KYOTO INTERNATIONAL FILM AND ART FESTIVAL

Daiki Kashiwagi (Masakazu Nemoto), who moved to Tokyo with dreams of getting a job at a top-tier company, discovers Kabukicho and became immersed in the nightlife. Recently, he has been constantly feeling the eyes of strangers on him. Every day he feels as if someone is after him. He starts regretting his life in the face of illness. Kashiwagi decides to escape from the world he has been desperately trying to live in.
However, the city won't just let it end there. A person approaches Kashiwagi and gives him a look.
It was a way to punish Kashiwagi for the mistakes he made in the past.
The way the person looks at Kashiwagi, the badger game, and the past all slowly come together.
Only those who have lived through the night can understand.
The end from the night world signifies that the end begins.

This is a documentary film that traces the path of photographer Masayoshi Sukita, who captured the eternal moments of geniuses throughout the ages such as David Bowie, YMO, and Kiyoshiro Imawano. He is known for his 40-year collaboration with David Bowie, as well as his work with Iggy Pop, Marc Bolan, Shuji Terayama, and Kiyoshiro Imawano. He began his career in the 1960s, and by 1970 he had expanded his activities worldwide. He worked in a wide range of fields including advertising, fashion, and film, and is currently holding exhibitions of his photographs in England, France, Italy, the United States, and other parts of the world. This is the first documentary film that follows Sukita, who is now 80 years old, from his creative activities to his personality, and it also provides hints about Masayoshi Sukita's future life as a photographer. In the film, world-renowned artists such as Ryuichi Sakamoto, Tomoyasu Hotei, MIYAVI, Jim Jarmusch, Paul Smith, and Kansai Yamamoto talk about their work with Sukita and their memories of him.

This is a documentary that takes a close look at the legendary director Sadao Nakajima (age 83 at the time of filming) from the shooting of his first feature film in 20 years, Tajuro Junaiki, to its release. Under the direction of Nakajima, who continues his commitment of making films in Kyoto, the birthplace of Japanese cinema, this work shows the cast and crew making the film at the Toei Studios Kyoto in 2018. The film also features testimonies from friends, family, and former colleagues, describing the life and work of the director Sadao Nakajima.

To be or not to be is the question that Beyond the Skies asks. The war film follows a young soldier named Hong Qichen, who trudges through the bloodstained ruins in his deadly mission to blow up the enemy’s ammunition depot within 48 hours. He puts together a squad of wounded soldiers in the treacherous mountains for a knock-down drag-out fight. Questioning whether their sacrifices are worth it, his brothers in arms fall in front of his eyes. The mission gets harder and harder to complete as time passes. Those who believe persist; others sink into the abyss of history. A pilgrimage to death, Beyond the Skies tells a heart-breaking utopian story during the Chinese Civil War, embodying poetics of Chinese cinema.