10th edition CIFF – 10-14 April 2024

FILMS 2024:  Caribbean Focus | Feature Films | Short Films | Yellow Robin Award Nominees
FILMS 2019: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T –  Z | Feature Film | Short Film
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FILMS 2017: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T –  Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2016: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T –  Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2015: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T –  Z | Feature Film | Short Film

Shoplifters (Manbiki kazoku) (2019 Feature Film)

Kore-eda Hirokazu | Japan | 2018 | color | DCP | 120′ | English | e.s.

A poor Japanese ‘family’ takes in a needy, young girl. They compensate for their lack of money with tenderness, compassion and unconditional love. Unfortunately, there is scant room in Japanese society for such informal family systems. The shoplifters have to be careful not to be caught, because there is much more at stake than just a fine.
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LoLove is all this Japanese ‘family’ needs to stick together. And maybe some money, as they haven’t got much to go round. But even this bunch, whether unemployed, low-paid workers or shoplifters, support each other through thick and thin. They prove the point when they encounter a lonely girl one night who is trying to escape her violent family. She is welcomed with open arms into this touching, but also vulnerable, new family system.

Director Kore-eda Hirokazu is known for beautifully filmed, movingly played and humanist family dramas that shed new light on suffocating Japanese social codes. In Shoplifters, he focuses on the many informal families his traditional country contains, but which are strictly forbidden. With great care and attention, he reveals what is more important than shared blood: tenderness, honesty and unconditional love. The fact that society doesn’t recognize this lends a critical note to this Golden Palm winner at last year’s Cannes film festival.

Place: The Cinemas 1

Date: 11 April 2019

Time: 13:00

Duration: 1:32

Place: The Cinemas 2

Date: 13 April 2019

Time: 21:45

Duration: 1:32

Place: The Cinemas 2

Date: 14 April 2019

Time: 18:15

Duration: 1:32

Year in
Festival

2019

Director

Kore-eda Hirokazu

Camera

Ryûto Kondô

Cast

Lily Franky
Sakura Andô
Kirin Kiki
Mayo Matsuoka
Jyo Kairi
Miyu Sasaki

Country

Japan

Editor

Hirokazu Koreeda

Language

English

Length

120′

Music

Haruomi Hosono

Producer

Takashi Ishihara
Yasuhito Nakae
Tom Yoda

Production Design

Keiko Mitsumatsu

Sales

GAGA Corporation

Year of Production

2018

KORE-EDA Hirokazu (1962, Japan) studeerde aan de universiteit van Waseda. Hij wilde aanvankelijk schrijver worden, maar maakte in plaats daarvan vele bekroonde televisiedocumentaires. Vanaf zijn speelfilmdebuut Maborosi (1995) is vrijwel al zijn werk in Rotterdam vertoond. Zijn films werden bekroond met talrijke internationale prijzen. Zo won hij in Cannes de juryprijs voor Like Father, Like Son (2013) en de Gouden Palm voor Shoplifters (2018).

 

Filmography

Our Time (2009, doc), The Alzheimer’s Project (2009, series), Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare (2012, doc), Cartel Land (2015, doc), City of Ghosts (2017, doc), A Private War (2018), The Trade (2018)