FILMINATION

Question 1: “A Road”, which you directed, is now available on Sooner (https://sooner.de/), a new VOD company that is a new partner of FILMINATION. What do you think of it?

Sugimoto: I'm so grateful for being selected. It's the first time for me to release a film on an international distribution site, so I'm excited to see what kind of response I'll get.

Question 2: What are the main appealing points of this film to your overseas fans?

Sugimoto: I am the director of this film, but I am playing the lead role, and my own mother and friends are also in the film. In that sense, the film is a re-creation of my autobiography by myself.

Question 3: What do you think about filmmaking? If you have any policy, please tell us about it.

Sugimoto: I think of it as an extension of my daily life.

Question 4: Please tell us about the directors and films that have influenced you.

Sugimoto: Edward Yang, Takeshi Kitano, Gakuryu Ishii

Question 5: What are your future expectations for FILMINATION, a platform that helps Japanese filmmakers get their works to overseas film fans without worrying about various business restrictions and barriers?

Sugimoto: I will do my best to have my next film distributed on Sooner and other overseas VOD.

■Film Information

あるみち | A Road

【Story】
Childhood is a time for dreaming. For Daichi, too, one of his dreams has now come true: he’s studying film. But whatever became of the happiness from back then? Those moments of elation as a little boy when he and his friends used to catch lizards without a care in the world? A documentary exercise at film school forms the starting point of his search for the end of childhood: for Daichi, capturing images with his camera is now just as much about capturing lizards. Can we retrieve the past? [Berlin International Film Festival]

Director:Daichi Sugimotohttps://ec.filmination.jp/movies/detail/6c31e421-68ca-4bd0-b13e-503edf1d9e38