Isn’t Anyone Alive?
For the first time in its four year history, Terracotta Festival is expanding its successful London residency of current Asian cinema showcase to selected venues in the UK.
The touring festival will kick off at the Cornerhouse cinema in Manchester on September 19th, followed by the Watershed in Bristol and will continue through October at the Genesis in London as well as dates in Brighton and Nottingham. More cities will be announced on the festival website.
Organisers are bringing a shortened programme of five contemporary films offering a taster of the best in current cinema in the Far East.
There will be two Japanese films, including Isn’t Anyone Alive? which marks the return of Sogo Ishii to filmmaking after a 10 year absence, and crowd-pleasing comedy The Woodsman and the Rain.
Also in the line-up, two Korean films of different genres: pan-Asian WW2 blockbuster My Way and dark animation The King of Pigs. And the docu-drama Return to Burma which gives the audience a rare insider perspective into ordinary life in this fascinating and topical country.
Continuing its support of films and emerging film-makers from across the Far East, Terracotta Festival has been curating and exhibiting a selection of films from Asia for four years.
With a selection of hand-picked films from the best of each year’s vintage, organisers bring quality and entertaining Far East cinema to the UK.
Also discovering less known regions and cultures through films has been a goal for the organisers and widening the audience to a larger scale seemed a natural development.