2025 Festival Dates
25 – 28 September 2025 at Rotterdam
2 – 5 October 2025 at Amsterdam
The 19th edition of CAMERA JAPAN has ended. A big thank you to audiences, volunteers, and the staff at LantarenVenster in Rotterdam and LAB111 in Amsterdam for helping us create another amazing festival experience. See you again at the 20th edition in 2025 when we celebrate two decades of CAMERA JAPAN!!
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Impressions of CAMERA JAPAN Festival 2024
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News from the Festival
Interview with Director YAMASHITA Nobuhiro
Director YAMASHITA Nobuhiro was a special guest at CAMERA JAPAN 2024, presenting five movies at the festival: Ghost Cat Anzu, Confession, Swimming in a Sand Pool, Let’s Go Karaoke! and the opening film One Second Ahead, One Second Behind. Programmer Theodoor Steen talked to him hours before the festival opening. “I like a challenge”. ——You […]
The 2024 CAMERA JAPAN Award
We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2024 Audience Award. It was a close race, but after counting all the votes in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, Let’s Go Karaoke remains at the top of the ratings. The five audience favourites are [drum roll]: Let’s Go Karaoke! The Making of a Japanese Stay Mum One […]