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 self-image. This short documentary has touched the hearts and minds of millions worldwide and serves as a wake up call for us all. Shown in Tribeca FF, Silverdocs, Oprah Winfrey Show, etc. Director's bio: Kiri Davis [Read more...]
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 golf course. Another, sleepless, sends a letter from a labour camp to his wife in Kenya. A sand storm hits a construction site, and the locals hold a strange dance ceremony. Dubai, usually seen either as miracle of development or failed [Read more...]
“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 the most ordinary faces in China. Two women meet each other on the train every day, but they never converse. At the time of the SARS, they sit together and look at each [Read more...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8SVFTxWvyc Kuroi-Ame (Black Rain) 1989 "I'm not to live to die. War's continued living in my body." A Japanese legend director, Imamura Shohei, a two-time Cannne Palm d'or winner whom Martin Scorsese called "my master," created this black and white film based on a novel by Ibuse Masuji. The film draws aftermath of the Hiroshima atomic bomb [Read more...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPiyO3b3N6w Synopsis Teijun Ogawa, a proud and rare niso (female priest) of Japanese Shingon Buddhist Sect, dies after telling her story to Reiko and Max, a Japanese couple based in New York. She told them about her desolate life since she was given to a temple at the age of seven, and her achievement of building the Enmyoin temple (transferred from Naoshima [Read more...]
Two animated films by an animator Tomomichi Nakamura from Akaiwa city, Okayama. His works have been invited to Vancouver International FF, Calgary Int'l FF, and shown at The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. An intense interest of the world is on this emerging Okayama native animation artist. Image Forum Film Festival 2007 Vancouver International Film Festival 2007 Apocalyptic [Read more...]
Internationally acclaimed photographer, artist, documentary filmmaker, Akram Zaatari from Beirut, Lebanon. Growing up in a war-zone in the Middle east, being identified as an Arab artist, he has established his unique poetic photography and documentary work style. His works have exhibited MoMA in New York and other museums around the world. He is a founding member of the Arab Image Foundation for [Read more...]
ニューヨークで創られた学生達の秀作映画セクション。今回は大学生、高校生、そして中学生の作品もお届けします。 渋谷アップリンクのウェブ・マガジンの記事（by タハラレイコ） アドビ財団の主催するAdobe Youth Voices program から "Problem Kidz" by Katia Skinner, Tyrone Davis, Elizabeth Fohsta-Lynch, Xavier Rice, Sheyenne DeRochea, and Christine Zeigler. A rap music video. "Love Isn't Supposed to Hurt" by Jared Cato, Andrew Gatling, Sheliya Parson, & Sydney Terry. [Read more...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnKKgYD5m-U The Story of New Town (103 min, 2003) by Honda Takayoshi Around 1970's, in the Japan's high economic growth era, numerous new-towns (industrial towns) were born everywhere in Japan. Sanyo-Danchi in Okayama where the director Honda grew up was one of them. Ending the rapid growth which brought the people into the town with a full of hope for the [Read more...]
Rapresent - This film is the portrait of Bojan, a young man with a passion for graffiti and hiphop. Bojan was born in Split, Croatia. He lost his father during the civil war and escaped with his mother and sister to Serbia. When he was 11 his mother died and he was put in an orphanage. At age 18, according to Serbian laws, he lost the right to accommodation in the House and he became homeless. [Read more...]