Your art show got canceled, your family's losing it, and your ex-crush texts back. 2020, baby.
The year is 2020, the middle of the corona crisis. Art student Itsuka has her graduation exhibition canceled and must take home the piece which she had been working on for a year. In a whirlpool of emotions she clashes with her worried parents, her little sister overreacts to the virus and even her usually calm friend Hirai starts to build up frustration. In the middle of all that, she re-unites with Tanaka, who gave her the opportunity to absorb herself in painting, clashes with Hirai over their true feelings and tries to face her own future.
Direction
Non's debut captures 2020 claustrophobia with intimate precision.
Production
Real pandemic shooting restrictions become aesthetic strength.
Acting
Non's raw performance—director starring in her own unraveling.
Director
Non
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Non wrote, directed, and starred in this during actual 2020 lockdowns, shooting with minimal crew in her own neighborhood.
The canceled graduation exhibition reflects real mass cancellations of Japanese university events in 2020, a collective trauma for young artists rarely depicted on screen.
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