17:00: Screening in the cinema hall, walk-in anytime: ナナムイ (Nanamui Series)
19:00: Screening: 「しまくとぅばで語る戦世」(Voices of the War Era in Shimakutuba).
Followed by a talk with Toyomitsu Higa and Thaís Omine.
21:00: Traditional Okinawan music and dance performance + Open air screening: Close To The Bone
Nanamui (1997–2001) documents the sacred indigenous rituals of Miyako Island’s female priestesses, capturing spiritual songs and practices rarely shown to outsiders. Spiritual landscapes, indigenous memory, ritual spaces, and sacred relationships between people, land, and ancestors that create a dialogue between political resistance and spiritual continuity.
Toyomitsu Higa is one of the most influential photographers documenting Okinawan society and culture. Born in Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan, in 1950, he has devoted his practice to recording
Okinawa’s rituals, landscapes, and everyday life, revealing the cultural and spiritual layers embedded in local communities.