Third Window Films – in conjunction with Coventry University East Asian Film Society – have put together their first film festival on February 11th to 13th, 2011. East Winds: A Third Window Film Festival has been created with the intention of raising awareness of Asian cinema for a crowd ‘who might normally not have much chance to catch Asian cinema on the big screen.’
The festival is running alongside the two-day (11th and 12th February) international symposium Asian Exposure: East Asian Cinema in a Global Context and will show six films showing over the three days including Confessions which was Japan‘s official entry into this year’s Oscars and which has been in many critics’ top ten lists for the best film of 2010, as well as the UK premiere of The Message, which will show alongside a Q&A with director Qunshu Gao.
Confessions (15)
Friday 11th 8pm
Dir.Tetsuya Nakashima 2010 106 mins
“A grief-stricken schoolteacher acts on her suspicions that her students were responsible for the death of her daughter.”
Kick the Moon (15)
Saturday 12th 1pm
Dir.Sang-jin Kim 2001 113 mins
“A follow-up to the Korean box-office smash hit ‘Attack the Gas Station’, a hilarious tale of romance gone wrong!”
Memories of Matsuko (15)
Saturday 12th 3.30pm
Dir.Tetsuya Nakashima 2006 130 mins
Q&A with composer Gabriele Roberto
“After a college student learns that his long-lost aunt has been found dead in a park, he begins pieceing together her tragic life.”
Cold Fish (tbc)
Saturday 12th 8pm
Dir.Sion Sono 2010 144 mins
“A tropical fish shop owner is unwittingly roped in as a murder accomplice.”
Confessions of a Dog (tbc)
Sunday 13th 2.30pm
Dir.Gen Takahashi 2006 195 mins
Q&A with director Gen Takahashi
“Violence, illegal pay-offs, drugs, intimidation: an epic exposé of the most dangerous gang on the streets – Japanese law enforcement.”
The Message (tbc) *UK Premiere*
Sunday 13th 8pm
Dir.Kuo-fu Chen & Qunshu Gao 2009 114 mins
Q&A with director Qunshu Gao
“An Agatha Christie-style drama about WWII Chinese government agents trying to unmask a spy for the resistance.”
For more information go to the Third Window Films website and you can visit the CUEAFS site here and ‘Like’ the festival on its page here. Information on the Asian Exposure: East Asian Cinema in a Global Context symposium can be found in the news post here or on the CUEAFS page here.
