Montreal Critic’s Week – Fujiyama Cotton

Occupied Territories Program – January 18
16h30 – Fujiyama Cotton
18h30 – Mémoire fertile
20h30 – Spiders Web
Individual ticket (one ticket per film)

Shocked by the eugenicist and ableist massacre of Sagamihara in 2016, emerging documentarian Taku Aoyagi crafts an empathetic filmic response, focusing here on Mirai Farm, a welfare center in Yamanashi, that he used to frequent with his mother as a child. From small gesture to the next, pastime to hobby, Aoyagi introduces us to the distinct talents and personalities of the people working at Mirai. He thus manages to construct an exemplary documentary on disability, which does not create “subjects”, but rather friends who occupy and create the space that is theirs, despite the latent intolerance of Japanese society. Fujiyama Cotton showcases those who care for the land, and encourage us to see the world with kindness.