A filmmaker’s personal journey to reconnect with her sister, a successful potter living in the ruins of Fukushima is interlocked with her spiritual quest of bridging East and West, feminine and masculine, shadow and light.
As part of the Cinéastes cœur à cœur series, we have invited Kyoka Tsukamoto to select one of her favourite films from the contemporary Canadian cinema repertoire. She has chosen Jacquelyn Mills’ IN THE WAVES.
Rojek meets incarcerated members of the Islamic State, and their wives held in prison camps, from all corners of the world and sharing a common ideal: establishing a caliphate.
In the early 20th century, Chinatowns began to appear in North American cities. Today, they are threatened by developers keen to exploit the land for its real estate value.
Through the amateur films he has collected, a filmmaker looks back on his turbulent life. In these fragile, funny and moving images, snippets of past stories and emotions, he sees his own history and that of his family, marked by an obsession with cinema and sex.
