A sneak preview before the Japan premiere. Screenings: 8/13 (Sat) 8:00pm (outdoor & indoor, with zoom Q&A with Rea Tajiri), 8/15 (Mon) 1:00pm (indoor), Online UPAF (9/3-11, Japan only, limited to the first 50 viewers -don't miss it!) https://www.wisdomgonewildfilm.com/ (World Premier at BLACKSTAR FILM FESTIVAL, Saturday, August 6th, 2022 In-person & Virtual -if you’re in the US, [Read more...]
Japan Premiere! Screenings: 8/11 (Thu) 8pm (outdoor and indoor), 8/14 (Sun) 3:30pm (indoor), Online UPAF (9/3-11, worldwide) A debut feature and a gift to the world from Sky Hopinka, one of the hottest and coolest and gentriest Indigenous filmmakers today. The first Chinuk Wawa-spoken feature-length film in the world. with English subtitles and Japanese subtitles for Deaf and Hearing-impaired.
8/13 (Sat) 3:30pm & 8/15 (Mon) 7:30pm. In-person screenings only -Do not miss it! Directors: Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine, featuring: Ryue Nishizawa, Kazuyo Sejima, Morimoto-san. In English with SDH Japanese subtitles. After the multi awarded “Moriyama-San”, “Tokyo Ride” is a new step of Bêka & Lemoine’s immersion within Tokyo’s busy daily life. Revisiting the genre of the road movie in [Read more...]
Screenings: 8/15 (Mon) 9:30pm (outdoor and indoor). One-time in-person screening only -Do not miss it! Directors: ILA BÊKA & LOUISE LEMOINE, featuringL Moriyama-san. In English with non-SDH Japanese subtitiles. One week in the extraordinary-ordinary life of Mr. Moriyama, a Japanese art, architecture and music enlighted amateur who lives in one of the most famous contemporary Japanese [Read more...]
Screenings: 8/12 (Fri) 7:30pm (outdoor and indoor), 8/15 (Mon) 3:30pm (indoor), Online UPAF (9/3-9/11, worldwide) To the Girl Who Looks Like Me Director: Ewurakua Dawson-Amoah An experimental poetry piece celebrating Black women who continue to thrive in a system that was not built for them. A study of culture, self-love and self-discovery through a string of vignettes that combine dance, [Read more...]
Screenings: 8/12 (Fri) 3:30pm (indoor), 8/14 (Sun) 7:30pm (outdoor and indoor), Online UPAF (9/3-9/11, worldwide) Kadoma City ZOMBIE Human Resources Center Director, Writer, Editor: Takashi NASU , Music Supervisor: Masatora Goya, Assistant Director: Kyoko Sakuma, featuring: Eito HAYASHI, Hiroshi WATABE, Mayumi, everyone at Kadoma City Silver Human Resources Center, 2021, 29min, color, [Read more...]
Screenings: 8/11 (Thu) 3:30pm (indoor), 8/14 (Sun) 10:00pm (outdoor and indoor), Online UPAF (9/3-9/11, worldwide) Reschedule Director: Takayuki SUZUE, Cinematographer: Misaki KONDO, Sound Recordist: Takeo NAGURA, Stills: Nobu TANAKA, Music: Yuka KONISHI, featuring: Kenya NOJIMA, Daichi NOGAWA, Chiho SHISHIME, Jango YAMADA, 2021, 16.5min, color, fiction Photographer Yusuke (Kenya [Read more...]
2019, Japan, 248min, Documentary, Color, in Japanese with English subtitles Director: Kazuo Hara. Production & Distribution: 風狂映画舎(Fuukyo Eigasha)
This is our glorious first Japanese Shorts Program. We called for applications in May, and had 72 responses within a month. We were pleasantly surprised and encouraged to see so many independent filmmakers in Japan! We are screening the 5 most powerful films among them. All the films are in Japanese with English open caption subtitles (audio descriptions and speaker IDs are occasionally [Read more...]
When his father dies, Chandra must travel to his remote mountain village after nearly a decade away. He was an anti-monarchical Maoist partisan fighter in the Nepaliese Civil War that lasted from 1996 to 2006 and ended with the removal from power of the authoritarian king. Little Pooja is anxiously awaiting the man she thinks is her father, but she’s confused when Chandra arrives with Badri, a [Read more...]