The Museum of Asian Arts – Guimet of Paris will show, at the Jean-François Jarrige auditorium, on April 21, 22 and 23, 2023, four of the eighty-five films selected for the 29th Vesoul Iff of Asian Cinema (Festival International des Cinémas d'Asie de Vesoul): two films presented in French and international premiere in competition and award-winning, and two masterpieces of Japanese animation :
Friday, April 21, 8:00 pm: Cold As Marble, by Asif Rustamov (Azerbaijan): Grand Prize of the International Jury, Netpac Jury Prize, Marc Haaz Jury Prize, will be presented by Jean-Marc Thérouanne, General Delegate, Artistic Director and co-founder of Vesoul Iff Asian Cinema:
A young man, 30, and his girlfriend, 35, married to another man, have a secret relationship in a house-museum in Baku where she works as a guide. He is a modern painter who earns his living by carving portraits of the deceased on tombstones, which is common in Azerbaijan. One morning,...
Friday, April 21, 8:00 pm: Cold As Marble, by Asif Rustamov (Azerbaijan): Grand Prize of the International Jury, Netpac Jury Prize, Marc Haaz Jury Prize, will be presented by Jean-Marc Thérouanne, General Delegate, Artistic Director and co-founder of Vesoul Iff Asian Cinema:
A young man, 30, and his girlfriend, 35, married to another man, have a secret relationship in a house-museum in Baku where she works as a guide. He is a modern painter who earns his living by carving portraits of the deceased on tombstones, which is common in Azerbaijan. One morning,...
- 4/5/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Last September saw the Camera Japan Festival arrive in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and as usual it brought good food, good films, good music and a good atmosphere. As with many festivals, audiences were allowed to rate the films, and a "Top Five" emerged. Interestingly, two of the five highest rated films were anime. Katabuchi Sunao's In This Corner of the World was number four, and Yamada Naoko's A Silent Voice (pictured above) even topped the list! And think of this: Shinkai Makoto's magnificent blockbuster drama Your Name wasn't even playing at the festival, though not for lack of trying by the programmers. Had they succeeded, would there have been three anime in the top 5? Not a far stretch of the imagination... We can say...
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- 12/5/2017
- Screen Anarchy
While the anime industry seemed to be in a rut for the last few years, desperately looking for new star directors to emerge, recently there has been no shortage of great adult-oriented films. Shinkai Makoto's Your Name broke all records, and Katabuchi Sonao's In This Corner of the World and Yamada Naoko's A Silent Voice have picked up awards at festivals worldwide. A Silent Voice even ended up being the most appreciated film by audiences at the Camera Japan Festival in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, no mean feat, especially when you consider that the film is a strong drama about bullying, seen from both the victims/survivors' and perpetrators' sides. UK-based distributor Anime Limited has now released A Silent Voice on Blu-ray, and while their edition isn't...
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- 11/13/2017
- Screen Anarchy
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