Official Selection
Feature Programs
Feature Program 1
The Complete Works of Academy Award Winning Film Director Asghar Farhadi
We will present all 5 of Asghar Farhadi’s feature films Including “Nader and Simin, A Separation”, which took last year’s Fukuoka Audience Award and won this year’s Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. 3 films including his debut film will be Japanese premieres!
Dancing in the Dust
Nazar falls in love with a woman, takes out a wedding loan and quickly marries her but his family’s opposition ends the marriage. Unable to afford paying alimony, he now takes out an alimony loan…
- 2003/Iran/95min.
- Sat, Sep 15 at 5:00 P.M.
Wed, Sep 19 at 10:30 A.M.
Sat, Sep 22 at 8:30 P.M. - Original Title
- Raghs Dar Ghobar
Asian Premiere
Beautiful City
A friend and the sister of a boy condemned to death for committing murder tries to get the consent of the father of the girl who was murdered to stop the execution. In time, the friend and sister fall in love…
- 2004/Iran/102min.
- Sun, Sep 16 at 10:30 A.M.
Mon, Sep 17 at 3:30 P.M.
Thu, Sep 20 7:00 P.M. - Original Title
- Shahr-e Ziba
Japanese Premiere
Fireworks Wednesday
Approaching her wedding, a woman takes a housekeeping job to make extra money. She arrives in a room scattered with glass. Her employer orders her to clean up the room. Then his highly-strung wife returns home…
- 2006/Iran/104min.
- Sun, Sep 16 at 1:15 P.M.
Thu, Sep 20, at 10:30 A.M.
Sat, Sep 22 at 3:15 P.M. - Original Title
- Chahar Shanbeh Souri
Japanese Premiere
About Elly
Ahmad who lives in Germany, is invited by his friend in Tehran on a trip to the seacoast. A woman named Elly also joins the trip…Winner of the Berlin Film Festival Best Director’s Award in 2009.
- 2009/Iran/116Min.
- Tue, Sep 18 at 4:15 P.M.
Sat, Sep 22 at 3:00 P.M.
(JR Kyushu Hall) - Original Title
- Darbareye Elly
Nader and Simin, A Separation
Winner of the Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear Award and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. A wife in Tehran prepares to leave Iran while her husband opposes the idea, bringing the two close to a divorce…
- 2011/Iran/123min.
- Tue, Sep 18 at 10:00 A.M.
- Original Title
- Jodaeiye Nader az Simin
Feature Program ２
Agriculture and Cinema
The Sound of Light
Film director Juichiro Yamasaki, who makes films while growing tomatoes in Maniwa City in Okayama Prefecture, depicts the struggles and future hopes of a young dairy farmer family from the “viewpoint of the land”.
- 2011/Japan/89min.
- Director
- Juichiro Yamasaki
- Mon, Sep 17 at 10:30 A.M.
Tue, Sep 18 at 10:30 A.M.
Love Tomato
A warm-hearted comedy about a middle-aged man, hurt over the harsh reality of being the eldest son to a farming family in Japan, goes to Manila to nurture true love and become a successful tomato grower.
(C)2005「クマインカナバ－」製作委員会
- 2005/Japan/126min.
- Director
- Satsuo Nanbu
- Wed, Sep 19 at 3:45 P.M.
- No English Subtitles.
enrai（PG12）
Based on an award winning novel, a film depicting a youth who clings to a small piece of land betting on a life of tomato cultivation in a regional city being washed away by the tides of urbanization.
- 1981/Japan/135min.
- Director
- Kichitaro Negishi
- Thu, Sep 20 at 1:15 P.M.
- No English Subtitles.
Motion Pictures Supported by the Fukuoka Film Commission
The Fukuoka Film Commission (FFC) is an organization that provides assistance to facilitate the shooting of a motion picture, television program and/or television commercial in the Fukuoka area. Presently, the FFC is involved in providing assistance for finding location sites not only to national but international filmmakers. Through visual footage shot locally, the FFC aims to promote the local economy and its tourism as well as the culture and industry of visual images. The FFC was involved in the production of the following motion pictures.
Venue: T Joy Hakata Admission: Valid Film Festival ticket.
Watashi no Ojisan
Based on an award winning collection of short stories, a story about the taboo love between an uncle and niece. A cameraman in Tokyo has his niece from Fukuoka visit him. She is now a beautifully grown up woman…
（C）2012私の叔父さん制作委員会
- 2012/Japan/99min.
- Director
- Tatsuoki Hosono
- Cast
- Katsunori Takahashi,
Saki Terashima - Shot at Fukuoka Airport, Fukuoka Speedboat Race Arena, Itoshima City, Shingu
Town, etc. - Fri, Sep 21 at 0:45P.M.
- No English Subtitles
Unstoppable Family
The chairman of a Korean company takes his first family trip abroad, to Japan. Once they arrive, they meet bank robbers. Thinking they are being chased as thieves, they flee through hot springs and mountains…
- 2011/Korea/103min.
- Director
- Jung Tae-Won
- Cast
- Shin Hyun-Joon,
Kim Soo-Mi,
Tak Jae-Hoon - Original Title
- 가문의 영광4 - 가문의 수난
- Shot at Dazaifu Tenmangu, Fukuoka Airport, Ohori Park and Seaside Momochi
beach park. - Tue, Sep 18 at 1:15P.M.
- No English Subtitles
Fukuoka Asian Cultural Prize
In its 23rd year, the Fukuoka Asian Cultural Prizes are given to those who have contributed to the preservation and fostering of Asian culture. We will screen a collection of films by filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik, who was awarded the prize this year.
Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy?
A film made from the factual concept that “the yoyo was first a weapon used by Filipino hunting people” and that “the first buggy used on the moon by man was designed by a Filipino-American”.
- 1981/Philippines/90min.
- Wed, Sep 19 at 3:45
Turumba
During the “Turumba” village festival, a German woman buys the entire stock of dolls that a Filipino family sells. About the same time a year later, the father and son, obsessed with money, leave for Germany.
- 1983/Philippines/90min.
- Wed, Sep 19 at 6:45P.M.
Film Director Profile/ Kidlat Tahimik
Born 1942 in Baguio in the Philippines. “Perfumed Nightmare” his feature film directional debut received several awards from the Berlin Film Festival.
Note: In addition to “Perfumed Nightmare”, “Why is Yellow Middle of Rainbow?” and “Memories of Overdevelopment 1980-2010” are scheduled to be screened from 13:30 at the Elgala Hall on September 16 (Sun.). There will be talk shows and performances scheduled in between the screenings. Don’t miss it!
Special Co-Organized Undertaking: Barrier Free Screening
Note: Screened with Japanese subtitles and a supplementary sound channel
Venue: JR Kyushu Hall (JR Hakata City 9F) Admission: Valid Film Festival ticket
For those accompanying a visually impaired person, one ticket will admit both.
Postcard
A film made from war experiences of its film director, the late Shindo Kaneto. Towards the end of the Pacific War, 100 soldiers are assigned to the war front. That evening, a soldier receives a postcard from another.
(C)2011「一枚のハガキ」近代映画協会/渡辺商事/ブランダス
- 2011/Japan/114min.
- Director
- Kaneto Shindo
- Cast
- Etsushi Toyokawa,
Shinobu Otake - Sat, Sep 22 at 3:00 P.M.
- No English Subtitles
About Elly
Ahmad who lives in Germany, is invited by his friend in Tehran on a trip to the seacoast. A woman named Elly also joins the trip…Winner of the Berlin Film Festival Best Director’s Award in 2009.
- Director
- Asghar Farahdi
- Sat, Sep 22 at 3:00 P.M.
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