A series of screenings, each featuring two different films that share a common ground.

Sendai Mediatheque Screening: Fraternal films

Not a simple remake
• June 14 (Saturday)
14:30 H Story (Suwa Nobuhiro / 2001 / 111 min)
18:30 Hiroshima, mon amour (Alain Resnais / 1959 / 91 min)

The retina called Digital Video
• June 15 (Sunday)
14:30 Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers

(Jia Zhangke, John Akomfrah, Tsai Ming-Liang / 2001 / 92 min / YIDFF 2001 special invitation)

18:30 6 Easy Pieces

(Jon Jost / 2000 / 68 min / YIDFF 2001 prize winner)

Non / fiction
• June 21 (Saturday)
14:30 Blissfully Yours

(Apichatpong Weerasethakul / 2002 / 125 min)
Chalida Uabumrungjit will give a talk at the conclusion of the screening.

18:30 Mysterious Object at Noon

(Apichatpong Weerasethakul / 2000 / 83 min / YIDFF 2001 prize winner)

A dual gaze that penetrates film
• June 22 (Sunday)
14:30 Bright Future (Kurosawa Kiyoshi / 2002 / 115 min)
18:30 ambivalent future: Kurosawa Kiyoshi (Fujii Kenjiro / 2002 / 75 min)

Fujii Kenjiro will give a talk at the conclusion of the screening.

[Venue]

Sendai Mediatheque, 7th Floor Studio Theater
Sendai-shi, Aoba-ku, Kasuga-cho 2-1, JAPAN

[Admission]

General 1,000 yen, students 800 yen, senior citizen card holders 500 yen (patrons must exit the auditorium at the conclusion of each screening)

[Contact]

phone: 022-713-3171 (Sendai Mediatheque)
e-mail: office@smt.city.sendai.jp