The Future Shorts Festival is returning to Kyoto and Kobe in Kansai! The event brings together global creativity and culture, fusing histories, imagination and audiences into a collective narrative. It is the world’s biggest pop up film festival, transforming the way we experience cinema. Screened in various locations all over the world, This year's line up includes films both screened and awarded in prestigious global festivals like the: Prague Short Film Festival, Philadelphia Film Festival, and Sundance. Cinema crossed boundaries, challenges stereotypes and creates dialogue. Join us in connecting a global audience at Art Complex 1928, the home of the famous GEAR theater group.
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Future Shorts Film Festival, Kyoto
Showcasing the worlds best at the Art Complex Sanjo

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The Historic Art Complex 1928 Theatre in the heart of Kyoto is hosting Future Shorts Film Festival (Photo: Tong Cheuk Fung)

Grab your ticket before it is sold out at the world's biggest pop up short film festival hosted in Art Complex 1928 in the heart of Kyoto (Photo: Tong Cheuk Fung)

Come close and personal at the world's biggest pop up short film festival hosted in Art Complex 1928 in the heart of Sanjo Kyoto (Photo: Tong Cheuk Fung)

Join Tong Cheuk Fong as he hosts the world's biggest pop up short film festival hosted in Art Complex 1928 in the heart of Kyoto (Photo: Tong Cheuk Fung)

World's biggest pop up Short Film Festival in historic Art Complex 1928 theater in Sanjo Kyoto (Photo: Tong Cheuk Fung)

The world's biggest pop up short film festival hosted in Art Complex 1928 in the heart of Kyoto fuses imagination and culture (Photo: Tong Cheuk Fung)
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