Here we go…
Evening and morning view from my hotel room.
I couldn’t stop photographing vending machines.
UK filmmaker Dan Mulloy buying something weird.
Locals playing Pachinko, a gambling game involving ballbearings and loads of noise. This was like being on another planet and although I promised myself a game, I never got around to it.
I always imagined a day when there would be photographs of gooey lungs and dead people on cigarette boxes, so I guess this is the first step. Modelled with panache by UK director Elliot Kew.
The filmmakers at one of many meals laid on by the festival.
Susukino, Sapporo's largest entertainment district.
Singaporean filmmaker Royston Tan with somebody I cannot explain.
This, I definitely cannot explain.
A final picture of everyone together.
“Yooooooou!”
“Me?”
A Hokkaido bear.
My final presentation.
With Toshiya Kubo, festival director and all-round nice guy.
Signing autographs like some kind of famous person.
Elliot Kew with Yuki Kadowaki, the loveliest hospitality manager you would ever want from a festival.