Renoir

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In the summer of 1987 in suburban Tokyo, 11-year-old Fuki Okita lives between hope and grief. Her father, Keiji, is battling terminal cancer, frequently in and out of hospitals; her mother Utako works full-time, stretched thin both by work and the emotional labor of caring for him. Left largely to her own devices, Fuki turns inward, fascinated by telepathy and other mystical escapes, deploying her vivid imagination to make sense of loss and distance. Written and directed by Chie Hayakawa, Renoir is a coming of-age drama deeply rooted in her own experience of having a father with a terminal illness. The film premiered in Competition at the 78th Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Palme d’Or. With Yui Suzuki’s natural, hauntingly sincere performance as Fuki, it becomes an elegiac meditation on childhood, mortality, and the fragile bond between imagination and reality.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Chie Hayakawa

Script: Chie Hayakawa

Cinematography: Hideho Urata

Editing: Anne Klotz

Sound: Philippe Grivel, Yves Servageant

Music: Rémi Boubal

Actors: Yui Suzuki, Lily Franky, Hikari Ishida, Ayumu Nakajima, Yuumi Kawai, Ryota Bando

Production: Loaded Films, Happinet Phantom Studios, Ici et Là Productions, Akanga Film Asia, Dongyu Club, Kinofaction, Ten Carat

Producers: Eiko Mizuno-Gray, Jason Gray, Keisuke Konishi, Christophe Bruncher, Fran Borgia

Co-production: Nathan Studios, Daluyong Studios, ARTE France Cinema, KawanKawan Media, Panoranime

Co-producers: Jossette C. Atayde, Alemberg Ang, Olivier Père, Rémi Burah, Yulia Evina Bhara, Amerta Kusuma, Amel Lacombe

Costumes: Masae Miyamoto

Production Design: Keiko Mitsumatsu

Executive producer: Keisuke Konishi, Eiko Mizuno-Gray, Mizue Kunizane, Masahide Kinoshita, Eitaro Kobayashi, Jossette C. Atayde, Maria Sophia Atayde-Marudo, Fran Borgia

Make Up: Shinji Hashimoto

Format: DCP

Color: Colour

Production Country: Japan, France, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Qatar

Production Year: 2025

Duration: 118'

Distribution in Greece: One from the Heart

Contact: Goodfellas

Chie Hayakawa

Born in Tokyo, she studied photography at School of Visual Arts in New York. Her short film, Niagara (2014), was selected in the Cinéfondation section at Cannes Film Festival 2014 and received awards in numerous international film festivals. Her short film Plan 75 was the opening segment of anthology feature Ten Years Japan (2018) executive produced by Hirokazu Kore-eda. The short was expanded into her feature film debut Plan 75, which was awarded the Camera d'Or Special Mention at Cannes Film Festival 2022. She was also awarded Best Director at Thessaloniki and was awarded and nominated at numerous international film festivals. Renoir marks Japanese writer-director Chie Hayakawa’s second film, following her feature directorial debut Plan 75, which was selected in Un Certain Regard and awarded the Caméra d’Or Special Mention at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. Plan 75 screened at over 30 international film festivals and achieved sales to over 20 countries, from North America, across Europe, to Asia.