8/11 (sat), 22:00 ~ Uno Port Pier#2 Trailer Theater, 8/13 (mon), 13:00 ~ Sangyo-Shinko Bldg 3F Dir: Kai Sehr, Producer: Rene Kock, Writer/Editor: Nadia Soraya Hennrich, Afghanistan/USA/Germany, 2011, 95min, documentary, (from NAF Selects)* Synopsis In 2007, OLIVER PERCOVICH and SHARNA NOLAN arrive in Kabul with little more than a couple of skateboards. In a country where [Read more...]
8/11 (sat) 13:00 ~ Sangyo-shinko building 3F 8/14 (tue) 20:00 ~ Uno Port Pier#2 Trailer Theater Dir: Stephane Gauger, Vietnam/USA, 2007 97min. Drama. There is a kind of happiness that money or fame can’t buy. It is simple to reach it, but as people grow, it gets harder. Thui, the main character, is a bright orphan in Veitnam. She meets a lonely man and woman while selling [Read more...]
8/13 (mon) 20:00 ~ Uno Port Pier#2 Trailer Theater 8/14 (tue) 13:00 ~ Sangyo-Shinko Bldg 3F. Executive Producer: Wim Wenders, Dir: Arvin Chen, Featuring: Jack Yao, Amber Kuo, Taiwan/USA/Germany, 2010, 85min. Fiction The first feature film by American-raised Taiwanese filmmaker Arvin Chen. Kai, a lovesick young man, wants to leave Taipei in hopes of getting to Paris to be with his [Read more...]
Dir: The Meerkat Media Collective, New York, 2012, fine cut version sneak preview! 8/12 (sun), 16:00 ~ Sangyo-Shinko Bldg 3F, 8/14 (mon), 22:00 ~ Uno Port Pier#2 Trailer Theater Tagline: An eccentric NYC band, a tiny Balkan village, and half a million fans transcend borders at the world’s largest trumpet festival. Synopsis: Once a year, a tiny Serbian village explodes with [Read more...]
Dir. Majid Majidi, featuring: Hossein Mahjoub, Iran, 1999, 90min., Drama 8/11 (sat), 20:00, Uno Port Pier#2 Trailer Theater One time only! Mohammad, an 8-year-old blind boy with a gentle heart, communicates with nature through touch and hearing. When his boarding school for blind children in Tehran closes for summer, he comes home happily to his loving grandmother and beautiful sisters who [Read more...]
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This year, at the third year anniversary of UPAF, we are excited to show you four great films from "New American Filmmakers Series," one of Hawaii International Film Festival's original programs funded by Vilcek Foundation of New York. The program celebrates and encourages foreign-born filmmakers and their films. (for more info, go to: http://newamericanfilmmakers.org/about/ ) The GateKeeper [Read more...]
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 descends from a long line of Jamaican caregivers. SILENCE is a ‘past his prime’ boxer who fights illegally to survive. CIEL is a boy who delves into music, conjuring dreams for his mother. During the last week of summer, a late-night [Read more...]
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 son Pascal and stunning Alain Emery) contain the director’s complex feelings about the war, good vs evil, and the future that the post-war children had to rebuild. In 2011, the hardest [Read more...]
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 in which they have their favorite foods and fall in love. But their world is shattered… Dir. Bio: Craig [Read more...]