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Helmer Toki Inoue’s 21-minute short “Daichi o tataku onna” (The Woman Who Struck the Earth) won the Yubari Fantastic Film Festival’s Off-Theater Competition as the fest closed on Sunday.

The jury, headed by vet helmer Isshin Inudo, picked the winner from 14 competish pics.

The fest also unspooled 12 pics in its Special Invitation section, including Korean opener “Cyborg She” and closer “The Spiderwick Chronicles,” as well as “Juno,” “Let There Be Blood,” “The Bucket List” and “Shoot ’Em Up.”

Some 8,868 attendees saw 60 pics in the fest’s five days.

Last year’s Yubari festival was cancelled after its main sponsor, the city government, went bankrupt. The event is now run by a nonprofit org that recruited supporters around the country to keep the fest going.