Preceded by short:Children in a Classroom (Susumu Hani, Japan, 1955). (Kyoshitsu no Kodomotachi). "Insisting on a hidden camera and telephoto lens, the 27-year-old director set out to capture on film something of real childhood." (Donald Richie) Mannheim Festival First Prize. Japan Journalists' Award. Written by Hani. Photographed by Komura Shizuo. (30 mins, In Japanese with English subtitles, B&W, 35mm)(Te o Tsunagu Kora). "In Children Hand in Hand, Hani turned to a script he much admired (written by the father of Juzo Itami, and filmed once before by Hiroshi Inagaki) about young boys discovering the true nature of the world. The film is about a group of children in a small provincial capital. One of them, a slow and backward child, eventually comes to realize his limitations and, hence, his possibilities. This beautifully detailed picture contains some of Hani's most evocative pictures of childhood. One of them-the children playing some mysterious and almost sinister game of their own devising in the growing dusk of a house at sunset-particularly illustrates Hani's lifelong love and admiration for the films of Jean Vigo." (Donald Richie) Best Direction Award, Moscow Festival