Fridae

For art film lovers, we strongly recommend you watch Hirokazu Kore-eda's
powerful and heart-wrenching drama, Nobody Knows.

Hirokazu is one of Japan's most promising young directors. His
debut film, After Life (1998), stunned film festival-goers
everywhere and won several international awards. His follow-up,
Distance, was generally regarded as a disappointment, but
with this third film, he seems to be back in form.

Nobody Knows tells the story of an impoverished 12-year-old
boy Akira (Yuya Yagira) who is left to look after his younger siblings
in a spare apartment, while his irresponsible mother goes off with
various men. Portraying the gradual and painful loss of childhood
innocence, Yuya won the award for Best Actor at this year's Cannes
Film Festival.

Profound, humane and beautifully acted.