- Title
- THE HOPE TREE/Otsuchi Art Collaborative Project By Japan & Taiwan
- Production
- 2012/Jaoan/Language: Japanese, Taiwanese/ without subtitles
- Running Time
- 43min
- Director
- Yuta Aoike
- Synopsis
Otsuchi-cho, Iwate Prefecture was swept away by the huge tsunami in an instant. Wishing to bring color back to the grey town, the people of Otsuchi-cho decided to collaborate with the Taiwanese artists group "Formosa Wall Painting Group" to create a wall painting work, coordinated by Kobe's Hisaichi Shimin Koryukai. "The Hope Tree / Otsuchi Art Collaborative Project by Japan & Taiwan" captures their one-week project. Hisaichi Shimin Koryukai, members of which experienced the Great Hanshin Earthquake, assisted in the recovery from the big earthquake in Taiwan in 1999 and have kept in touch with the victims, which led to this art relief project. The painting of a big tree and rainbow lit up the devastated town. Art students from a local high school worked hard to overcome the language barrier in order to communicate with the Taiwanese artists.
- Screening Schedule
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March 11 (mon) 13:20 at Cine Nouveau
- GUEST/ Disaster Area Residents Exchange Group: Eiji Tarumi
- At the screenings of "And Then" and "THE HOPE TREE/Otsuchi Art Collaborative Project By Japan & Taiwan" and the talk session, 11/March at CINE NOUVEAU, you will need a numbered card to enter. Theater entry will be in order of the card number. The numbered cards for each screening and the talk session will be issued from 10am, 9/Mar. at the ticket counter of CINE NOUVEAU.
- PROGRAM
- Competition
- Special Screenings
- Special Focus on Hong Kong
- Director in Focus: Li Yu's Cinema World
- Celebrating Seven-something Years of GTH: New Miracle of Thai Cinema
- New Frontier of Japanese Filmmakers
- Memorial 3.11 – Two Years from Great East Japan Earthquake
- Living Through March 11, 2011
- And Then
- THE HOPE TREE/Otsuchi Art Collaborative Project By Japan & Taiwan
- Indie Forum Section
- Pre-Opening Screenings