Mei Shigenobu

A delicate portrait of Mei Shigenobu, daughter of the founder of the Japanese Red Army in Beirut, Fusako Shigenobu.

Inspirées par les révolutions étudiantes de 1968, deux femmes, Ulrike Meinhof et Fusako Shigenobu, respectivement en Allemagne et au Japon ont commandité les groupes révolutionnaires des Red Army Faction (Rotee Armee Fraktion) et Japanese Red Army (日本赤軍). Pour quelle cause se sont-elles battues et qu'ont-elles tiré de cela ?

A film that reconsiders the modern state of Japan in relation to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the U.S.

A film on exile, revolution, landscapes and memory, Anabasis brings forth the remarkable parallel stories of Adachi and May, one a filmmaker who gave up images, the other a young woman whose identity-less existence forbade keeping images of her own life. Fittingly returning the image to their lives, director Eric Baudelaire places Adachi and May’s revelatory voiceover reminiscences against warm, fragile Super-8mm footage of their split milieus, Tokyo and Beirut. Grounding their wide-ranging reflections in a solid yet complex reality, Anabasis provides a richly rewarding look at a fascinating, now nearly forgotten era (in politics and cinema), reminding us of film’s own ability to portray—and influence—its landscape.