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Festivals

19th Annual Japan Cuts : Festival of New Japanese Film Headlined By Actress Suzu Hirose And Director Hirokazu Koreeda

Suzu Hirose in A Pale View of Hills © 2025 A Pale View of Hills Film Partners 19TH ANNUAL JAPAN CUTS: FESTIVAL OF NEW JAPANESE FILM HEADLINED BY ACTRESS SUZU HIROSE AND DIRECTOR HIROKAZU KOREEDA North America’s Largest Japanese Film Festival Announces Schedule, Featuring Two Weeks of Contemporary Premieres, Special Guests, and Restored Classics Festival…

Nobuhiro Hosoki

June 9, 2026

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Sundance Film Festival: Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty! Dances Gracefully Through Grief and Renewal

Dancing can have a profoundly inspiring effect on anyone willing to embrace its transformative benefits. That’s certainly the case for the protagonist of Haru, a recent widow who uses the physical movements to come out of mourning, in the new romantic dramedy, Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty! Josef Kubota Wladyka directed and produced, and also co-wrote…

Karen Benardello

January 31, 2026

Festivals

19th Annual Japan Cuts : Festival of New Japanese Film Headlined By Actress Suzu Hirose And Director Hirokazu Koreeda

Nobuhiro Hosoki

June 9, 2026

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Tribeca Festival/ Memorizu Review: A Quietly Beautiful Japanese Meditation on Memory

©Courtesy of Tribeca Festival Our everyday lives are made up of countless small moments that slowly gather over time. Most of them are forgotten because they seem ordinary and insignificant. Lacking the drama of major events, they fade almost as soon as they occur. In great films such as Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days” (2023) Jim…

Niclas Goldberg

June 7, 2026

Interviews

After Oil: Exclusive Video Interview with Director Boima Tucker

Environmental documentaries thrive on their ability to question who stands to benefit — and who is left behind — in the rush toward a green future. That’s certainly true for the new climate feature, After Oil. In the project, filmmaker Boima Tucker explores the uneven realities of the global transition away from fossil fuels. Moving between…

Karen Benardello

June 7, 2026

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‘The Gas Station Attendant,’ Immigration Is Shown Through A Dual-Perspective

The gaze of second-generation immigrants captures the plight of its forbearers. This is what film director Karla Murthy projects in her documentary The Gas Station Attendant. Through the use of footage from home videos and old recorded tapes, the director and Emmy-nominated producer who began her career working for several news programs on PBS, finds…

Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi

June 6, 2026

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19th Annual Japan Cuts : Festival of New Japanese Film Headlined By Actress Suzu Hirose And Director Hirokazu Koreeda

Sundance Film Festival: Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty! Dances Gracefully Through Grief and Renewal