We wish to express our deepest sympathy to the people who fell victim to the disaster of March 2011.

Damah Film Festival in Hiroshima is an international short film festival that started in December 2009 in Hiroshima city. Fukuyama city and Iwakuni city (Yamaguchi pref.) also joined last year. This year, it will be held in November and we're now calling for short films for participation in the competition.

We felt conflicted whether it would be appropriate to hold a festival in Japan, so soon after the country faced one of its most devastating catastrophe in the Tohoku region. We have discussed at length if it should be held this year or not.

Some people shared the opinion that we should refrain from holding or we should at least downsize the festival by showing only past works.
However, we believe that Damah Film Festival is a unique film festival in the world, having a specific theme and showing films that impress and touch the hearts of its audience.
The film festival with a theme of "Connecting Hearts to Hearts" should definitely be held, especially now when it holds great meaning and a message for the entire country.

Holding back would only be inconsequential. We would like to take this opportunity and see what this film festival can do for the country and the message conveyed through the power of these movies.
Also, what's important is that we continue, especially when Japan has to overcome this hard time by keeping our strength together. We believe that conveying our power and thoughts from Hiroshima to the disaster victims would give hope and encouragement to the people in the Tohoku region.

Last year, we received 79 short films from 7 countries including Japan and South Korea for the competition. We wonder what kind of films we will receive this year and how we will share this moment with our film lovers.
We look forward to sharing this inspirational and heart-warming event with you.
We hope you would understand the significance of this film festival and we would appreciate your support.
Damah Film Festival in Hiroshima August 20, 2011

Damah is a Hebew word meaning "inspirational metaphor." Damah Film Festival explores "Spiritual Experiences" as its theme, seeks films that are focused on portraying human inner aspects such as conflicts that we experience and emotional change, and have been receiving many films from filmmakers all over the world each year. We nominate several films from all those submitted to show at our festival and give awards to the best. Damah Film Festival is one of few short film festivals that puts up a clear theme.


From this year, Damah Film Festival make its debut in Hiroshima in addition to Seattle. It will make an inspiring film festival for both the audience and the filmmakers by showing the films made with unique point of view of filmmakers with different cultural background.

October, 2001		The 1st Damah Film Festival was held in Seattle
		It was held in Seattle Art Museum which is one of the largest museums in Northwest America keeping over 23,000 artworks collected from all over the world. Over 800 visitors joined in the screening, discussions, and workshops and 243 films were submitted. Since 2002, the festival has been held for six times. In addition, the film festival has made screening tours in New York in 2004, Los Angeles in 2005, Houston, Mineapolis, and other places in the U.S
October, 2009		The 7th Damah Film Festival is to be held in Seattle
December, 2009		The first Damah Film Festival in Hiroshima was held at the International Conference Center Hiroshima.

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