Synopsis
The grandmother of Yuki Kawamura, the director, dies after spending fifty days in a coma. Her family accompanies her in this last journey. It is an opportunity for each to reflect about the mourning and about the life beyond, the multiplicity of its demonstrations, the acceptance of its end, the confidence in its inexhaustible resources and the signs of its infinite variety. The beauty of life is found in water, the mist and the foam, in the lichen, the rushes, the orchids, and in the face of this dying grandmother and in the affection that her family shows her, in every word, in every breath her children.
Credits
Director (1)
Actress (1)
Full credits (7)
- Screenwriter : Yuki Kawamura
- Director of Photography : Yuki Kawamura
- Editor : Junko Watanabe
- Sound Recordist : François-Xavier Colin
- Producer : Yuki Kawamura
- Sound Editor : François-Xavier Colin
- Sound Mixer : François-Xavier Colin
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Research - Experimental, Video art
- Themes : Death, Human nature
- Production language : Japanese
- Coproducer countries : France, Japan
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 50% French (France, Japan)
- Production year : 2009
- Runtime : 36 min
- Production formats : HD-CAM
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 16/9
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
News & awards
Selections (2)
About
Selection 2009: international Festival of Turin.
Prize 2010: prize of the short film for Cinema of the reality.
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