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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Nox

    Nox is an immersive XR narrative in which the audience enters the internal world of a teenage girl struggling with trauma, social anxiety and dissociation.…
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  • The Mole Song: Final

    Available on Festival Scope Pro from 6 January 9:00 CET to 14 February 9:00 CET
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  • We Are Aliens

    Alien fluffballs invade Earth in this surreal musical comedy from cult Japanese filmmaker Ugana Kenichi.
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  • Yasuko, Songs of Days Past

    A rapturous portrait of a pivotal moment in the life of Japanese poet Nakahara Chūya.
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  • A Monster with Its Mouth Agape

    An experimental homage to Butoh and its late master Yoshito Ohno.
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  • Silence of the Sea

    A forged painting occasions a rhapsodic meditation on ageing, beauty, authenticity and love.
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  • Furyu

    Japanese artist Awazu Kiyoshi’s 1972 experimental short uses shadow and movement to convey fleeting beauty.
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  • Tulip-chan

    Charming, off-beat portrait of the eccentric Tulip-chan, who follows her own singular trajectory through adolescence.
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  • Transcending Dimensions

    Japanese asceticism meets sci-fi in this spacetime-bending work of monks, mystery and an assassin.
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  • Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS

    The story of the engineers behind the birth of Japanese home video.
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