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Shoichiro Kawashima

You Must Believe in Spring

Fiction | mov | color | 51:0 | Japan | 2024

One Saturday afternoon at an art school, Tania is immersed in preparations for a crucial exhibition. She anxiously awaits the arrival of visitors, especially Nathalie—her late brother's fiancée. Reconnecting after years apart, their conversations sway between the mundane and the intimate, tension and relief. Loosely inspired by Natsume S?seki’s novel "Light and Darkness", the film explores the subtle power of words that shape our emotions.

Born in 1993 in Miyazaki, Japan, Shoichiro Kawashima currently lives and works in Tokyo. A graduate of Beaux-Arts de Paris, the National School of Fine Arts in France, under the guidance of Clément Cogitore and Angelica Mesiti, he has been working as a director and producer in Japan since 2023.