As temperatures rise in the city, Japan Foundation brings to Delhites another set of cool events this month. One of the events not to be missed in the month of March is the 8th IAWRT Asian Women's Festival 2012. The festival focuses on women auteurs and is timed to coincide with Women's Day. The Japanese films to be screened are as follows:
Autumn Adagio (Inoue Tsuki) on 5th of March at 6:30pm
at India International Centre, New Delhi.
Synopsis: Sister Maria is a Japanese Catholic nun who donned the cloth at an early age, and she has lead an introvert life dedicated to faith and self-imposed drudgery. That changes when she turns 40 and menopause hits her like a second bout of puberty.
Maria suddenly feels uncomfortable in her existence and when she helps a local ballet school by playing piano during their lessons, she develops feelings for the handsome teacher. Now, at the end of her childbearing years, Maria starts to understand better what she abandoned when she became a nun.
Ashes To Honey (Hitomi Kamanaka, 2010) on 6th March at 6:00pm
at Alliance Francaise, New Delhi.
Synopsis: The film explores the global nuclear issue. It focuses on an isolated heart-shaped island of Iwai-shima, in Yamaguchi prefecture. The residents there have been fighting the construction of a nuclear power plant across their shores for nearly 30 years. Kamanaka also explores sustainable models of alternative energy in Sweden.
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| Autumn Adagio |
at India International Centre, New Delhi.
Synopsis: Sister Maria is a Japanese Catholic nun who donned the cloth at an early age, and she has lead an introvert life dedicated to faith and self-imposed drudgery. That changes when she turns 40 and menopause hits her like a second bout of puberty.
Maria suddenly feels uncomfortable in her existence and when she helps a local ballet school by playing piano during their lessons, she develops feelings for the handsome teacher. Now, at the end of her childbearing years, Maria starts to understand better what she abandoned when she became a nun.
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| Ashes to Honey |
Ashes To Honey (Hitomi Kamanaka, 2010) on 6th March at 6:00pm
at Alliance Francaise, New Delhi.
Synopsis: The film explores the global nuclear issue. It focuses on an isolated heart-shaped island of Iwai-shima, in Yamaguchi prefecture. The residents there have been fighting the construction of a nuclear power plant across their shores for nearly 30 years. Kamanaka also explores sustainable models of alternative energy in Sweden.
Japanese animation short films at India International Centre, 2:15pm onwards
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| The Dream in The Dream |
Sponchoi Pispochoi (Ikue Sugidono & Miyako Nishio, 2010)
A human being actually consists of many insects having their own will. Suddenly a giant parasite, Sponchoi Pispochoi, comes to their peaceful community. How do the insects break away from this parasite?
The Dream in the Dream (Ikue Sugidono, 2007)
A human being actually consists of many insects having their own will. Suddenly a giant parasite, Sponchoi Pispochoi, comes to their peaceful community. How do the insects break away from this parasite?
The Dream in the Dream (Ikue Sugidono, 2007)
A woman's everyday routine as she wavers between dream and reality.
Üks Uks (Maya Yonesho, 2003)
We have many doors in our life that lead to mother, friend, temptation, love, art and oneself. When all the doors are open, we will find harmony.
Vestige of Life (Maki Satake, 2010)
The filmmaker’s grandparents left the house in which they had lived for many years. It contains their memories as well as hers.
Gaki Biwa-Houshi (Reiko Yokosuka, 2005)
The gaki is a biwa player of the ogre. When he starts to play music on the veranda, the surroundings transform creating a remote and strange world.
Üks Uks (Maya Yonesho, 2003)
We have many doors in our life that lead to mother, friend, temptation, love, art and oneself. When all the doors are open, we will find harmony.
Vestige of Life (Maki Satake, 2010)
The filmmaker’s grandparents left the house in which they had lived for many years. It contains their memories as well as hers.
Gaki Biwa-Houshi (Reiko Yokosuka, 2005)
The gaki is a biwa player of the ogre. When he starts to play music on the veranda, the surroundings transform creating a remote and strange world.
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