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Then I Add Colors to a Panda and Zebra.

Shirahoshi is a girl who can’t tolerate when things are not absolutely right. She won the runner-up prize in a manga contest but decided to abandon her dream of becoming a manga artist since she wasn’t going to be the best. Now she spends her days searching for a job. She also cannot accept the reality she was abruptly dumped by her boyfriend who she had hoped would be the perfect match. Then Shirahoshi suddenly comes face-to-face with a suspicious man and self-proclaimed ghost who warns her that not everything has to be “black or white.”

Then I Add Colors to a Panda and Zebra.

NR 2020
Like Raining at the End of April (Director's Cut)

Like Raining at the End of April (Director’s Cut) is an experimental film that reworks selected footage from the 2012 experimental film In April the Following, There Was a Fire, blending it with material from the director’s other works (Wichanon Somumjarn). This film deliberately presents its narrative in reverse chronological order, moving counter to the original storyline. The film is accompanied by a score composed by the band Local People Rockband (a music alias of the director himself), taken from a concept album titled Countryman. The album consists of 13 + 2 tracks meant to be listened to in sequence. Once the final track ends, the film reverses itself, looping back to the beginning. Through this structure, viewers are invited to discover a moving and memorable cinematic and auditory experience.

Like Raining at the End of April (Director's Cut)

NR 2020
Junji Inagawa's Mystery Night Tour 2020

In March 2020, the entertainment industry was forced to refrain from normal activity due to the spread of a new virus that shook the world. Amidst the gloomy despair caused by not having any chances to come together, Mystery Night Tour fans were unable to tell what would happen next. In the midst of this unease, people wondered, “Will there be another tour this year?” "Will Mr. Inagawa come back at a time like this?" Encouraged by the many warm voices of fans nationwide, Junji Inagawa decided to hold his ghost story event tour once more. Although several performances had been canceled due to requests from the organizers, with thorough infection control measures and the cooperation of the attendees, we were able to successfully complete 43 performances nationwide.

Junji Inagawa's Mystery Night Tour 2020

NR 2020
Songs Still Sung: Voices from the Tsunami Shores

In this documentary film, a companion to the book, Arai interviews five women from Ofunato, ages 79 to 100, who have survived as many as three tsunami in the past century! They talk about their childhood memories, their fortitude in the face of war and natural disaster, and the extraordinary depth of spoken Kesengo. Director Suzuki Yoi’s rich poetic sensibility offers a vision of humanity in all its complexity, as the film weaves together their Takuboku translations, poetry by the women themselves, and local songs. Their stories and their language will become a part of everyone who listens to their voices

Songs Still Sung: Voices from the Tsunami Shores

NR 2020
After the Riots, Before the Liberation

2019 in Hong Kong, protests become our daily life. The stuffs in the streets after each protest are changing our urban landscape, and they become the view of our everyday life. Graffitis on walls, unscrewed railings, bricks, respirators, safety goggles. Everything records what has happened in the city and witnesses our beliefs. I walked through the streets with my camera after protests. Mr. LIU Yi Chang let the objects tell the story in his nouveau roman short story, Riot, in 1968. Likewise, I let the objects play the narrators and tell us about the protests. Moreover, there are conversations and dialectic between different narrators…

After the Riots, Before the Liberation

NR 2020
Dear Kimsisters in 1959

During the Cold War, three Korean women left for the United States to succeed as a pop group. They show off their capabilities by absorbing all the images of Asia. The director connects the story of the Kimsisters and the director herself who is studying abroad, and reveals the voices of Asian women that were ignored by men and Western centered power. When the United States and Russia competed with each other to capture the back side of the moon, three Korean women left for the United States to succeed as a pop group. They show off their capabilities by absorbing all the images of Asia to succeed in the United States. The director discovers the history of other Asian women that took place in 1959, and connects the story of Kim Sisters and the director herself, who is studying abroad. She crosses language, power, history and culture, and reveals the voices of Asian women that were excluded from men and Western centered power, through archived images and collage images of the director.

Dear Kimsisters in 1959

NR 2020
Welcome to X-world

Three people live in Doosan Apartment in Guro-dong. Me, mom, and my grandfather. Even though it has been 12 years since dad died, we are still living under the same roof. I thought it was because of the financial situation that we could not move out of grandfather’s house. But when I found out that mom already had enough money to get a house, I became confused. Why didn’t mom move out from the “x-world” when she could? From a marriage that didn’t work out well, to a father-in-law with a temper. Why has she been enduring it, unchanging, for all the time I had witnessed her life to become a woman against marriage? One day when my anxiousness was at its peak, grandfather suggested that we live separately. Mom, reluctant to leave Guro-dong that she’d been living in for 20 years and her marriage life, will she be able to find herself and move out well?

Welcome to X-world

NR 2020
Sawano Hiroyuki LIVE “BEST OF VOCAL WORKS [nZk]” Side SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]

Tracklist: 01. &Z / mizuki 02. aLIEz / mizuki -MC- 03. Keep on keeping on / mizuki 04. CRY / mizuki 05. X.U. / Gemie 06. shØut / Tielle & Gemie 07. gravityWall / Tielle & Gemie -MC- 08. Felidae / Gemie & Tielle 09. Into the Sky / Tielle 10. Home ~in this corner~ / naNami 11. Next 2 U -eUC- / naNami -MC- 12. A LETTER / naNami 13. Trollz / Laco -MC- 14. NEXUS / Laco -MC- 15. ninelie (Lv) / Laco 16. Because we are tiny in this world / Laco 17. narrative / ASCA -MC- 18. Unti-L <100S-R2> with mizuki / ASCA & mizuki 19. Tranquility / Anly -MC- 20. Binary Star / Anly -MC- 21. REMEMBER / ASCA, Gemie, Laco, mizuki, naNami, Tielle & Anly

Sawano Hiroyuki LIVE “BEST OF VOCAL WORKS [nZk]” Side SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]

NR 2020
One Country through Torture

This documentary depicts the stories of four Chinese activists—Xie Wenfei, Zhang Shengyu, Chen Yunfei, and Liu Ping—who faced torture. It also invites Hong Kong participants Chan Ho-wun, Li On-yin, Chen Hung Sau, and Cheung Chiu-hung to experience and reflect on these situations through simulated installations. The film highlights that in the advancement of human civilization, "human rights", "rule of law", and "democracy" are mutually indispensable and interdependent. In countries ruled by authoritarian regimes, the rule of law cannot be upheld, let alone the protection of human rights.

One Country through Torture

NR 2020
Mong Kok First Aid

Mong Kok First Aid investigates the experiences and unheard stories of a group of young volunteers who provided First Aid services to wounded participants during Hong Kong’s landmark Umbrella Movement of 2014. Just half a decade later, their first-person narratives reveal an intense feeling of time passing and memories fading, as this documentary seeks to challenge history by intervening to supplement the record. After all, who decides whose story can be a part of history?

Mong Kok First Aid

NR 2020
13

A small twinkling dot slowly glides across the black screen. It is followed by another, and then a third. We seem at first to be watching an abstract piece of video art, but there is more to the Japanese film 13 than meets the eye. Filmmaker Shinya Isobe left his camera in exactly the same spot for five years to shoot a picture of the sunset every thirteen seconds. In a series of merged time-lapses, we see the sun moving serenely from left to right. Over and over again. First in a neat line, in total silence. Later patterns appear, supported by a minimalist soundtrack. No digital trickery was used to create the hypnotic images that pass by. Isobe overlaid analogue shots from different seasons to produce clusters of shining spots. See it as an amalgamation of time, a contemplation of humanity versus the cosmos—it’s up to you to create your own associations. (Source: IDFA 2020)

13

8.5 2020