“The pedigree of the participants… underlines the city’s place at the crossroads of global hipsterism. But the film also serves as a reminder that some of Tokyo’s most memorable chroniclers have been visitors, looking in from the outside.” —The New York Times A distinguished trio of non-Japanese filmmakers converge to offer wildly varying and accomplished short (more…)

**Get your tickets before sales close Thursday 11/21 @ 4pm** Returning to her birth country of Japan from Belgium for an entry level interpreting job at the Yumimoto Corporation in Tokyo, wide-eyed Amélie (Sylvie Testud, who memorized her Japanese lines phonetically and won the Best Actress César for her efforts) is ready to accept anything (more…)

**Get your tickets before sales close Thursday 11/21 @ 4pm** “The pedigree of the participants… underlines the city’s place at the crossroads of global hipsterism. But the film also serves as a reminder that some of Tokyo’s most memorable chroniclers have been visitors, looking in from the outside.” —The New York Times A distinguished trio (more…)

**Get your tickets before sales close Thursday 11/21 @ 4pm** “One of the key nonfiction films of our time… difficult to describe and almost impossible to summarize.”—Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Chicago Reader Driven by a desire to “capture life in the process of becoming history,” the enigmatic and influential French filmmaker Chris Marker travelled the globe and made a (more…)

**Get your tickets before sales close Thursday 11/21 @ 4pm** “You don’t have to be a fan of rock music to get a kick out of Tokyo Pop, a wedding of American and Japanese youth cultures as seen through a fun-house mirror.”—The New York Times Bleach-blonde rocker Wendy (Carrie Hamilton) spontaneously hops on a plane from (more…)