Senko
Original title : Senko (Spark)

A Film by Yuki Kawamura
Japan, France, 2008, 37min, Digi-Beta , Color, Fiction

SYNOPSIS

A young Japanese family is confronted with their mother’s illness. This
impressive short film shows us in deeply symbolic images how Yu and his father
deal with the possibility of death, and how it affects a small child's vision of life.

FESTIVAL & SCREENING

Cinémathèque Québècoise 2011
Shinsedai Cinema Festival 2010
Internatonal Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2008
International Film Festival Curtas Vila do Condo 2008
Warsaw International Film Festival 2008
Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris 2008

AWARD

Ecumenical Jury Prize
Internatonal Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2008

CAST & CREW

Cast : Ginga Hirao, Toko Fujisaki, Rin Takagi
Directed by : Yuki Kawamura
Written by : Yuki Kawamura, Ikuyo Irie
Editor : Junko Watanabe, Cristina Hadjizachariou
Director of Photography : Jean-Philippe Polo
Music : Yoshihiro Hanno
Sound Editor : François Colin
Sound Mixser :François Colin
Produced by : Yuki Kawamura