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Film · 2024

A Few Moments of Cheers

数分間のエールを

Genres:DramaMusic
Two young people appear back to back with a guitar, headphones, a stylus and sheets of paper against turquoise.
©「数分間のエールを」製作委員会

A schoolboy devoted to making music videos hears a street singer he wants to collaborate with, then discovers that she is his new teacher and has stepped away from a musical career.

Kanata is still finding encouragement in each new thing he makes. Yu has already experienced the distance between devotion to music and recognition from the outside world. His wish to make a video for her song brings those different stages of creative life into contact, making collaboration a question of what each person wants to continue.

A headphone-wearing boy concentrates on drawing with a stylus, with a sheet of storyboard images above him.
A setback in drawing precedes Kanata’s move into videos. ©「数分間のエールを」製作委員会

Kanata’s interest in making videos follows an earlier loss of confidence in drawing. Seeing a friend win an art prize left him doubting his own ability; discovering music videos online offered another way to work with images.

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