Berlin International Film Festival | 12 February

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-- The Forum
-- The Panorama

-- Retrospective
-- Kinderfilmfest
-- New German Films




Parallel: The Forum: Rendez-vous

Rendez-vous

by Kosuke Yamamoto

Kosuke Yamamoto has perhaps the most unusual background of any Japanese indie director: he started on a lighting crew, working on such films as Nobuhiro Suwa's M/Other. His debut feature is essentially a character study: two strangers cross paths after the funeral of a mutual friend, spend a night talking together and then separate again.

Their fragile and transient bond is based on shared incomprehension of their friend Yu's suicide and the film touches on elusive, unspoken feelings of mortality and loss.

Tony Rayns

Berlin 1999 - Berlin 98 - Berlin 97 - Berlin 96