In summer, Nagisa and Natsuo meet by the sea. Their vacant gazes reflect each other as they exchange awkward words and wade into the rain-drenched ocean. In winter, Li, a screenwriter, travels to a snow-covered village. There, she finds a guesthouse run by Benzo.

2024 Japanese film by Shô Miyake

An art center located in Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Ume Nakazono, a freshman at university, participates in a workshop called “DNA Encyclopedia of Yamaguchi” as an intern. Participants walk around various places in the city where they live to find out what kind of plants grow there. Ume takes teenagers Take and Shun to explore nearby forests...

幼少時よりバレエ、ダンスを続けてきた女優の石橋静河と、三宅唱監督と撮影の四宮秀俊によるコラボレーションから生まれた2本の短編作品。日常にあるさまざまなからだの動きとダンスの運動との行き来によって、映画における魅力的なからだのあり方を一緒に探ってゆく。

2022 film directed by Shō Miyake

長編2作目の「Playback」（2012）が劇場公開された三宅唱監督が、10年に手がけた長編第1作。12月の札幌、高校卒業を間近にひかえたテツオらは、先輩の伊丹が勤める警備会社に通いはじめ、仕事の役に立とうと車の運転を教えてもらうが……。北海道の荒野を背景に、若者たちの切実な一瞬を美しいモノクロームの映像できりとった青春映画。

Haji is an actor on the cusp of turning 40, who has gotten stuck in life. At the invitation of an old friend, he visits his hometown for the first time in ages. On the way Haji has an accident, and wakes up to find himself transported back to high school with his adult body in tact.