Kazuhiro Soda’s Master Class, Sunday, 6 Dec., 2020, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Master Class will be streamed live at:  https://www.facebook.com/events/2480465198926642/ in English. Host: Łukasz Mańkowski

Kazuhiro Soda, this year's laureate of the Marek Nowicki Prize awarded by the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, is one of the greatest Japanese filmmakers and one of the world's greatest film-makers of the contemporary observation documentary. He is the author of such important films as "The Campaign", which has already entered the canon of political documentaries of the 21st century and two extraordinary documentaries about the pioneer of Japanese open psychiatry, Dr. Yamamoto. The second one, entitled "Zero" which premiered at the Berlinale, can be seen in the competition section of the 20th WATCH DOCS IFF. In total, the festival will introduce the Polish audience to four documentaries by Kazuhiro Soda.

During the master class, Kazuhiro Soda, in an interview with Łukasz Mańkowski, an expert on Japan and film, will talk about his film methods, which he codified in "Ten Commandments of Observation Cinema".

You will find out:
-what his film observation method is about
-what the Japanese master thinks about the artist-protagonist-viewer relationship
-how he supports Japanese art-house cinemas
-about his collaboration with his wife, producer Kiyoko Kashiwagi and what they are working on now.

All these are worth finding out about so we invite you to the master class of the Sensitive Observer, Kazuhiro Soda.

The partner of the event is the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology.