Covering Cannes Film Festival from a distance is a complicated business. Films screening in competition are under strict embargo, so I¡¯m having to interview Japanese Brazilian director Andre Hayato Saito without having watched his latest short, ¡°Amarela.¡±
¡°I can do some spoilers,¡± the 39-year-old filmmaker jokes, speaking over video chat from his home outside Sao Paulo the day before he flies to France for the festival.
¡°Amarela,¡± which is competing for the short film Palme d¡¯Or, is part of a trilogy that delves into Saito¡¯s family history and cultural background. For the 2022 documentary ¡°Kokoro to Kokoro,¡± he traveled to Japan to meet a close friend of his late grandmother, who had emigrated to Brazil and raised a family of 10 children.
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