Project marks second feature of Japanese director Yui Kiyohara, whose debut Our House also premiered in Forum in 2018.
Chinese sales company Parallax Films has taken the international rights (excluding Japan) to Berlinale Forum title Remembering Every Night.
It marks the second feature of Japanese director Yui Kiyohara, whose debut Our House also premiered in Forum in 2018.
Her latest follows three women of different generations who walk the streets of Tama New Town, a satellite city of Tokyo, over the course of one day. Each woman is burdened with her own worries and feelings of isolation as they struggle to move forward in their lives.
Chinese sales company Parallax Films has taken the international rights (excluding Japan) to Berlinale Forum title Remembering Every Night.
It marks the second feature of Japanese director Yui Kiyohara, whose debut Our House also premiered in Forum in 2018.
Her latest follows three women of different generations who walk the streets of Tama New Town, a satellite city of Tokyo, over the course of one day. Each woman is burdened with her own worries and feelings of isolation as they struggle to move forward in their lives.
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