Out of competition films
Ryu no Haisha
The Dragon Dentist
by Kazuya Tsurumaki – Japan, 2017
(90', O.V. with italian subtitles)
The story takes place in Dragon Country. Nonoko is a newly appointed dentist and her mission is to protect the dragon, the guardian of the country, from tooth-cavity bacteria. One day, amid increasingly fierce battles with the neighboring country, Nonoko finds in the dragon's tooth an unconscious boy soldier from the enemy country. His name is Bell, and he has been resurrected from inside the tooth by the dragon—a supernatural phenomenon that legend says occurs before a major disaster. As Nonoko and Bell go through a series of fierce battles, they eventually learn to accept their fate.
Kazuya Tsurumaki
Kazuya Tsurumaki is a japaneese anime director born in Gosen in 1966. He worked for Gainax Animation for a long time. He directed the first half of the ending of Evangelion in 1997and is currently working on the special Rebuild of Evangelion. In 2017 he directed The Dragon Dentist.