Film Festivals
All the films I saw at various Film Festivals over the years.
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- DirectorKazuya KonakaStarsYû UemuraAkari TakaishiTakuji KawakuboDuring the midst of Star Wars fever in the late 1970s, a cinephile high schooler teams up with three classmates to make his no-budget sci-fi masterpiece for a class project.8/10 - Japanese Film Festival Online (2024)
- DirectorDominique Margot6/10 - DOK.fest 2024
- DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiStarsShunsuke KubozukaShinnosuke MitsushimaKeishi NagatsukaFulfilling his filmmaking dream of 40 years, Nobuhiko Obayashi's luminous new feature "Hanagatami" delivers a timeless story of the pureness of youth beset by the chaos of war.7/10 - Japanese Filmfestival Online 2023
- DirectorAika HigashimoriStarsAika HigashimoriKenta IshidaKôta MitsuiOverlaying the history and culture of the land and its people that transcends the boundaries.6/10 - Japanese Filmfestival Online (2023)
- DirectorNatsuki TakahashiStarsRiku HagiwaraShiori KuboRiko NagaseA ghost of a girl Aisuke suddenly appears in the room of Yohei who was dumped by his lover. Aisuke, who has never experienced love during her lifetime, is very interested in "dating" and giving Yohei useless advice.7/10 - Japanese Film Festival Online (2023)
- DirectorKeitarô SakonStarsKokoro MoritaEriko NakamuraHaya NakazakiHaruka, a young recognized female entrepreneur, was forced to retire from her company due to the abuse of her authority. For her pride, she attempts to sell her family home and starts her new business.6/10 - Japanese Film Festival Online (2023)
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsSakura AndôEita NagayamaSoya KurokawaA mother demands answers from her son's teacher when her son begins acting strangely.10/10 - Filmfest Munich 2023 (June 24, 2023)
- DirectorNobomi AsaoStarsMiku UeharaKogarashi WakasugiKokoro MoritaA member of the high school art club called Sakuko falls into the sea while sketching a boat. Witnessing the incident, Saibara creates a painting titled "Drowning Sakuko" and wins an award at a contest, leading the painting to be displayed at school. Saibara takes the liberty of announcing that she will paint Sakuko for her next piece during a newspaper interview. Frustrated by the situation, Sakuko gives up on her artistic path and attempts to create a new work with the motif of a "boat" in her home, which is scheduled for demolition.7/10 - Japanese Film Festival Online (2023)
- DirectorYoichi NaritaStarsTsubasa NakagawaItsuki NagasawaRina IkomaIn a fading village in the Japanese countryside, the school is about to be closed, which weighs heavily on the students. Freshly arrived from Tokyo with his father after an acrimonious divorce, the shy Akira escapes into drawing and agrees to participate in a mural project to mark the end of the institution. One day, he sees Maki on the roof of a farm and becomes fascinated by this mysterious teenager, who has left school for unclear reasons. Later, several people witness the strange appearance of green lights. Akira discovers a crop circle, in which Maki is lying peacefully. They become friends and swear to keep silent about this fascinating discovery. But secrets are hard to keep in a small town and in the age of social networks, rumours spread quickly.8/10 - Japanese Film Festival Online 2023
- DirectorYoshifumi TsubotaStarsMakoto OoharaYoshifumi TsubotaA filmmaker's study of his 61-year-old cousin who lives on his own with pervasive developmental disorder after his mother passed away. The filmmaker, himself diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 41, also a married man with a daughter, spent two and a half year to record the life and struggles of his newly acquainted cousin, as well as that of the filmmaker himself.6/10 - Japanese Film Festival Online 2023
- DirectorMariam ChachiaNik VoigtIn a crumbling palatial building high in the Georgian mountains, people who are chronically ill with tuberculosis live in complete isolation - until they find out that their unloved home is to be demolished.7/10 - DOK.fest 2023
- DirectorDai SakôStarsTomomitsu AdachiYôta KawaseYutaka MatsushigeA forty something factory worker accidentally kills a woman while out on a date with her and tries to cover up her death. Over time, guilt begins to prick at the factory workers conscience and he begins to lose his mind.6/10 - Japanese Film Festival Online 2023
- DirectorHideo JôjôStarsRina OnoAmon HiraiShuri NakamuraA coming-of-age drama about young people who cheer for their high school baseball team playing in a stadium.8/10 - Japanese Film Festival Online 2023
- DirectorLia ErbalStarsThorsten BennerAntony BlinkenReinhard Bütikofer6/10 - DOK.fest 2023
- DirectorShigeru KobayashiSome city folk move to snowy rural Japan where they learn to deal with harsh winters and adapt to a fascinating and happy alternative lifestyle.7/10 - Japanese Film Festival Online 2023
- DirectorHisashi KimuraStarsKentarô SakaguchiMei NaganoRio UchidaOn-call substitute doctor Shugo finds himself faced with a terrifying criminal in a clown mask. The assailant demands that Shugo treat injured high school student Hitomi. The perpetrator sets siege to the building.7/10 - Japanese Film Festival Online 2023
- DirectorDiane Sara BouzgarrouThomas JenkoeStarsBrian RitchieIn Appalachian Kentucky, the uncertainty created by the loss of the coal industry inspires Brian Ritchie's poetry.9/10 - DOK.Fest 2021
- DirectorNao YoshigaiWhat is dance ? Not only people but the film itself danse here.5/10 - Japanese Film Festival Online 2023
- DirectorTim EllrichHien MaiStarsAlex PorterA Vietnamese couple living in Germany experiences only a virtual version of their motherland through chat clients and struggles with the restrictions and implications this means to their social life.8/10 - DOK.fest 2021
- DirectorPepe AndreuRafael MolesStarsHeiðar Ingi AðalgeirssonBjörk BergsdóttirGuðbergur BergssonEvery morning Krilli prepares the lobster soup from Bryggjan café, a tiny place in Iceland's most anodyne village. His wife helps out in the kitchen and longs to get back to Reykjavik. In the café, Krilli's brother, Alli, sits with the old fishermen, Iceland's last boxer and the translator of Don Quixote into Icelandic. Every day they discuss and find a new solution to the world's problems.7/10 - DOK.fest 2021
- DirectorIbrahim MursalStarsAhmed UmarIbrahim MursalSudanese artist Ahmed Umar arrived in Norway in 2008 as a political refugee from his homeland, then one of seven countries to punish same-sex conduct with the death penalty. Seven years later, many in the Sudanese community turn on him when he comes out on Facebook, and the young artist soon discovers that even liberal Norway can hold perils for openly gay immigrants. Despite everything, Ahmed longs to return home and reconnect with his roots - but will his country and his family accept or reject him? Crossing cultures and countries, Mursal's film captures the essence of a remarkable individual as he evolves before our eyes.7/10 - DOK.fest 2021
- DirectorMohamed El AboudiStarsMohamed AbderrahmaniMohamed BelhajHassan ChemlalIn the vast expanse of desert East of Atlas Mountains in Morocco, seasonal rain and snow once supported livestock, but now the drought seems to never end. Hardly a blade of grass can be seen, and families travel miles on foot to get water from a muddy hole in the ground. Yet the children willingly ride donkeys and bicycles or walk for miles across rocks to a "school of hope" built of clay. Following both the students and the teachers in the Oulad Boukais Tribe's community school for over three years, SCHOOL OF HOPE shows students Mohamed, Miloud, Fatima, and their classmates, responding with childish glee to the school's altruistic young teacher, Mohamed. Each child faces individual obstacles - supporting their aging parents; avoiding restrictions from relatives based on traditional gender roles - while their young teacher makes do in a house with no electricity or water.8/10 - DOK.fest 2021
- DirectorTeddy ChinStarsLee-zen LeeRuby LinJack TanStruggling for years, 55-year old Andy finally declares herself as woman. However, after she shelters a mother with her son, everything turns downhill all of a sudden.8/10 - FSFF 2020
- DirectorVano ArsenishviliNino OrjonikidzeAn old railway station in a remote valley of Georgia suddenly becomes a site for a big change, when hundreds of Chinese settle around it to build the New Silk Road.8/10 - DOK.fest 2020
- DirectorPailin WedelStarsMax MoreMatrix NaovaratpongNareerat NaovaratpongAfter her untimely death, a scientist from Bangkok cryo-preserves his daughter's brain. Scandal swirls around the family as they struggle to grieve a child that, in their view, is suspended between death and reawakening.8/10 - DOK.fest 2020