15th Nippon Connection Film Festival – The anniversary

From June 2 to 7, 2015, the Japanese Film Festival Nippon Connection in Frankfurt am Main will celebrate its 15th anniversary. The biggest festival for Japanese film worldwide is still organized by volunteer members of the Nippon Connection non-profit association. The festival centers are located at Künstlerhaus Mousonturm and at Theater Willy Praml in der Naxoshalle. Further locations include the cinema at the German Film Museum, the Mal Seh'n Cinema and … Show more

What do we want?
At Nippon Connection, we want to share the diversity of Japanese cinema with the German audience. Japan is one of the most productive film countries in the world. Every year, more than 500 feature and documentary films are produced there. At the festival we show a carefully curated selection of the best films from the last two years. Only at our festival do people have an opportunity to see so many current Japanese films of various genres. … Show more

Nippon Connection has become the biggest platform for Japanese film worldwide and has an outstanding reputation, not only among Japanese filmmakers. With roughly 16,000 visitors, it is one of the biggest audience magnets among film festivals in Hesse. The festival is organized by volunteers with a lot of enthusiasm and is financed through public funds, sponsors and donations which have to be campaigned for every year.

Financing the festival is becoming ever… Show more

You make the festival happen! We do receive funding support from the Land of Hesse and the City of Frankfurt, and there are also some private sponsors, but unfortunately, this is not enough to finance the festival.

We are officially acknowledged as a non-profit organization – the festival doesn't generate any profits. The money collected with this crowdfunding project will be invested in rental fees for films, costs for film transportation, and travel costs… Show more

The festival is organized on a voluntary basis by the non-profit Nippon Connection registered association. The organization team consists of around 70 members – students, people of various occupations, senior citizens. During the festival, the team is supported by more than 150 additional volunteers.

Nippon Connection was founded in 2000 by two students of film studies, Marion Klomfass and Holger Ziegler, in Frankfurt am Main. Marion Klomfass is still the f… Show more