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FUTURE SHORTS - SPECIAL JAPAN (2007)

Future Shorts hosts a Japan special at Favela Chic featuring the best in Japan-produced, themed and inspired short film and music video.
Come and be entertained as Geisha girls feed you popcorn and attend to your every need!
The Japanese special features fabulous shorts both old and new including Nagi Noda's hilarious spoof 'Fitness Video', as well as the brand new and stunning 'Monkeylove' from Royston Tan which won the Labo competition at Clermont-Ferrand this year. 'Coin Laundry' is a love story set in a launderette from Jerome Oliver while 'Cold Cut' is another magical piece from the mind of Joji Koyama (director of the enchanting 'Watermelon Love') You can also expect to see Future Shorts favourities including 'On a Wednesday Night in Tokyo' by Jan Verbeek which investigates how many people you can fit into an underground train, as well as 'Salaryman' by Jake Knight which explores a uniquely Japanese phenomenon.

The sixth of RKO's Fred Astaire -Ginger Rogers pairings of the 1930s, Swing Time starts off with bandleader Astaire getting cold feet on his wedding day. Astaire's bride-to-be Betty Furness will give him a second chance, providing he proves himself responsible enough to earn $25,000. Astaire naturally tries to avoid earning that amount once he falls in love with dance instructor Ginger Rogers. Numerous complications ensue, leading to the "second time's the charm" climax, with Ginger escaping her own wedding to wealthy Georges Metaxa in order to be reunited with Astaire. The film's most indelible image is that of Fred Astaire, immaculately attired in top hat and tails, hopping a freight car–a perfect encapsulation of the film's Depression-era cheekiness. The Jerome Kern-Dorothy Fields score includes such standards-to-be as "Pick Yourself Up," "A Fine Romance," "The Way You Look Tonight," "Never Gonna Dance" and "Bojangles of Harlem."