2024 Damah Film Festival Information

Spring 2024

2023 Festival Location

Hibiya Convention Hall

2023 Our Festival MCs

  • Jessica Whelchel

    Festival MC

    A graduate of Orange County School of the Arts in California, where she was named “Actress of the Year.” While performing is her first love, she has spent the last two decades directing/producing/writing dozens of live stage shows, as well as many short films/trailers shown across Japan.

  • Russell Goodall

    Festival MC

    A Japanese interpreter / MC / narrator from New Zealand who started off as a TV director, and is today still involved in the TV & film industry. A fan of good films and a true fan of Star Wars since 1977.

  • Takaki Nakadai

    Talk Event Host

    Creative operations manager, former brand producer at Sony Group Inc. After working as a cameraman for ESPN, he worked in public relations for various films and is producer of his own short film, "Umishu" starring Akutagawa award-winning author Peace Matayoshi Naoki.

Our 2023 Festival Guests

  • Rara Goto

    Talk Event Guest MC

    A former member of SKE48 from March 2015 to September 2019, she worked as a weathercaster for Zoom in!! Saturday and is currently active on Zip! And Oha! 4 News Live.

  • Sayuri Inada

    Talk Event Guest

    In university she majored in art and was a member of the theater club. After graduation she worked as a movie subtitle manuscript proofreader and later became an independent freelance subtitle translator.

    Her major subtitle credits include “The Shape of Water,” “Moonlight,” and “Triangle of Sadness.” She also worked on numerous other films including, “Finding Nemo” and “The Lion King” and Damah Juror, Barry Cook’s film “Walking with Dinosaurs.

2023 Festival Program

May 13th Saturday

Doors Open - 10:30

Opening Ceremony & Screenings - 11:30

Parent’s Day (Mana Yasuda) Japan

Battery Daddy (Seungbae Jeon) Republic of Korea

Shimako and Shodo Island (Shiho Kozai) Japan

Salvador Dali (Elder Madakim) Kyrgyzstan

A Dream of Hawaii (Thomas Smoor Isaksen) Norway

Friendship (Lin Tam) Australia

Rainbow Honey (Keiko Umenoki) Japan

Talk Event with Guest, Sayuri Inada - 15:15

Takumi Award (15:45)

Screenings - 15:45

Falling in Love with A# (Kohei Hirota) Japan

From Sun to Sun (Akira Ichinose) Japan

MaTch (Masaki Katsuyama) Japan

Reincidence (Tomomi Muraguchi) Japan

MIX (Yurugu Matsumoto) Japan

Step by Step (Kenji Tashiro) Japan

May 14th Sunday

Doors Open - 10:30

Opening Ceremony & Screenings - 11:00

Kaiju Girl (Takafumi Sakabe) Japan

Bride Stone (Guzel Duishenkulova) Kyrgyzstan

Singulars (Santiago Esperon) United Kingdom

Ayumu (Shinji Sasaki) Japan

My Wings Became My Legs (Tomoichiro Setsuda) Japan

Screenings - 14:00

A Summer's Tale (Johnathan Chui) Hong Kong

Parents (Shu Maeda) Japan

Eggs (Cheryl Tan) Singapore

Perfect Strangers (Daisuke Kamijyo) Japan

Awards & Closing Ceremony - 16:00

Tickets

May 13 (Sat) only presale tickets 2,000円 / Tickets at door 2,500円

May 14 (Sun) only presale tickets 2,000円 / Tickets at door 2,500円

May 13 (Sat) & 14 (Sun) Combination presale tickets 3,000円

Tickets are inclusive of all events of the day of purchase.

Cancellation Fee: Cancel by May 11, 2023, 80% return. No refunds on or after May 12, 2023.

Inquiries:  info@damahfilm.com

Organized by:
Damah International Film Festival Committee