Japanese
Qingdao (CHINA)

Under One Roof

Sous un même toit

CHINA, FRANCE / 2022 / Chinese / Color / 20 min

- Director, Script, Photography, Editing, Sound: Wang Yu
Color Correction: Valentin Goguet-Chapuis
Sound Design, Mixing: Hugo Debrie
Production Company: Le GREC

The story takes place in an apartment in Marseille, where a Chinese sister and brother live with their father. As we eavesdrop on their phone calls and listen to their conversations, we learn what is happening in their hometown in China, about the sister’s relationship with her boyfriend, and about their place of work, gradually getting a sense of how they feel about living in a foreign land. By capturing a closed limited space, the film paradoxically shows the larger world extending outside the image frame.

 



Valladolid (SPAIN)

Aqueducts

Acueductos

SPAIN / 2021 / French / Color / 8 min

- Director, Script, Editing, Producer: Álvaro Martín Sanz
Photography: Álex Hernández Salgado
Production Company: Dream Zero Films

The narrator’s grandfather left behind 8mm films which included images of the Aqueduct of Segovia in Spain. Her parents, she discovers, in later years also took pictures of the same ruins. By contemplating on the act of mechanical documentation—just recording whatever appears in front of one’s eyes—and lost memories (images) of a family, the filmmaker questions the meaning of filming.

 



Rome (ITALY)

Late August

Tardo Agosto

ITALY / 2021 / Fulah / Color / 47 min

- Directors: Federico Cammarata, Filippo Foscarini
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografa – Sede Sicilia

Following a wildfire in Sicily, the filmmaker captures nature, people, and animals as an integral part of the landscape. At first glance, the camerawork seems to have a bird’s eye or a god’s eye view, but in fact the work conveys the filmmaker’s view on life and death—that all living things revert to Planet Earth and nature.

 



Yamagata (JAPAN), Bradford (UK)

The Power of Film Against the Landscape—From Yamagata to Bradford


JAPAN, UK / 2022 / Japanese, English / Color / Blu-ray / 5 min

- Director: Louisa Rose Mackleston

What is the allure of cities and landscapes that film can capture? In this film, the cases of two cities of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network in the field of film are presented: Yamagata in Japan and Bradford in England. Louisa Rose Mackleston from Bradford traveled to Yamagata to film the city’s landscape from fresh perspectives.