Riyo
Synopsis
A brief telephone romance at twilight. Two teenagers on the phone, in the urban twilight of a Japanese landscape, along the Kamo River in Tokyo. A place where adolescents meet and flirt, this landscape, with its lights and various backdrops, gradually materializes through the exchanges of the two youths. Around their unseen presence, a whole other city comes to life: an emotional, transient, immature and open city.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (2)
Production and distribution (1)
- Executive Producer : Anna Sanders Films
Full credits (4)
- Executive Producers : Charles De Meaux, Xavier Douroux
- Screenwriter : Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
- Directors of Photography : Jean-Louis Vialard, Itsuru Maki
- Sound recordists : Jean-Marc Zelwer, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : Japanese
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1999
- Runtime : 10 min
- Visa number : 95.256
- Visa issue date : 23/08/1999
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.33
- Audio format : Mono
- Rating restrictions : None
News & awards
Selections (4)
Vila do Conde International Short Film Festival
Portugal, 2002
Dominique Gonzales-Foerster Retrospective
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