Getting to Know Our Asian Neighbors Through Good Films: Vietnam Okayama—Sun 1/12 @20:30 (max 25 ppl). Okayama Premiere! Double winner of Nagisa Oshima Prize and Kaneto Shindo Award. Dir: Akio Fujimoto, starring: HOANG Phuong as Phuong, HUYNH Tuyet Anh as An, QUYNH Nhu as Nhu. Japan/Vietnam, Drama, 2020, 88min. In Vietnamese & Japanese with English and Japanese subtitles (not SDH). [Read more...]
The 10th UPAF Japanese Shorts Official Selection Uno—Sat 1/11 @11:00 (max 20 ppl) The World Premiere! Screened with So This Is What It Feels Like... and Someday, I Will Dump My Mother.Director: Lyosuke SAITOH from IXI & Ray, Starring: Kazuma SATO (lead); Lyosuke SAITOH (dancer); E.watson (piano); Kenichi INOUE (drum), Producer: Da-hara, Camera: Ray, Art: Ryota ICHIKAWA, Sound: Danniel-Chan [Read more...]
The 10th UPAF Japanese Shorts Official Selection Uno—Sat 1/11 @11:00 (max 20 ppl) Okayama Premiere. Screened with Reveal Man and Someday, I Will Dump My Mother. Co-shot, Edited, Written, and Directed by: Yuan Shuohan (袁鑠涵 / エン・シャクカン) | Other Camerapersons：Heying Jie, Duan Hao | 2024 / 24’19” | Experimental Self-Documentary | in Japanese w/ English and Japanese subtitles (not SDH) | [Read more...]
The 10th UPAF Japanese Shorts Official Selection Uno—Sat 1/11 @11:00 (max 20 ppl) Okayama Premiere. Screened with Reveal Man and So This is WHat It Feels Like... Directed by: Mayumi Kiuchi, Written & Produced by: Kii Shindo, Starring: Shiori Toyama, Umi Yamano, Naomi Akimoto, Hidetoshi Kubota, DP: Hajime Atsuta; Lighting: Tokuhiro Kinoshita, Sound Recording/Editing/Design: Daichi [Read more...]
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...]