14:40
Garden
ISRAEL/2003/Hebrew, Arabic/Color/Video/85min
Director: Ruthie Shatz, Adi Barash
As Dudu and Nino, immigrant teenage prostitutes, course through the streets of downtown Tel Aviv’s Garden district, the camera painfully depicts their intimate friendship and hopes for the future.
9.17(Sun) 19:40 @Polepole Higashinakano theater
9.28(Thu) 16:00 @Polepole Higashinakano theater
10.19(Thu) 14:40 @Athenee Francais Cultural Center
16:40
Rehearsals
SWEDEN/2004/Swedish/Color/35mm/101min
Director: Michal Leszczylowski
A project where three prisoners serving sentences perform in a public stage production. Intertwining footage of rehearsals, the prisoners' testimonies and the performance itself the boundaries of reality and fiction are blurred, deceiving the viewer. Finally, an unforeseen conclusion confronts us.
9.21(Thu) 12:30 @Polepole Higashinakano theater
9.23(Sat) 20:50 @Polepole Higashinakano theater
10.19(Thu) 16:40 @Athenee Francais Cultural Center
19:00
Try to Remember
CHINA/2005/Chinese/Color/Video/90min
Director: Zhong Jian
As he travels with his mother to her home village, the director, at the height of his youth, records his mother’s childhood recollections of the Cultural Revolution.
10.11(Wed) 17:00 @Athenee Francais Cultural Center
10.19(Thu) 19:00 @Athenee Francais Cultural Center

Presented by Cinamatrix
Co-presented by Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival Organizing Committee, Athenee Francais Cultural Center, The Film School of Tokyo, Polepole Higashinakano

With support from the Agency for Cultural Affairs (Bunkacho)