Film Screening:

The Mourning Forest (Mogari no Mori)
(Kawase Naomi, 2007, 99 min, Japan, in Japanese with English subtitles, DVD)

-- Introduced by Prof. Hitomi Endo (AMES)!

Tells the story of a nurse (played by Machiko Ono) who is grieving for her dead child. She works at a nursing home and grows close to an elderly man (Shigeki Uda), suffering from dementia, who is searching in the local forest for something connected to his dead wife that he cannot explain. Their drive in the country becomes a 2-day journey through the woods, in a poignant quest for remembrance.

-- Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival!

Cost: Free and Open to the Public!

Sponsors: The Asian/Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), the Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI).