🎬 Official Selections – JIFF 2025 オフィシャルセレクト作品

We are pleased to announce the Official Selections for the Japan Indies Film Festival (JIFF) 2025. From a wide array of incredible submissions from around the world, these selected films represent the diversity, creativity, and passion that define our international indie film community. Spanning a variety of genres and formats — including narrative, documentary, micro short, and music video — the selected works showcase compelling stories and unique voices. Please see the full list of official selections by category below.

 👉 Nominees are listed in a separate post. 

 

　✍️ Movie Script 

• 4th and Going Home – Steven John Antonuccio 

• Almighty (United States) – Stu Baltazar 

• The Samurai Ghost and Ms. Jones – Nancee LaFayette 

 　🎵 Music Video 

• Here Comes Something Good (United Kingdom) 

　– Directed by Stuart Warren-Hill 

• Reality Games (United States) – Directed by Serkan Sokmen

• Raspberries (Japan) – Directed by Andrew Paul Davis 

• School (Germany) – Directed by Rolf Eckel 

• Tokyo23 (China) – Directed by DIAN WANG 

 　🎞️ Micro Mini 

• Tokyo Tea Tango (Poland) – Robert Chmielewski 

 👽 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Short 

• (H)EARTHQUAKE (United States) – Xavier Michael Griffiths 

• Bippy the Little Robot (United States) – Glenna C Burmer 

 　📽️ Documentary Short 

• Childhood (Ireland) – Cian Geoghegan 

• Ice Breath (Romania) – Leonard Alecu 

• NOTHING BEFORE YOU WERE HERE. (United States) – DAICHI YANAI.

 

　🎥 Feature Documentary 

• Children in the Fire (United States) – Evgeny Afineevsky 

• Children of Yamato (Japan) – Jennifer LaDue Miyagawa 

• Our Life is Here (Marshall Islands / UK / US) – David Buckland 

• The Absolutely Amazing, Wonderful, Frightening, 

　Threatening Edge of Tomorrow (United States) 

　– Springna Zhao, Hayden McComas 

• The River At The Bottom Of My Garden (France) 

　– Guillaume Mazille

 　🎬 Narrative Short 

• Abja and Her Pickled Eggs (India / UAE) – Rita Heer 

• In Pursuit of the Loong (China) – Jacky Xiao 

• Love’s Greenting (Japan) – Akira Iwamatsu 

• REDDER (Canada) – Kian Marandi 

• Santa Catalina (United States) – Alexander Alexandrov 

• THE FIRST FILM (India) – Piyush Thakur 

• The Quirky Residents メゾン平凡 (Japan) – Natsuko Aratama 

• Under Heaven’s Sky (Australia) – Ben O’Sullivan 

 　🎬 Narrative Feature 

• Love and Lies Born from Sin (Japan) – Soujun Isobe 

• SONGS OF ADAM (Iraq) – Oday Rasheed 

• The Fisherman (Ghana) – Zoey Martinson