{"id":12,"count":0,"description":"Message from the Co-directors on UPAF2011 poster:\r\n\r\n\"We are not a regular film festival. We want to share the powerful films made by our fellow filmmakers in the world that could change all of our lives.\r\n\r\nJapan is just hanging in there this year. This year, our mini-themes are Nuclear and Us, young people, our cities and towns, and power of film, all supported by our underlying theme of \u201clife, art, film.\u201d\r\n\r\nThis year was a sad sad year. Our mini-themes were originally \u201ctowns and cities\u201d and \u201cpower of film,\u201d but after the 3.11. Fukushima disaster, we gradually started wanting to create a space where people can express and talk about the doubts and fears that every Japanese person carries in post-Fukushima Japan. Thus we decided to add \u201cNuclear and Us\u201d as one of our mini-themes. The result is the screenings of: \u201cInto the Eternity,\u201d a documentary film about the Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository in Finland: \u201cHibakusha and I,\u201d a documentary in which a young Japanese filmmaker questions about how he should pass on the memories of hibakusha, the victims of A-bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki: and \u201cBlack Rain,\u201d a Shohei Imamura\u2019s drama that tried to recreate the fear of A-bomb and its aftermath.  There will be extended time allotted to the post-film talk after the outdoor screening of \u201cInto the Eternity\u201d with special guest Takashi Asai from Shibuya Uplink, the film's distributor.\r\n\r\nUPAF 2011 also will include: a documentary about a rap duo born and living in a cell of Rio\u2019s notorious prison, a documentary-drama fusion dealing with the massive migration of workers in China and the resulting loss of family bond (both are by female directors!); a rare, groovy, and magical drama of an African-Canadian family in Canada, a self-documentary by a young Japanese filmmaker tackling her own issues of being a victim of sexual assault within her own family; strong films made by teen filmmakers in the world (free!), etc. Also, to cheer up the sensitive minds of little children in post-3.11. Japan, we will also screen the French classics, \u201cRed Balloon\u201d and \u201cWhite Mane,\u201d with a special live voiceover performance by volunteer actors.","link":"https:\/\/unoportartfilms.org\/en\/archives\/category\/archives\/2011","name":"2011","slug":"2011","taxonomy":"category","parent":18,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unoportartfilms.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unoportartfilms.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unoportartfilms.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unoportartfilms.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/18"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/unoportartfilms.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}