We present the list of nominated films that will compete at the Tokyo Anime Award Festival, which will take place from March 12th to 15th, at the Tokyo Ikebukuro.

Tokyo Anime Award Festival(TAAF) is focusing to find and development of new talented creators, and promote animation culture all over the world. Under the slogan “TOKYO is the HUB of contemporary ANIMTION”, we are showing high quality and originality animated films from all over the world in Tokyo. And provide opportunity for personal exchange among people who love animation, and give them an impetus and thrilling. And we send it’s impetus and thrilling to the world from Tokyo.

Nominated Films:

Feature Animation Competition
Jiang Ziya: Legend of Deification by Cheng Teng, Li Wei – China | 2019 – 105 minutes
Josep by Aurel – France, Spain, Belgium | 2020 – 74 minutes
Nahuel and the Magic Book by German Acuña – Chile, Brazil | 2020 – 95 minutes
True North by Eiji Han Shimizu – Japan, Indonesia | 2020 – 94 minutes

Short Animation Competition

Slot 1
After Three Years by Nina Heckel – France | 2020 – 3 minutes
Awkward by Nata Metlukh – USA | 2020 – 4 minutes
Chose by Guo Chuchu, Fei Lingbo – China | 2020 – 3 minutes
Forget-me-not by Katarina Lundquist – Denmark | 2019 – 8 minutes
Hors Course by Martin Burnod, Aélis Ensergueix, Nicolas Lopez, Clément Masson, Julia Monti – France | 2019 – 6 minutes
It’s All Graavy by Laurent Wassouf, Clément Crosnier, Edgard Cros, Theoline Chapas, Nolwenn Pétereau, Nedellec Anouk, Lucas Ancel – France | 2019 – 6 minutes
Maestro by Illogic – France | 2019 – 2 minutes
My Friend Who Shine in the Night by Grégoire De Bernouis, Jawed Boudaoud, Simon Cadilhac, Hélène Ledevin – France | 2020 – 9 minutes
Oeil Pour Oeil by Thomas Boileau, Alan Guimont, Robin Courtoise, Mathieu Lecroq, Malcom Hunt, François Briantais – France | 2019 – 6 minutes
Per Aspera Ad Astra by Franck Dion – France | 2019 – 11 minutes
Runmania by Daria Stolbetsova – Russia | 2019 – 5 minutes
Shoom’s Odyssey by Julien Bisaro – France, Belgium | 2019 – 26 minutes
Under the Ice by Milan Baulard, Ismaïl Berrahma, Flore Dupont, Laurie Estampes, Quentin Nory, Hugo Potin – France | 2019 – 7 minutes
You Sold My Rollerskates? by Margaux Cazal, Jeanne Hammel, Louis Holmes, Sandy Lachkar, Agathe Leroux, Léa Rey Mauzaize – France | 2020 – 6 minutes

Slots 2
Coffin by Yuanqing Cai, Nathan Crabot, Houzhi Huang, Mikolaj Janiw, Mandimby Lebon, Théo Tran Ngoc – France | 2020 – 6 minutes
Good Night Little Tomato by Cyprien Nozières – France | 2020 – 11 minutes
Hide by Daniel Gray – France, Hungary, Canada | 2020 – 11 minutes
I, Barnabé by Jean-François Lévesque – Canada | 2020 – 15 minutes
Little Hilly by Yun-Hsien Huang, Pei-Yu Liao – Taiwan | 2020 – 19 minutes
Meow or Never by Neeraja Raj – UK | 2020 – 10 minutes
Old Hag by Nicolas Bianco-Levrin, Julie Rembauville – France | 2020 – 8 minutes
Protocole Sandwich by Valérie Bousquie, Joséphine Meis, Côme Roy, Antoine Vignon, Benjamin Warnitz – France | 2019 – 6 minutes
Symbiosis by Paul Raillard – France | 2019 – 5 minutes
The Hunt by Baurens Hugo – France | 2020 – 4 minutes
The Lonely Orbit by Frederic Siegel, Benjamin Morard – Switzerland | 2019 – 9 minutes

Slot 3
About Love by Girlin Bassovskaja – Estonia | 2019 – 13 minutes
After-Life Service by Coline Cesar, Florent Chaput, Steven Lecomte, Claire Maury, Emilie Milcent, Sophie Payan – France, South Korea | 2020 – 6 minutes
And Then the Bear by Agnés Patron – France | 2019 – 14 minutes
Anna, Cat-and-Mouse by Varya Yakovleva – Russia | 2020 – 6 minutes
Cell by Corentin Becq, Constance André, Salomé Chateignon, Yashwardhan Singh Jhala, Jeanne Fouques, Chloé Labat – France | 2020 – 6 minutes
Heart of Gold by Simon Filliot – France | 2020 – 13 minutes
Homo ErecTattoos by Kim Tae-woo – South Korea | 2020 – 9 minutes
Killing Time by Camille Guillot, Fanny Hagdahl Sorebo, Aleksandra Krechman, Sarah Naciri, Morgane Ravelonary, Valentine Zhang – France | 2019 – 5 minutes
The Adventures of Gloria Scott – Murder in the Cathedral by Matija Pisačić, Tvrtko Rašpolić – Croatia, Serbia | 2020 – 16 minutes
The Wings by Riho Unt – Estonia | 2019 – 13 minutes

To know more about the festival and the programme please go to https://animefestival.jp