Divinations
An idiosyncratic collection of objects on adhesive tape is brought to life by an old magic lantern. What do these shapes and images tell us about the future?
35'
Belgium
IFFR 2020
Yu Araki is interested in questions of authenticity via remaking, rearranging and reinterpreting. This contemplative film about an expert griller working at one of the oldest Robatayaki restaurants in Japan, subtly refers to indigenous Ainu culture, as well as the environmental movement in contemporary society.
IFFR 2020
- 16'
- Japan
- 2020
- Director
- Yu Araki
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- Japan
- Year
- 2020
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 16'
- Medium
- Digital
- Language
- no dialogue
- Producer
- Yu Araki
- Sales
- Yu Araki
- Cinematography
- Yu Araki
- Editor
- Yu Araki
- Music
- Fujii Kenji
- Cast
- Nakajima Shizuko, Hata Satoshi
Also in this combined programme
Lullaby
The film consists of four new renditions of traditional Thai lullaby tunes in Chehe dialect, focusing on the current religious and cultural disharmony.
8'
Thailand
IFFR 2020
two moons
Typical for Benning, in Two Moons the title is an exact description of the film's content – and its governing principle, structure and concept.
42'
USA
IFFR 2020
L'ultimu sognu
Deep inside the wild nature of Corsica, a woman leads her lonesome life, with menacing forebodings of the future passing through her dreams.
33'
France
IFFR 2020
- Director
- Yu Araki
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- Japan
- Year
- 2020
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 16'
- Medium
- Digital
- Language
- no dialogue
- Producer
- Yu Araki
- Sales
- Yu Araki
- Cinematography
- Yu Araki
- Editor
- Yu Araki
- Music
- Fujii Kenji
- Cast
- Nakajima Shizuko, Hata Satoshi
Programme IFFR 2020
Wait and See
Waiting for a film to start, it has already begun – in our mind. This programme cultivates the viewer’s patience, both in the cinema and outside.
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A camera-shy film journalist decides to inflict an experiment on himself: to film himself for 15 days. Halfway through his ordeal he opens up.
90'
Japan
IFFR 2020
Aahuti
A ritualised choreography of hands and simple objects above a section of soil offers a phenomenological journey to the essence of the cycle of life.
15'
India
IFFR 2020
Absolute Beginners
Six gene-positive people share how they cope with the onset of Huntington's disease and how it affects their life – past, present and future.
42'
Belgium
IFFR 2020