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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • A Little Planet

    Taking a stroll with a gleaming, floating ball.
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  • Home

    The camera as family therapist. Film student Kobayashi made an award-winning portrait of his own dysfunctional family, with e.g. a brother who locked
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  • Chiri

    Intimate video poem of the filmmaker’s foster mother/granny. Perhaps intimate isn’t a strong enough term. A tender type of candidness.
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  • A Forest Within a Forest

    Guide Nashi leads the viewer through mysterious woods. What sort of creatures live here? Living organisms or robots?
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  • Going Home (Part 1-5)

    In his first TV series, Kore-eda explores familiar ground: family ties. Advertising exec Ryota continues his sick father’s search for the mysterious K
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  • Lesson of the Evil

    Master Miike is not the gentle type. He owes his title of master to films with almost unbearable violence. The news helps him a bit…
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  • Odayaka

    The tsunami disaster is far away, but the fear it brought is very tangible. Producer and actress Kiki Sugino plays her most gripping role ever…
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  • Don’t Dare to Stop Love

    Dramatic, experimental film. Shot in Super-8 to make things less realistic. A mother thinks she’s going to die and picks up a young man.
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  • Akiba-Field

    Two women. Two swords. A man in a box. An empty street. All you need to set the scene for the apocalypse. An exercise. A…
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  • 2·11

    Put a group of young Japanese actors in an empty office building. Like an experiment with rats. Acting with Stockholm syndrome.
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