yuikiyohara | Japan Film Festival of San Francisco

★ Yui Kiyohara
Director

★ Our House Screening + Q&A
Oct.6 Sat @ 1:45 PM 【San Francisco Premiere】
2017 | 80 min | English Subtitles | Directed by Yui Kiyohara

Born in Tokyo in 1992.
She completed a master’s program in Directing at the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts, where Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa was her mentor. Our House is her graduation project and her first feature film. Winning the Grand Prix at the 2017 PFF Award helped the piece find a distributor and win a release in Shibuya early this year. From there it was on to successes at the Berlin and Hong Kong International Film Festivals as well as at MoMA and Lincoln Center’s New Directors/New Films, followed by an invitation to the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival as well as many others. She is considered as one of the freshest and most talented young directors of today’s Japan.

Our House

★ Oct.6 Sat @ 1:45 PM 【San Francisco Premiere】
★ Special Appearance by Director Yui Kiyohara

2017| 80 min | with English Subtitles | Directed by Yui Kiyohara

Director Yui Kiyohara makes a memorable debut with this poetic, slow-moving chiller about an otherworldly collision of parallel lives — a girl who has lost her father and a woman who loses her memory intersect in the same house. Seri (Nodoka Kawanishi) has been living together with her mother Kiriko (Yuriko Yasuno) ever since her father vanished and has conflicting feelings about Toko’s new boyfriend. Meanwhile, Toko (Mei Fujiwara) meets amnesiac Sana (Mariwo Osawa) and allows her to stay in her house. Official Selection at NY MOMA’s New Directors New Films 2018 & Berlin International Film Festival 2018. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see director Yui Kiyohara!
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