Encore online streaming of “Lyd! (Japan-only streaming)
Feb. 1 (Sat.) – 7 (Fri.), 2025
The 10th UPAF will be held online from September to Dec 2024, and in person at Uno Port Inn in Uno, Tamanno-city on Jan 10-11, 2025, and Hokancho 4-Chome Lounge Kado in Okayama-city on Jan 12-13, 2025, both small cafes. For the online portion, we will make 2-3 programs available for on-demand purchase for 7 days, every 3 weeks, starting from Sept 27, 2024. The schedule for our in-person screening in Uno and Okayama can be found here and the tickets can be RSVPed and purchased here. Both venues are small (20-25 ppl max). We recommend you RSVP, or let us know via info@unoportartfilms.org .
Our festival is run by volunteers’ efforts and with small grants, so this format is an experiment for us not to burden stuff and the audience, and to be able to continue. All screenings except for “Myanmar Diaries” will be with English and Japanese subtitles. For the films we translate/subtitle, we will add Japanese subtitles for the Deaf and hard of hearing.
While always cherishing our big theme, “Life, Art, Film,” UPAF also sets a mini-theme each time based on what’s important in the world, and curates several films accordingly. After the pandemic, the world we live in today is wrapped in dark clouds of war and division. We have set the mini-theme of the 10th UPAF to be “Palestine” and stream/screen 7 films with high artistic values and strong historicities. 6 films among them are Japan premieres. We strive to program them chronologically so that viewers can grasp Palestine’s history since 1948. At the Okayama venue, you can watch all of them chronologically with a discounted Palestine Pass (6,600 yen for 7 films!). We want to ponder with our viewers why the US and UK continue to support the Israeli government’s military actions against civilians in Palestine and how we, as Japanese, are related to that power map of the world. Besides that mini-theme, we bring award-winning films from the countries many foreign workers in Japan are from (China, Vietnam, India, and Myanmar). We will also have the Japanese Short Film Program with the works selected from this year’s call for entries. Additionally, we will continue to stream Zoom talks with Prof. Mari OKA, the most talked-about scholar of Palestine history and literature in Japan today until the end of January. They are about 2 hr long each for 300 yen. Sorry, they are in Japanese only.
Grants from the Japan Arts Council and the Ohdake Foundation support this event.
2024
9/27-10/3 Online Screening #1 (pay-per-view style)
10/18-10/24 Online Screening #2
11/8-11/14 Online Screening #3
11/29-12/5 Online Screening #4
12/20-12/26 Online Screening #5
2025
1/10-11 Uno Port Inn
1/12-13 Hokancho 4-chome Lounge Kado (a cafe in Okayama-City) In-person screening
OKA Mari, Zoom Live Talk
“Commentary and Q&A from the Nakba (and before) to the First Intifada”
“From the Oslo Accords to Today”
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