Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase is one of the most important voices of contemporary East-Asian cinema. Consistently present on the Croisette, her films – which are both fiction features and documentary diary-films – mostly approach the way various types of affective relationships are forged between people who don’t seem to have much in common: be it friendships or Ersatz family ties, in the cases of characters who have a weak or otherwise inexistent relationship to their biological relatives; an approach that is partially informed by the director’s biography, as she grew up in an adoptive family.

Flavia Dima

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Film critic & journalist. Collaborates with local and international outlets, programs a short film festival - BIEFF, does occasional moderating gigs and is working on a PhD thesis about home movies. At Films in Frame, she writes the monthly editorial - The State of Cinema and is the magazine's main festival reporter.

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