June 4 - 11
France & Japan
France & Japan
Please NOTE: When you RSVP for a program, you will receive a confirmation email but you will not receive the link to the screening website and the discount code until the day the screening period starts!
Brief discussions following each program compare and contrast the films and the topics with special discussants:
Megumi Koike, Second Secretary of Public Affairs, Embassy of Japan
Nicholas Elliott, former cinema critique at Cahiers du Cinéma and programmer at the Locarno Film Festival
Featuring video messages from the directors!
All films are subtitled in English, unless otherwise noted.
Le retour des vagues (The Return of the Waves)
France, 2020, 5 min.
Director: Manon Cansell, Alejandra Guevara Cervera, Edward Kurchevsky, Francisco Moutinho de Magalhaes, Hortense Mariano
Coming back to his hometown in hopes of reconnecting with his past, a young man encounters the place completely stopped in time. Moving through the familiar streets, memories disorient him as he faces what he once left behind.
Robu (ロブ)
Japan, 2019, 19 min.
Director: Kai Hasson
Rob begins to notice that the world of his manga is coming to life, and that he just might be the main character.
Shakira
France, 2019, 25 min.
Director: Noémie Merlant
In a slum located on disused railroad tracks under a ramp of Paris, Shakira, a young Romanian Roma (Gypsy), dreams of a better life for herself and her family.
Cat Days (ねこのひ)
Japan, 2018, 11 min.
Director: Jon Frickey
Jiro, a little boy, feels sick. His father takes him to the doctor's. She diagnoses a harmless condition. But it shakes the core of the boy's identity.
