News
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- Naomi Kawase's Designation as UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador
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- 『なら国際映画祭 for Youth 2021』開催決定
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- Media Coverage: Tokyu Hotels Magazine "COMFORTS".
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- The new film "ASA GA KURU" will be released on June 5th
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- The interview of the "NHK WORLD"
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- "Naomi Kawase retrospective" at the National Film Archive of Japan
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- ANA interview "Ready For Takeoff"
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- The Second Part of THE SPECIAL MOVIE "THE TRUE STORIES OF L'OCCITANE"
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- African Film Across Borders: Building New Bridges of Cooperation Special Screening & Symposium
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- Open City Documentary Festival / Naomi Kawase : In Focus
Profile
Naomi KAWASE
Filmmaker based in Nara, Japan
Born and raised in Nara, KAWASE graduated from Visual Arts Osaka in 1989. Her films, ‘Embracing’ and ‘KATATSUMORI’ received international recognitions and awards at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in 1995. With her first feature, SUZAKU (1997), she became the youngest filmmaker to receive the Camera d’Or at the Festival de Cannes with her. At the Fesitival de Cannes, she has also won the Grand Prix with The Mourning Forest /MOGARI (2007), the Carrosse d’Or in 2009, and also served as one of the jurors for the competition in 2013. In 2015, KAWASE was bestowed with the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) by the French Minister of Culture. In 2017,“Hikari”(RADIANCE) was selected as one of the competition films and given Ecumenical Jury awards. She appointed the direct Official Film of the Olympics Game Tokyo 2020.
Aside from being a filmmaker, she is the founder and Executive Director for the Nara International Film Festival.
Works
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Vision
Radiance
AN (2015)
Still the Water (2014)
HANEZU (2011)
NANAYO (2008)
MOGARI-The Mourning Forest (2007)
SHARA (2003)
HOTARU / Firefly (2000)
SUZAKU (1997)
CHIRI / Trace (2012)
GENPIN (2010)
TARACHIME (Birth/Mother) (2006)
KAGE-Shadow (2004)
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom (2002)
The Weald (1997)
Mangekyo-Kaleidoscope (1999)
Kya Ka Ra BaA (Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth) (2001)
This World (1996)
Sun on the Horizon (1996)
See the Heaven (1995)
KATATSUMORI (1994)
Embracing (1992)
KOMA (2009)
A Field of Wasabi (2012)
WASURE NAGUSA (2011)
HOME (2011)
INORI (2012)