SUMMER SCREENINGS

May 22 – Sept 25, 2024 Free films all summer long

Summer Screenings is Cinema/Chicago’s annual free film series that casts a spotlight on a different country’s national cinema each week all summer.

Celebrating films from women directors!

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In-person Screening

Wed, Aug 7 @ 6:30pm CDT

Radiance Hikari

DIRECTED BY  Naomi Kawase

COUNTRIES  Japan    YEAR  2017    

SYNOPSIS

Misako writes and records film audio descriptions for vision-impaired audiences, passionately translating cinematic experiences through verbal description. While soliciting feedback from a focus group panel, she meets Masaya, a renowned photographer who is slowly losing his eyesight. The two form an unlikely connection as she draws inspiration from his photographs and his way of seeing the world.

LANGUAGE Japanese with subtitles
RUN TIME  101 minutes

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