“This questioning, framed with thoughtful cinematography and brought to life by deeply nuanced performances, will long linger in the spectator’s mind.”
Mechanical Telepathy (2018) review
Igarashi Akiko does prove herself to be a new fresh voice in the Japanese sci-fi genre
The Garden Apartment (2018) review [IFFR 2019]
“A beautiful meditation on the dangers of love”
Domains (2019) review [IFFR 2019]
“Kusano is able to evokes nothing other than the very fact that one’s subjective truth is ever constructed in cyclic retro-active way.”
Snow Flower (2019) review
“A narrative that is, at no point, able to evoke the power of the song it has used as inspiration.”
Drowning Love (2016) review
Despite the obvious romanticism, a sincere and believable account of a first love.
Japanese highlights at IFFR 2019.
While IFFR, like every year, has an amazing selection of world cinema to enjoy, we want to underline the Japanese highlights of this year.
His Lost Name (2018) review
“A successful debut for Nanako Hirose”
Asako I & II (2018) review
“(The narrative) breaths much needed fresh air into the rather stale genre of Japanese romance narrative”
Keita Never Die (2018) review
“This indie genre-bender is still a narrative worth checking out.”
