“Renoir”, interview with director Chie Hayakawa

After "Plan 75" , Chie Hayakawa is back in Cannes, at the 78th edition, in competition with "Renoir. The film depicts an entrancing poetic journey about resilience, the healing power of the imagination and a traumatized family struggling for connection. The protagonist is a 5th grade girl, Fuki, who is trying to make peace wit the idea that her father is dying of cancer. A coming of age story that Chie Hayakawa took inspiration from her own experience when she was little. She says: “While the surrounding plots and circumstances are entirely fictional, the emotions of vague fear and guilt, the breadth of imagination, and the innocent awe felt toward toward fine works of art are drawn from my own youthful emotions”