biff

History

영화 정보

Mental

Wide Angle

Social Criticism · True Story · Impaired  

  • CountryJapan,United States
  • Production Year2008
  • Running Time135min
  • Format Digi Beta
  • ColorCOLOR
Program Note
Mental is a cinema-verite style documentary that captures the daily life of the patients, doctors, employees, volunteers, and helpers of an outpatient mental health clinic in Japan. The camera is impressive in leading the viewers into the world of the mentally disabled. Despite the increasing numbers of the disabled, the issue of the mentally disabled is still being avoided by society, so this film, which portrays the patients who struggle toward human dignity and the local community that tries to help them, becomes more poignant. (NAM In-Young)
Director
Kazuhiro Soda
Born and raised in Japan, Kazuhiro Soda has lived in New York since 1993. While still a student, his short fiction film [The Flicker](1997) competed for a Silver Lion Award at the Venice International Film Festival. [Freezing Sunlight](1996) was nominated for a New Filmmaker’s Award at the Sao Paulo International Film Festival. His first feature documentary [CAMPAIGN](2007) was invited to about 25 film festivals around the world, including the Berlin Film Festival (Forum).
Photo
Credit
  • Director Kazuhiro Soda 소다 카즈히로
  • Cast Masatomo YAMAMOTO
  • Production Company Laboratory X, Inc.
    25-90 35th Street #4H, Astoria, NY UNITED STATES 11103