Naomi Kawase
Naomi Kawase (Jap.河 瀬 直 美, Kawase Naomi, * May 30, 1969 in Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan ) is a Japanese film director.
Biography
Kawase studied film at the University of Visual Arts in Osaka. During his studies, and even after they had finished it in 1989, she realized some experimental short films and documentaries. In most of these early films she came to terms with the topic Family and processed their own experiences. The director was abandoned by her parents and raised by her grandparents. In In your arms from 1992 shows how Kawase tries to track down her father. The relationship with her father, she also addressed in a later documentary: All around me Silence ( 2001).
Made her feature film debut Kawase who wrote the screenplays for all his films himself, Moe no Suzaku 1996. The cinematographer Masaki Tamura suggested the project to the producers because he was impressed by the 8- mm - work of the director. The 35 -mm film was shown at numerous film festivals and won several international awards, such as the FIPRESCI Prize at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Golden Camera Awards, an award for the best first film at the International Film Festival in Cannes.
The FIPRESCI Prize at the International Film Festival of Locarno brought her the film Hotaru (2000) a. It was followed in 2002 the documentary Dance of Remembrance, visited in the Kawase regularly suffering from stomach cancer, famous photographer Kazuo Nishii until his death.
Shara - Light and shadow ran in 2003 in competition at the International Film Festival of Cannes. In the drama is about a boy who disappears without a trace, and how his family copes with it. Years later learn the parents and the boy what happened twin brother.
With the feature film The forest of grief, she was again represented in the competition of the 60th International Film Festival of Cannes 2007. For this work Naomi Kawase was awarded in Cannes with the Grand Jury Prize. The film is about a nurse - played by Machiko Ono, who had already assumed a role in Moe no Suzaku - and their relationship to that of her sheltered in a retirement home in a mountain area.
For Hanezu no Tsuki Kawase won again in 2011 an invitation to compete in the 64th International Film Festival of Cannes. Two years later she was appointed to the jury of the 66th Cannes Film Festival.