All the Cities of the North
100'
Serbia
IFFR 2017
Five years on from his first film, Ito Takehiro tacks between Tokyo and Taiwan; between documentary and feature film and between fiction and reality with his independent debut, Out There. What Ito wanted to do was make a documentary about Taiwanese director Edward Yang. When this project didn’t get off the ground, he decided to work up the trials of filmmaking into a feature film.
So, Out There is about director Haruo – Ito’s alter ego – who is looking for a new lead actor for his previously unsuccessful project. He finds Ma (played by himself), a Taiwanese who roller-skates with gusto through the streets of Tokyo. From interviews, it transpires that both director and actor miss a sense of being at home, in the right place, and this is symbolised visually by the continuous switching from 16mm to Handycam to widescreen digital.
IFFR 2017
Programme IFFR 2017
100'
Serbia
IFFR 2017
93'
Germany
IFFR 2017
Coming-of-age drama in which a Puerto Rican teen girl is living at her strict grandmother’s house, waiting until she can move to America to be with her mom.
98'
Puerto Rico
IFFR 2017