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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><span lang="EN-GB">The new Aperture: Asia & Pacific Film Festival, of which I am co-founder, covering all areas east of the Urals up to Hawaii, will be starting in London on 29 June with two programmes of short
films at the Horse Hospital near Russell Square. </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><span lang="EN-GB">The first programme, ‘Women in the Frame’ is a selection of titles by and about women, from countries including Armenia, Georgia, Bhutan and Vietnam.
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><span lang="EN-GB">The second is called UnorthoDocs, and features short documentary and experimental works exploring ideas of geography, territory and landscapes, both natural and manmade, through vision and
sound, with films from</span><span> India, Hawaii, New Zealand and Armenia, among others.</span>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><span lang="EN-GB">This section features a quite stunning contribution from a Japanese filmmaker, Hiroya Sakurai’s STREAM VIII (2016), a film that really has to be experienced on a big screen.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><span lang="EN-GB">The main day of the festival will be
</span><span>on Sat 30 Jun at The Cinema Museum, where </span><span lang="EN-GB">films will include the first Afghan feature directed by a woman in the post-Taliban era,
</span><span>Roya Sadat’s </span><span lang="EN-GB">LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT, and Malaysian director Edmund Yeo’s AQERAT (WE THE DEAD), a powerful and timely drama about human trafficking and the
</span><span>Rohingya refugee crisis.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><span>Of most interest to Japanese film fans however is the long overdue UK premiere of Tatsuya Mori’s documentary FAKE, about the self-taught deaf musical prodigy Mamoru Samuragochi, once dubbed “Japan’s Beethoven”
but later denounced a fraud by the Japanese media, which plays at the Cinema Museum day from 7pm:
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http://www.cinemamuseum.org.<wbr>uk/2018/aperture-asia-pacific-<wbr>film-festival/</a></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><span>Complete details about the festival can be found here:
<span> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.day-for-night.org/aperture/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.day-for-night.org/aperture/&source=gmail&ust=1528908135245000&usg=AFQjCNEPdIKQtq9cUH1t7-i5-2vMt6D0QQ" id="LPlnk96804" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">http://www.day-for-night.org/<wbr>aperture/</a></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><span>Hope to see some of you at the screenings!</span></p>
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