Ginmaku Film Festival 2018

Grüezi mitenand, konnichiwa!

I hope you and your loved ones are happy and healthy.

So much happened to all of us during the pandemic and unfortunately we had to cancel the last 3 editions of GINMAKU because of it. Now it is finally time to restart the festival and I am happy to share the dates with you.

GINMAKU 2023 Thursday, May 25 - Monday, May 29 (5 days).

Thanks to many requests from our audiences, we wanted to hold our 6th edition of GINMAKU in the larger cinema Kosmos in Zurich. But as you might have noticed, the Kosmos went bankrupt on 05 December 2022 and all the preparation was gone.

After some back and forth, we were welcomed back by cinema Riffraff and Houdini and are therefore very honoured and grateful.

We would like to thank all of you for supporting our festival. The festival has been successfully held thanks to your support. Arigatou gozaimasu…!

It is indeed a bit scary to restart, but we are ready to build a cultural bridge between Switzerland and Japan again with our festival.

We hope to see you at the GINMAKU 2023! Thank you for reading.

With my warmest regards,

Festival Director Mizuki Mazbara

Grüezi mitenand, konnichiwa!

Due to the large impact of COVID-19, we had to take the decision to cancel the 2020 edition of the GINMAKU Japanese Film Festival. We are truly sad to announce the news.

Japan has declared a state of emergency and the situation is rapidly changing in my home town of Tokyo, too. Just like many of you, I am not sure when I can meet my family in Japan again in person - not digitally. It is a very difficult time for all of us but the GINMAKU team is trying to keep our heads up. We will continue to work for GINMAKU 2021 every day until this crisis is over so that we can all meet at the cinema next year.

The crisis has affected almost all of our festival partners. They are not giving up, either, and are carrying on with their passion during these severe times. These Japan related restaurants, shops and companies in Switzerland are looking forward to your orders and support:

Food and drinks Yoojis (Delivery and take out) Sato (Online sake shop) KABUKI Dressing - akari taste (Online shop, Coop, Globus, etc.) Sala of Tokyo (Voucher: info(at)sala-of-tokyo.ch) IZ Exclusive Japanese Tableware (Online shop)

Media Partner Asienspiegel (Please support our friend, film maker and journalist Jan Knüsel who writes about Japan everyday since 2009 )

All of our partners Festival website 2019

We wish that you and your families are safe and are staying healthy. We take a polite bow to send you regards from our hearts. Thank you for reading - arigatou gozaimasu.

With my warmest regards, Mizuki Mazbara Festival Director

Grüezi mitenand, konnichiwa!

I hope you and your loved ones are staying healthy under these very challenging circumstances. The situation around COVID-19 is unpredictable, to say the least. And the GINMAKU team is having a difficult time organising the next edition of our film festival, planned for June 2020.

We are closely monitoring the situation around COVID-19 in order to come to a decision about GINMAKU. At the moment, we cannot tell whether the festival will take place as planned, or whether it will have to be canceled. We will keep you updated about the decision on our website and on social media, as well as in our newsletter.

Today the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan announced a travel ban from Japan to Switzerland. I have personally never felt both countries being physically and emotionally so far from each other. Every year GINMAKU’s wish is to bring Japan closer to you through wonderful Japanese films to create a cultural bridge at our festival. It would be really sad if we have to cancel our festival this year but we respect the current restrictions on events and put everyone’s health as our top priority.

We wish that you and your families are safe and stay healthy. The GINMAKU team and I love the Swiss style greeting. But these days, we choose our Japanese way: we take a polite bow to send you regards from our hearts.

Thank you for reading - arigatou gozaimasu!

With my warmest regards, Mizuki Mazbara Festival Director

We are thrilled to announce the next festival dates: June 18 - 24, 2020 at Kosmos Zurich. Looking forward to welcoming you all!

今年のGINMAKU日本映画祭開催日程をお知らせします。2020年6月18日(木)〜24日(水) チューリッヒの映画館Kosmosにて、皆様のお越しをお待ちしています！

Dear GINMAKU Supporters,

Das Datum für GINMAKU 2019 ist festgelegt: Von Mi. 22. Mai bis So. 26. Mai. 来年のGINMAKU日本映画祭開催日程が決定しました！ 2019年5月22日(水) 〜 26日(日)

Unsere Crowdfunding-Action läuft noch 17 Tage. 今年もクラウドファンディングを行なっています。

Zum fünften mal wird GINMAKU Japanese Film Festival durchgeführt – Bitte teilen, weitersagen, unterstützen und mithelfen. 今年でGINMAKUは5回目の開催となります。皆様のご協力をお願い致します。

Der Link zur Kampagne: キャンペーンのリンクはこちらです： https://wemakeit.com/projects/ginmaku-film-festival-2019

Vielen herzlichen Dank! ありがとうございます!

Viele liebe Grüsse, Team GINMAKU GINMAKU日本映画祭実行委員会

We are thrilled to announce the next festival dates: May 22 - 26, 2019 at Kino Houdini & Riffraff in Zurich. See you next year…!

来年のGINMAKU日本映画祭開催日程が決定しました！ 2019年5月22日(水)〜26日(日) 会場：映画館Houdini & Riffraff 皆様のお越しをお待ちしています。

WE MADE IT…!! Vielen herzlichen Dank für Eure unglaubliche Unterstützung. Wir sind überglücklich, eine so treue und mitwirkende Helferschaft im Rücken zu haben. Danke viel mal für all Eure Beiträge, fürs weitersagen, anfeuern, Mut machen! Jetzt das Programm des vierten GINMAKU Japanese Film Festival checken. Der Vorverkauf startet am 2. Mai…! Wir freuen uns Dich im Mai bei GINMAKU willkommen heissen zu dürfen…! Ganz liebe Grüsse, Festivaldirektorin Mizuki Mazbara ▶︎ http://ginmaku-festival.com

Thank you so much for your incredible support! We reached our funding goal on wemakeit and we are so thankful to have such a wonderful supporters. Thank you so much for your contributions, for sharing and believing in our project…! Our film lineup is now online. Pre-sale starts on May 2nd! We are looking forward to personally greet you at our festival. Warm regards, Festival director Mizuki Mazbara ▶︎ http://ginmaku-festival.com

GINMAKU日本映画祭のクラウドファンディングをご支援いただき本当にありがとうございます！おかげさまで目標金額を110%達成し、関係者一同感謝の気持ちで胸がいっぱいです。ご支援してくださった皆様、重ね重ね御礼申し上げます。皆様のご支援のおかげで、200本近くの作品の中から厳選した15本の作品をスイスに暮らす方々へ今年もお届けすることが出来ます。本当にありがとうございます！映画祭のプログラムは下記公式HPにてご覧いただけます。前売りチケット販売開始は5月2日です。開催当日まで1ヶ月を切りました。多くの方々に日本映画をご覧いただけるよう、関係者一同頑張ります！映画祭にお越しの際は是非お声をかけてくださいませ。フェスティバルディレクター 松原美津紀 ▶︎ http://ginmaku-festival.com