama in Saitama Prefecture. There was also a summer festival going on that day. The story follows the 4 girls in the 48 hours surrounding the "incident."
Sundance Film Festival 2017 - Grand Prix (USA)
Tampere International Short Film Festival 2017 - Best Fiction (Finland)
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2017 - Special Mention (France)
CAAMFest 2017 (USA)
Hong Kong International Film Festival (Hong Kong)
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2017 (Germany)
Tampere International Short Film Festival 2017 - Best Fiction (Finland)
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2017 - Special Mention (France)
CAAMFest 2017 (USA)
Hong Kong International Film Festival (Hong Kong)
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2017 (Germany)
Director : Makoto Nagahisa
Makoto was born in 1984 in Tokyo. He studied surrealism in the French literature department in a university. Now he is a planner at an advertising agency. In 2013, he won a Young Lions Medal at the Cannes International Festival of Creativity. He has also won the "Best Newcomers Award" from the Osaka Copywriters Club.