02 Sep 2023
Jeanne’s Audition
Jeanne dreams of leaving her life as a farmer behind to become an actress, but her path is troubled because she tirelessly tends to her mother, who’s battling inner demons.
The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
An eight-hour fiction shot for a total of twenty-seven weeks, over a period of fourteen months, in a village population forty-seven in the mountains of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It is a geographic description of the work and non-work of a farmer. A portrait, over five seasons, of a family, of a terrain, of a soundscape, and of duration itself. A film-as-adaptive-landscape. A georgic in five books.
Top Billed Cast
Tayoko Shiojiri Tayoko
Hiroharu Shikata Hiroharu
加瀬亮 Ryo Sasaki
Mai Edström Mai
Kaoru Iwahana Junji
Jun Tsunoda Kagawa
本木雅弘 Neighbour
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