Since its founding in 1969 by the French Directors’ Guild, the Directors’ Fortnight has served as a vital and boldly independent counter program to the Cannes Film Festival. Following a successful launch in 2024, Directors’ Fortnight Extended returns to Los Angeles with a curated selection of the 2025 program at the Directors Guild of America.
Multi-film Fortnight Extended passes can be purchased here.
About the film:
In the ever-changing landscape of redeveloping Shibuya, Tokyo, Ren works as a delivery driver for moth orchids. Haunted by the childhood loss of his mother, Yumiko, to suicide, he has long been estranged from his father, Hajime, a landscape designer. One day, during a routine delivery, Ren unexpectedly comes face to face with Hajime…
TRT: 115 min
In person: Yuiga Danzuka
Directors' Fortnight Extended: Los Angeles is presented by the Quinzaine des cinéastes, Acropolis Cinema,Villa Albertine, MUBI, European Languages and Movies in America (ELMA), and the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities.
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"Intelligent and affecting. Has less to say about society at large than it does about three carefully drawn and specifically damaged individuals." —Guy Lodge, Variety
"A remarkably embodied film, deeply affecting––finding cinematic language for the complex pain of estrangement just as last year’s I Saw the TV Glow achieved for dysphoria." —Blake Simmons, The Film Stage
"If an only twenty-something director can so deftly pull off some of the swings that Danzuka does with aplomb in his debut feature, the cinematic landscape of Japan has a very promising future." —Josh Slater-Williams, Indiewire
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