Evil Does Not Exist, directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, is about community’s fight against ‘glamping’ development
A Japanese eco-drama about a lakeside community’s resistance to a corporate “glamping” development in their beautiful unspoilt village has won the top prize at the
The film, the follow-up to Hamaguchi’s Oscar-winning Drive My Car, and starring the acting newcomer Hitoshi Omika, is on first glance a simple tale of corporate capitalism despoiling the environment. But Hamaguchi is ambiguous in his presentation of local people and outsiders as heroes and villains, with even the corporate PRs who pretend to listen to villagers’ concerns showing vulnerability.
The Sutherland award for first feature film went to the Swedish director Mika Gustafson for Paradise Is Burning, which is about three sisters aged seven to 15 who live alone after their mother vanishes for long periods of time. When social services demand a family meeting, the eldest sister plans to find a stand-in for their mother.
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