DAUGHTER OF THE LIGHT

Khashem GYAL

13-year-old Metok Karpo lives in a Tibetan boarding school for orphans, her divorced parents are alive and well, leaving her to be raised by her maternal grandparents, who make her school-holidays hell by continually denouncing her father.

Sanka: Nomads of the Mountains

Ryohei 

“A Story Where Three Timelines Cross”

This is a movie that alternates between three-time axes. First one is a document of high school students creating a play. Second is a record of the life of the citizens of Hirono. And the third is the history of Hirono. These three different time axes intervene, asking us what the meaning of life is.

CENOTE
Kaori Oda

Turkish Kurds have been fleeing from prejudice and persecution and coming to the Tokyo area, where they now number about 1,500. Among them is 18-year-old Ozan, who first came to Tokyo as a child. Living in Japan with his family as an ‘illegallyalien’ rather than an officially recognized refugee, 

THE BONDS OF CLAY

Kenichi Omori

Tobe is the town of pottery. One day, Tatsuya suddenly returned to the city. And struggle to have Tobeyaki adopted for the Olympic torch stand.

HIRONO

Ryuichi Shimano

across the border Cu-Bop

Shinichi Takahashi

Separated by an ocean, two Cuban jazz musicians continue to perform in spite of the difficulties they face. César López is recognized as Cuba’s premier saxophonist, having founded his landmark jazz band, the Havana Ensemble, in his native country. The gifted young pianist Axel Tosca lives in New York City, the leader of (U)NITY, a band which fuses Afro-Cuban culture with modern jazz and hip-hop. 

Cambodian Textiles

Tatsuhito Utagawa

When Kikuo Morimoto (68), a kimono artisan from Kyoto arrived in Cambodia after the Cambodian civil war, the culture of weaving traditional Cambodian textiles was on the verge of extinction. 

“A Story Where Three Timelines Cross”

This is a movie that alternates between three-time axes. The first one is a document of high school students creating a play. Second is a record of the life of the citizens of Hirono. And the third is the history of Hirono. These three different time axes intervene, asking us what the meaning of life is.