New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival 2025

Festival Description

The New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival 2024 is organized by the New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival Executive Committee and managed by the Festival Office. The goal is to actively introduce works that extend the significance of animation at the film festivals in Japan and to create new opportunities for international exchange through animation culture.

2025 Call for Entries

Submissions must be animated films completed in or after 2023.

Short Film (under 30 minutes); The Selection Committee members will sort submissions into the relevant category based on judgment.

●International Competition: This is the main competition of the festival.
●Japan Competition: This competition is for films produced in Japan by international co-production involving Japan as one of the production countries.
●Student Competition: This competition is for films made by students.

Music Animation (under 30 minutes);
This category is for films with superior expression in animation and music, such as music videos. The Selection Committee members will sort submissions into the relevant category based on judgment from Short Films.

30-seconds animation
Each film must be 30 seconds or less, including time-loop film.
●The video format must have a 1:1 aspect ratio and a resolution of at least 1080p.

Feature Film (over 30 minutes)

• Festival Regulations
• Regulations for 30-seconds animation
• Submit via FilmFreeway
• There is no submission fee
• Deadline: 30 June 2025 (short films), 21 July 2025 (feature films, 30 second animation films)

2023 Festival Coverage

Selection Results

International Competition

27 (France, 2023, 0:10:38) Director: Flóra Anna BUDA
A Kind of Testament (France, 2023, 0:16:24) Director: Stephen VUILLEMIN
Architect A (South Korea, 2022, 0:25:02) Director: LEE Jonghoon
Ardent Other (France, 2022, 0:16:13) Director: Alice BRYGO
Armat (Switzerland, 2022, 0:11:37) Director: Elodie DERMANGE
Box Cutters (France, Netherlands, South Africa, 2023, 0:08:24) Director: Naomi Van NIEKERK
Canard (Switzerland, 2023, 0:09:06) Director: Elie CHAPUIS
Christopher at Sea (France, 2022, 0:20:17) Director: Tom CJ BROWN
Deforming after Transforming (Japan, Estonia, 2021, 0:08:47) Director: Fukumi NAKAZAWA
Drijf (Belgium, 2023, 0:14:59) Director: Levi STOOPS
Eeva (Estonia, 2022, 0:15:57) Director: Lucija MRZLJAK, Morten TŠINAKOV
Electra (Czech Republic, 2023, 0:26:33) Director: Daria KASHCHEEVA
Foot Print Shop (United States, 2022, 0:03:50) Director: Gina KAMENTSKY
From the Main Square [VR] (Germany, 2022, 0:19:00) Director: Pedro HARRES
In Dreams (United States, 2023, 0:17:09) Director: Josh SHAFFNER
Margarethe 89 (France, 2023, 0:18:36) Director: Lucas MALBRUN
Nun or Never! (Finland, 2023, 0:10:49) Director: Heta JÄÄLINOJA
Our Uniform (Iran, 2023, 0:07:00) Director: Yegane MOGHADDAM
Summer 96 (France, 2023, 0:12:13) Director: Mathilde BÉDOUET
The Family Portrait (Croatia, France, 2023, 0:14:35) Director: Lea VIDAKOVIC
The Miracle (Belgium, 2022, 0:15:03) Director: Nienke DEUTZ
The Waiting (Germany, 2023, 0:15:35) Director: Voker SCHLECHT

International Competition Family

Aaaah ! (France, 2022, 0:04:40) Director: Osman CERFON
Ikimono-san: Turtle (Japan, 2023, 0:01:39) Director: WADA Atsushi
Our Roof Garden (China, 2022, 0:09:10) Director: Xu JIAXI
Pebble Hill (Switzerland, 2023, 0:29:53) Director: Marjolaine PERRETEN
Ship Down the Well (China, 2023, 0:13:27) Director: Xi CHEN, Xiaolin ZHOU, Liaoyu CHEN
Sunflower (France, Russia, 2023, 0:04:18) Director: Natalia CHERNYSHEVA
To Be Sisters (France, 2022, 0:07:15) Director: Anne-Sophie GOUSSET, Clément CÉARD

Japan Competition

Carrots Don’t Wait (Japan, 2023, 0:07:36) Director: MACHIDA Lina
Esashi Oiwake (Hokkaido Folk Song) (Japan, 2023, 0:05:00) Director: ONISHI Keita
HIDARI (Japan, 2023, 0:05:32) Director: KAWAMURA Masashi
Monk SEISHIN (Japan, 2023, 0:02:53) Director: MIYAJIMA Ryotaro
MY SCHOOL (Japan, 2023, 0:09:37) Director: OSHIMA Keitaro
Return (Japan, 2023, 0:02:50) Director: Lindong CHENG
Sewing Love (Japan, 2023, 0:08:33) Director: Xu YUAN
To the Moon and Back (Japan, China, 2023, 0:12:05) Director: Shuqin LI
Vision (Japan, Turkey, 2023, 0:07:18) Director: Çağıl HARMANDAR
Wanna be Reborn as a Mole on the Back of the Unicorn’s Neck (Japan, 2023, 0:09:48) Director: Liu YUCHEN

Student Competition

In the End (Latvia, 2023, 0:05:17) Director: Linda STŪRE
Gloire Amère 40000 (France, 2022, 0:06:45) Director: Vincent PISTIEN, Armand GOXE,
Florian De CHELLE, Marine CORBINEAU, Alexis MAURICE, Tom RAMEAUX, Valentin GIUILI
A Taste for Music (United Kingdom, 2022, 0:05:07) Director: Jordan ANTONOWICZ-BEHNAN
Your Dad (Hungary, 2022, 0:14:15) Director: Anita Kühnel SZABÓ
The Building at 9 EtzelSt. (Israel, 2022, 0:08:52) Director: Bar VAKNINE, Tamar SHARVIT
SWIM! (United States, 2023, 0:04:59) Director: Isabel SANTOS
Above the Clouds (Hungary, 2022, 0:13:33) Director: Vivien HÁRSHEGYI
The Last Visit (Estonia, 2023, 0:15:41) Director: Keawalee WARUTKOMAIN
Do Not Feed the Pigeons (United Kingdom, 2021, 0:08:40) Director: Antonin NICLASS

Music Animation Competition

All the Best (Argentina, 2023, 0:03:37) Director: Pablo ROLDAN
DJ Piper - RIP TXL (Germany, 2023, 0:03:30) Director: Raman DJAFARI
From One Painting... to Another (Switzerland, 2023, 0:03:10) Director: Georges SCHWIZGEBEL
Given Again (United States, 2023, 0:08:36) Director: Jake OLESON
I Inside the Old I Dying (Chile, 2023, 0:03:10) Director: Joaquín COCIÑA, Cristobal LEÓN
No Lullaby (Argentina, 2022, 0:03:58) Director: Ezequiel TORRES
Spring (Denmark, 2023, 0:12:28) Director: Pernille KJAER
Stare - Impérieux (Bulgaria, 2023, 0:03:59) Director: Nikola RADULOVIKJ
TWENTYTИƎWT (Hong Kong, 2023, 0:06:52) Director: Max HATTLER
What You Do to Me (United States, Canada, Portugal, 2023, 0:02:50) Director: Henry MCCLELLAN, Mathieu LARONE

Selection Committee:
Tomoko Ono, chief director of NEW CHITOSE 2023 - Hirotoshi Iwasaki, artist - Daisuke Tanaka, animation researcher - Takeshi Nagata and Kazue Monno (TOCHKA), creative unit -Tetsuji Kurashige, animation filmmaker- Sarina Nihei, animation filmmaker

2022 Festival Coverage

• Award Winners

2020 Festival Coverage

• Award winners

2019 Festival Coverage

• 2019 Festival Awards
• Short Film Selection
• Feature Film Selection
• International Jury

2018 Festival Coverage

Feature Film Selection:

• FUNAN
  Director： Denis DO / 2017 / Belgium, Cambodia, France, Luxembourg
• On Happiness Road
  Director： SUNG Hsin-Yin / 2017 / Taiwan
• SHONEN HOLLYWOOD -HOLLY STAGE FOR YOU- Complete Edition
  Director： Sumiko Arai, Toshimasa Kuroyanagi / 2018 / Japan
• The Breadwinner
  Director： Nora Twomey / 2017 / Ireland, Canada, Luxembourg
• This Magnificent Cake!
  Director： Marc James Roels, Emma De Swaef / 2018 / Belgium,France
• Short Film Selection
• Programme