tag:peatix.com,2011:1 2021-11-15T13:42:26+08:00 Peatix Singapore Film Society tag:peatix.com,2021:event-2939866 2021-10-10T17:00:00SGT 2021-10-10T17:00:00SGT

https://youtu.be/UsxU7xNoGdAFounded in 1977, PIA Film Festival is one of the oldest and most vital film festivals in Japan, responsible for launching the careers of many well-known Japanese directors we know today, such as SONO Sion, KUROSAWA Kiyoshi, KAWASE Naomi, and OGIGAMI Naoko. Despite their importance, the festival remains fairly obscure to many cinephiles. Hence we decided to spotlight the festival by curating a series of the most interesting and recent films from PIA Film Festival.--A Road | あるみち2015 | 85 min | Drama | Japanese with English subtitles | PGChildhood is a time for dreaming. One of Daichi’s dreams has now come true: he’s studying film. But what happened to the happiness from childhood? What happened to those moments of elation as a little boy when he and his friends used to catch lizards without a care in the world? A documentary exercise at film school forms the starting point of his search for the end of childhood: for Daichi, capturing images with his camera is now just as much about capturing lizards.In an attempt to retrieve the past, in “Aru michi”, Director SUGIMOTO Daichi casts himself as a film student of the same name in pursuit of his childhood. Calmly, ingeniously, he blurs reality and fiction as well as the boundary between the past and the present. What he discovers is both painful and beautiful: you can catch a lizard and keep it captive, but you cannot do the same with the past – which, unlike our memories of it, is ephemeral. In everyday situations with his mother and his friends, Daichi paints an authentic portrait of a generation on its way to adulthood. “Aru michi” is a sensitive film about taking leave of childhood while preserving what it means to be a child.Directed By: SUGIMOTO DaichiStarring: SUGIMOTO Daichi, KATSUKURA Yuta, SUGIMOTO RikaScreening DetailsDate: 10 October, SundayTime: 5pmLocation: Oldham TheatreIn-cinema post-screening virtual Q&A with Director--Q&A with DirectorSUGIMOTO DaichiDirector of “A Road” SUGIMOTO Daichi was born in Nerima Ward in Tokyo.As a university student, he won the PFF Award 2015 Grand Prix, his first directorial work "Aru Michi" (English title “A Road”). The film was invited to the 66th Berlin International Film Festival in 2018 in the Forum section.Visit jff.sg for more info.

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