Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival Presents: Embracing / In The Silence Of The World
Nippon Digital ½
EMBRACING is a very moving, personal documentary about the people surrounding director Naomi KAWASE and her desperate search for her father, whom she has not seen since childhood. In 1993, EMBRACING won the Special Prize of the FIPRESCI Jury at the Yamagata Documentary Film Festival.
Guests:
Asako FUJIOKA
Naomi KAWASE 河瀬直美
Embracing
につつまれて
EMBRACING is a very moving, personal documentary about the people surrounding director Naomi KAWASE and her desperate search for her father, whom she has not seen since childhood. In 1993, EMBRACING won the Special Prize of the FIPRESCI Jury at the Yamagata Documentary Film Festival.
につつまれて
Ni tsutsumarete
Japan 1992
40 minutes
Director
Naomi KAWASE
Cinematography
Naomi KAWASE
World sales
Sent
About Naomi KAWASE
河瀬直美
Naomi KAWASE studied at the University of Visual Arts in Osaka. After numerous short films and documentaries, she realized her first feature film MOE NO SUZAKU in 1996, for which she received the Golden Camera in Cannes.
Naomi KAWASE 河瀬直美
In The Silence Of The World
きゃからばあ
IN THE SILENCE OF THE WORLD / KYA KA RA BA A (Air, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth in Sanskrit) can be seen as a kind of continuation of EMBRACING. The film begins with the death of the director's father. She deals with her family history by reviewing her career as a filmmaker: The early films about her family, the success of her film SUZAKU in Cannes and her creative blockades. In the second part you can see the filmmaker in a tattoo studio. She wants to get a tattoo on her back like her father had.
About Naomi KAWASE
河瀬直美
Naomi KAWASE studied at the University of Visual Arts in Osaka. After numerous short films and documentaries, she realized her first feature film MOE NO SUZAKU in 1996, for which she received the Golden Camera in Cannes.