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Kotowari

18:30pm, 9 June, 2025

fiction    25’    France    2024

After two and a half years of waiting, Saki, a Japanese citizen, and her French wife Tom, are heading to the prefecture to finally pick up Saki's first residence permit. A daunting day awaits them, a day like many others at the immigration office.

Cast & Crew

Director & Writer: Coralie Watanabe Prosper

Starring: Rei Watanabe, Isaline Prevost Radeff, Habib Labidi

Producers: Garance Cosimano, Marie Jaouen

Cinematographer: Evgenia Alexandrova

Music: Benjamin Grossmann

Festivals & Awards

Angers European First FF

Music & Cinema Marseille FF

Coralie Watanabe Prosper

Born in 1990 in Cannes, Coralie Watanabe Prosper is an author, actress, and director. A graduate of the ESRA and the East 15 Acting School in London, she has directed Goodbye and See You Later and Mathi(eu) that have won awards and been screened internationally. Her short film Kotowari is supported by the CNC, the Sud Region, Sacem, and France 2.

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