International Competition
My Mother’s Eyes ◊ wp◊
- Onsite
- 7.16 (Sun) 17:30 Audio Visual Hall
- 7.20 (Thu) 11:00 Convention Hall
- Online
- 7.22 (Sat) 10:00 - 7.26 (Wed) 23:00
* There is a maximum viewing number of online screenings for this title due to rights matters. This film will be inaccessible when the number of views reaches 300, even if it occurs during the online screening period. Your understanding is appreciated.
Both Hitomi and her daughter Eri are cellists. One day, they are involved in a traffic accident and Hitomi loses her sight. She wears camera-equipped contact lenses and Eri, injured and hospitalized, wears VR goggles, and the two share one vision.
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Director: Takeshi KUSHIDA
Cast: Akane ONO, Mone SHITARA, Takuma IZUMI, Shusaku UCHIDA, Hidemasa MASE, Toki KOINUMA, Kosuke HOSHI
2023 / Japan / 95min.
A perfectly happy life gradually becomes disturbed, and the mother and daughter suffer a terrible tragedy. After briskly building the story, the film reveals its most distinguished element, that of “shared vision”, through innovative and striking imagery. The director is Takeshi Kushida, whose Woman of the Photographs (20) was the only Japanese film selected for the 2020 International Competition and won the SKIP CITY AWARD. His original visual style is even further refined in My Mother’s Eyes, which guarantees a new moving image experience for the viewers. The cast includes mysteriously charming Akane Ono, and Mone Shitara, who delivers an intense performance, with Toki Koinuma and Itsuki Otaki from Woman of the Photographs providing solid support. From cinematography to lighting, production design, editing and sound design, the crew of Woman of the Photographs reunite and, like that 40-award-winning film, My Mother’s Eyes will amaze audiences around the world.
Director: Takeshi KUSHIDA
Born 1982 in Osaka. Works for PYRAMID FILM. Kushida’s debut feature Woman of the Photographs (20) won 40 awards at film festivals around the world and has been released in seven countries. A SKIP CITY AWARD winner returns with My Mother’s Eyes (23).
Message
Films are phantoms that tell the truth. The more technology develops, the more the boundary between true and phantom blurs; in the present day, what should films say? Films affirm human karma – if that’s the virtue of films, I think films should portray humans who pursue true love, even though we know it is a phantom. My Mother’s Eyes is the story of people who reach true love through a phantasmal body.
