For its 36th edition, FIDMarseille remains true to its mission: to spotlight independent cinema that is attentive to the echoes of the contemporary world and to the stories that reveal its fractures, both intimate and collective.

a prelude, a prelude

Wendelien van Oldenborgh

Japan, Netherlands, 2024, Color, 36’

World Premiere

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In Tokyo, between two major sites of protest and resistance against authoritarianism, a small group of queer people gather. They move around, talk, and share their experiences of struggle and creativity.

Technical sheet

  • Script:
    Andromeda Oliver, Aliwen Munoz, Yoshiyuki Ishikawa, Hanna Hirakawa, Chelsea Szendi Schieder, Yiqing Yiqing, Midori Morita, Kanae Tanikawa, Takeru Arai
  • Photography:
    Yukiko Iioka
  • Editing:
    Wedelien van Oldenborgh
  • Music:
    Lina Campanella
  • Sound:
    Young Chang Hwan, Junji Nakae
  • Cast:
    Andromeda Oliver, Aliwen Munoz, Yoshiyuki Ishikawa, Hanna Hirakawa, Chelsea Szendi Schieder, Yiqing Yiqing, Midori Morita, Kanae Tanikawa, Takeru Arai
  • Production:
    Natsuko Odate (Yoshiko Isshki Office)
  • Contact:
    Wendelien van Oldenborgh

Filmography

  • Wendelien van Oldenborgh

    • Maurits Script, 2006, 67'
    • Sound Track Stage, 2008, 23'
    • No False Echoes, 2008, 30'
    • Lecture/Audience/Camera, 2008, 28'
    • Maurits Film, 2008, 45'
    • Instruction, 2009, 31'
    • Bete & Deise, 2012, 41'
    • La Javanaise, 2012, 25'
    • Beauty and the Right to the Ugly, 2014, 56'
    • From Left to Night, 2015
    • Prologue: Squat/Anti-Squat, 2016, 37'
    • Cinema Olanda Film, 2017, 17'
    • Two Stones, 2020, 60'
    • Hier., 2021, 27'
    • obsada, 2021, 34'
    • of girls, 2023, 43'