All movies start at 8.00pm
Venue: JKKN
* All non-English movies have English sub-titles
| Dates | Time | Country | Movie Title |
| 6 June Fri |
7.00pm – Opening Night event8.00pm – Movie starts |
France | Approved for adoption (Couleur de peau : miel) |
| 9 June Mon |
7.00pm – Event8.00pm – Movie starts |
Germany* |
3 Zimmer/Küche/Bad |
| 10 June Tues |
7.00pm – Event8.00pm – Movie starts |
USA | The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia |
| 11 June Wed |
7.00pm – Event8.00pm – Movie starts |
Romania | Restul E Tăcere (The Rest is Silence) |
| 12 June Thurs |
7.00pm – Closing Night event8.00pm – Movie starts |
Japan* | Death of a Japanese Salesman |
6 June – France – Approved for adoption (Couleur de peau : miel)
Director : Jung / Laurent Boileau
Duration : 75 mins
Synopsis : Born in Korea but raised by adoptive parents, Jung finds himself in Belgium as a result of the Korean War. A badly behaved child, he acts out as he struggles to fit in with his community and surroundings. As a result Jung retreats into the world of drawing which turns his life around. Years later we see him return to Korea to see whether he can feel at home there and perhaps also find his birth mother.
Awards : The movie received a Magritte Award nomination for Best Editing and the 2013 ‘Grand Prize’ of the Japan Media Arts Festival. It won 2 awards (Audience award and UNICEF award) at the 2012 Annecy International Animated Film Festival.
9 June – Germany – 3 Zimmer/Küche/Bad (3 rooms/kitchen/bathroom)
Director : Dietrich Brüggemann
Duration : 118 min
Synopsis : Eight friends help each other moving from one flat to another over and over again. They move across Berlin and also across Germany. Relationships break. New loves develop, sometimes only for one partner. Sometimes even the parents do not know the direction. But even when families fall apart, the old breaks and something new starts with an unsure expiry date – in the end there are always people who may not be able to explain the meaning of life or who bring the stars down from the skies but who help to carry moving boxes up to the 4th level.
10 June – USA – The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia
Director : James Redford
Duration : 51 min
Synopsis : The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia provides personal and uplifting accounts of the dyslexic experience from children, experts and iconic leaders, such as Sir Richard Branson and financier Charles Schwab. Directed by James Redford, the film not only clears up the misconceptions about the condition, but also paints a picture of hope for all who struggle with it. Shining a spotlight on the latest scientific and psychological research, the film also highlights the work of Drs. Sally and Bennet Shaywitz, co-founders and co-directors of the Yale Center of Dyslexia and Creativity to illuminate the hidden origins and implications of dyslexia. Proving that dyslexia is a neurological issue and not a character flaw, The Big Picture beautifully illustrates that while the condition is an obstacle, it also carries some unique advantages, and ultimately can be overcome.
11 June – Romania – Restul E Tăcere (The Rest is Silence)
Director: Nae Caranfil
Duration : 220 mins
Synopsis : A fact-based work of fiction, Romanian director Nae Caranfil’s historical epic travels back to the Bucharest of 1911, where 19-year-old Grigore Ursache (played by Marius Florea Vizante and modeled upon real-life director Grigore Brezeanu) realizes that he’ll never be able to achieve success as a stage actor on par with his famous thespian dad. As an alternative, he decides to kick-start a new career as a filmmaker extraordinaire by mounting the country’s first epic drama – a lavish onscreen recreation of Romania’s struggle for independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1877. Thus commences the young man’s arduous and oft-nebulous seriocomic struggle between the requirements of art and the demands of business. While difficult, Ursache’s effort does ultimately produce the film that he desires: the real-life Romanian masterpiece Independenta Romaniei (The War for Independence, 1912). His goal is simple: to convince a dubious Romanian public that cinema, as an art form, can exist on par with theatre. Throughout the film, Caranfil intercuts sequences from Brezeanu’s original motion picture, which underwent restoration just prior to the production of Restul e Tacere.
12 June – Japan – Death of a Japanese Salesman
Director : Mami Sunada
Duration : 90 min
Synopsis: This documentary focuses on Mami Sunada’s own 67-year-old father, Tomoaki Sunada, who was diagnosed with untreatable cancer short after retiring from the company where he worked for over four decades. In her directorial debut, Mami Sunada uses her own father’s illness to combine a non-fiction film form with the growing trend of “end of life journals” or “ending notes” among the elderly in Japan. In making this documentary, Sunada abstracts the weight of a life and the pain of loss into a surprisingly hopeful and life-affirming message.
© 2011 “Death of a Japanese Salesman” Production Committee
Movie is free – Closing Night Event costs RM10
