Streaming until November 25
Four years after Ayako Imamura, who was born deaf, filmed herself wrestling with communication barriers in Start Line, she returns to ask: Can two different people really understand each other? With an open heart, she turns her camera on her friendship with Ma-chan, a woman with Asperger’s Syndrome she met at a film festival. While Ma-chan has difficulty interacting with people, Ayako struggles with maintaining an appearance of understanding: What is common sense to one woman makes no sense to the other. What is ordinary to one is off-putting to the other. Can their relationship survive these fundamental differences? Breaking down what a “normal friendship” means, this fascinating and charming doc will leave you re-examining your own relationships with others.
Presented in partnership with The Japan Foundation, Toronto.
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