Desert of Namibia

New Directors Competition

Desert of Namibia

Namibia No Sabaku

Japan 2024 Fiction cor 137 min.

Kana is a 21-year-old woman who doesn’t know what she wants in life. For her, thinking about the future is quite boring. She shows no passion for anything —even romance is just a way to pass the time. Her boyfriend, Honda, with whom she lives, tries to please her by cooking and paying the rent. However, as her relationship with the self-confident creator Hayashi deepens, Kana begins to feel burdened by Honda.

Winner of the critics’ prize at the Director’s Fortnight of the Cannes Film Festival.

Japan female directors love relationship awarded films. international film festivals

direction

Yoko Yamanaka

screenplay

Yoko Yamanaka

cinematography

Shin Yonekura

editing

Banri Nagase

sound

Tomohiro Kobata

sound design

Tatsuya Obo

music

Takuma Watanabe

production design

Ran Kobayashi

cast

Yuumi Kawai, Daichi Kaneko, Kanichiro, Yuzumi Shintani, Keisuke Horibe, Makiko Watanabe

production

Keisuke Konishi, Shinji Ogawa, Masafumi Yamada, Tokushi Suzuki

co-production

Satoshi Goto

produced by

Happinet Phantom Studios, BRIDGEHEAD, cogitoworks

world sales

Happinet Phantom Studios

contact

[email protected]

indicative rating

16