Pacific Island Peoples Explore Connections as Cinema at Sea Festival Launches in Okinawa – Global Bulletin
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The inaugural edition of the Cinema at Sea – Okinawa Pan-Pacific International Film Festival will be held next month (Nov.
23-29) on the Japanese island of Okinawa. With a 40-title lineup, a competition and a robust international selection, the festival says its mission is to explore the ocean and Pacific regions [with] film acting as a global lens [that] allows us to bridge the gap between different islands, fostering an inclusive atmosphere in Okinawa, where diverse cultures and nationalities converge.” The festival will open with “From Okinawa With Love,” by Sunairi Hiroshi, which premiered at the DMZ Documentary Festival in Korea, and tracks the work of a photographer who investigated the African American G.I.
scene around the island’s U.S. air bases. It will close with “We Are Still Here,” a portmanteau film by indigenous people from Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific.
The competition section includes: Rolf de Heer’s “The Survival of Kindness”; Andres Peyrot’s documentary “God Is a Woman”; “Orpa,” by Indonesia’s Theo Rumansara; Alaskan picture “One With the Whale”; “Bee and the Spectrum of Misunderstanding,” by Fabien Laubry from New Caledonia; “Intimate Space,” from Japan’s Koshikawa Michiko; “The Mimicry,” by Taiwan’s Chung Yu-lin; “Abang Adik,” also from Taiwan, directed by Lay Jing Ong; and “Lonely Eighteen,” by Tracy Choi from Macau.
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