NFAJ offers educational screenings for various audiences, and lectures and workshops on film preservation, in order to provide opportunities for studying film, as well as arts and culture or history and society through film.
This is the program for children up to junior high school students. It intends to cultivate their aesthetic sensibility and visual literacy through the wonder and joy of films on screen.
Animation and other films of the Visegrad Four (V4: Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia), along with their cultures, are showcased for children in this program.
Kids’ Cinema has been also held outside of NFAJ, to bring films to children nationwide. – Circulation screenings around the country “F Cinema Project: Kids’ Cinema: Japanese Animation on Screen!”
In Celebration of UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage
Celebrating UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage (October 27), this special event provides the opportunity to learn the importance of moving image preservation.
“Rising Filmmakers Project” started in 2018 is a program to support and promote young creators.
A number of film festivals around Japan are advancing the discovery of young filmmaking talent. This 2-day event presents award-winning films endorsed by such leading festivals whose past competition winners have gone on to successful careers in the fiction film industry. Every screening is presented by representatives of each film festival and followed by a talk event with filmmakers and guests.
We provide opportunities for graduate students to gain experience in the field of film archive. For more detail, please see the following page. (in Japanese)
