A Japanese film that premiered in Zimbabwe at the 2008 edition of the International Images Film Festival for Women (IIFF), and won an award, will be screened again this June by the  Women Filmmakers of Zimbabwe (WFOZ) and Pamberi Trust in collaboration with the Embassy of Japan.

The 105 minute movie, entitled Swing Girls, won the IIFF 2008 Best Cinematography Award. It was directed by Yaguchi Shinobu.

The film tells the story of a group of high school girls in Northern Japan who are stuck in remedial class for summer. For lack of better things to do they enter a brass band and find that they have a lot of musical potential.

What starts as an excuse to get out of class, becomes for the girls a passion, as they realise that they have found something they could actually love.

^ Video: A clip from the movie Swing Girls.

Swing Girls has won numerous other awards including the 2005 Awards of the Japanese Academy for Best Editing (Ryuji Miyajima), Best Music Score (Micky Yoshino & Hiroshi Kishimoto), Best Screenplay (Shinobu Yaguchi), Best Sound
(Hiromichi Kori), Newcomer of the Year (Yûta Hiraoka), Newcomer of the Year
(Juri Ueno), Best Director (Shinobu Yaguchi), Most Popular Film and Best Film.
This screening is part of a monthly film programme started by WFOZ called IIFF in the Club.

Where is it?
Swing Girls, Japan, 2004, 16mm, 105mins, Feature
Wednesday June 3 2009, The Mannenberg, Fife Avenue Shopping Centre
1730pm for 1800pm.

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