Some people might say they engage in dialogue on an everyday basis. But do they truly?

A dialogue is not merely an exchange of words. It is about facing another person in a discussion.
While imagining how your dialogue partner feels and taking their point of view into consideration, you take turns speaking and listening so as to gain a deeper mutual understanding.
A dialogue involves greater time and effort than a conversation.
It also requires physical strength. And it often doesn't work out well.

Even so, the endeavor yields surprises and discoveries for both sides.
That is because you find your dialogue partner in yourself, and yourself in your partner.
And from there, a new future opens up for both of you to walk into.

In addition to being gorgeous works, Kawase's captivating films possess a raw power combining fiction and non-fiction, mixed with documentarian elements.
There are several distinctive aspects to her production approach.

For example, before shooting, she will have the actors spend up to a month or longer living in their roles.
For a number of roles, she will cast people who actually work in that character's profession.
She also films in sequence, which means filming every scene in chronological order as it was written.
This means that while there is a script, she can prompt lines that deviate from it or bring out the actors' true motivation on-set.

And at the pavilion, producer KAWASE Naomi will speak in person to the interlocutors recruited in advance on her own experience and method.
With support so the interlocutors can know themselves deeper than ever, truly face their partners in discussion, and discover a new self, the goal is for both the interlocutors and their partners to produce astonishing, lively dialogues.