Aya Kawazoe

2026

A man seems to be falling or sleeping in the crowded city. People don't care about him. A “bug” accidentally enters his body and that wakes him up. As the endless noises in his head begin to make him lose his substance, he tries to escape his fears. The sound in his head turns into the siren announcing 5:00 p.m. (that's the time called “who is that guy?” because it's beginning to get dark and hard to recognize someone). His substance finally falls away. Is he a reality, or a vision?

Aya Kawazoe
Japan
2025
13 min
Russian Premiere

Aya Kawazoe
Aya Kawazoe
Lizhi Zhu

Wen Shaojie
Tomohiro Hirota
Chihiro Homuta
Shintaro Yuya, Minase Yamaguchi, Yuko Yamaguchi, Sota Sakanaka, Takeshi Kawazoe, Kaito Murofushi, Miyu Ogawa, Goichi Mine, Tao Okamoto

Aya Kawazoe
Aya Kawazoe
Lizhi Zhu

Wen Shaojie
Tomohiro Hirota
Chihiro Homuta
Shintaro Yuya, Minase Yamaguchi, Yuko Yamaguchi, Sota Sakanaka, Takeshi Kawazoe,
Kaito Murofushi, Miyu Ogawa, Goichi Mine,
Tao Okamoto

Transmission (2026)
Howling (2022)
Humongous! (2020)
The Elephant Died (2012)

Born in 1989. She learned filmmaking from Shinji Aoyama and Kiyoshi Kurosawa. The Elephant Died (2012) was selected by the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. HUMONGOUS! (2020) was officially selected for the short film section of the 2020 Cannes International Film Festival's Semaine de la Critique. HOWLING (2022) was officially selected for the Short & Mid-length section of the 52nd International Film Festival Rotterdam. INTERFACE (2025) was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the 30th Busan International Film Festival.