“A pleasing and moving questioning of fatherhood and the role of love in bringing subjects together.”
Category: OAFF
On the Edge of Their Seats (2020) [OAFF 2020]
‘One of the most powerful narratives concerning desire to date.’
Good-bye (2020) [OAFF 2020]
“A subtle but uncompromising exploration of the oedipal problematic”
The Murders of Oiso (2019) review [OAFF 2020]
“Highly original and touching to boot. (…) highly recommended.”
Short Movie Time: Hammock (2018) [OAFF 2020]
“Kentaro Kishi reveals himself as a master of framing small moments of endearing happiness as well as a director with poetic sensibilities.”
Short Movie Time: Nagisa (2017) [OAFF 2018]
“Takeshi Kogahara’s impresses with his highly evocative tragedy of subjective inhibition.”
Short Movie Time: Yukkuri/slowly (2019) [OAFF 2019]
“A creative experiment that successfully plays with the notion of the unsaid and affirms her visual sensitivity and her compositional strength.”
Videophobia (2019) review [OAFF 2020]
“A return to form for Daisuke Miyazaki.”
Kushina (2018) review [OAFF 2018]
“A strong statement against suffocating parental desires, desires that do not give the child the necessary space and time to let his own desire comes to fruition.”
