The winter she turned 34, filmmaker Nao Yoshigai (Shari) lost her mental balance. In her sophomore feature Masayume, she collapses the distance between autobiography, collage, observational documentary about Zen, animation and interpretive dance.

Dancer-turned-filmmaker Nao Yoshigai makes her debut with this experimental documentary about one of Japan’s most secluded and magnificent areas: Shari, a small town on the north-east coast of Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido.