Confetti directed by Naoya Fujita will open the Skip City International D-Cinema Festival which will take place online from July 22 – 26, and in cinemas from July 15 – 23 in Kawaguchi City, Japan.

Junior high school student Yuki, a member of a traveling theater troupe, changes schools to match his performance schedule. On his first day at a new school, he declares that because he’s serious about his art, he doesn’t want friends, but when he meets Ken, who is not attending school, his determination begins to falter…. (SkipCity 2023)

About the director:
Born 1991 in Hokkaido. Graduated from Meiji University School of Law. Started making mainly experimental films on his own while in university. His short film Stay (19) won Best Picture in the 2020 Japanese Short Film Competition, and was commercially screened in cinemas nationwide, which is exceptional for a short film. Fujita directed LONG-TERM COFFEE BREAK (22) at ndjc 2021, and the film was released in cinemas. In 2022, he was selected as a member of Japan Film Overseas Expansion Enhancement Project by Agency for Cultural Affairs and studied in NY.

For more information, please visit: https://www.skipcity-dcf.jp/en/