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Uzbek film Sunday (Dir. Shokir Kholikov) received Grand Prize in the International Competition

The 21th edition of SKIP CITY INTERNATIONAL D-Cinema FESTIVAL had been physically held from July 13 to July 21 (and virtually from July 20 to July 24), and wrapped at the Closing Ceremony, July 21. Jury and Audience award winners were announced at the Ceremony.

For the International Competition, Sunday (Uzbekistan), directed by , received the Grand Prize in the International Competition. (India), directed by , won the Best Director. Happy Life (Japan), directed by Yoshihiko Taniguchi received the Special Jury Prize and SKIP CITY AWARD, which is selected from all Japanese films both in the International Competition and the Japanese Film Competition, for production support by the festival. This year’s jury members were a director , President of the Jury and a renowned producer, Miyako Araki, and, Miyuki Takei, the president of the distribution company Moviola. In addition, Stolen (India) was chosen for the Audience Award.

For the Japanese Film Competition, Hina Murata’s feature debut The Midnight Sun (Japan) received Best Picture (Feature Length). Hana and Koto directed by Hitomi Tanoue, won Best Picture (Short Length). The jury members were led by a director Satoko Yokohama, Yota Kawase, an actor and Meiske Taurisia, a producer (Indonesia). The Audience Award (Feature Length) went to Poems of Flower Rain (Japan), directed by Jengil Park, and the Audience Award (Short Length) was given to Stand Up and Roll (Japan), directed by Jun Hosoi. All Japanese film winners had their world premieres at the festival. Award winners are as follows:

About the author

Panos Kotzathanasis

Panagiotis (Panos) Kotzathanasis is a film critic and reviewer, specialized in Asian Cinema. He is the owner and administrator of Asian Movie Pulse, one of the biggest portals dealing with Asian cinema. He is a frequent writer in Hancinema, Taste of Cinema, and his texts can be found in a number of other publications including SIRP in Estonia, Film.sk in Slovakia, Asian Dialogue in the UK, Cinefil in Japan and Filmbuff in India.

Since 2019, he cooperates with Thessaloniki Cinematheque in Greece, curating various tributes to Asian cinema. He has participated, with video recordings and text, on a number of Asian movie releases, for Spectrum, Dekanalog and Error 4444. He has taken part as an expert on the Erasmus+ program, “Asian Cinema Education”, on the Asian Cinema Education International Journalism and Film Criticism Course.

Apart from a member of FIPRESCI and the Greek Cinema Critics Association, he is also a member of NETPAC, the Hellenic Film Academy and the Online Film Critics Association.

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