See You on the Other Side

WAIFF Kyoto describes the work as a nine-minute road movie about Momoe, a manga artist who wants to die, and a death-god who cannot die. Their journey becomes an intimate encounter between two characters who stand on opposite sides of ordinary ideas about life and death.

The festival description and jury review foreground a question about artificiality: whether an image made with AI is an illusion, and whether that makes fiction itself fake. The jury also highlighted the precise rendering of smoke and other small details as part of the film’s striking, future-facing visual language.