The NIFF’s Film Making Project
NARAtive 2018
The NARAtive filmmaking project is presented biennially and organized by the Nara International Film Festival Organizing Committee.
The purpose of this project is to promote emerging filmmakers by giving them an opportunity to make a film together with us in the prefecture of Nara.
With the support of local communities and professional filmmaking crews, the NARAtive films are created and then presented abroad, exporting the charms of the Nara Prefecture.
NARAtive 2018
THE NIKAIDOS’ FALL
World Premire・舞台挨拶
CINEMA INFO
CAST
Cast: Masaya Kato, Shizuka Ishibashi, Keita Machida, Hana Hizuki, Kayo Ise, Yohji Tanaka, Kazuko Shirakawa, Nelson Babin-Coy
STAFF
Scriptwriter: Arsalan Amiri, Ida Panahandeh / Cinematographer: Morteza Gheidi / Music: Masamichi Shigeno / Executive producer: Naomi Kawase
DIRECTOR : Ida Panahande
Japan・Hong-Kong / 2018 / 106min / Color / DCP / ENG/JPNSub.
Production: LDH JAPAN, Emperor Film Production Company Limited, Nara International Film Festival Organizing Committe
Japanese Distribution: HIGH BROW CINEMA
Asian Distribution (except Japan): Emperor Motion Pictures
© 2018 “二階堂家物語” LDH JAPAN, Emperor Film Production Company Limited, Nara International Film Festival
DIRECTOR
Ida Panahande
Ida Panahandeh was born in Tehran, Iran. She obtained a degree in Film Photography in 2002 and a master’s in Film Direction in 2005, both from the Arts University of Tehran, where she began her film career with several short films. After university she was invited to direct films for Iranian television, with which she won awards at numerous national festivals. In 2009 she took part in the Berlin ‘Talent Campus’. ‘Nahid’ is her first feature and it was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival where it won a special prize (Prix de l’Avenir). It also won the Golden Shika Award at the 2016 Nara International Film Festival. Israfil (2017) is the second feature of Ida Panahandeh.
