Highlights
True Mothers
Asa Ga Kuru
Swiss Premiere
Naomi Kawase / Japan / 2020 / 139 min / Drama
Japanese / Subtitles French, English
Japanese / Subtitles French, English
A woman who has adopted a child is contacted by another woman who claims she is the boy’s biological mother. The two women, two mothers, face off. Childbirth and motherhood continue to work in depth in Naomi Kawase’s sublime work, the curtain-raiser at GIFF.
“The past can return thanks to cinema. Cinema is wonderful!” From her autobiographical documentaries to her recent fictions, Naomi Kawase’s work is steeped in the issue of family, since she was abandoned and then taken in by other members of her own family. By adapting Mizuki Tsujimura’s novel, she continues to address fundamental questions, origins, motherhood, presence-absence. A powerful face-to-face.
Direction
Naomi Kawase
Screenplay
Naomi Kawase, Izumi Takahashi
Image
Yuta Tsukinaga, Naoki Sakakibara
Editing
Tina Baz, Yoichi Shibuya
Sound
Eiji Mori, Roman Dymny
Music
Akira Kosemura
Production
Kinoshita Group Co., Ltd. (Yumiko Takebe)
With
Hiromi Nagasaku, Arata Iura, Aju Makita, Miyoko Asada
International sales
Playtime (Joris Boyer)
Distribution
Filmcoopi (Felix Hächler)