9th edition: 21 April – 26 April 2020
FILMS 2019: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2018: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2017: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2016: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2015: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
Kore-eda Hirokazu | Japan | 2018 | color | DCP | 120′ | English | e.s.
LoLove is all this Japanese ‘family’ needs to stick together. And maybe some money, as they haven’t got much to go round. But even this bunch, whether unemployed, low-paid workers or shoplifters, support each other through thick and thin. They prove the point when they encounter a lonely girl one night who is trying to escape her violent family. She is welcomed with open arms into this touching, but also vulnerable, new family system.
Director Kore-eda Hirokazu is known for beautifully filmed, movingly played and humanist family dramas that shed new light on suffocating Japanese social codes. In Shoplifters, he focuses on the many informal families his traditional country contains, but which are strictly forbidden. With great care and attention, he reveals what is more important than shared blood: tenderness, honesty and unconditional love. The fact that society doesn’t recognize this lends a critical note to this Golden Palm winner at last year’s Cannes film festival.
Place: The Cinemas 1
Date: 11 April 2019
Time: 13:00
Duration: 1:32
Place: The Cinemas 2
Date: 13 April 2019
Time: 21:45
Duration: 1:32
Place: The Cinemas 2
Date: 14 April 2019
Time: 18:15
Duration: 1:32
Year in
Festival
2019
Director
Kore-eda Hirokazu
Camera
Ryûto Kondô
Cast
Lily Franky
Sakura Andô
Kirin Kiki
Mayo Matsuoka
Jyo Kairi
Miyu Sasaki
Country
Japan
Editor
Hirokazu Koreeda
Language
English
Length
120′
Music
Haruomi Hosono
Producer
Takashi Ishihara
Yasuhito Nakae
Tom Yoda
Production Design
Keiko Mitsumatsu
Sales
GAGA Corporation
Year of Production
2018