20th Nippon Connection Film Festival

From June 9 to 14, 2020, the Japanese Film Festival Nippon Connection celebrates its 20th anniversary edition.
Starting as a students’ initiative at Goethe University in Frankfurt, it has become the biggest festival for Japanese cinema worldwide. With more than 100 films and around 50 supporting cultural events, the festival is a prominent showcase for Japanese culture in Germany.

Nippon Connection e.V. wants to present the diversity of Japanese cinema.
In German cinemas, you will hardly find a handful of Japanese movies per year, while TV usually repeats the same old classics. However, Japanese cinema is not only samurai, yakuza, and anime. Japan is one of the most productive and innovative film countries in the world, including a rich cinematic tradition.

At the Festival we will not only be showing a carefully curated selection of the best films of the last two years, most often in the presence of the filmmakers, but also offering an extensive supporting program over the course of six days. During the festival, merchandising booths invite you to browse and take you on a culinary journey through Japan. All this is topped off by a rich variety of workshops, lectures, and concerts introducing Japanese culture.

Our festival is not only for cinema fans, and it is no longer an insider’s tip. Between films, workshops, and talks, it creates a space for new encounters and discoveries.

Financing the festival is becoming ever more difficult. That's why we need supporters who would like to make their contribution to uphold the quality of the Nippon Connection Festival. Expenses for films, technical equipment, and the travel costs of our guests (especially in the year of the Olympics in Japan) keep rising. If you support us, this will enable us to guarantee another extraordinary film and cultural program as well as many interesting guests for our anniversary edition in 2020.

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 of our guests as well as film, video, and other technical equipment.