Having a work screened at the distinguished Cannes Film Festival in France would be a dream come true for most filmmakers. Not only has Berlin-based director Yosuke Hosoi achieved this, but he did it within just seven years since moving to the U.S. to study filmmaking.
His film ¡°Man of the House¡± was accepted for the Short Film Corner at Cannes in 2012. A family drama, it centers on the relationship of an elderly woman and her young bicultural grandchild ¡ª the son of a Japanese mother and American father. The father is visiting Japan on business when the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami hits, preventing him from returning to his family.
¡°It was actually my (university) graduation project, and it just happened that it was 2011, the year of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. My teachers advised me to choose a subject that was personal to me. I was close to my grandmother, and so I based my story around that relationship,¡± Hosoi says.
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