Dir. Yutaka Tsuchiya, Cast: Yuka Kuramochi, Makiko Watanabe, Kanji Furutachi, Takahashi. Japan/2012/HD/82min. One time only special sneak preview! 8/12 (sun), 23:00~ Uno Port Out door Trailer Theater 【Director’s Statement】 “System vs. Man”, “Program vs. Life” – I made this film to open dialogue on these new perspectives. The 3 central themes of the film are “Surveillance in a [Read more...]
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...]
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...]