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ND/NF ’26: Brand New Landscape

©Courtesy of Film at Lincoln Center  Hajime Takano aspired to become a prolific celebrity architect, like Frank Gehry. In the process, he became an absentee father, like Louis Kahn (the subject of his son’s painful documentary, My Architect). His daughter, Emi has entirely given up on her emotionally-distant father, but her brother Ren still yearns…

Japan Cuts : She Taught Me Serendipity / Exclusive Interview with Actress Yuumi Kawai 

Director Akiko Ooku (“Tremble All You Want“, JC 2018) shifts away from her novel engagements with the neurotic interiorities of young working women to explore the life of college student Konishi (Riku Hagiwara), an anxiety-ridden loner who brandishes an umbrella on sunlit days. Through a progression of coincidences, Konishi forms a bond with classmate Hana…