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| 2015\u00a0 \u2013 118\u2032 \u2013 A Japan\/France\/Spain co-production, Drama, Coming-of-Age, Women Directors, Co-produced by France. This 2014 Palme d\u2019Or nominee is a lyrical and visually arresting rumination on the meaning of love, life and death set in the exotically verdant Japanese island of Amami. The quiet story centers on Kaito and Kyoko, 16 year-old classmates whose nascent sexual awakening is put on hold by a heavily tattooed corpse that washes up after a typhoon. The sudden intrusion of death reinforces Kaito\u2019s fear of the sea but the more adventurous Kyoko sees the body as a mystery to be solved. Both have troubled home lives. Kaito\u2019s divorced mother is too busy earning a living to give him the attention he needs, while Kyoko struggles to accept her mother\u2019s terminal illness, especially since her mother is a revered shaman. When Kaito discovers his connection to the dead body, he is forced to re-examine everything that he has taken for granted in his life. Still The Water is an intensely personal yet universal glimpse into Japan\u2019s folkloric traditions, where coming-of-age means coming to terms with the unity of nature.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" STILL THE WATER | 2015\u00a0 \u2013 118\u2032 \u2013 A Japan\/France\/Spain co-production, Drama, Coming-of-Age, Women Directors, Co-produced by France. Written by: Naomi Kawase. Directed by:\u00a0Naomi Kawase. Starring:\u00a0Jun Yoshinaga, Nijiro Murakami, Tetta Sugimoto, Miyuki Matsuda, Makiko Watanabe. Official Selections Cannes International Film Festival 2014, Toronto International Film Festival 2014. Official Competition COLCOA 2015. In Japanese with English […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,127,48,11,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tafff","category-co-produced-by-france","category-coming-of-age","category-drama","category-women-directors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23374,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23371\/revisions\/23374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/span>Written by: Naomi Kawase.
\nDirected by:\u00a0Naomi Kawase.
\nStarring:\u00a0Jun Yoshinaga, Nijiro Murakami, Tetta Sugimoto, Miyuki Matsuda, Makiko Watanabe.
\nOfficial Selections Cannes International Film Festival 2014, Toronto International Film Festival 2014.
\nOfficial Competition COLCOA 2015<\/strong>.
\nIn Japanese with English subtitles.
\nA Film Movement release. |<\/span><\/p>\nWATCH NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n