The Yubari Festival in Japan is a small festival with a great eye for the really strange. And Yubari is precisely is where this eccentric film won the grand prix.
A woman who tenderizes meat as a butcher gets beaten at home and dreams of beating the drum. Yes, with humour. A film maker to watch.
Also in this combined programme
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Chasing Cats and Cars
What can a leg do without the man who should be fixed to it? About how you can forget a leg and the leg decides to go its own way.
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Metamorphosis
Delightfully macabre and funny fiction about the other side of happiness. A girl and a boy together in the grass, what could be more beautiful?
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Bekhawy
A frightened man is caught between two worlds; which path should you choose to find peace, rest and security?
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Pomeranie
A black and white, poetical short documentary about a majolica factory, one of those places that are ceasing to exist.
Film details
- Country of production
- Japan
- Year
- 2008
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2009
- Length
- 21"
- Medium/Format
- DV cam NTSC
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