Official Selection: 74th Locarno International Film Festival
In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny-Weeny Pocket
| Original title: Minimini Pokke no Ookina Niwade || Short animation | March 2022 | Japan | 06'27" | 4K, HD | Cinemascope | 5.1ch, Stereo | Japanese | English subtitles |
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Text, Animation and Directed by Yuki Yoko
Music: honninman
Surround Mixing: TAKINO Masumi
Mixer: Miyoshi Sae (Aoi Studio)
Producer: YAMAMURA Koji
Assistant Producer: sanae
When it shrinks, it expands. It floats and it sinks. It separates but connects. When I think I’m watching them, they're actually watching me.
A charming animation rhyme that weaves together the many days of observing, recording, and experimenting.
Screening (1)
"Dozens of Norths" and 3 Shorts, movie theatre, Japan, 2023.01~
Streamings (8)
U-NEXT, streaming, Japan, 2025.03.07 »Dozens of Norths and 3 Shorts
DMM TV, Japan, 2025.12.01~ »Dozens of Norths / »Pola Bear Bears Boredom / »A Bite of Bone / »In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny-Weeny Pocket
J:COM stream, Streaming, Japan, 2025.03.07 »In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny-Weeny Pocket
TELASA, Streaming, Japan, 2025.03.07 »In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny-Weeny Pocket
Prime Video, Streaming, Japan, 2025.04.01~ »In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny-Weeny Pocket / »Dozens of Norths and 3 Shorts
Hulu, Streaming, Japan, 2025.06.09~2026.06.08 »In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny-Weeny Pocket
Abema, Japan, 2025.09.08-2026.09.07 »In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny-Weeny Pocket
Awards (8)
TDC Grand Prix 2023: The Tokyo Type Directors Club Tokyo TDC Annual Awards 2023, Japan, 2023.01
Best in the International Film category: 4th Mobile Animation Film Festival - MAFF, US, 2022.09
Best Animated Short Film in the 7th seasons [August 2022]: 1st Golden Horse International Film Festival, India, 2022.08
Jury's Personal Pick: Sarina Nihei: 1st Hiroshima Animation Season, Japan, 2022.08
DNP Award: 9th New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival, Japan, 2022.11
Audience Award: Best Hand Drawn Animation: 5th FEEDBACK Animation Film & Screenplay Festival, US, 2022.09
Special Mention: 16th Fest Anča International Animation Festival, Slovakia, 2023.07
Honourable Mention: 16th Annual TAIS Animation Showcase, Canada, 2022.10
Honourable Mention for Poetic Chaos: 8th GIRAF International Festival of Independent Animation, Canada, 2022.11
Official Selection (47)
74th Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland, 2022.08
1st Hiroshima Animation Season, Japan, 2022.08
1st GOLDEN HORSE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, India, 2022.08
16th Sydney Underground Film Festival (SUFF), Australia, 2022.09
18th Independent Animation Film Festival, Seoul Indie-AniFest2022 Korea, 2022.09
1st VAF Viborg Animation Festival Denmark, 2020.09
5th FEEDBACK Animation Film & Screenplay Festival, US, 2022.09
26th Encounters Film Festival, UK, 2022.09
4th Khem Animation Film Festival, US, 2022.09
19th International Film Festival of Asian Pacific Countries Pacific Meridian, Russia, 2022.09
22nd Future Film Festival, Italy, 2022.09.30-10.02
17th Animest International Animation Film Festival, Romania, 2022.10
20th New Hampshire Film Festival, US, 2022.10
16th TAIS Animation Showcase 2022, Canada, 2022.10
4th Mobile Animation Film Festival - MAFF, US, 2022.10
5th ANIMAFILM International Animation Festival, Azerbaijan, 2022.10
5th Festival of Animation Berlin, Germany, 2022.10
17h Sapporo International Short Film Festival, Japan, 2022.10
10th Primanima World Festival of First Animations, Hungary, 2022.10
41st Uppsala Short film festival, Sweden, 2022.10
7th Nightmares Film Festival 22, US, 2022.10.
4th Feinaki 2022 Beijing Animation Week, China, 2022.11
4th LOS ANGELES ANIMATED FILM FESTIVAL, US, 2022.11
9th New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival, Japan, 2022.11
23rd San Diego Asian Film Festival, US, 2022.11
19th London International Animation Festival(LIAF 2022), UK, 2022.11
18th GIRAF International Festival of Independent Animation, Canada, 2022.11
10th Montreal International Animation Film Festival - ANIMAZE, Canada, 2022.11
64th ZINEBI - International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, Spain, 2022.11
8th Le Festival Cinéma Jeune Public, Switzerland, 2022.11
18th GIRAF International Festival of Independent Animation,Canada, 2022,11
10th Montreal International Animation Film Festival - ANIMAZE, Canada, 2022.11
19th London International Animation Festival (LIAF 2022), UK, 2022.11-12
5th Expanded Experimental Animation Festival, Taiwan, 2022.12-2023.01
40th Sundance Film Festival 2023,US, 2023.01
The Tokyo Type Directors Club Tokyo TDC Annual Awards 2023, Japan, 2022.12
77th Mainichi Film Awards the Animation Film Award and the Ōfuji Noburō Award, Japan, 2023.01
16th Courts Mais Trash International Film Festival,Belgium, 2023.01
4th Feinaki 2022 Beijing Animation Week, Beijing,China, 2023.03
61st Ann Arbor Film Festival, US, 2023.03
27th REGARD Festival,Canada, 2023.03
25th Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth, Canada, 2023.03-04
15th Hallucinations Collectives, France, 2023.04
32nd Florida Film Festival, US, 2023.04
35th FILMFEST DRESDEN, Germany, 2023.04
47th Atlanta Film Festival, US, 2023.04
9th Mammoth Lakes Film Festival, 2023.05
2nd Chicago Critics Film Festival, US, 2023,05
21st Manlleu Film Festival 2023, Spain, 2023.06
16th Fest Anča International Animation Festival, Slovakia, 2023.07
14th Anibar International Animation Festival, Kosovo, 2023.07
11th La Guarimba Film Festival, Italy, 2023.08
7th SMIFest-Spain Moving Images Festival, Spain, 2023.10
