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Numakage Public Pool

2025 /
80 min /
Japan
Spanish premiere

For over 50 years, Numakage, a suburban Tokyo public pool, has been a meeting point for elders, families, and gay cruising communities. Facing demolition despite local opposition, the film traces collective grief through Kübler-Ross’s five stages, questioning loss usually reserved for human death.

Theme:

ArchitectureCityLGTBIQ+

Shingo Ota

Shingo was born in 1985, Nagano Prefecture. Shingo graduated from Waseda University, where he studied Philosophy and Narratology.

His first full-length documentary film The End of the Special Time We Were Allowed (2013) was presented at Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2013 and distributed in 12 countries throughout the world. At Kinosaki (2022) won the Excellence Award at Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival 2022. The stage production The Last Geishas combines performing arts and documentary and it had its world premiere at the Festival d’Automne, Europe’s largest performing arts festival, in 2024.

Schedules

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Tuesday

12/05

19:00 h

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Casa Montjuïc

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Wednesday

13/05

18:45 h

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Renoir | Sala 6

Credits

Director
Shingo Ota
Producer
KYOKO TAKENAKA / Hydroblast
Editor
Shingo Ota
Producer
KYOKO TAKENAKA

Technical sheet

Year:

2025

Duration:

80 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Subtitles:

Catalan
English

Awards and festivals

Doc Edge 2025

Busan IFF 2025

Thessaloniki International Documentary FF 2026

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