Here is New Jersey Film Festival Fall 2025 Zoom Filmmaker Interview with Welcome to Japan Director Noé Benifla, Festival Assistant Director Morgan Kalmbach and Festival Director Al Nigrin:
Welcome to Japan – Noé Benifla (Paris, France) Elvis, a young archivist on his way to work in the United States, misses his flight on the evening of his departure. Knowing no one in Paris and having left all his documents inside his rental car, he is forced, by a twist of fate, to spend the night on the streets of the capital. A gambling addict, a community of hippies, a strange couple, and a depressed drag queen... So many characters will cross Elvis’s path throughout an exhausting night. In French, subtitled. 2025; 112 min.
Welcome to Japan will be screening at the Fall 2025 New Jersey Film Festival on Sunday, October 5. The film will be Online for 24 Hours on this show date starting at Midnight. Tickets are available for purchase here.
The 44th Bi-Annual New Jersey Film Festival will be taking place between September 5-October 10, 2025. The Festival will be a hybrid as we will be presenting it online as well as doing select in-person screenings at Rutgers University. All the films will be available virtually via Video on Demand for 24 hours on their show date. VoD start times are at 12 Midnight Eastern USA. Each General Admission Ticket or Festival Pass purchased is good for both the virtual and the in-person screenings. Plus, we are very proud to announce that acclaimed band Cold Weather Company will be doing an audio-visual concert on Friday, October 10 at 7PM. The in-person screenings and the Cold Weather Company concert will be held in Voorhees Hall #105/Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ beginning at 5PM or 7PM on their show date. General Admission Ticket=$15 Per Program; Festival All Access Pass=$120; In-Person Only Student Ticket=$10 Per Program.
For more info go here: https://newjerseyfilmfestivalfall2025.eventive.org/welcome
