We are excited to announce the films chosen for the JDFF 2026 Competition !!
Congratulations to all the filmmakers whose works have been selected.
Presenting the three feature films:
#1 God Mother : The Life of Ayako Koshino
Dir. Takeshi Sone
The story of Ayako, the “Godmother” who sublimated the free-spirited way of life inherited from her father into a legacy for her daughters.
#2 Imaginary Line
Dir. Kensho Sakamoto
Fumiko hasn’t been able to lay her mother’s ashes to rest. At her friend Yume’s suggestion, she decides to scatter the ashes into the ocean. They head off to her mother’s hometown of Kamakura, but Yume gets arrested and taken into immigration detention. The harsh reality of the immigration system rises up before them.
#3 Falling Into Silence
Dir. Yuto Shimizu
In a rural town surrounded by beautiful nature in Gifu, Minoru Okura, who lost his mother to mental illness during elementary school, struggles with his absentee father and his younger sister who is a shut-in refusing to go to school.