2009 Vancouver International Film Festival - Dragons and Tigers Award 2009 Hong Kong International Film Festival - Golden Digital Prize the 65th Venice Film Festival Directed by Emily Tang produced by Chow Keung, Jia Zhangke, Li Xiudong Synopsis: Two women cross paths at a turning point in their lives. Strangers and very different, yet somehow their pasts and futures may [Read more...]
Shot, Written, and Directed by Luciana Burlamaqui 150min. (Pt 1 & 2), Color, documentary, Brazil, 2009, In portguese w/ English & Japanese subtitles Festivals (Selected): 2010 International Cinema Festival in Guadalajara (Mexico)- The Best Latin American Feature Documentary 2009 The 4th Cinema and Human Rights in Latin America Show (16 cities in Brazil)- Audience Award for Best Feature [Read more...]
This legendary film became even more meaningful this year - after the mega-radiation leakage followed by the 3.11.disaster and the death of Yoshiko Tanaka, the actress who played the protagonist in this film. With the tribute to her life and the people described in the film, and also with the sense of warning to what's going on in the current Japan in mind, we will show it again. Hirosuke [Read more...]
Onkalo (Finnish for "hiding place") is under construction: it's a cavernous world of tunnels and corridors, a permanent storage facility for nuclear waste, meant to last 100,000 years (that's 20 times as long as the pyramids have so far). Conceptual artist Michael Madsen's film is a creepy, eerily elegant meditation on human folly, punctuated by philosophical and historical references, [Read more...]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...]