🎬JIFF 2025 Nominees ノミネート作品

 We are excited to announce the Nominees for the Japan Indies Film Festival (JIFF) 2025.

After careful consideration by our international jury, these exceptional works have been selected as finalists in their respective categories. This year’s submissions brought together an extraordinary range of talent from across the globe, showcasing unique visions and bold storytelling.

Below is the list of nominated films by category.
Award winners will be revealed at the ceremony on November 27.

👉 Official Selections are announced in a separate post.

Japan Indies Film Festival（JIFF）2025では、厳正な審査のもと、特に優れた作品を**ノミネート作品（Nominees）**として選出いたしました。

今年も世界中から多彩でハイレベルな応募作品が寄せられ、ジャンルや表現方法の枠を超えた素晴らしい才能が集まりました。ノミネート作品は、各カテゴリーにおいて受賞候補として選ばれた作品です。

以下にカテゴリーごとのノミネート作品リストを掲載しています。
最終受賞作品の発表は、11月27日の授賞式にて行います。

✍️ Movie Script

• Questwalker - Reverend's Journey – Dalton Chase Crawford

• Yokohama – Yakiv Karchev

🎵 Music Video

• NAND – SOS (Germany) – Directed by Aleksandr Irinarkhov

• Nivatak – “New Romance” (United Kingdom) – Directed by Ignatius Rake

• To-ma – Gor’kaya (Russia) – Directed by Nikolai Sidorov-Frantsuzov

• 全人類ヒューマノイド We are to be Humanoid Beings (Japan) – Directed by Daisuke Fujita（藤田 大介）

🎞️ Micro Mini

• Sights on Scene (Sweden) – Joakim Ekström

👽 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Short

• Alien Guy Tim (United States) – Scott Simerly Jr.

• Tokyo Kaitensû (France) – Guillaume Beinat Prunet, Jeremy Delhuvenne

• Until Death Do Us Part (United States) – Leonardo Daccarett

📽️ Documentary Short

• Searching For Kurosawa (Japan) – Richard Rowland

• The Missing Post Office (France) – Clement Lefer

• United Crafts of America (United States) – Sergio Camacho

🎥 Feature Documentary

• God As My Witness (United States) – Lindsay Q Pitre

• “Sharing Aloha” (United States) – Blair Treu

• Turtle Walker (India) – Taira Malaney

🎬 Narrative Short

• Clout (United Kingdom) – Jordan Murphy Doidge

• DEI (United States) – Jill V. Dae

• PAPER CRANES & BLUE FROG (Japan) – Chavo

• Silim (United States) – Alexander Cruz De Ocampo

• Spaceman (Canada) – Dan Abramovici

• The Apple Tree (United States) – Navid Negahban

• The Orange of Daydreams (Japan) – Kenjo McCurtain

🎬 Narrative Feature

• COME BACK (Belgium) – Irina Velez Crespo, David Gelay, Mostafa Belbacha

• Final Broadcast (United States) – Davide Ippolito

• Home, Sweet Home (China) – Tianyi Chen

• NO TIME FOR GOODBYE (Hong Kong) – Don Ng

• SHISHI 四志 (Japan) – Gekikan Mainichi Maru