Completed - JAPANESE - Drama - 84 minutes
A fourteen-year-old indigenous Ainu boy searches for a spiritual connection to his recently deceased father.
Year of production : 2020 Director(s) : Takeshi FUKUNAGA Writer(s) : Takeshi FUKUNAGA Cast : Kanto SHIMOKURA, Emi SHIMOKURA, Toko MIURA, Lily FRANKY Producer(s) : Eric NYARI, Harue MIYAKE
Kanto is a fourteen-year-old boy and a descendantof Japan’s indigenous Ainu people. He lives with his mother, Emi (43), who runs a souvenir store in the small town in Northern Japan, Hokkaido, where Ainu people embrace tourism to keep the culture alive and to create jobs.Kanto has been struggling with the loss of his father a year ago. The radical Ainu community leader, Debo (56), tells Kanto about the small hole in the cliff in nearby forest that Ainu people considered a path to the other side of the word—where dead people live. Kanto decides to visit the hole, hoping to see his deceased father...
Country(ies) : JAPAN, USA, CHINA
Tribeca FF 2020 (Special Jury Mention in International Narrative Competition)