2022 Hoterallian International Film Festival

2022 Hoterallian International Film Festival

Location	Orajioe National Theatre, Orajioe, Hoterallia
Festival date	1 – 30 September 2022

The 2022 Hoterallian International Film Festival honored the best in Hoterallian and international film, and television works of 2022. The awarding ceremony will be broadcast live on the last week of September 2022, from the Oracloer National Theatre in Hawata Region, Oracloer. The ceremony will be aired live on the HHK Hoterallia-Anteria channel in Anteria.

The year slogan was "Eyes of The Future"

Jury

The jury was revealed in early June, the jury in the Feature Film category consists of 9 members:

• Director Stjeddan Afcadat (Head)
• Actor/producer Ryō Oda
• Screenwriter Kazumi Mori
• Director Takayoshi Matsuoka
• Journalist Yukio Gotō
• Director Yūsuke Sakuma
• Composer Ryōhei Ō
• Cinematographer Takashi Kaneko

The jury of the Animated category consists of 6 members:

• Animator Takuya Araki (Head)
• Monogaka Tetsuya Tokita
• Journalist Yūki Fujita
• Animator Kazuhisa Haino

Official selections

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  The Purple Crow

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  You Are 1000%

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  Wakiauo

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  El Tren

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  Dance y Dense Duro

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  The Crescent

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  Equilibrium

Title	Original title	Country of origin	Synopsis/Plot
The Purple Crow	パープル クロウ	Hoterallia	A gang of delinquent primary students gathers every evening behind their school to shoot down birds and bully other children. One of the bullied students, Shigeki, beat the gang, breaking two of his finger on his left hand. He then earned the reputation of "The Purple Crow". The movie explores Hoterallian children's mentality and bullying issues.
You Are 1000%	君は1000%	Hoterallia	A comedy-drama biographical film about Alpha Tribe, a famous Hoterallian-pop music band. The band started as a group of professional musicians with no team dynamics, but after a road trip through the country, the members became close to each other while gaining fame throughout Anteria. During their trip, the group got into multiple shenanigans, from the Hoterallian-Freician guitarist Tanga Toshiki being chased after by Hoterallian nationalists to the group being scammed by a six-year-old girl.
Music	Wakiauo	Freice-Hoterallia (co-production)	On a magical journey through a fictionalized version of Freice, three Freician students and a Hoterallian lecturer took their holidays across the small island for a project back in Hoterallia. The journey that the four took was filled with music, tradition, and surrealist wonders. As their journey comes to a close, the group experience child-like wonders through strange Freician traditional drugs, finding their long-waited and hidden "inner music".
The Train	El Tren	Gran Rugido	Set many years after World War II, a band of survivors travel through the remains of Gran Rugido in a nationwide-encircling track. The gene pools of almost all life forms are corrupted by the radioactive fallout. Few examples of the baseline human form can be seen, and most of humanity are mutants with enhanced senses, additional or lack of body parts or wizned with blue skins. The many lives change when a family of young "Puros" (named for the lack of mutations in their DNA) are welcomed in the train. From this event, the violent crusade for genetic purity of the various groups outside the train will come to catch up with them. Based upon the graphic novel El Expreso de Acero, written by director Meztli Villanueva, the film questions the internalized racism and classism that has dominated Gran Rugidoense society since the times of New Canteria, the influence of warhawks, class warfare and the politics of survival.
Dance y Dense Duro	Dance y Dense Duro	Gran Rugido	Animated biopic of the controversial band Molomix. The film narrates the musical group's humble origins in the slums of San Jorge Xayacatlán, to their eventual rise to national fame, through the individual lives of each member of their band; the many Molomix shenanigans will make you feel many things. Animated in the style of a song of the self-titled album called Beaners.
The Crescent	The Crescent	Khirmania	Ben is a gambling addict and frequently cheats in a mafia-owned casino, which has been notorious for its brutal ways of punishing cheaters. Aamid, is an immigrant from Salamat escaping his family. One night, Aamid decides to go for a walk while Ben watches TV. Suddenly, gangsters associated with the mafia storm the house, blindfolded him, knocked him unconscious and put Ben in a white van, in retaliation for his cheating. The next day, he wakes up to find the white van wrecked and everyone around him dead. He tries contacting Aamid but to no avail. Now, he goes on a quest to take revenge against the mafia while also befriending a child. This film based on the graphic novel of the same name is directed by Khamidth Batoobara and is critically lauded for its screenplay, direction, its action, visuals and faithfulness to the material, while grossing over 2 billion KHDs (200 millions ACUs).
Equilibrium	Equilibrium	Riamo	The movie is set on a dystopian future of Guri, where, supposedly, King Alfred was never overthrown by the Peaceful Revolution in the 1970s. It narrates the life of Stephan Walls, otherwise known as Enforcer 51999 "Nines", a law enforcement agent of the city. During the film, Nines sees himself being forced to commit several acts of brutality and injustice because of the dystopian system he lives in, which slowly lead him to question the morality of his actions and those above him. The time leading to the film's height forces the audience to reflect on the modern riamese society, presenting extreme examples of some happenings in modern day Riamo. It fundamentally questions the ever-increasing lack of individual privacy, both from the governmental-policing perspective, and from the social media one. During the height of the film, Stephan becomes aware of the system's horrors, after which his decisions take a turn of events that ends on misery and suffering for him, for which the audience is finally shown there's always an evil bigger than there's good.