Journalist Shiori Ito embarks on a courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender. Her quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country’s outdated judicial and societal systems.
Festival Programme
Films — by Country
Japan
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Evil Does Not Exist
Aku wa sonzai shinai
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi follows up his Oscar-winning film Drive My Car with a modern eco-fable that provides a gorgeous meditation on humanity’s relation to nature and an unnerving commentary on the price of progress.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus
Opus is a starkly intimate, self-performed elegy capturing a dying man’s genius.