exclusive program : YIDFF
Radiance
(Hatano Shuhei / 2023 / 18 min / Japan)
April 2020. In a world where meeting friends was forbidden for an extended period of time, the director decided to shoot each day with no particular purpose in mind: the modest sparkle of the day to day with daughter and wife, fragments pieced together to form a letter to dear friends. Family daily life is reconstructed with a remarkable intuition, gradually creating a magical landscape that can be found nowhere else, leading us to a sense of life and death, and of a love of life which will be passed on, and on. An avant-garde home movie of forgetting and discovering.
- 2023 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
- 2024 Oberhausen International Short Film Festival
- 2024 Punto de Vista
- 2024 Leiden Shorts
- 2024 Pesaro international Festival of New Cinema
Shuhei Hatano
Shuhei Hatano was born in 1980 in Tottori and currently lives in Tokyo. He is a graduate of the Moving Images and Performing Arts Department at Tama Art University. His major films include Trail (2012), Origin of Shadows (2017, Tokyo Documentary Film Festival 2018 Short Film Competition Grand Prize), I Remember (2021, Festival Film Dokumenter Yogyakarta 2022 Best International Feature-Length Documentary Award) and Radiance (2023, 60th Pesaro international Festival of New Cinema Young Jury Award Special Mention).
