Date: Sunday the 18th of November 2007　　　　

Venue: 2F　Shinjuku Gyoen Information Center, Tokyo (11 Naitocho, Shinjuku-ku, Shinjuku, Tokyo Tel. 03-3350-4143)

Directions:10 minutes-walk from South Exit of JR Shinjuku station, 5 minutes-walk from Marunouchi Line Shinnjuku-gyoen-mae station * Shinjuku Gyoen Information Center is next to Shinjuku-mon. 　

Admission: For Free

*The schedule may be changed without notice.

*The Films will be screened in their original language.

Screening Schedule

10:00

*Plunge of the Penguins (New Zealand / Director: Andrew W. Marshall / 2006 / 20min.) This film depicts how Gentoo penguins live in the harsh Antarctic environment. Parents raise their chicks, the young makes their first journey from the nest, and they survive the winter.

*The Sea Horse (Germany / Director: Tim Forderer / 2003 / 5min.) The film depicts the mysterious life of the sea horse, which looks nothing like a fish.

*Evergreen Broadleaf Forest: the Cradle of Culture (Japan / Director: Hotta Yasuo / 2007 / 27min.) The film introduces a rich forest endowed with acorn-bearing, non-deciduous types of oak trees, red-flowering camellia japonica, camphor trees and fatsia, and a culture nurtured by the forest.

11:00

*Budapest Wild (Hungary / Director: Zsolt Marcell Toth / 2006 / 34min.) A tapestry of Budapest, woven with the lives of diverse living things inhabiting the city.

*Fisheye Fantasea (Fiji / Director: Guy Chaumette / 2007 / 8min.) The ocean in the fisheye is full of wonders and beauty.

*Man and Whale (Japan / Director: Yamamura Koji / 2007 / 2min.) At a school facing the ocean, the old principal was lost in thought looking at the picture of a whale he drew when he was a young boy. Then, he saw something in the sea....

*The Meatrix (USA / Director: Louis Fox / 2006 / 11min.) Leo, the pig, is living in a beautiful farm. One day, Moopheus, the bull, shows up and Leo's adventure to uncover the farm’s truth begins.

*Spring (Finland / Director: Jaana Wahlforss / 2005 / 7min.) The winter was so cold that even polar bears suffered from the cold and hunger. When the spring finally arrived, an old man went out hunting in a kayak.

13:00

*Puffing Away (Canada / Director: Isaac King / 2006 / 3min.) The poetic art animation vividly represents mankind feeding its greed, with the consequences expanding to engulf the earth day by day, and also a little hope starting to bud.

*The Cat's Cut (Belgium / Director: Jeremy Hamers / 2006 / 52min.) The film depicts the life of a migrant worker in a Brazilian sugarcane plantation, with his letters introduced with vivid images. The film zeroes in on the site where "clean" bio-fuel is produced.

14:00

*For the Masses (USA / Director: Corrie Francis / 2007 / 5min.) Highways are built to give access to a beautiful mountain area. City folks flocked there for a fleeting moment of relaxation....

*Human Development (Spain / Director: David Munoz / 2007 / 29min.) How different is the richest country Norway from the poorest country Niger? The Human Development Report published by the United Nations Development Program got us thinking.

*A Son of Taiga (Germany / Director: Andreas Voigt / 2006 / 29min.) Following the life of a young boy, the film quietly depicts the life of an indigenous people, Khanty, nurtured in the severe environment of the mid-Ob River area in western Siberia, and traces the influence of oilfield development on these people.

15:10

*Carpa Diem (Italy / Director: Sergio Cannella / 2006 / 2min.) A young girl is staring at a carp in the fish tank. Suddenly, the water in the fish tank....

*Green Hit Squad (UK / Director: Penny Evans / 2007 / 11min.) The Green Hit Squad is working hard in an effort to arrest global warming, but its activities are not appreciated by the police and....

*The Recycle (Laos / Director: Sengsai Vilayvorn / 2007 / 3min.) Milk cartons have always been thrown out as garbage. How can these cartons be recycled? The children started thinking....

*Compost Can Save the Earth?: The Recycling Life of a Mother and a Daughter Using Cardboard Boxes for Compost (Japan / Director: Miyakawa Naoko / 2007 / 24min.) Compost containers for recycling raw refuse have not caught on because they are expensive and take up space. The film presents a solution, using cardboard boxes for compost.

*Our Sea (Indonesia / Director: Yahdi Zamhur / 2006 / 21min.) For the children who go to school on a boat, the sea is a dear friend. In an effort to recover the lost coral reef, the children join hands with adults and NGOs.

16:10 End of the Screening