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WINT DOXA FEATURE DOCUMENTARY AWARD 2012
HET JURY RAPPORT
” It is a film from the heart, a film with a potentially fragile trajectory. It’s a film that takes risks(..). We admired this film for its poetic imagery, its honesty, its rigorous intelligence and its modesty. We admired it for the beauty of its images and the way it managed to articulate the particular and the universal simultaneously. It’s a film that is not afraid of, nor does it pathologize, the burdens and sorrows of being human. It’s honest and moving in its grief and rises in the end to expressions of joy. It’s a film that seeks out gentle words and ceremonies to articulate the experience of all women, and indirectly, of their sons. And, as in many memorable documentaries, the relationship between the filmmaker and, in this case, her subject, develops into a mutual exchange, a complex and intimate sharing of the experience and the moment. A portrait of multidisciplinary artist Tomoko Mukaiyama, the installation of 12,000 white dresses in a rural Japanese town, the biological cycles of life and death, and a mature and forgiving meditation on the great unanswerable questions.”

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Festivals 2012
Helsinki/Tallin Docpoint January
Köln/Münster Stranger than Fiction Festival January 22
Sarasota Int. filmfestival Florida
Reykjavik Shorts&Docs Festival Iceland
Ecuador EDOC (opening film)
Vancouver DOXA May 4-13 Best Feature Documentary
Warsaw/Wroclav Planete Doc Festival
DokuArts Berlin

Festivals 2011
Dutch Filmfestival nominated Golden Calf Best Dutch Documentary
Dok Leipzig International Premiere Honorary Mention
IDFA

EERVOLLE VERMELDING LANGE DOCUMENTAIRE DOC LEIPZIG 2011
JURYRAPPORT:
“This is a finely wrought auteurist documentary that combines several complex elements. It is a portrait of a Japanese pianist who is also an innovative visual artist. And it is a meditation of fecundity, childbirth and the experience of menstruation. We applaud the filmmakers’ audacity – her courageous approach to a subject that remains a taboo in many cultures. She explores it with an elegance and sophistication that deepens our understanding of the relationship between body and mind”

RECENSIES
**** NRC “terughoudend en ademstokkend intiem”
**** Volkskrant “poetische, open ontboezemingen”
**** Movie2Movie “oprecht, ontroerend en herkenbaar voor alle vrouwen en mannen”
**** Filmkrant “requiem voor het leven”
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Gawie Keyser in de Groene Amsterdammer:
”een onvergetelijk, claustrofobisch werk dat in het uitbeelden van vergezichten vol diepe groene bossen of van close-ups die overlopen van glimmende waterdruppels op lange, scherpe grashalmen bij vlagen even zinnelijk als Werner Herzogs vroege films, of al de films van Terence Malick, vooral het nieuwe Tree of Life. Al deze werken speuren op visuele, poëtische wijze naar de betekenis van universele motieven rond leven en dood, geboorte en afsterving.
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