DREAMING MURAKAMI
DIRECTOR: NITESH ANJAAN
When Mette Holm begins to translate Haruki Murakami’s debut novel Kaze no uta o kike (Hear the Wind Sing), a two-meter-tall frog shows up at an underground station in Tokyo. The Frog follows her, determined to engage the translator in its fight against the gigantic Worm, which is slowly waking from a deep sleep, ready to destroy the world with hatred.
More than twenty years ago, Mette read a novel by Haruki Murakami, who had yet to reach literary stardom. Back then, she had no idea how the Japanese author’s imagined worlds would steadily shape and transform her own.
Since then Mette Holm has spent thousands of hours translating Murakami’s puzzling and widely discussed stories to his Danish readers. Stories that continuously spellbind and challenge millions of devoted readers all over the planet.
As Mette struggles to find the perfect sentences capable of communicating what Murakami’s solitary, daydreaming characters are trying to tell us, the boundary between reality and imagination begins to blur.
PRODUCTION FACTS
Duration: 58 min
Release: November 2017
Language: Danish, Japanese, English
Director: Nitesh Anjaan
Editors: Denniz Göl Bertelsen & Nikoline Løgstrup
Cinematographer: Agapi Triantafillidis
Sound designer: Andreas Sandborg
Composer: Anna Rosenkilde
VFX Development: Mathias Bjerre
3D Supervisor: Kim Fersling
VFX: TGBVFX
Colorist: Anders V. Christensen
Producers: Pernille Tornøe & Signe Byrge Sørensen
Produced by Final Cut for Real
with support from:
The Filmworkshop Copenhagen
The Sasakawa Foundation
Danish Film Directors
Danish Ministry of Education
In collaboration with DR
Contact
PRESS & PUBLICITY
Publicist Sofie Lykke Stenstrop
Tel: :+41 76 482 16 71
sofielykke@final-cut.dk
GENERAL ENQUIRIES
Final Cut for Real - Maria Kristensen
maria@final-cut.dk
FESTIVALS
Danish Film Institute - Anne Marie Kürstein
kurstein@dfi.dk
SALES
Producer Signe Byrge Sørensen
byrge@final-cut.dk
awards
Hot Docs 2018, Toronto - Audience Award for Best Mid Length Documentary
festivals
World Premiere at IDFA 2017 - Panorama
Murakami Weekend - Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Docpoint 2018 - Helsinki, Finland
Docpoint 2018 - Tallinn, Estonia
Istanbul Festival of Independent Film 2018, Turkey
Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival 2018, Greece
Ismailia International Film Festival for Documentaries and Shorts 2018, Egypt
DocVille Leuven 2018, Belgium
CPH:DOX 2018 - Copenhagen, Denmark
HotDocs 2018 - Toronto, Canada
DOXA Vancouver 2018, Canada
DokFest Munich 2018, Germany
DocFest Maastricht 2018, The Netherlands
Tartu International Literature Festival Prima Vista 2018, Estonia
Japan Square Film Festival 2018, Belgium
Oslo Pix 2018, Norway
LiteraturXchange 2018, Aarhus, Denmark
Festivaletteratura 2018, Italy
Bjørnson Festival 2018, Norway
Doku Arts 2018, Berlin, Germany
BAFF/Brussels Art Film Festival 2018, Belgium
Rencontres Hivernales du Documentaire de Grignan 2018, France