Films
language-category Japanese:
A Century in Sound
A meditative atour of three different, fascinating and distinctive Japanese listening cafés that offer an immersive, musical sanctuary amidst the chaotic streets of Tokyo.
Nicholas Dwyer & Tu Neill / Japan & New Zealand / 2024 / World Premiere
Black Box Diaries
A Japanese journalist becomes both detective and protagonist in her own story of overcoming a sexual assault and confronting both the boss of Japan's leading TV networks and a deeply conservative system. Dramatic, moving and determined to change a toxic culture.
Shiori Ito / Japan, United States & United Kingdom / 2024 / European Premiere
Entropy + Sunspot + The Cloud People
Three short and fascinating films about science and celestial bodies.
Inuk Jørgensen, David Blandy, Iulian Furtuna, Iulian Furtuna & Marius Lena / Greenland, United Kingdom, France & Barbados
Invisible People
An atmospheric trip to Japan in an existential and expressive film where the nightmarish butoh dance becomes the prism through which the forces of life express themselves. The hideous and the sublime meet and strange micro-connections emerge.
Alisa Berger / France & Germany / 2024 / World Premiere
Johatsu – Into Thin Air
In Japan, thousands of people disappear voluntarily every year. And there are companies ready to help those who want to disappear without a trace and start a new life somewhere else. Meet some of them in a film that soberly examines a modern phenomenon.
Life and Other Problems
The meaning of life, death and everything else? The possible answers are plenty in Max Kestner's adventurous film, which starts when the death of a giraffe at the Copenhagen Zoo goes viral from Hollywood to Chechnya.
Max Kestner / Denmark, Sweden & United Kingdom / 2024 / World Premiere
Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus
20 compositions, five decades, one performance. With posterity as his only audience, the Japanese star composer strums his own musical testament on the keys in the last performance before his death. Intimate, majestic and minimalistic, captured by the maestro's own son.
Neo Sora / Japan / 2023
The Contestant
A real-world 'The Truman Show’ in which a Japanese man became a national superstar without realising it through a bizarre reality TV show. A story stranger than fiction, which gets a second chapter as he is looking back at it today.
Clair Titley / United Kingdom / 2023