PROGRAM
《A-F》East Asian Experimental Competition / Japan Experimental
East Asian Experimental Competition
This year’s East Asia Experimental Competition received a total of 585 submissions from Japan, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and South Korea. After two carefully conducted rounds of screening 20 works were selected for nomination, and 5 works were selected for the new Japan Experimental section. These works will be screened at each venue of the 2026 Image Forum Festival. The final evaluation will be conducted during the screenings at the Tokyo venue by the three jurors listed below, and the 6 winners and audience choice prize will be announced at the award ceremony on September 25 at Theatre Image Forum, Tokyo.
AEast Asian Experimental
Competition 1
BEast Asian Experimental
Competition 2
CEast Asian Experimental
Competition 3
DEast Asian Experimental
Competition 4
EEast Asian Experimental
Competition 5
FJapan Experimental
The 20 works nominated for the East Asian Experimental Competition
Amateur in the Moon HUANG Pang-chuan + LIN Chunni / digital / 22min / 2025 (Taiwan / Japan)
Blue Flow SHEN Linzi / digital / 21min / 2026 (Mainland China)
Boss of Green OBITANI Yuri / digital / 30min / 2026 (Japan)
Compact Disc Rico WONG / digital / 39min / 2026 (Hong Kong / UK)
Creep Beneath the Earth YAMADA Sanae / digital / 34min / 2026 (Japan)
Fly Train Ria ZHANG Riwen / digital / 4min / 2025 (Mainland China / Hong Kong)
Korea’s Funniest Home Videos KIM Guki / digital / 15min / 2025 (South Korea)
Liquor Yi-Chen HUANG / digital / 5min / 2025 (Taiwan / Germany)
little boarlet WADA Atsushi / digital / 4min / 2026 (Japan)
Mwah to My New House! YUKI Yoko / digital / 11min / 2025 (Japan)
Oh, Valentine HONG Jin-hwon / digital / 92min / 2025 (South Korea)
Recording ZHANG Moying / digital / 12min / 2026 (Mainland China)
Redland Hooves Kaiwen REN / digital / 27min / 2025 (Mainland China)
Singing of the Evening Stars Iris SANG / digital / 23min / 2026 (Mainland China)
Thus Spoke Chatergil Potter TING Chi-wen / digital / 22min / 2026 (Taiwan)
Well-Intentioned CHIEN Man-Chun / digital / 30min / 2025 (Taiwan)
Where Clouds Once Formed SU Yu Hsin / digital / 14min / 2025 (Taiwan)
Wind Gap ZHENG LU Xinyuan / digital / 30min / 2026 (Mainland China)
Xiaogao gonna die LONELY Isabelle GAO / digital / 8min / 2025 (Mainland China)
走 (zǒu) Hannah WU / digital / 4min / 2025 (Taiwan / UK)
The 5 works selected for the Japan Experimental section
feeling together fukudapero / digital / 25min / 2026 (Japan / Rwanda)
My Winter Berry TAKEHARA Yu / digital / 9min / 2026 (Japan)
Our Times SONE Sora / digital / 10min / 2026 (Japan)
Sleeping Eyes MIYAKAWA Takuya / digital / 12min / 2026 (Japan)
Teteu ISOBE Kazuya / digital / 53min / 2026 (Japan)
※(Region of birth / Region of residence)
Jury
ORIKASA Ryo
（animation filmmaker / Japan）
HIGUCHI Yasuhito
（film critic / Japan）
Photo / JOJI KURISU
Marie LOSIER
（filmmaker, curator / France）
Award Ceremony
● Grand Prize (1): ￥300,000 + Prize certificate
● TERAYAMA Shuji Prize (1): ￥100,000 + Prize certificate
● Excellence Prize (3): ￥30,000 + Prize certificate
● Japan Experimental Prize (1): ￥30,000 + Prize certificate
● Audience Prize (1): Prize certificate
