[KineJapan] Berlinale 2020 awards

[Markus Nornes]

Both films are very good. Suwa's film is a road movie starting in a
landslide disaster zone near Hiroshima and ending up at the telephone up
north. Along the way, the main character meets every kind of family who is
experiencing every kind of loss or trauma and finding suitable ways to keep
living. It's a lovely film, and interesting for the way it doesn't
privilege 311 loss or memory while managing not to negate it either.

And Soda's new film is fantastic. It starts out as a sequel to *Mental* and
halfway in—precisely half way, down to the minute—it pivots and turns into
something else. He plays with flashbacks and sound in ways you rarely see
in direct cinema (and in ways that don't break his 10 Commandments). I
loved it.

Markus




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*Markus Nornes*
*Professor of Asian Cinema*
Department of Film, Television and Media, Department of Asian Languages and
Cultures, Penny Stamps School of Art & Design

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On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 4:02 AM Roger Macy via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Dear KineJapaners,
>
> The Berlinale 2020 awards included two for Japanese filmmakers :-
>
> SUWA Nobuhiro       *Kaze no denwa* / *Voices in the Wind*, special
> mention ‘Generation 14Plus’
>
> SŌDA Kazuhiro        Ecumenical jury award in ‘Forum’ section for *Seishin
> 0* */ Zero* (€2500).
>
>
> https://www.berlinale.de/en/festival/awards-and-juries/all-prizes-and-juries.html
>
> Roger
>
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