Curtains down on 7th New Chitose Airport International Animation Film Festival

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 30 -- The New Chitose Airport International Animation Film Festival held recently at New Chitose Airport and online for 11 days, ended today.

According to a statement, a variety of programmes were held during the film festival including the screening of invited works at the New Chitose Airport Theater and online.

The competition screening, the main event of the annual festival has screened 105 films selected from over 2,200 submissions (including short films and feature films).

An award ceremony was held on Nov 23 on the livestreaming channel, ‘SUPER DOMMUNE’, with the Grand Prix for Short Films bagged by ‘Wood Child & Hidden Forest Mother’ by Stephen Irwin, United Kingdom.

Other awards were Japan Grand Prix: ‘The Mark of Emi’ by Furukawahara Momoka, Japan; New Talent Award: ‘Black Sheep Boy’ by James Molle, France; and, Grand Prix for Feature Films: ‘My Favorite War’ by Ilze Burkovska Jacobsen, Latvia.

All winning works can be found on the official festival website at https://airport-anifes.jp/en.

-- BERNAMA