Naomi Kawase
Naomi Kawase is a director residing in Nara, where she was born and raised. In 2013, Kawase became the first Japanese director to become a member of the Cannes festival jury, where she gained international recognition through the selection of her films Mogari, Hanezu, Still the water and her latest film, Vers la lumière. In addition to her film career, Kawase is the founder of the Nara International Film Festival whose first edition took place in 2010. Her latest feature, Vision, released in 2018, stars Juliette Binoche and Masatoshi Nagase.
FILMOGRAPHY
Director:
2022 - Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
2020 - True Mothers
2020 - Homemade - TV Mini Series
2018 - Vision
Nominee for best film San Sebastian Film Festival
2018 - Cinema Fighters
2017 - Parallel World - Short
2017 - Sono suna no yukue - Short
2017 - Radiance
Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival
2016 - Seed - Short
2015 - Lies - Short
2015 - Sweet Bean
2014 - Still the Water
Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival, in competition
2012 - Chiri
2011 - 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2011 - Hanezu
Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival, in competition
2010 - Genpin
2009 - Koma - Short
2008 - Nanayomachi
2007 - The Mourning Forest
Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival, Grand Prix
2006 - Birth/Mother - Short
2004 - Shadow - Short
2003 - Sharasôju
Official Selection, Cannes film festival, in competition
2002 - Tsuioku no dansu
2001 - Kya ka ra ba a
2000 - Hotaru
Festival du Film de Locarno – FPREPSCI Prize
1999 - Mangekyô
1997 - The Weald
1997 - Suzaku
Festival de Cannes – Caméra d’Or
1996 - Sun on the Horizon
1996 - Arawashi yo (Ôfuku shokan Kawase Naomi × Koreeda Hirokazu)
1995 - Kaze no kioku: Shibuya ni te 1995.12.26 - Short
1995 - Ten, mitake - Short
1994 - Katatsumori - Short
1993 - Shiroi tsuki
1992 - Ni tsutsumarete - Short
1991 - Shiawase modoki - Short
1990 - Megami-tachi no pan - Short
1989 - Ima, - Short
1989 - Chîsana ôkisa - Short
1989 - Tatta hitori no kazoku - Short
1988 - Papa no sofuto kurîmu - Short
1988 - My J-W-F - Short
1988 - Watashi ga ikiiki to kakawatte ikô to suru jibutsu no gutaika - Short
1988 - Watashi ga tsuyoku kyômi o motta mono o ôkiku fix dekiritoru - Short