Screenings / meeting-interview with Mishima Yukiko and Maria Roberta Novielli

The cinema is back in the room more alive than ever and opens up to dialogue with the authors, to your comments and curiosities. Thanks to the collaboration with the Ca ‘Foscari Short Film Festival (Venice 4 – 7 May 2022) which dedicates a special program to her and where she will be among the guests of honor, the Japanese Cultural Institute has the pleasure and the opportunity to welcome at its headquarters in Rome MISHIMA Yukiko, the first Japanese post-pandemic guest, as well as a director and screenwriter of undoubted talent and sensitivity.

The Ca ‘Foscari Short Film Festival – the first festival in Europe entirely conceived, organized and managed by a university, with the coordination of the artistic director Maria Roberta Novielli – this year presents itself with a rich program, including a tribute to cinema by Mishima Yukiko and a remote connection with Tsukamoto Shinya, and in a ‘widespread’ form, that is, usable in multiple locations in the lagoon city; taking advantage of this extension, which intends to bring cinema among the people without confining it to academia, the Japanese Cultural Institute welcomes and replicates the director’s program of films and shorts presented in Venice and awaits with great emotion the meeting with Mishima Yukiko, curated by Maria Roberta Novielli, Wednesday 11 May at 7.30 pm, at the end of the screening of some of her recent works that will finally be accessible to the public with free admission to our cinema room, at 100% capacity. The same opportunity will be offered in Naples, at the ‘L’Orientale’ University, the third and final stage of the director’s mini-tour and the circulation of the films selected by the Festival.

The two-days dedicated to the director, scheduled in Rome at the Japanese Institute on 11 and 12 May 2022, include the meeting-interview with Mishima Yukiko, Q&A session with the public, the screening of the Dear Entranger feature films. (2017), Shape of Red (2020) and the very recent short film Ode to Joy (2021).

Among the most interesting female voices to emerge on the Japanese scene in the new millennium, after a past as a television documentary maker at NHK, Mishima Yukiko makes her feature film directorial debut with The Tattooer (2009) which will be followed by eight other feature films, including Bread of Happiness (2012) – also included in the program of the Japanese Film Festival Online 2022 – A Drop of the Grapevine (2014), the award-winning Dear Etranger (2017), the melodrama Shape of Red (2020) and the very recent short film Ode to Joy (2021), part of the collective project ‘DIVOC-12’ ​​conceived and promoted by Sony Pictures Entertainment (Japan) Inc. with the aim of addressing the social problems triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic through the language of cinema.

Further information HERE.