Marina Richter

With “Nagi Notes”, his eleventh feature film, Koji Fukada has returned to Cannes to compete for Palme D’Or alongside 21 other titles, among which Koreeda Hirokazu’s “Sheep in The Box” and Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “All Of a Sudden”. It is a quiet, slow-paced drama set in the eponymous village of Nagi, which proves to be the right environment to tell this tale of loneliness and entrapment.

Crossing Europe, Documentaries, Festivals, Zagrebdox / Anna Garncarczyk, Michał Marczak There is probably no greater stress than being a parent of a missing child. It is in the human nature to search for closure, whatever the outcome might be. That is what Daniel, the protagonist of Michał Marczak’s aptly titled newest documentary, does throughout the film.

Yusuke Hirota’s two decades long dream to become a director came true when he was approached to turn a bestselling picture book by the comedian Akihiro Nishino to a cinematic experience. Although “Poupelle of Chimney Town” was released amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the film was a huge success, and almost two million people stormed the cinemas to watch it.