Director Makoto Nagahisa's And So We Put Goldfish In The Pool, which won the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2017, tells the true story of 400 fish that were found in the swimming pool of a high school in Saitama, Japan, and the four fifteen-year-old girls that put them there. Here, Nagahisa talks about the story:

“The girls empathize with the goldfish. They release them from their tank into a swimming pool, but is that really freedom? The girls themselves wish to leave their city. However, even if they do, just like their childhood friend Umi, they’re not sure they could call themselves free.

“It may seem like a negative message, but I approve of that situation and reality. ‘I am alive’ is a very simple message, but maybe that’s all we need. These are some feelings which I tried to convey through my film. I also wanted to bring a speed, dialogue, and sound that doesn’t exist in current filmmaking.”