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One rainy night a young woman abandons her baby at a church doorstep. The newborn is quickly picked up by two men who steal abandoned babies to sell them to willing parents with a fee. When the young woman, full of regret, returns to the church, she discovers the men’s illegal business and decides to join them in order to find the most suitable adoptive parents.

HIROKAZU KOREEDA

Hirokazu Koreeda born 1962 in Tokyo, Japan. After graduating from Waseda University in 1987, Koreeda joined TV Man Union where he directed several prize winning documentary programs. His directorial debut, Maborosi (1995), won the 52nd Venice International Film Festival’s Golden Osella for Cinematographu. After Life (1998), distributed in over 30 countries, brought Koreeda internationally acclaimed. Distance (2001) was selected in Competition at Cannes with his fourth work Nobody Knows (2004, Best Actor Award). Air Doll (2009) was world premiered at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard. I Wish (2011) won the Best Screenplay Award at the 59th San Sebastian International Film Festival. Like Father, Like Son (2013) winning the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, but Shoplifters (2018) won the Palme d’Or at the 71st Cannes Film Festival.

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Nobody makes films about families quite like Hirokazu Kore-eda (...) He has an unfaltering lightness of touch, a way of injecting emotional veracity and spontaneity into every moment.

David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter