いちごの唄  |  Ichigo no uta  |  Strawberry Song  

A romantic comedy. Kota, a shy yet kind man works in a frozen food factory and really likes his job. On the Tanabata holiday, he happens to meet his former schoolmate Chika and they both realise the sad link between the two of them and the date: their friend Shinji died on the same day exactly ten years ago.

Festival opening

恋のしずく | Koi no shizuku  |  For Love's SAKE  

Even today, young Japanese are fascinated by the western world and its culture more than their own traditions. Shiori, a student of agricultural university in Tokyo, shares similar values in this romantic Japanese comedy where streams of sake will flow.

Born to be a Star     
Documentary movie with lecture – Ondrej Hybl

Being the first-born son in a family that has passed on the traditional Japanese stage art for generations in Kyoto must inevitably seem beautiful and romantic to us, Czech admirers of Japanese culture.

モリのいる場所  |  Mori no iru basho  |  Mori,  The Artist's Habitat

The film tells the story of an eccentric yet recognised artist, Morikazu Kumagai who never left his own garden in the last 30 years of his life. His paintings in the nihonga style may at a glance seem naïve or even childishly simple.