FRI FEB 25, 2022 10:00 pm

Kogonada Presents AFTER LIFE

$10.00 (member) ; $15.00 (general admission)

Los Feliz 3 | Introduction by filmmaker Kogonada.

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  • RELEASED IN: 1998
  • 119 MINUTES
  • DIRECTED BY: HIROKAZU KORE-EDA

ABOUT THE FILM

If you could choose only one memory to hold on to for eternity, what would it be? That’s the question at the heart of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s revelatory international breakthrough, a bittersweet fantasia in which the recently deceased find themselves in a limbo realm where they must select a single cherished moment from their life to be recreated on film for them to take into the next world. AFTER LIFE’s high-concept premise is grounded in Kore‑eda’s documentary-like approach to the material, which he shaped through interviews with hundreds of Japanese citizens. What emerges is a panoramic vision of the human experience—its ephemeral joys and lingering regrets—and a quietly profound meditation on memory, our interconnectedness, and the amberlike power of cinema to freeze time.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: JANUS FILMS