A four-day Japanese film festival will be hosted at the Deepam theater in Victoria, the capital of Seychelles, to be enjoyed by moviegoers. The first movie is titled Al Amok, and it was aired on Monday at 6.30 p.m.
Japanese first film festival holds in Seychelles
The project is a partnership between Deepam cinema, the National Institute for Culture, Heritage, and the Arts (SNICHA), the Japan Foundation, and the Japanese Embassy in Seychelles.
Al Amok is a science fiction thriller from Japan that will debut on Monday at 6.30 p.m. It is set in a dystopian future in which an all-powerful artificial intelligence rules over a futuristic version of Japan (AI).
In the film AI Amok, which will serve as the festival's official opener, Takao Osawa, a 54-year-old Japanese actor, plays Kosuke Kiryu, whose system goes awry. The system eliminates individuals it decides are no longer fit to exist by mass-killing them instead of assisting people.
But, before the killing starts, Kosuke Kiryu must stop his invention. The Japanese Embassy's first secretary, Noriko Takada, told the SNA that they intend to conduct the celebration every year.
"This is a component of the efforts to strengthen cultural linkages between the two nations. Additionally, Seychellois will gain knowledge of Japanese traditions and art," she said.
The Japan Foundation is one organization that runs programs in the three critical areas of Japanese Studies and International Dialogue, Japanese Language Education Abroad, and Arts and Cultural Exchange.
The Guy Morel Institute will receive a book contribution as part of this new initiative to promote Japanese culture in Seychelles and introduce people to Japanese literature.
Other movies will be shown throughout the festival, spanning various genres from horror to family fare. On January 10, "Not Quite Dead"; on January 11, "Protect Dreams how to create Mazinger Z's Hangar," and on January 12, "Step."
Takada stated, "Should we have a positive response from the Seychelles viewers, we plan to conduct the next film festival the following year."
