Naomi Kawase

She was born in Nara, Japan, in 1969. Her first fiction film Suzaku (1997), won the Golden Camera at Cannes. She directed several other films, including Hotaru (Bafici ‘01), Shara (Bafici ‘04), The Mourning Forest (Bafici ‘08) and, together with Hong Sang-soo and Lav Diaz, Visitors (Jenjou Digital Project 2009) (Bafici ‘10).