Palestine's History on Cinema: Nakba, 1948 OKAYAMA—Sun 1/12 @ 11:00 (max 25 ppl). Japan Premiere! 2023, 78 min. Sci-Fi Documentary. Palestine | UK | US. Co-directors: Rami Younis & Sarah Ema Friedland. Exe. Producer: Roger Waters (Co-founder of Pink Floyd). In Arabic and Hebrew w/ En and Ja subs. A story of a city that once connected Palestine to the world — what it once was, what it [Read more...]
Palestine's History on Cinema—Nakba, 1948 Uno—Sat 1/11 @13:00 (max 20 ppl) ＆ Okayama—Sun 1/12 @13:30 (max 25 ppl). Japan Premiere! Dir. Annemarie Jacir, Drama, 2008, 105 min, In Arabic & Hebrew w/ English and Japanese subtitles. A sensational debut feature by the first Palestinian woman filmmaker. Official selection to Cannes Un Certain Regard. Palestine’ entry to the [Read more...]
Palestine's History on Cinema—Arab–Israeli War, 1967 Okayama—Sun 1/12 @16:00 (max 25 ppl). Japan Premiere! Written and directed by: Annemarie Jacir, Cinematographer: Helene Louvart, Editor: Annemarie Jacir, Panos Voutsaras, Starring: Mahmoud Asfa, Ruba Blal, Saleh Bakri. 2012, 93 min. In Arabic with English subtitles and Japanese Subtitles for Deaf and hard-of-hearing. The viewing [Read more...]
Palestine's History on Cinema—The First Intifada, 1987-93 Okayama—Mon 1/13 @11:00 (max 25 ppl). Western Japan Premiere! Director: Amer Shomali & Paul Cowan, Writer: Paul Cowan, 2014, 75min. Palestine, Canada, France. Featuring Alison Darcy, Rosann Nerenberg, Holly O'Brien, Heidi Foss. In English and Arabic with English subtitles and Japanese SDH subtitles. Streaming is limited to the [Read more...]
Palestine's History on Cinema—Contemporary Life in the Occupied West Bank. Okayama—Mon, 1/13 @15:30 (max 25 ppl). Japan Premiere! Written and Directed by: AMEEN NAYFEH, starring Ali Suliman. Palestine, Jordan, Qatar, Italy, Sweden | 2020 | 96 min | In Arabic with English subtitles and Japanese SDH subtitles | Ticket: 1100 yen Separated from his injured son by Israel's [Read more...]
Getting to Know Our Asian Neighbors Through Good Films: India Uno—Sat, 1/11 @18:30 (max 20 ppl) & Okayama—Mon, 1/13 @19:30 (max 25ppl). Okayama Premiere! A beautiful hybrid documentary by the winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes 2024. Director: Payal Kapadia | India, France | 2021 |101 min | poetic, hybrid documentary | in Hindi and Bengali, with English and Japanese Subtitles [Read more...]
Getting to Know Our Asian Neighbors Through Good Films: Myanmar Okayama—Sun, 1/12 @18:30 (max 25 ppl). Okayama Premiere! The Myanmar Film Collective | 2022 | 70 min, Burmese with Japanese Subtitles (no English subtitles) A hybrid film about life under the regime of terror in Myanmar in the aftermath of its military coup of February 1st 2021, told through personal stories by a group of [Read more...]
Getting to Know Our Asian Neighbors Through Good Films: China Uno—Fri 1/10 @18:30 (max 20 ppl). Western Japan Premiere! Q&A w/ the director (tentative). Dir. Zhang Mengqi. China. 2023, 190 mins. In Mandarin with English & Japanese subtitles. Over the past thirteen years, Zhang has documented her father’s village in Hubei, China, as a repository of ancestral memory.
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...]