In the Global Universities Subtitling Project of the Japan Visualmedia Translation Academy (JVTA), students gather initial experience in film subtitling. We show two PIA Film Festival shorts, subtitled by students of the University of Ghent (PROJECT TANUKI) and the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (ASTER SCHOOL DAYS).

To make it through everyday life in Japan, Tanya from Vietnam uses a drug called “Tanuki” to look and sound Japanese. But her supply of Tanuki might run out soon… A cutting satire on racism in Japan.

Four high school students have given in to their loneliness and their anxieties. When new schoolmate Kanade appears, he sparks a new passion for life in them through his deep fascination for flowers. The film received the Audience Award at the PIA Film Festival 2020.