Uno Port Art Films 宇野港芸術映画座 上映シリーズ 2011 August 5~7 & 12~14, six days and nights

Synopsis NURSE.FIGHTER.BOY is an urban love story about the soul of a mother, the heart of a fighter, and the faith of a child. JUDE is a single mother who…

The final 3 days of 2011 UPAF – August 12th ~ 14th. Come enjoy outdoor trailer theatre!

Red Balloon & White Mane Albert Lamorisse’s films talk directly to our hearts with beautiful pictures and little words. Behind the simplest stories, these post-WWII films (featuring the director’s own…

1.Deaf not Dumb – London – UK, 2’30”, 2011  A group of young deaf filmmakers has collectively produced an award‐winning short film that has subsequently prompted a significant response from…

Necropolis Dir. Craig Scheihing, Zack Auron, David Fieman, Jacob Shanks Kindlon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 9’43”, 2009 Action! Adventure! Romance! ZOMBIES! A sad love story featuring zombies. Zombies have their own world…

“Hibakusha & My Journey” Dir. Takashi Kunimoto, 64 min, color, 2008 Synopsis “In his documentary film ‘Traveling with Hibakusha: Across Generations,’ Takashi Kunimoto focuses on the ‘younger A-bomb survivors’ who…

UPAF 2011 Film #4 (Youth Program): “My Anthem” by MC NAM, 2010, Video. 4.5min. It is a music video for a song by a Vietnamese rapper MC NAM from Kobe,…

Duckling What is “Family”? What is “me”? As Japan’s communal family system collapses and families become more nuclear, the relationship between “me” and “family” shifts. We hear about so many…

  2009 Vancouver International Film Festival – Dragons and Tigers Award 2009 Hong Kong International Film Festival – Golden Digital Prize the 65th Venice Film Festival Directed by Emily Tang…

Shot, Written, and Directed by Luciana Burlamaqui 150min. (Pt 1 & 2), Color, documentary, Brazil, 2009, In portguese w/ English & Japanese subtitles Festivals (Selected): 2010 International Cinema Festival in…

KURAYOSHI, 2010, 24 min, color In this work, Tomomichi Nakamura, an Okayama native painter and animator, departs from his signature animation style as seen in his previous works such as…

  IndieGoGo campaign donors as of 7/31 Masao Tsuda Eleni Beja and Tom Yezerski Avra wing Vasilios Gregoriadis Lori Hiris UOZUMI Seminar at Kansaigaidai University Ninia Baehr Blair4 REA TAJIRI…

2008, 19 min. Synopsis: This film is an elegy to the youth of the whole generation born in the 1970s …Ten years after graduation, four collage classmates who live far…

UPAF 2011 Film#3 (short program): “Solitary Life of Cranes” by Eva Weber, 2008, documentary, HD, 27min.   Part city symphony part visual poem, ‘The Solitary Life of Cranes’ explores the…

Topo Gigio is Dead Dir.: David Miranda (Narrative, Chile/USA, 23 min, 2011, HD4k/16 mm, 1:85, Color, Dolby 5.1) Synopsis: Two Chileans meet in Philadelphia: Daniela is the daughter of a…

A Girl Like Me explores the standards of beauty imposed on today’s black girls. The film delves beneath the surface in order to show how such standards affect self-esteem and…

Mirage Dir. Srđan Keča, 2011, 42 mins , HDCAM, 16:9, Colour, Dolby Surround Synopsis: At the edge of a city growing from the desert, a man plays alone on a…

“Ten years”　2007, 8 min, color Synopsis A train traverses spring and summer, and it also passes through the realest city, field and land in China; the faces of passengers are…

UPAF 2011 Film#2 (youth program): “Manhood 5K” Dir. Isaiah Miles. Documentary, 2011, 8’43” by 17-yr-old Isaiah Miles (Benjamin Banneker Academy, Brooklyn). In “Manhood 5K” filmmaker Isaiah Miles embarks on a…

Hiroshima-Nagasaki, August 1945 Dir. Erik Barnouw Camera: Akira Iwasaki, 16min. B&W, 1945/1970, 16mm film The earliest (and the only) film record of the immediate atomic bomb devastation was shot in…

This legendary film became even more meaningful this year – after the mega-radiation leakage followed by the 3.11.disaster and the death of Yoshiko Tanaka, the actress who played the protagonist…

”The Cats of Mirikitani”『ミリキタニの猫』by Linda Hattendorf  74 min U.S.A. Eighty-year-old Jimmy Mirikitani survived the trauma of WWII internment camps, Hiroshima, and homelessness by creating art. But when 9/11 threatens his…

  Onkalo (Finnish for “hiding place”) is under construction: it’s a cavernous world of tunnels and corridors, a permanent storage facility for nuclear waste, meant to last 100,000 years (that’s…