Archive: Year 2021
VIEW FROM THE WORLD
The Witches of the Orient
Les sorcières de l'Orient
Director
Julien Faraut
Producer
William Jehannin
Cinematographer
Yamazaki Yutaka
Editor
Mathilde Delacroix
Sound
Léon Rousseau
Website
2021
France
100 min
Color
Meet the former players of the Japanese women’s volleyball team. Now in their 70s, they used to be known as the ‘Witches of the Orient’ because of their seemingly supernatural powers on the courts.
From the formation of the squad in the late 1950s as a workers’ team at a textile factory, right up until their triumph at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, their memories and true magic from long ago bubble up into a heady brew where fact and fable fly hand in hand.
From the formation of the squad in the late 1950s as a workers’ team at a textile factory, right up until their triumph at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, their memories and true magic from long ago bubble up into a heady brew where fact and fable fly hand in hand.
Director
Julien Faraut (1978) is a documentary filmmaker from France. After studying history, he has worked for the Institut national du sport in Paris, where he supervises a collection of 16mm films. Using these collections, Faraut makes his own visual essays, combining sport history and documentary art. In the Realm of Perfection (2018) screened at IDFA and won a Public Award at Berlinale.
Other films in VIEW FROM THE WORLD
A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces
Belushi
Children of the Enemy
Gorbachev. Heaven
Her Socialist Smile
Mr. Bachmann and His Class
Notturno
Radiograph of a Family
Sabaya
Terra Femme
The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation
The Grocer's Son, the Mayor, the Village and the World
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