A group of works that shined the festivals around the world

Current,BunkamuraIt is done withTokyo International Film FestivalHe celebrated the milestone of 20 years. Film festivals are held all over the world, big and small, with the biggest film festivals in Cannes, Venice and Berlin, and numerous works are displayed on the screen with enthusiasm. So, I will introduce some of the ones that are currently open in Shibuya, among works that have won prizes at various film festivals, works that became a topic, and so on.

I won the Grand Prize at the Boy film club in Berlin International Film Festival"This road will continue to my mother", An art contribution prize was awarded at the same festival"Good shepherd", Awarded a special prize at the Film Festival Kinder Film Fest"Place where I am not present I Am / Jestem"Works dealing with universal common themes of all countries such as "family" "human" "heart". As a topical movie, I won the International Critic Award at the Toronto International Film Festival"President assassination", Was selected as the Best Work Award in last year's Tokyo International Film Festival <Japan movie · certain viewpoint> category"Mirikitani of cat", Won the Best Film Award at Berlin International Film Festival"Paradise Now"Such as political messages will be strong. Director Naomi Kawase who won the Grand Prix (Grand Prize) at the Cannes International Film Festival this year"The Mourning Forest (Mogari)"Although their release is also memorable, these works are selected from film fans and professional gazes all over the world. Let's take this opportunity to express that certain worthy ways of representation worthy of the award and the award by the judges.

© 2004 Filmofond Lenfilm Studio

title:
This road continues to my mother
Screening Location:
Bunkamura Le Cinema
Screening period:
2007年10月27日〜
directed by:
Andrey Kravchuk
Out Starring:
Korya · Spiridonov, Maria · Kuznetsova, Dariya · Resnikowa, Yuri · Ikkov, Nikolai · Reutov
Extreme cold Russia. The hope of children raised in an orphanage lonely lying on the freezing frontier's land is to be taken over by adopted parents of wealthy foreigners. The 6-year-old boy Vanya likes the Italian couple fortunately and will leave the hospital as an adopted child. But one day, my mother suddenly appeared in an orphanage who was already taken over as an adopted child, so I began to be aware of the existence of my mother who gave birth. "I want to see real mommy, because it's OK at once". Finally escape the orphanage, escape tracking of brokers who make money with adoption, hop on a single train. To meet real mommy ....
【Berlin International Film Festival · Boys Film Section Grand Prix (2005)】

"This work is a story of love, self esteem, nobility.In any situation, as long as you act according to your heart and the way of people, that person is definitely the winner, it is also the story of a confusing country. If there are little heroes who can accomplish that feat like that of the hero, you will be able to hope for and talk about Russia's promising future, and many of the universal themes lurking in this work are from Russia only I sincerely hope that the audience of other countries will understand it. "- Director Andrey Krafukhuk (comment excerpt)

From the movie 'This road continues to my mother' "

© 2006 Universal Studios. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

title:
Good shepherd
Screening Location:
Shibuhigashi Shinetawa
Screening period:
2007年10月20日〜
directed by:
Robert De Niro
Out Starring:
Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Alec Baldwin, William Hurt, Michael Gambon
Pigs Bay affair, which is also said to be the cause of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The secret of a family member of a veteran intelligence worker lurking behind it. A drama filled with the real pleasure of suspense that still deduces the truth of many cases that leave many mysteries evolves in a way that reflects the wild lives of 20 years of the main character Edward with the backside history of modern America. CIA and her own family. I draw Edward's anguish torn apart among the two "families" as a magnificent scale dramatic human drama and give deep emotion to the viewers.
【Berlin International Film Festival · Artist Contribution Award (2007)】

© 2005 Dream Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.

title:
I must not have place I Am / Jestem
Screening Location:
Cinema Angelica
Screening period:
2007年10月13日〜
directed by:
Drota Kengelzavuska
Out Starring:
Pottor Yagyerski, Agnesica / Nago Gikka, Editor · Yugowska, Pavue Wilczach
The boy Kundell who is deposited with the national orphanage is a brutal child who wants to be a poet in the future, but he was angered by the teacher and did not try to make friends with other children. Kunder, who dislikes such a place, leaves the orphanage and decides to return to the town where his mother is. However, when I came home, my mother was asleep in bed with a strange man. While craving for the love of his mother, Kunder who dislikes the mother who is living in a disoriented manner with the men in the town, decided to live alone, to a ship that was abandoned by a river without a town To settle down.
【Berlin International Film Festival · Kinder Film Fest Special Award (2006)】
title:
Assassination of the president
Screening Location:
Cine Amuse East & West
Screening period:
2007年10月20日〜11月2日
directed by:
Gabriel Range
Out Starring:
George W. Bush, Hend Ayoub, Brian Borland, Becky Ann Baker
Why was President Bush assassinated? Is this an American nightmare, or is it the realization of the desire America has potentially? What is the current and future of the world where we live, which comes from the rare "co-existence of ambitious problem raising and innovative entertainment features" "president assassination", and the world we live in?
【Toronto International Film Festival · International Critics Award (2006)】

© lucid dreaming inc.

title:
Cats of Mirikitani
Screening Location:
Euro Space
Screening period:
2007年9月8日〜11月9日
directed by:
Linda Hattendorf
Out Starring:
Jimmy Mirikitani, Linda Hattendorf, Roger Shimomura, Janice Mirikitani

September 11, 2001, New York on the streets of the state of tension that the World Trade Center has collapsed. Elsewhere in the surrounding area as the noisy, there was a man you are running just as nonchalant a paintbrush and always. His name is Jimmy Mirikitani, 80-year-old. I was born in California, but during the Second World War, sent to the Japanese American concentration camps, was discarded their own citizenship and resistance to the United States. Life of his rebellious from that time began. What is in his 80 years was there ..., and from what he has been put in the picture of the cat to draw ....
【Tokyo International Film Festival <Japan Film · Certain Viewpoint> Department · Best Work Award (2006) / Tribeca Film Festival · Audience Awards (2006) and others]

"Living Japanese American street artist a checkered fate across the border, Jimmy Mirikitani. This work was born from a chance encounter between Jimmy and the film maker Linda was fascinated by the pictures painted by him, like a miracle a documentary. by the efforts of Linda supervision, anger will continue to be full-san's heart Jimmy unfolded in to the war. a lot of the miracle that was spelled on the film, please as much as possible by all means need to theater in the witness . "(Astaire / Amano-san)

From the movie "Mirikitani of cat"

title:
Paradise Now
Screening Location:
UPLINK X
Screening period:
2007年9月29日〜
directed by:
Hany Abu-Assad
Out Starring:
Kais Nasif, Ali Sliman, Rubna Azabal
Nablus, the town of the West Bank district of the Israel occupied territory. Poverty makes people suffer, occasional rocket bombs fly. Childhood friend Said and Harled have worked as a car repairman, but there is no future or hope there, there is nothing we can do to help the poor family's life. The feeling of blockage, frustration and despair became miserable, the depth of life. Born under occupation, living in occupation. One day, Sayed to Jamal, negotiator representative of the Palestinian organization who survives the suicide bomber, "I will be carrying out suicide bombing attacks with you and Harledo in Tel Aviv ...".
【Berlin International Film Festival · Audience Awards etc (2005)】

"We must be proud to be able to participate in this movie if we do not recognize the truth clearly before questioning whether we are suffering a suicide bombing that is a commonplace everyday in the country." (ARATA)
"There is a reality of the life-size" Palestine. "Although there is no bomb falling in the sky of" Japan "yet, the happiness that the wish you desire is different. "(Kozuka Yousuke)
※ Both of them are in charge of dubbing Japanese version of DVD ·Official siteThan

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