Kaori Oda presents her new film, GAMA, in FICUNAM, Mexico, in June.
Synopsis: A storyteller of peace serves as a guide in the “Gama”—natural caves where many local people lost their lives during the Battle of Okinawa. The woman in blue standing by his side represents the intersection of the present and the past.
https://ficunam.unam.mx/pelicula/gama/
Our omnibus film ‘Letters From the Ends of the World” is screening in Mexico in May as part of A vida não é um filme: Vol. 2 - and our Marta Hernaiz Pidal and Gustavo Vega will be there for discussions.
This interesting collection of work was curated by film.factory colleague Chrystyan Romero - thanks so much for including us!
Directed by Kaori Oda and Produced by Marta Herzaiz Pidal and Cine Vendeval tour their film Cenote - Screenings of "Cenote" in Yucatan, Mexico, from 4/8 to 4/24, the film will tour 14 municipalities and villages where filming locations. Entirely shot underwater in Yucatán’s Ts’onots/Cenotes
Kaori will be there! BUT, is only staying for about 10 days, so I they can attend about 12 places. Everyday they will strive to attend a different screening!
Outdoor screenings (free) after sunset.
Cada vez más cerca del estreno de 'Ts'onot (Cenote)' y nuestro no cabe de emoción. ¡Nos vemos pronto!
Tour Cine Móvil Toto en la península de Yucatán y Campeche, del 8 al 24 de abril.
Estreno en Cineteca NacionalCineteca Nacional, 28 de abril.
‘Cenote’ in JAPAN CUTS 2020!
We will be showing "and" in the experimental spotlight department of Japan Cuts 2020 Online Film Festival this year. We will also participate in panel discussions to talk to all the directors who are participating in the documentary department.
https://japancuts.japansociety.org/film/new-approaches-to-documentary-from-japan/
Fresh from her International Premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Kaori Oda interview with Kaori Oda on her new film Cenote via MUBI Notebook
Read the full interview HERE:
https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/toward-a-common-tenderness-an-interview-with-kaori-oda
Kaori’s Oda’s intriguing documentary set in Mexico has been selected to screen in the Bright Future Main Programme.
Synopsis:
In Northern Yucatan, Mexico, natural sinkholes called 'cenotes' constituted the sole water source for Mayans not living near a river or lake. Some cenotes were used for ritual sacrifices, and the Mayans believed that these holy springs connected this world to the afterlife.
The past and present of those living around the cenotes coalesce in this mysterious place. Long-lost memories echo in hallucinatory turquoise underwater footage, an entrancing game of light and dark. Swimming in these sinkholes, director Oda Kaori encounters intriguing shapes and beams of light, the water heaves, drops fall like razor blades.
Oda, who studied under Béla Tarr in Sarajevo, previously made Aragane, which was shot in a Bosnian coal mine. For Cenote, she used Super-8 film and a bubbling water soundscape. A captivating form for her impressions of a place where, as a ghostly voiceover explains, nothing is forgotten.
Link to Film Listing in Rotterdam: https://iffr.com/en/2020/films/cenote