Trailer
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- Title: AMFF: THE FRIENDS
- Original Title: Natsu no niwa: The Friends
- Country: Japón
- Screening date: 02/08/2025
- Direction: Shinji Sômai
Synopsis
- What's it about? During their summer vacation, three curious children alleviate their boredom by spying on a lonely and eccentric old man who lives surrounded by a vast garden. But a friendship soon develops between them, which will forever change the children's perspective on life. And also on death.
- This one will be for you if... you enjoyed Koreeda and Hamaguchi and want to know more about Japanese cinema.
- What should you know? Virtually unknown in the West, "no Japanese filmmaker makes a film without being aware of Shinji Sômai's existence," in the words of Oscar-winning Ryūsuke Hamaguchi.
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